Looking Down On Our 40 Acre Homestead

I finished prepping the shop house pad for concrete so I jumped on the four wheeler and drove up to the highest point I could get to so I could look down on our homestead. Perspective is everything. It helps me realize just how much I have to do and it also excites me for the future.
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[@jimmirza248]

Would be awesome to get an updated video like this to see how your property has changed and what the neighbors have done. I have been binge watching all your videos and you have a beautiful family

[@wslandry]

We have been watching you improve your property over the last four years and it truly is amazing! Great job!

[@outonthewire]

You are truly blessed. Beautiful country. You and your family have a ton of work ahead of you but I have the feeling your gonna love every bit of it. Looking forward to see the progress. Good luck.

[@outonthewire]

Goddess of Blissful Peaceful and Joyful maybe you can show us the untouched rain forest cave you live in.

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Lol...

[@tjhaverland4276]

Sean Maybe you should TROLL somewhere's else. 🤔 You know, for your own safety and such. ☺

[@teedub68]

Beautiful property my friend... Blessed family.

[@troystutsman1400]

Looking good...! I’m so happy for you. I can’t wait to see how things develop. Happy Holidays and Be Blessed...!

[@richardjimenez7394]

That’s awesome idea, it’s looking good so far.

[@judywood6995]

Cider should be busy dehydrating & canning for the move & you would be ready if you can't get out, at sometime it will happen. I live in the city & store is 10 minutes away but when we got a really bad snow storm---NOTHING WAS MOVING. I had nothing to worry about as I cad my food preserved, powered milk, extra meds, etc. It's just not about getting the land reay---its about having enough wood to keep warm & to cook on. Its about have everything, & i mean everything you & your family will need if you can't get out. Good luck to you & your family!!!!

[@randomhobbies5796]

When you just stand there looking around enjoying all the views.. You know you are in a happy place.. Can't wait for Sundays new episode

[@janice-aztowy]

So beautiful!

[@Downeastwaves]

Gorgeous land!

[@WhistleThicket]

Beautiful property!

[@j.p.r.6111]

I just recently bought 42 acres and dont have time to get down there till later this year. Similar shape lot aswell, helped give me a good idea of size reference. Thanks.

[@AlabamaLandAgent]

Great View

[@cherryfarms5226]

You have a very nice place I would be proud.

[@TwoFamilyHomestead]

OHhhhhhh that looks WONDERFUL :) :)

[@utseay]

Awesome perspective. Nicely done.

[@larryhoffman5066]

That's cool I love it out in the country my uncle has a 120 acres by Elliotville, ny he was going to make it a camp ground but the deal fell apart I love it up there.

[@martinvho]

Oh, never saw the homested acerage like in the thumbnail... Very cool. And now you have the next lot too...

[@NeoB-Lac]

3 years later and it looks amazing!!!

[@MountainMapleRanch]

Looking at some older videos to just remember everything you guys have been through and how far you guys have come. :) Ola ❤

[@MBFModernHomesteading]

Deer camp! Now we are talking...and moose, we got TONS of moose in our parts.

[@vineripeeggs7832]

We don’t have moose in Alabama ☹️

[@Wild-Dad]

That is exactly what we have at the bottom of well - the one where used a diamond drill bit to go down 40’ into the granite base rock.

[@ericmendez8722]

Loving it

[@Homesteadhow]

Absolutely beautiful! You all have a lot of work a head of you, but its wonderful that you are getting your family involved, beautiful way to live, build yourself! We are a family of 6 who moved from the city to the country and we will never look back, best decision we ever made! Good Luck on your venture. Subscribed to see what you are up to! Good Luck

[@floydferguson5366]

Great video!

[@jtjjbannie]

God bless you my man.

[@SamsLiberty]

I envy your soil and trees. My 40 lost all of its trees in a fire, and I don't think the soil will ever look this good. Thanks for sharing.

[@RedPoppyRanch]

That sucks.

[@tjhaverland4276]

White Master Mariner Nah. More like 5yrs. Plus your grasses will be back in 1-2yrs! ☺

[@jksatte]

That land is absolutely beautiful. Great shot with the different prospective. That sure will be a lot of work. With some of the things that have happened lately living on a mountain seems kind of scary to me. Definitely cool that you have the skills to do the work you have there. Janice

[@greggwoods7173]

Nice perspective.. Thats a large area. It will be a lifetime of labor.. Thanks for letting us watch it evolve as you work on it.

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Thanks for watching Gregg!

[@BelindaTN]

If you enjoy it, it isn't labor. It is a journey, not a destination and I think that land is beautiful. We live on 54 acres up a ridge in TN and we love it. I will say that our highest maintenance is the 1/2 mile long deiveway up to our house. But with some ditching we should be able to help that. It is a process, for sure.

