Making of a Proper Wood Yard

Today I am working on making a proper wood yard with the Kubota MX5400 Tractor and the KX057-4 Excavator
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We live in Western Pa. and Have around 100 Acres of Land, About 1/2 is ours the rest is my moms, We have 4 kids and two grandchildren, 3 Golden Retrievers and one Cat. We enjoy working on our property and making improvements. We sell firewood and soon will be selling hardwood lumber.

[@ToddKirst]

Watching your Videos is so relaxing.

[@dmorgan28]

That wood yard is going to be nice. 👍👍👍❤️

[@MikeTalbot-f7n]

Hi Mike. When you explain things it seems there’s a lot more people questioning your strategy lol. You always have a good plan. No need to explain. Have a great day. 🙏😃👍

[@thomasyerbey337]

I really enjoyed this video Mike 🇺🇲 and Melissa 🇺🇲 I always enjoy watching your videos 🇺🇲

[@timwilcoxsr2712]

Mike says "1 more bucket" AND he takes 3 more ! LOVE IT !!

[@brianpayne1177]

The Firewood pad is looking good Mike

[@davidbishop4015]

Quality preparations make for a job well done.

[@rphiliprogers]

Good morning everyone. 60º in Kansas City. Warmer this morning here, How is everyone doing this Friday morning? Stay safe, be humble & kind and have a day.

[@davidmorse8432]

Good Morning Phil & Friends! 🙂

[@TheHobbyFarmHomestead]

Morning! It’s a good day here in Northeast Ohio!

[@badcat4707]

Good morning guys :-)

[@marcuswhite3628]

Good morning Phil & all y’all!

[@RDW303]

60 degrees in KC. 52 degrees here outside Sedalia.

[@wyattearp1418]

That was good one.

[@russellbowman8051]

Shaping up Nicely!!👍👊

[@rickbyo8643]

Oooo Mike ! I think someone has a crush on you ! See how that blonde girl rode onto the firewood pad and just watched you work ? Yep !

[@jamesbaker1028]

I enjoy watching this with a cup of morning coffee. A perfect start to the day.

[@jimkempton5568]

Me too!

[@smokinbutts2]

I am doing that as I write this! Good morning from South Carolina,Upstate.

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Morning!

[@jeffpeters1014]

I’ll go to the FB videos. Thanks for doing that!

[@PatrickWagz]

Random Comment to help the KZbin Analytics Gods!! Have a Day, Hunter and Morgan Fam!

[@tinachambers4887]

Enjoying all your vids thanks have a day love from TEXAS

[@LongBinh70]

"...I mean, I don't HAVE to...". Of course you do, Mike. You follow the same life mantra that I've always followed: "Do a job, big or small; do it right, or not at all!"

[@billonthehill9984]

Sage advice methinks! Bill on the Hill... :~)

[@chucklogan7296]

Nothin easy about Elk hunting!! Hunting is great ..packing out a big bull 3-4 miles out is where the fun ends!!

[@dbern5577]

I appreciate your videos and have leant a lot from them. You're a very brave man. Where I come from you'll have to obtain a license to mine that fill even from your own backyard.

[@thebradleysoncatbirdhill6849]

As always, so good to see you both. Have a wonderful weekend, and God bless you all! 🙏🙏🙏

[@traviscover590]

I like your new video today you did a really good jop it is looking really nice good jop on your video love your video

[@ronsafreed2400]

boy,your going at it....great fill...yeah keep it level...we will make the pool later,,haaa,,yeah i got to talking to my neighbor about 1pm.had a beer,then a friend come....it was 7:30 that quick....all that Sun,,no grass cut today.getting kind of cool when that sun goes down...stay safe Mike

[@billhauck7872]

Mike I got back from Cambridge late last night. I was a little disappointed that I missed you and Malissa but more than that I was really sad that I did not to get to see Ti and his beautiful , exciting friend Archie. Well, that is life when a compulsive person and can't wait for things to happen. I was jut a week early.

[@markgrassl5585]

I was just watching Buckin Billie Day stacking firewood. I remember many years ago when Mike Morgan was incredibily proud of his wood stacking. Now we are looking at a ground will for unstacked firewood. The apocalypse is upon us.

