Hey everybody, Sam here from Green Acre Homestead I'm not on the home set today
I'm actually deep in the woods up here at my brother Josh's land and that's
right there's an excavator behind me we're gonna do some more finessing of
this steep mountain road that we cut in a couple months ago if you guys are
interested to see us play on an excavator hopefully not flip it and move
some dirt in the right way stay tuned alright guys so here my
brother Josh you guys haven't met him he's been on a couple of videos of ours
he's got his a youtube channel about this mountain put a link below if you
guys will check that out too so he just told me the plan but I want him to tell
you the plan so we can all know the plan let's put it the plan is we're gonna
take this take this dozer and we're gonna try to make the road a little bit
wider carve out on this this side here we're gonna I'm gonna get Sam to inch up
to that first curve and what we're going to do is we're gonna widen it and make
it more of a circle and use the excess dirt to bring this hill out so make it
longer so it's not quite as quite as steep all right you guys got it good
write it down I'll ask for it later all right let's get busy get my jacket
on first it is cold yeah alright so I've got one of those flexible tripods and
all my prayers and hopes are on that tripod not dropping my camera as the
drive the excavator up the mountain they just use it in general I'm getting
buckled up because safety first I don't want to fall out of this thing
you guys like watching us so I don't want to die does that be the sad end of
the end skinny people in gotta extend the seatbelt a little bit
alright I'm double jacketed it up hip them a vest on and then my coat on over
top of it as you can hear behind me Josh this kind of cutting some trees down all
right controls down starting the baby up
so I've got to go backwards up the hill it's so steep in this area that what I'm
gonna do is go backwards and if I need to I'll push the excavator up the hill
with the fall I'll get a little bit of footage of that facing that way I'm
turned around you can see me kind of walk up the mountain
heyis cameras review here
and we'll send way for Josh to be done with the trees
all right I've had my fun for a little bit it's time for Josh to have some fun
he's on this Bank rolling this whole adventure money money money money
all right I'm also gonna go down to the car and get the umbrella and he wants
his coffee so I'll be the gofer there we go
cuz at this point that my camera battery was starting to die and it was kind of
cold so I assume that's why to save my battery life because I wanted to keep it
for some final shots of the video I went ahead and switch to filming with my
smartphone which is why you're gonna about to notice the quality changes and
the difference in color and such unbeknownst to me my canon died whether
at the water or whether from the jarring either way once I went back to power it
on nothing happened so this is the video that killed my camera true it's not
clickbait it's true came down here to the car to get my camera battery because
it was going dead and I'm reeling stuff but then I realized I got a pretty
comfortable place to sit here out of the rain
I got a Honda Element and it's got a roof and a tailgate kind of a split
hatch in the back makes a perfect place to sit I have a little canopy to be out
of the sprinkle rain and watch somebody else work I think I may stay here for
the wall
typical not on Josh's part on the machines part track came off got a
couple of hand witchers here we've run excavator we can't fix tracks
but we're gonna try we're going to try the only other step is call the rental
place and see what they say but before we do that we got the weight
off of this track I'm going up there and try and roll it forward or backwards and
see we can roll it back on while someone else pulls it and try to not cut our
hands off it's pretty much pretty much it
that was a no-go Josh took off hike up the mountain to get cell service signal
to call the rental place and let him know and see what they're gonna do I'm
totally guessing because I don't know for sure but I'm pretty sure there is a
grease fitting right here on this part that you pump it up it pushes the
cylinder forward and tightens the track I think the only way to get it back on
there is to loosen that and let the grease come out but then you got to have
more to put back in to pump back up but like I said I'm guessing so we'll see
it's been fun so they're on their way he seemed a little put out but it ain't my
fault um now we hang out do who knows what
till they get here
we are back in business now Oh
whoo we're back in business just working on
pushing the dirt down and make it more of a road transition towards the car
being very careful this is all filter it stopped being compacted so careful
careful
we are up here at the second switchback the one we've been working on down there
I'll show you guys in a little bit but I just got the excavator up here and
parked it at this little turn or switchback and Josh is gonna start
digging away the side of the mountain here for two reasons one to give us fill
dirt to fill in behind him where he is to get more of a gradual turn to Kim
yuan down with the road but also to dig this out so we have more of a gradual
turn spot as well because this transitions hang tight here I'm spinning
around this transitions to go further up the mountain and we want to be able to
give wide enough turn for vehicles
perfect perfect yep that's about six inches away from where I parked it but
the degree was off wasn't it
it may not look like much on camera but that's a road it's a skinny road but
that's the road there was nothing on this mountain when Josh and I started
and we've got how many rentals in three four calculations for four for one-day
rentals of a miniature you know mini excavator and a couple of dudes
alright guys well that is good enough for today
we actually got a lot done the goal was to fix the two switchbacks right yep and
gotta say it's pretty good our tests on the mountain is what is it again how we
know if it's good enough graded if you can get the dozer up it without using
the bucket to push yourself then you're good there you go
and we did we passed so we're good if you guys want to check out a channel
josh has gotten on YouTube it's the one we started he and I doing some videos
I'm gonna pass the reins over to him because it's all about his land it is
linked down in the description below and it's called steep in the woods
occasionally you'll see me over there maybe I'll do a video here once so I'll
and turn up there with them but otherwise it's his channel so if you're
interested more of his crazy off-grid antics and whatever else he comes up
with stave in the woods just don't hold your breath for the same level of
quality that's true he's he only has his cell phones he's gonna be shooting with
his phone but still the good people and good fun
otherwise appreciate you guys watching see you next time
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