New Tool: CHIPPING a driveway

Due to the weather, the dirt work we contracted out for the driveway and shop pad has been delayed. So, we spent some time doing grunt work to shape the driveway and get a better visual of how it will look and where it will be.
We got the tractor out to the property for the first time, which was exciting, to say the least. Tractor seat time is therapeutic. To help us clear our piles, I use a Woodland Mills WC68 6" PTO Wood Chipper, powered by the tractor PTO, and can handle material up to 6" in diameter. The chipper is rated for 20-50 PTO horsepower. My tractor has 30 horsepower at the PTO, so I won't be able to maximize the capability of this chipper, but it will allow for growing room if I get a larger tractor in the future. I haven't measured anything, but I believe I chipped a 5-6" diameter pine tree with it with no problems. I think I could chip 6" pine easily, but hardwoods are another story. You can audibly tell the ease of chipping pine vs the power demand of similar-sized hardwood. Considering we have 101 acres of trees, this will be a handy implement for the foreseeable future.
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0:00 UTV
2:42 Pole saw
5:51 Woodchipper
11:09 Back to the land
12:23 Woodland Mills WC68 Wood Chipper
14:16 Cookie Monster
14:40 Timelapse
15:52 Some thoughts

[@thecurtish]

Jay, I'm pretty stoked to see this "homesteading" type content from you. I've followed your channel from the apartment shop days, and your presentation style has always been right up my alley. I've missed this type of content for a while now, and I'm very excited for the future of your channel!

[@gusswenson7811]

Hi Jay I don’t usually comment but I have to tell you I am really enjoying this.. I have been watching for a long time and I really like it a lot.. But this is really interesting and like you are taking us along with your new journey in life.. Thank you for sharing.. I did this 40 years ago when I built my house.. I have got so much enjoyment from doing it and all the improvements I have done over the years.. The feeling of accomplishment you get is is incredible.. In time you and your Wife will feel it too.. You both can sit back and say We did this!!!! Thank you again for sharing and always move forward.. Oh your Daughter is so fun to watch as well.. I have 11 kids and wish they could have helped but most came after.. hahahaha Cheers

[@cliff5240]

Really enjoy watching you making progress on your new property. I have a little of 5 1/2 acres and it is a lot of work but I would not have it any other way -- I am 60 now and I really believe it keeps me young, a little more sore than a few years ago but still worth it. I look forward to seeing your dream come true.

[@katherynlamarche7308]

Thank you so much for keeping your supporters involved. Julien. Ontario Canada

[@64puma64]

Really appreciate the real world testimonial on the chipper.

[@oilcitywoodworks]

I really enjoyed this video too. It is a nice change of pace from shop videos and I think you did a great job editing and putting it together as well. I look forward to more. :)

[@AngieWilliamsDesigns]

I love it. I think one of the exciting things is that I've been following you since you had your shop in the apartment. To see where you are now is so cool. I don't watch the homesteading videos or home remodeling videos much. But this has certainly peaked my interest. Probably because of the way you share the content, your excitement for it and I really do enjoy watching the process of taking the overgrown property and making something. I look forward to watching. I loved see the gate cleared and then seeing it in today's video. So much progress already. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@JAMESMT-mm6zl]

That’s a good chipper, I’ve used that same model a lot. I will say, it likes to be greased, especially if it’s out in the elements. Good video, enjoyed watching someone else doing the work….😂. Thanks for sharing.

[@richriley8031]

Excellent job! I needed a commercial chipper like that when I cleared an adjacent lot next to my home property by hand! Lots of sore muscle days but gotter done. Enjoying the progressive videos.

[@MarkThomas123]

Ever since I bought my first locking grease fitting, I have not bought another.. I still have to use an old one to get into a small diameter hole with a fitting on my backhoe, but, I LOVE the locking fittings.. One handed greasing.. Nice...

[@lourens2852]

Great to see you guys so busy! Enjoy working on your own land, building your own dream. Homesteading it is! It's also nice that there are often videos. Keep it up as far as I'm concerned.

[@J4Julz]

I'm pretty excited about that woodchipper- the best part tho, is the metal pallet- you could make a work bench out of it! A different kind of pallet furniture :)

[@JeffYantha]

The driveway looks great and it’s exciting to see the Woodland Mills gear in action! I just ordered the Multilander trailer to clean up a bunch of diseased trees and was planing to get the stump grinder and chipper as soon as we get a tractor.