[@peter6244431]

Hi Mike. Just a compliment, aside from issues about the video today. You keep all of your equipment in pristine condition. Well done!

[@Gwalker0220]

Mike great job... those big blocks are amazing I did the same thing except it had a dock off one side.... makes life so much better and easier... I put our block half on and half off the slab... ours were 8 footers $165 each delivered... You should have made them with your guy...

[@jpolicicchio2021]

Always the need for additional storage space. Very fortunate to have such great fill material right on your property. Great videos. Keep them coming!

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Looking great Mike and Melissa, doing a great job on the wood yard! Going to be awesome when you’re done with it. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋

[@craigsudman4556]

Great job, great video, thumbs up.

[@badcat4707]

Good morning Hunter 😃 and family and friends ;-)

[@bobvrnr]

Mike, I think you might ought to show some before and after aerials the RRPC for comparison. Some of us older folk may not remember what it used to look like down there.

[@randyrobertson3490]

For the life of me why would some dweeb take time to not like your videos? I love the progress you have made on your projects!

[@tanyaknight8197]

I notice that you use borrow pits as we have done. It is really nice when a friend with an excavator company delivers 20 or 30 truck loads of dirt they need to find a home for.

[@rickoncordova1]

Number 3 !!! Lowest I've been in three years. Yay. Rick.

[@ddelano7408]

I think Melissa was afraid you bought another load of fill and had it delivered when she wasn't looking!😃 Hello to Hunter! Have a day, from MA.

[@ColFernald]

Here in central Pa, the Juniata and the Susquehanna are over their banks...thankfully no rain in the 5 day forecast.

[@dennisbarnett1995]

Here to watch another update with outdoors with the morgans. Thank you

[@aaronbaum2542]

Another Fine job done on the excavator and tractor Mike!! Everything is looking so nice!! Hello Melissa and Family!! Have a wonderful weekend!! 🤗

[@dishpointer]

I would love to see your hunting videos but I will never use Facebook. It's a shame that youtube is censoring videos. Good luck on your hunt.

[@carln6ckv8]

I am amazed that you can do all the earth moving with out a grading permit.

[@raylund2036]

Mike I think you need a 1 tone dump flat bed with removable sides to move some stuff around

[@nickpetrancosta7812]

Your awesome

[@finnyasfinn0510]

Good Morning, its moving weekend….y’all have a blessed day

[@jellybelly7816]

Morgan’s great progress. On the renewal-able resource area. We need to remember all those who have sacrificed there selves for our freedoms of our 1st and 2nd Amendments.don’t compromise your video content

[@TheTorkerman]

That shale makes great fill. Wish I had that here..

[@profdave2861]

Me too! I have commented many times over the years on the amazing combination of excellent top soil and an endless amount of shale fill. My home is on a lake, essentially on rock, and we have a 100 acre property about 70 miles north with beautiful trees, hills and ponds, but also mostly rock! Almost no top soil - and hard to believe that families scraped out a living on it two hundred years ago.

[@LAMH]

Hey Guys! How about putting hunting and 'pew-pew' videos on Rumble?

[@robk1310]

Yes!!! Rumble monetizes videos also and doesn’t censor.

[@Unwrapasmile]

Man Mike you guys always got a project going on. I sure enjoy watching your channel, it’s always interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing all that you guys are doing.

[@davepatti2296]

Looks good on the concrete pad for the firewood work. My piles are on the ground like everyone else's, a pad even 1/4 that size is something I should make one day. U-toob and FB are just heads on the same snake now. Truthfully I've watched YT channels like yours for several years now, instead of TV. Your "sitcoms" and shows are far more interesting and fun than anything on TV. Others feel the same way. That's why advertisers stuff commercials in all the videos now. I get it, pays the channel creators, YT makes money, got it, no problem. But now U-toob is a monopoly TV network that cancels pieces and parts of shows, neither the content creators nor the viewers have a say in that. Honestly everything in your videos is everything I used to watch on The Walton's on TV when I was young. Cutting trees and milling lumber, family and faith, hunting and living on vast amounts of wooded lands. Honestly yours and channels like yours are far more "wholesome" than others that don't get cancelled. Truly a compliment. Good on you guys for working hard and all the ups and downs of life. Plenty of us out here all doing the same thing.

