Tree Stump Removal - Part 2: Burning, Splitting, Backfilling, and Sowing Seed

[@solohoh]

That's nice picture at 6:10 of the green rolling hills in the background with the lady in the foreground and the burned out stump in the middle

[@startingfromscratch7469]

Great narrative and excellent video work - makes for engaging viewing. Keep up the great work

[@tonyharris230]

Nice cat, obviously you supervisor checking on you!!, seems a chilled cat

[@iksexplorationsfollower2588]

Another great video, You're doing a great job, and top looking property. Thanks for sharing.

[@12tremblay]

Nice work ! Gives me idea about leaving my office job and starting a farm 😉

[@barkershill]

Lovely vid , so well made , My niece married a Kiwi and they live near Lake Taupo. You two so remind me of them . I have to say though I think if I had been you I would have just saved all the hassle of burning those stumps and just used the tractor to dump them in an obscure spot somewhere on those 42 acres, making a nice little wildlife haven

[@BacktotheLand]

Thanks for the lovely feedback :) We're just over an hour from Taupo - not far at all when you live in the middle of nowhere! That's actually a great idea about creating a wildlife spot from the stumps. We don't have too many obscure spots on the farm, it's all gently rolling and pretty bare right now though we're doing our best to plant lots of trees, but we do have a spot right at the back of the farm over our boundary fence where there are some pine trees that could work nicely. We'll definitely consider it for our next stumps!

[@peachybeach]

@@BacktotheLand I would think twice about the wildlife idea... dumping big stumps like these will quickly turn into clumps of bush-covered dirt mounts with stumps hidden in the dirt rendering the whole spot inaccessible for you to enjoy, and will eventually make good refuge for snakes and other potentially dangerous animals especially for your livestock

[@alexn6060]

@@peachybeach No snakes nor dangerous animals that can threaten livestock in New Zealand.

[@peachybeach]

@@alexn6060 Whatever you say buddy

[@alexn6060]

@@peachybeach just trying to provide some education, buddy.

[@jamesharris40001]

So true it doesnt feel like a waste of time good way to put it

[@larryparish8708]

Binge watching your VLOG.

[@hunterlogan2913]

looks great!!

[@bevnelson3678]

Awesome work

[@DJInclined]

Amazing

[@ronsteuer3140]

Gonna take a week or more to ash this stump

[@thetrailgoat]

If you had a lumber mill some of that would have made real nice slab wood. $$$ Love the cat 🐈‍⬛

[@TraJikyy]

That property looks massive lol

[@maxwell6898]

I don't know how I found this video but its wonderful and calming (and really well edited..?). Cheers!

[@BacktotheLand]

Aw, thanks Maxwell, that's real nice :)

[@AnastaziaValvaine]

cool New Zealand.. i was there only about a year ago, because I had too much time due to the pandemic was sick at home with corona, 14 days of isolation. and I watched Lord of the Rings. So - i can say, I was there. At least in my mind ! 🤭 like+subscribed!

[@Fomites]

Great video :-) Thanks.

[@sustainsus1]

and now many omantic evenings near the fire inside a whole winter long

[@paddlepaddlepaddle8147]

Drill a hole 9n the stump and fill it with flash powder, cap it and fuse it then run....will split those stumps no problem.

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

An egg cup of black powder (at ammo stores; for black powder guns) at the bottom of a 1 inch hole drilled 9 inches into a log, a length of fuse to the outside of the log, with brick dust tamped to fill the hole...light and walk away. Splits blue gum logs 6ft diameter 20ft long that have been drying for 10 years...

[@bunkhindman3241]

Can yall sell firewood, is there a market for it.

[@sergeroitman5017]

is wiser to use a garden blower than adding diesel or gas

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

Tires...lots and lots of old tires right throughout the pile right at the start....

[@cegesl4521]

The ash would have been amazing fertiliser for the farm

[@BrittonaturalistvlogsUSA2024]

I tried with diesel and it's very dangerous .

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

No, using diesel as an accelerant ONCE, right at the start, pouring it into and over old car tires, lots of old car tires stacked throughout the burn pile and over the stumps THEN setting it all on fire...that's using your head.... Pouring any accelerant on a fire when it's going tends to lead to great YT moments.

[@ScottA2345]

Pouring gas on a fire from a gas can is a really really stupid thing to do.

[@BacktotheLand]

Yep you're right using gasoline/petrol would be! We're using diesel here which is far less flammable and much safer 🙂

[@ScottA2345]

@@BacktotheLand Ooops - my bad. Never mind ;-)

[@bevnelson3678]

Heaps of fire wood.

[@guyparham575]

Why didn't you chop it all up and sell as fire wood

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

If he had used an engine driven or tractor mounted log splitter,...sure, why not? But this way he has firewood for himself done the hard way... and some stumps are just not worth chopping up because they have inclusions that wreck chainsaws/wedges/mauls/axes.... Just burn them....

[@williampenrose696]

Dude, I always wanted a lot of land.... Until.. This video lol.. I'll stick with my 2 Acres

[@jerryfloyd8899]

IF YOU ADD DUST THEN S

[@Fomites]

Love it!

[@eljayleveille3721]

Just let it sit there a year or two. Then you'll be roasting marshmallows from across the street.

[@ynthrepic]

I's a chicken.

[@Underpar26]

Dude I'm moving to New Zealand so I can find a beautiful wife

[@m.delani5238]

Painfull way to waste wood

[@grzegorz6119]

😡😡😡

[@garyholt4445]

What a load of nothing