[@HomeSweetAbundance]

Check out Permaculture you can really use that hill to your advantage! Great place to place your home.

[@randommandoade1465]

I've just bought 40 acres of Nevada Mountain land for 90K,its far up in the mountains but well within the tree line,and I can grow in the spring to summer but fall I have to start preparing for winter and it snows. But I bought it and built a medium sized village for me and my Militia there family's and other people we run across there to my property.

[@michaelm6574]

Rather than just clearing out trees, ya might think about trying your hand in arbor sculpture, it be cool to have a tree house made from trees.

[@REAPERMILITIAOUTDOORS]

Awesome nice property

[@treadhead7651]

Was nice to see another perspective of the property. Beautiful country. I'm sure sometimes it seems that it will never end, but trust me in 15 or 20 years you might be 1/2 finished. You will always find something you need to add or change, but that's okay, that's just the way it is. Always enjoy your posts. Keep up the good work, hope the pour goes well.

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Thank you Doug!

[@ianbenjamin5545]

you should get a portable saw mill and make use of all the trees you cut down!

[@mmanut]

Beautiful property. Maybe break it up into levels with rock walls. It has many great possibilities. Be creative, planning it out right can make the land much more valuable. Good Luck, Vinny 👍

[@kevin93405]

i know i'm late.. but trying to catch up on all your videos.. You should build a little ski trail from the top !

[@l3eaver]

Pretty neat looking back at the property & hearing about your plans. Whens the saw mill going to happen!? 👍🏼

[@badsantaclaus4522]

Plant fruit, pecans, black walnut and apple trees for nuts and high dollar wood trees good investment and food need to build a ridge around your house to help keep water from running down on house Try using air and water to drill well works great good luck

[@kevintulak9987]

Did you buy the back hoe or rent it? I finally bought a tractor a few years ago after looking for 15 years and it sure saves the back. I have a mountain acreage, you can never have enough flat land so having the equipment to make plateaus is so handy. Thanks for sharing the perspective

[@lifewaidan7517]

That looks like it people be super fun to rip four wheelers through alll the trees

[@reidcrosby6241]

Nice truck, I just bought a 1980 3/4 ton like that with a manual and a 300 six. putting a steel bed like that on it.Tired of "check engine" lights. please put together a fire plan. and clear REALLY well around you house, those lightening strikes out there can damn near clear the whole woodlot in short order, once saw a biblical scene across Priest Lake, storm moving in, lightening strike instantly ignited a tree that was "skylighted" on the ridge to the west. Instant inferno....amazing.

[@homesteadingandgardening]

I've seen this happen three other times but don't cut to much off of the hill . Looks like if you would get a lot of rain after clearing it could slide. Doing great though love the videos.

[@NallaDlanorGomez]

u should do this again sir heath the then and now progress! new sub here! from the philippines MABUHAY KA RED POPPY RANCH😊😊😊

[@VicsYard]

That’s really nice county man.

[@richardmartarano4266]

What makes me nervous is the fact that Utah's mountains, especially the lower elevation ones, don't have the rock foundation from keeping them from sliding. If you look at your neighbor's 120 acre plot, you can see a slide. I've grown up in the region and witnessed many slides. Whole mountain from top to bottom have changed communities and even main highway routes. In the 70's the area from Ogden to Bountiful used to have a "no build" beyond a certain point up the hillside because of slides. My aunt's house in Logan used to be the cutoff point for building upwards. We thought she would lose her house during one slide but it was spared. Fast forward to today, money talks and the authorities let them build even further up. Unfortunately you built your dream in a bowl. Words of advice, keep your situation awareness about you during prolonged raining days. Got Bless...*God Bless*

[@alursino3213]

richard martarano Sad but a true possibility on that typography

[@utseay]

Dang, that sounds scary. Did Mr. Poppy ever respond to your thoughts?

[@frommanilawithlove2556]

great

[@joeguzman3558]

Love that life but im a coward and always been afraid of not making it in the woods ,hope i can one day .

[@PriscillaSwaney]

With 40 acres do you have any marketable timber. We purchased acreage in TN and selling the older timber off we paid for building our house. If they come in to cut timber they will cut logging roads, another plus. To pull logs out they will rattlesnake grade the steep logging roads. You were talking about having a saw mill, but to get timber off those hills will take you years. I know you said you were close to Willow Creek Homestead and it appears there isn't much timber in that area. Don't get discouraged. When we bought our land in TN we hauled water for 3 years as did many other folks in the area. Living off spring water we were not sick those full three years. We were going to put in a milk haul tank to hold spring water but were told the water was coming in. Took gov't red tape 5 yrs total to get that water line. The county came up the main highway and we got rural community utility water, from that point on for a year we stayed sick all the time. We went back to hauling spring water for cooking & drinking. I think you have done a lot in the time since you purchased your land. Gosh what if all these complainers were actually doing this. Just trolls or wanta bees.