[@garysmallwood1]

Man You Nailed It on the Sitcom Shows, I Couldn't Agree More, and I Do The Same!!! TV Stinks, Except for Gunsmoke and Tucker!

[@fordboss9275]

Mike don’t let them bully you, there are hunting videos on KZbin by the thousands!

[@barryhaynes103]

Mike … your like a wood turner … one more pass, one more pass, one more pass … for 30 more passes … 😎

[@josephpedone2004]

Good morning Morgan family ☕️ about an hour to go, heading for Potter County… weekend get away… have a blessed day

[@kearnsey64]

Mike, when Elk hunting, carry a personal locator Beacon PLEASE! Just trust me on this!

[@RebekahTOUCHEDBYYARN]

Good morning from Central Missouri

[@marcuswhite3628]

Looks like you got your “fill” of it 😂! Love the load of glasses on the hat😂! If KZbin is messing with you I wonder how long before Facebook does the same…🤬. Marcus from Chesapeake VA.

[@jacklachman5304]

Good morning Marcus! Happy TGIF for your M-F working self. Hope you have a great weekend Looks like the cool weather is finally here to stay

[@marcuswhite3628]

@@jacklachman5304 TGIF indeed! I forgot to tell you to have a “FANTASTIC FRIDAY “!!!

[@jacklachman5304]

@@marcuswhite3628 every day is Friday or Saturday when retired my fellow OWTM fan

[@oldmanfred8676]

@@jacklachman5304 and Marcus, Everyday is Saturday and and every night is Friday night! I have been retired 23 years this year!

[@lancepearson4035]

Thanks again for your post today - sad that You tube is coming at hunting videos - I don't use Facebook so that's unfortunate - cheers anyway

[@justinfinke9249]

I love the west! I keep asking why I live in Minnesota! Maybe one day I will take the plunge and leave and start new roots

[@raylund2036]

Just herd you talking about your Elk hunt make sure you wash your hunting stuff in that sent remover soap and keep it in a plastic bag Elk have a great sense of smell I live in Pueblo West Co with a bow it it great

[@kennethnelson4419]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 if you had your dump truck that big Power you could have moved at one time it would really help save you a lot of time Mike thank you

[@edholst1992]

Really enjoying the longer videos keep up the good work😀

[@evankibbe590]

Good morning everyone!! 😊👍

[@robinpearson4583]

Mike, As soon as saw what you were doing, I thought that would be a good time to have a powerful truck to haul the Moritz tipping trailer.....C'est la vie. Regards Robin.

[@rexwoodall2179]

I love the way you keep more than one or two projects moving along! Enjoy watching all the equipment making all the usable land! Ready for some of the bow hunting plus that trip to Colorado! Melissa, keep the firearms vids coming, I enjoy them!

[@ronwig7665]

Great job mike, caint wait to see It done

[@jackhume4532]

Hi 👋 Mike, your wood yard is progressing nicely and I can’t wait to see it finished and in full production mode and that will be a very cool thing and until next time TaRa for a bit.

[@RamblingWithTheBrums]

I hope you get your bronco soon Mike. Here in Canada they are on the lots I’ve seen 4 driving around our small community now. I’m not a Ford man but my aunt and uncle always had a bronco so I get why they are so popular. Fingers crossed you get your baby

[@jameshalliday412]

I’m near Ottawa and I pass two dealers fairly regularly. Both have new full-sized Broncos sitting on the lot and have been for a while now. Saw one got a sold sticker this week, but the others are looking sad and lonely on the lot. One has got to have a 5” lift kit already added before leaving the lot! Weird, considering the difficulty Mike’s got getting his. Maybe a quick run across the border for Mike?