[@Tom_Monahan]

I’m digging this series. Thanks for bringing us along!

[@bobbymccarley2134]

A very nice addition to the equipment that will come in handy for all the clearing you will be doing and looks to be a very well made machine with a lot of umph to get the work done!!!! Can't wait to see the stump grinder in action.

[@MarkLasbyCNC]

Congratulations on the purchase of 2 great pieces of equipment. I hope you enjoy your Woodlands Mills equipment as much I enjoy mine. Woodland Mills is a great Canadian company to deal with. (No I don't work for them.)

[@luctoulouse]

Thanks for bringing us to your journey. very fun to see the progression. Cheers from Canada.

[@awldune]

I live on a half acre in the city and yet I want every tool featured.

[@TheGardenerNorth]

Nice video! Just a suggestion, that you may want to stock pile those wood chips as they are incredibly valuable for landscaping and composting.

[@averagejoesworkshop]

I live in the city in Portland OR and will likely never have need for a chipper or a tractor, but all I was thinking watching this was how fun it must be.

[@pagesk2001]

I got one of these last year and it’s right up there with the flail mower as the best attachment I have for the tractor. I’ve clogged mine a few times, usually on western red cedar bows. Most everything goes through without a problem. I only have 22 hp at the PTO.

[@johnford7847]

Seeing all that understory shrubbery makes me wonder: does your daughter know how to identify poison ivy? Good video, Jay. Thanks for sharing.

[@JayBates]

We're working on that. We are all learning a lot.

[@weirdnewworld1736]

Congratulations!!! This is going to be a fun journey!

[@joshuawcope]

As a fellow Bad Boy tractor owner it is always great to see them getting the work in. I would definitely recommend getting a quick hitch for your 3pt going forward since it looks like your project will require a lot of different implement usage.

[@JayBates]

Ordered a Speedco. Arrives tomorrow :)

[@joshuawcope]

@@JayBates Good deal, I couldn’t manage without my SpeeCo

[@1sbende]

I have the wood 8x10 chipper and have found that even on a 50 horse tractor it really help to stop the feed roller a few times while chipping larger diameter trees to let the tractor come but to full power so you dont blow sheer pins or kill tractor

[@jimrosson6702]

Great video

[@richardmaynard6381]

Jay, You may want to grind those trees so the chips fill in the ruts in your trails. I know they will degrade over time but for know it will cut down your mud.

[@andrewpinson1268]

Don't forget now that if you have any question about homestead ways, many of us are professional "homesteading" video watchers. Advise on everything but the sweating part of it right at your finger tips.

[@josephpotterf9459]

Love the humor thanks looks like fun to me.

[@toneec]

Someone will LOVE it if you put googly eyes on the outfeed of the wood chipper.

[@bottomup12]

Letsdig18 would pile it up and burn it, but that chipper looks fun. What an adventure this will be!

[@patraymond3791]

might want to cut the stumps veery close to the ground unless you plan on ripping them out of the ground, looks like fun by the way. Pat

[@tomhargreaves8820]

Your daughter has the upstaging/photo bomb thing down to a science!

[@solitudewoodworking]

In other woodworking videos there is always 2-3 of you doing work. Seems really productive. Seems like that could be helpful with all you have going on now. Just a thought:)

[@JayBates]

I'm on it boss!

[@TheDankFarmer]

Great video, looking forward to seeing the progress for sure - living the dream. Also just pointing out at 17:00 pretty sure thats poison ivy on that log, be careful if you're allergic that stuff is miserable

[@JayBates]

Yup, it's poison ivy. The property is covered in it. I've never had a reaction my entire life....until now.

[@leighhardy9926]

I hope You enjoy the products from Woodland Mill. I believe their Customer service is well above average. I have been using their products since 2014.

[@JayBates]

Fantastic news. Glad to hear that. The chipper has been a workhorse so far.

[@AZ-Patriot]

Jay, make sure you engage your PTO before you open the throttle. Or, if you have a clutch on that tractor, push it in when engaging the PTO. It's very hard on it to have the throttle cranked up first.

[@JayBates]

Thanks!

[@gregmize01]

Jay bought a content farm!!!!