[@Jeff-vt8kn]

Rhett needs to make snowboard trails

[@Yuaa3]

Did you have to get a septic? Did you have to bring utilities to your lot. Are you building your home or do you have a builder. I’m trying to do something similar.

[@mikeduffy8229]

Very. nice. what year is your backhoe

[@robertlaird6746]

What state do you live in? We have river frontage in Northwest WA on almost six acres. Several of our neighbors have fifteen acres and more but most have about what we have. It's nice not hearing any white noise, just the sound of nature.

[@robinkight9893]

I understand what you have planned, but I do have a question. Wouldn't it be better to build at or near the top of the hill? I'm thinking about winter and avalanches.

[@RedPoppyRanch]

We thought of winter too. The roads are too hard to get up and we don't get enough snow for avalanches.

[@kidetohellfiremibu]

That’s a decent amount of land I think that’s how much land I’ll need for my business.....and the houses for my employees.....do you think about 7 small houses maybe cabin sized and one large house like a mansion will be able to be decently spaced out with most of the space being distant from the mansion or big big building of sorts from the small houses?.....yes I dream big when it comes to my future

[@mathieunolet7320]

Sounds like a plantation...

[@Madzguy007]

Here we are in 2022... Added 40 more acres to Red Poppy Ranch.

[@Vybz_tyty]

I got 43 arces down in Georgia .. about to do something with it,.. any ideas anyone

[@nickplaysguitar9053]

Do what this guy did

[@Z1MWOODS]

Can you do updated of this video

[@SWAMPHUNTER644]

I have looked at your property on Google Earth and tried to make sense of your boundaries without much luck. I am a former surveyor and if your cleared road frontage is a property boundary, then you must own land up over the top of the hill if you own 40 acres. I suggest you download a free copy of Google Earth to your computer which will allow you to draw on and measure distances and acreage, plot azimuths, and see potential boundaries. It also lets you see old aerials which may provide useful clues. It would make a nice video. I would look at the description of your land on your deed as a starting point. As an example, the area you show on the video as cleared or thinned only amounts to about 4 acres. Multiply that by about 10 as shown on the video and that is your property. Get yourself a good foresters hand compass such as a Silva that can accurately sight directions and plot your boundaries on the ground. Remember that distances must always be measured on the horizontal, not on the slope.

[@Rprecision]

what's the skinny with the snowmobile hiding in the trees? right on!

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Waiting for some snow...

[@todtod5163]

That is some beautiful country and it looks like the hunting would be great . I don’t know where your property is but maybe you could build a ski slope, but not a homestead. At first i thought you were actually joking. Good luck .

[@BelindaTN]

Is flooding not going to be a issue in that low place, where your house and workshop is going to be? It would be, here in middle TN.

[@RedPoppyRanch]

No. There's a creek about 100 yards down the hill from me. There's room for water to go.

[@alexandergrebenyuk353]

what about erosion and the possibility of mudslides in the area

[@RedPoppyRanch]

No mudslides. Lots of clay in the soil.

[@falcon091480]

It appears that there will be a lot of land redistribution very soon

[@LSUCVLOG]

if you allowed someone to live in a off grid home you made how much would you charge?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

I've never considered this. It would be hard to let someone else live in our home but I'm sure there are people out there that would love to live the same way.

[@richards6965]

I plan on leaving most of my trees... I like seclusion.. Nothing wrong with leaving property to someone with trees on it. Cut down some trees and make you a few dirt roads.

[@shikami621]

Plus the tree roots help with landslides

[@bank80]

@2:44 You chose to put your house at the bottom of a hill? You will learn a tough lesson about water and water tables. I do wish you luck.

[@lineflyer100]

I'm not knocking you, but what good is land on a 40 degree slope & inclimate cold weather no matter how big or small of acreage???

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Flat land is for flat landers...

[@lineflyer100]

lmfao...Ok,....Whatever saying you need to repeat to yourself to justify your purchase. Good luck raising mountain goats at your off grid ski resort

[@roberthowell932]

LineFlyer1 it works great if you have gravity fed water. No pump required and year round water no bill... Some places here I talk to people they spend too much in a water bill living in a city/town or closed off community with *rules* no aluminum ladders no blue tarps and they dictate which trees you can fall next to the house.

[@JDKvideos]

But aren't you taking hillside land and doing your best to make it function as flat land? What I think most of the people voicing their opinions about is that pasture to us is considered flat/rolling hills farm land and not tree'd acreages... But, it is yours and you do what you want. USA and freedom. What is your elevation and the highest point?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Lowest point 5500ft. Highest 6300 ft.