[@mikecorrado4971]

Another great and interesting video. Thank you Mike! 👍🏼

[@heinstrydom864]

I enjoy to keep everything neat , in place,organized and operational. It become a challenge when you have 50k hectares. Everyday is a huge challenge but in the evening after work is the best time, nothing as good as to be tired after a day work exspessialy if a person achieves something. Greetings from Namibia

[@johnsadler8637]

Whoa! 50,000 ha?? That’s over 120,000 acres! Almost 200 square miles! Yes, you do have logistics to worry about. You’d need multiple locations of equipment, dozens of tractors, and some of them really big ones, and a fleet of heavy transport trailers. What a job!

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Wow, that is impressive. Can’t imagine an operation that size.

[@johnsadler8637]

If it’s a perfect square with no unowned islands within, it would be 14 miles on a side. I have to drive my tractor in a road for 3 miles to get to the other end of our farm, and logistics is a substantial issue even then. Wow.

[@johnsadler8637]

@@ArnieD17 A hectare is 2.47 acres. I think you have 100k ha figured out.

[@johnsadler8637]

@@ArnieD17 Actually, it was 10k ha you have calculated. Didn’t the comment say 50k ha?

[@PurpleCollarLife]

Great planning and execution. The pad looks great. -Chad #purplecollarlife

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Thanks Chad!

[@MarkWilliams-lf5tc]

You should check out the new zero turn from Kubota

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Great video, going be nice when done

[@richardbailey4649]

Was wondering if you had thought about putting a divider wall on the bulk storage pad. That way one side could be used up at a time to keep the wood on the bottom from getting old. Thanks for the great videos. We always look forward to watching.

[@jacklachman5304]

GOOOOOOD MAAAWNIN MIKE !!!

[@marcuswhite3628]

GOOOOOOOOOD MAAAAWNIN Jack! Looking like a good fishing day! I will be with you in Spirit!

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Morning Jack and Marcus

[@marcuswhite3628]

@@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans A personal good morning to you❣️ Have a Fantastic Friday❗️

[@tommyordoyne7461]

Good morning from Upstate South Carolina. Nice work Mike. Can't wait to see the hunting videos. Have a productive day.

[@stevekennedy8547]

Crikey Mike. You sure, you weren't a Earth Moving Contractor in a Previous Life. Would be Fun to see you in Control of a D11 Dozer or a 60 Tonne Excavator.

[@KillingItCountry]

I do love the KX content!!! 👍

[@tommyordoyne7461]

Mike, you might be able to use those leftover large stones between the flat area you are working on now and that road back there as you did around the pool area.

[@michaelmullins1290]

It must be fun playing on the equipment. I have two shovels and pick! Letsdig18 packs a bucket of dirt to help add weight when packing material. Just a great idea.

[@oldmanfred8676]

Michael Mullins, When I dig a stump out I use a Shovel, a small Mattock and an Axe.

[@stevencrabtree1960]

Hey Mike, I was watching out of the woods and Nathan said he'll be at the paul Bunion show Saturday and Sunday

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Yep, I have been talking to him

[@petermaguire6280]

Just joined the two FB pages. Getting prepared to return to Oz on 2 Jan or maybe before if wait lists come good. Looking forward to the firewood bin

[@Aspen51]

Sorry Mike - ain't no way in hell I will have anything more to do with Facebook.......

[@MacBailey]

Have you considered putting a layer of pallets across the surface of the concrete pad? You would protect the surface from cracking when the pile is just starting and the wood splits smacking into it. It also would allow the airflow up from the bottom and help drainage. Just something to think about.

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

How would i load the wood out with the firewood bucket on the tractor?

[@johnsadler8637]

Good morning! We hit the 40’s overnight here in NCNC. Jeans and longsleeves for me this morning. I was wondering if Melissa had stopped the Firearm Friday, then you said you were putting hunting on the other platform, so decided that was it. Then Melissa said she’d done some more but they were hidden. So I think I’ll do some hunting in her MOTL space and find out for myself! Those are really well done videos; she’s very good in them. It’s pretty good to see the annex to the RRPC is paying dividends already. Quite clear how your vision works for you in the drone view. Extending the basket platform now is probably going to be appreciated later too. Nice!

[@danmcdonagh8924]

If you git a Deer and an Elk , you will be able to make some excellent sausage. Just make sure you only use the scrap kind of meat from the elk because you definitely want roasts , steaks and and burger . It is some off the best tasting meat ever. Elk is very lean meat so good to mix some beef or at least a little beef fat in it as it cooks fater than beef .