[@GreatFalls18u]

Take 2 hours and dig yourself a burn pit into the side on a hill with the tractor and bucket Burning takes care of the large and small stuff whereas the chipper can only handle small stuff (and there will be big stuff). If you have a hill near water all the better (gas water pump for the stuff that will take longer to burn than you can oversee). Next, buy a grapple, one of mankind's greatest inventions. Cut, grapple, burn, repeat.

[@SteveHazel]

time to get to work on something else. you're soundin like Mr Camarata :) Which is pretty awesome. I love this kinda stuff.

[@BirdYoumans]

❤❤

[@inspectr1949]

Like you have 30 HP PTO tractor considering which chipper to get leaning on the WC 88 due to the larger throat and chute size to handle brush and branched logs having a lot of towering red pine trees that I'll be dropping and chipping up the top 15-20 ', review's are the machine can handle it.

[@billrutledge2441]

If you are going to have a garden, put those would chips on the top of the garden area, about 6” deep to start o proving the soil for your garden bed.

[@JayBates]

Very little gardening in our future

[@HalfAssHomestead]

All those pine needles and chips says your property will be great for growing things like Blueberries that prefer the soil to be slightly acidic. Just don't add any Black Walnut to the piles, as that will kill just about anything you want to grow.

[@brucewelty7684]

@19:56 scrap the bolt and get a pair of Vise Grips!

[@TheDesertRat31]

I wouldn't call that a side by side. I'd call it a gator. SbS, to me are more "racing" utvs, vs work utvs... not that this means anything, just interesting the variation in terminology for stuff. Those lock n lube fittings are great... I wish I thought of it.

[@JayBates]

Two people sit side by side vs a 4 Wheeler where they sit in front of another. So to me, all UTV and recreational vehicles like this are a side by side.

[@protect.your.digits.creations]

The red bar is so if you get caught on a branch and are being pulled in you can stop it and it reverses .

[@garycdawson]

“Ship hits the sand”

[@stephengagnon4714]

Needs a lot of rocky gravel

[@JayBates]

Yes it does. Needs a lot of other work too.

[@smckenzie04]

Why not use the chips to cover the driveway and keep the mud down?

[@JayBates]

Because they will cause more trouble than solve. The problem isn't with material there, it's with proper drainage. A solution to that is in the works.

[@Bikeeast]

So, will there be a woodland mills sawmill showing up soon?

[@JayBates]

I can neither confirm nor deny.

[@Bikeeast]

@@JayBates I have the HM122. I needed to build a small studio for my wife's business. It was during Covid when lumber prices were just about at their peak. It was cheaper to buy the sawmill and a couple loads of logs than it was to buy the lumber from Home Depot, and much cheaper than a prefab building. Now I sell enough lumber to keep up with gas and maintenance/consumables for the sawmill, and have an unlimited supply of hardwood lumber for my woodworking hobby. It is super satisfying to be able to take a log, turn it into lumber, then into a piece of furniture.

[@alaskankare]

I am just curious...why cut them into the pathway instead of falling stuff into the woods where they will not cause extra work to clear path completely of every twig?

[@JayBates]

They fall where they want to fall at this small size. We leave a lot of stuff on the ground to decompose. Our dirt work guy will clear a lot of this with a dozer soon anyway. We wanted to see the shape of the driveway to see if there was any fine tuning or changes that needed to be made.

[@larryriffett918]

Can you say barndo!!!

[@tmdwu3110]

17:00 that is a poison ivy or oak vine on that pine log. Seriously nasty stuff.

[@JayBates]

Yes

[@tmdwu3110]

@@JayBates I'm deathly allergic. Even seeing you touch it with gloves on gave me the willies

[@MarshallLoveday]

Uh........ @ 15:27..... Isn't that what a chain saw is for?

[@BeeHiverson]

Rent a forestry mulcher and be done in a day.

[@damonkinney503]

See lots of Poison Ivy in the video. Yall suffer from that at all? I'm itching just seeing it....

[@JayBates]

Never in my life..... Until now. I'm covered in it. Learning hard lessons this week.

[@ridethebike5911]

You lose so much money throu the wood into dust . You can sell the fat ones

[@JayBates]

Kinda. If you chase every dollar at every opportunity you'll be bogged down by not making progress. You also lose a lot of money purchasing a bike or car for transportation instead of walking, right? The profit from this smaller stuff is just not worth the time investment.

[@doubledarefan]

4:08 Called a tree tunnel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_tunnel