[@BORNGEARHEAD]

Here in Wi., a fella can get pasture land for half the price of wooded land. Is it different there or couldnt you find pasture land? You def have your work cut out for yourself. Chop, chop. :)

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Theres not much of either for sale around here or its way out of my price range. Flat land around here is being farmed and most land like mine doesn't get sold very often.

[@ErikCrowKrahe]

Clear the hill and get some skis.

[@2themaster]

We drive the well points or as you call them sand points with water pressure (about 50-60 psi). We can drive 26ft well points in the matter of minutes and then we fill in the hole around the well point with clean sand.

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Are you saying you run water down through it as you ush it down? What kind of soil?

[@2themaster]

Yes we run water down the pipe as we push it into the ground. Our first layer is regular dirt and the next 15ft is clay.

[@scotty1269]

one plus of living on the hill would be the ability to use a gravity feed water system no need for pumps!

[@RedPoppyRanch]

That would be ideal.

[@glenngoodale1709]

I would love to put my Ham Radio antenna on top of that moutain

[@TheRealWestMagazine]

beautiful, Are you in Idaho?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

We are.

[@jamesway]

Great spot how much did it cost you?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

less than $100k. More than $50k

[@vaultsoferowid]

Just for reference 40 acres = 1/4 mile x 1/4 mile

[@Fdeubcfhbbjhfd]

why did you buy the entire property on a hill?

[@wandamcgann7728]

if you clear to much trees and stuff arent you scared of mudslides during heavy rains?? just a thought.

[@MR-hg4cm]

can anyone say land slide?

[@margietucker1719]

Well, frankly--that's the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw that huge hillside. Especially after that exact thing happening over at the Hilder homestead. Another reason for not clearing the trees off that slope. Whole villages have just been wiped out recently all over South America-because the people cut the trees down on the hillsides, and when heavy rain came... the hillside came with it, burying everything-people included. Scary stuff.

[@at347est]

He is not making the soil weak by what he is doing....Odds of a landslide is slim .

[@nimst3]

Shame to see all those trees die. I'm in the process of replanting on my property from the previous guy who apparently hated trees.

[@knightrider6473]

He has a heap of trees left, without cutting alot down the property is useless. What's he going to do with 40 acres of trees?

[@jefferyschirm4103]

Oh mi you better hurry up and get cameras and no tresspassing signs everywhere.

[@wntu4]

Dude, why did you buy a hill?

[@mirsout4808]

Grow grapes...

[@nevetsatitoc9365]

Yo what state r u in the land is beautiful

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Idaho

[@ThriftyTruckers]

Nice property! How much per acre?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

There's not anything left like what we have. IT sold for as cheap as $1500 per acre but those days are gone.

[@noctanol]

Plenty of that shit in texas. 100k will get you 15 to 30 acres

[@judywood6995]

Me, I would get the biggest dozer that I can get. Then just run it right up to the top knocking thr trees down like they do for building roads,

[@RedPoppyRanch]

I think you're on to something.

[@tjhaverland4276]

Red Poppy Ranch Might be a little bit easier running the dozer Downhill knocking them over! Nice Property! Good Luck Bro! 🖒🖒🖒

[@doubletake2448]

Where is this beautiful property located?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

South eastern Idaho

[@kevinlamarr1424]

No chance of a town house subdivision/ HOA nazis popping up next to you. I’m looking for a similar situation with the Mark Twain National Forest as the back stop.

[@wtftolate3782]

Why would you clear most of your trees!?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Because they are killing each other.

[@nednight6607]

Mais que porta é essa

[@mycroftholmes7003]

what state is this?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Idaho

[@james-mayonnaise007]

Just a descendent of a slave here seeing what 40 acres looks like

[@tkdawes147]

What state are you in ?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Idaho

[@asifkk1980]

How much the land cost you.. please don't cut trees until it is necessary

[@davidriley8590]

you will have to buy livestock with one leg shorter than the other so they can walk level on that hill.

[@tjhaverland4276]

David Riley Yeah, I guess that's what's wrong with all those "Swiss" cattle. 😩 vsmfh Ya Big Dummy

[@sethcatley6232]

Why clear off the land? The trees are what's so nice to look at...

[@RedPoppyRanch]

Thin the trees not clear them all off.

[@MrMunchiemo]

Nice property. How far of a drive to a store?

[@RedPoppyRanch]

15 minutes

[@gracieallen8285]

Sad they are cutting down all those trees.

[@michaelbass6176]

rent a mini excavator bobcat 42

[@seals777]

Bro put greenhouses easy money

[@jamesloehr5657]

100 acres