[@jimroeske2049]

I like the tractor work

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Thanks Jim

[@1944chevytruck]

WOW! AWESOME!...MELISSA WHERE IS YOUR HELMET!... thanks4 video. be kind.

[@steveashworth6707]

We've had rain the last three days I'm tired of it!, lolo!. More storage space is always better!. Hope they bring your concrete blocks soon!. Morgans have a day!.

[@oldmanfred8676]

We did too Steve! One nice day today and rain again tomorrow!

[@briansmallwood2103]

I hope you film the elk hunt if at all possible. Lots of great hunting where I am in Northern British Columbia.

[@TheHobbyFarmHomestead]

KZbin is starting to mess with the homesteading channels as far as raising animals for food. I have to watch what I post about the animals. Your firewood bin is going to be awesome once it is all done. I am going to try to make it out to the Paul Bunyan show this year. I will definitely be following your other Facebook page. You guys keep up the good work!

[@bernventer5949]

I mostly watch on Rumble recently.

[@oldmanfred8676]

Hobby, I watch Kristy Larson in Florida, she does mostly ASMR type videos, she has 50 rabbits 🐰 I keep hinting she needs to make Hasenpfeffer but she loves them too much. I see an overrun Mini Ranch in the future 😊

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Sorry to hear that. Thanks for the support and hope to see you at Bunyan!

[@garyfaulds2008]

If people keep bowing down to government an social media very soon Society will loose all its freedoms. What I like about Outdoors with the Morgan's an a hole lot of other people, that it is it all about normal family live , if that is a little hunting or even fishing so be it an everything in between, you tube has to realize that . So don't stop doing what your doing Mike . Thanks .

[@jakobrebeki]

good morning Mike and Melisa from Jakob over in South East London in the UK. Have a great day....

[@rgd2598]

Good morning from Texas Jakob!

[@billonthehill9984]

That is some good looking material coming out of the ground Mike & the price is right! The bucket size you are using is perfectly suited to the task at hand methinks...Shaping up nicely, might just as well create more storage space in that area...Installed a canopy on the tractor yesterday, finished it up in pitch black last night, between it & the custom built carryall/tool rack I built, the (18) year old JD-990 is looking pretty snazzy... Bill on the Hill... :~)

[@harveygussow9]

To continue to be seen!

[@rogerhowell9987]

Good Afternoon Morgan’s from Poole Dorset UK, I had my details hacked through Facebook so I’m no longer on it!

[@nathanbrodeur]

Mike I just solved your 2A lime stone problem there is a bucket from flip screen you can screen the fines from the shale and mix the fines into the stone you have been getting

[@jnich17]

What ever happened to the swimming pool project? BTW, absolutely love your videos. Keep it up.

[@scottspurrell1766]

Hey mike you need to come to Newfoundland on a moose hunt,there's lot of hunting guides here.tks

[@AndreasvonT]

There are advantages to using blocks to contain firewood but I really like using self standing corral panels. Let air through and can be moved around easily. Much cheaper than blocks where I live. Can see them on my Cord King demo video

[@davidmorse8432]

Good point, but I think he is planning to scoop up the wood with the front end loader and you need something that can stay put for that.

[@AndreasvonT]

@@davidmorse8432 Yes that is the advantage of the blocks.. I load by hand

[@kearnsey64]

Mike, when you hog into that shale, the Kubota doesn't even groan!

[@majcorbin]

the firewood pad resembles a helicopter landing pad all it needs to complete the look is a giant H in the center and strobe lights at the corners

[@BackyardMaine]

I didn't know that about youtube and hunting. I'm a new channel and I was planning on doing some hunting videos this fall. Maybe I should reconsider.

[@chris3m98]

Backyard Maine, I'm not into hunting, maybe if you do hunting just say in your title so people are aware of it.

[@BackyardMaine]

@@chris3m98 Oh I would do that for sure but what I gathered here was that KZbin is penalizing channels who have hunting or firearm related content. I don't want to add a barrier to any future channel growth.

[@teveler]

Mike's one last bucket is like my one last cast while fishing