good morning everyone welcome back to the channel if you don't know my name is sam
and normally i would have angela beside me help me do the introduction today's different today
is a complete impromptu road trip and vlog the other day we loaded up all of our garden soil
tea posts and heavy objects from our garden to take to our property into tennessee i
originally thought that i would not be doing this today but the weather has changed as it
always does and today is going to be the best day to haul stuff over for the next five days
we are set to have rain for at least the next five days so i want to take advantage
of having the opportunity and the time to haul this big trailer load over to our property
for this road trip we're going to be using our old trusty 2006 jeep grand cherokee
this is our suv that we have and we've had it for a long time
it is buckled up coupled up to the truck bed trailer that we borrowed from angela's dad and
that thing is loaded down i kid you not we have got probably a literal ton worth of garden soil
and t-posts and everything else we can think of so let's go ahead and test the lights and
then i'll give you guys a quick peek at that trailer of madness and then we'll hit the road
all right i've got the four ways on on the jeep and we're gonna check our trailer lights
and left side good right side good nice we're ready to hit the road guys
so
so for this trip i am traveling alone angela decided that she didn't really feel like a
turn and burn today with the really large heavy trailer the boys didn't really want to ride either
so this is a perfect example of sometimes where it just makes sense just for one of us usually me
to just hit the road haul stuff and then come back home normally we'll travel the interstate
and highways which is a longer distance mileage wise but ends up being a shorter time in the
car plus it's less curves and well people just seem to enjoy it better i'm going to be taking a
different route today i'm going to be traveling through the mountains through the heart of the
appalachian mountains great smoky mountains blue ridge mountains they'll go by a lot of names but
the mountains that are between north carolina tennessee i'm going to be driving
up and over and through them on the curvy roads because those are slower speed roads
and i think it's going to be the overall safest route for me
given that this is a heavier trailer and i'm okay going slower to be safer on the road
so all that to be said it'll be a little bit different route this time so if you're very astute
viewer of our channel you'll notice the scenery might be a little bit different here and there
and that's why that's enough yakking let's start hitting the road and put some miles on the jeep
so
wow
so i have the trailer backed into spot close enough um it rained here a lot last night so
the ground is very wet very muddy i'm out here by myself i don't need to get the jeep stuck so
the front tires of the jeep are still on our driveway that's a lesson we learned the hard
way to not take the vehicles off the gravel unless it is super dry so the name of the game the plan
of the stand or whatever else you want to call it is just to unload this stuff probably right here
beside the trailer i don't really feel like toting however many t-posts we have out and to wherever
they need to go honestly i'd unload the trailer and head back home i'll be doing good for today
so as we both sit back here and enjoy the fruits of sam's labor as far as unloading this trailer um
maybe you're wondering what in the world is it you guys have hauled over now what you're looking
at is every single well i think every single t-post off of our north carolina homestead
we pulled up all of our fencing all of our garden trellises and gathered up every t-post
we could find on our property loaded it up and brought it here as of the making of this video
the price for a six foot t post is around five to six dollars depending on where you buy it yeah per
t-post five or six dollars that is insane that is a huge huge expense if we can help it we're not
going to buy that again so that's why we've hauled these over in addition to the t-posts you will see
some fabric pots which are the black things and some blue pots which are honestly half of
55-gallon plastic barrels that we used for our wicking containers and other grow beds from our
garden so in a sense we hauled over a t-post and dirt yep we don't really know what the prices of
materials are going to do but we are under the mindset that for the receivable future they only
look like they're going to go up so any chance we can and every single thing we can do to save money
to repurpose reclaim and reuse we're doing it with that in mind we have our containers here
from our garden these are partially blue plastic barrels that were cut in half for wicking bed
containers or general planters and then we have our fabric pot containers they're full of some
really good probably expensive nowadays potting soil garden soil that we've taken care of and
is some pretty good stuff while these may or may not live on container wise in our next garden here
we will absolutely use the soil to help amend or create our new containers whatever it is
angel's got planned we need the dirt here so i hauled the dirt over well it looks like sam is
almost done unloading this thing we'll let him catch his breath and then we'll ask him just how
many t-posts was it that he counted carefully kept count of as he unloaded to tell us and
allow us to calculate just how much savings we actually saved for ourselves 125 t-posts
125 t-posts given they're not all perfect none of them are brand new some of them are really really
old rusty and i even bought those second hand but still 125 t-posts we don't have to buy again
worth it i want to show you guys something really cool that i found on this deck come on
i don't know if this is really cool or really really sad this is a t-post obviously it has
been in the ground it has been in the ground for some length of time to where it's kind of
gotten rusty and it's clearly used the paint has flaked off here at the bottom
and okay it's a used post right we can all agree on that look what i found on one of the fins
that's the original price tag look close at that
a dollar 25 a dollar 25 for a six foot t post now i don't know the life span of a sticker
under the ground on a t-post but this sticker has retained its value more than u.s dollar has
uh inflation anyone can we say this is proof that things are outrageously expensive and the
time that this post has been in the ground not even long enough for the sticker to disintegrate
the price has gone from a dollar quarter a piece to five to five and a half dollars apiece
oakley oakley all of our 125 t-posts are out of the trailer and i tried to be organized when i
started but then i realized how much work i had and was it worth being picky about a
nice clean stack or just get them unloaded well i chose to just get them unloaded root
so there's a nice big old pile over there but hey that's something for the boys to do
later right it's a character building exercise what i'm going to do next is unload the dirt
that's right we're getting the dirt out of the trailer there's nothing special special yep there
is no special plan no special equipment the name of the game is get it out don't spill it don't
hurt your back and that's about it so drop the tailgate slide them out and uh yeah that i mean
i don't what else can i say we're getting turned out of a trailer well man we're grasping aren't we
can you guys also tell that the rain is coming in
this whole storm front which is what made me decide to drive over today
that sucker's rolling in faster than i thought it would so it is go go go time to get this unloaded
oh the last one
get this maybe not
nope
no why
where stay
so
last one spilled out
there we go the trailer is unloaded not as cleanly and smoothly and nice and neat as i
would like but given the circumstances giving the guy pretty good all the same it did make it to its
destination so that's really what matters no car trouble no trailer trouble no problems or trouble
at all so in the end that's good that makes for a good day well guys i'm about to get rained out
if you have any questions or comments relating to any of this stuff um hauling dirt or t-posts
or anything in general you know what to do leave us a comment down below otherwise we
appreciate you watching as always take care and we'll see you guys next time on the homestead
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