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Land Preparation for New Pasture

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CLEARING MORE LAND! FOLLOWING THE FARM DREAM!

What happens here

The farmer proceeds to the large, muddy, newly cleared area where Frank is operating the Caterpillar track loader. This area was once dense forest with large trees but is now being prepared for pasture. The process involves skimming off the top layer of dirt and grass to fill in low spots and level high spots. The farmer explains that this topsoil will eventually be spread back out across the land. He emphasizes the time-consuming nature of this work and outlines the next steps: discing the entire area multiple times to break up soil and remove debris, dragging it to further smooth and clear sticks/rocks, and finally using a no-till seed drill to plant pasture grass. This area will require about two years to fully establish as productive pasture before it can be intensively grazed.

Goal: Prepare cleared land for seeding and establishing new pastures

Tools and materials

  • Chain Drag Harrow — Smoothing the ground and gathering debris (mentioned)
  • Disk Harrow — Breaking up soil and incorporating organic matter (mentioned)
  • No-Till Seed Drill — Planting pasture seeds without extensive tilling (mentioned)
  • Pasture Seed — Establishing new pasture

What they say

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better terms snotty on the top but he'll be able to keep on clear and I guess that's awesome even with two inches of rain it was so dry that you can still work rad now what you're seeing out there here is weeds that have taken over really rough land you see this big Paulo dirt and grass and all that stuff so what we're doing here is making a smooth area to work up and get grass seed in and plant pasture in this transition from what is pasture to what will be faster needs to be smooth in other words there was kind of a drop-off a ditch so that's what we're doing we're fixing this all up there's a big gully over on the other side right there and all the stumps and stuff were pushed over into that gully to help fill it in we've got some neighbors back here this land is behind some houses now for the educational part of this video guys if you're buying land and you're gonna clear it to pasture so if you bought forest which this was forest it was a young forest this was all covered in little pine trees and little bushes it was I mean I say little but they were probably 16 18 feet tall this was all covered in brush before we cleared it off same here except for this was Forest and it had really big trees so there's a wealth of information on the channel about land clearing there's a land clearing playlist and I'll post it right up here across there click that thing subscribe to the channel this is just great information and you can learn from where I screwed up when we first did this and that's awesome and I'll tell you what we did to screw up and I'll tell you what we did that's right this right here is going to be beautiful pasture next year just like this awesome stuff we can't put cows on this new land and intensively graze it so we're gonna have to take about two years to get it established really well just like this land and make it right cool I'll get you some footage of Frank working on the loader so what Frank is doing right now is basically skimming the top of this and this big pile of dirt and grass is really good topsoil so we're gonna have access to that it's actually going to be spread back the land when he gets done right now he's just smoothing over what we have not a lot of excitement not pushing a bunch of trees down stuff like that he's just filling in low spots and knocking off high spots and finishing all this stuff up it's gonna look absolutely fantastic believe it or not there were huge huge trees right here all this is smoothing out and…

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