Clearing and Initial Berm Construction

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Cutting in a Driveway and Building a Privacy berm #1

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What happens here

The creator starts by clearing organic debris and pushing over trees with the Kubota SVL 75-2 compact track loader. This material is not removed but instead used as the base for the privacy berm. The felled trees and brush are integrated into the berm's structure, which will later be covered with sand. This is a modified 'cordwood road' concept where the organic material acts as a natural geo-grid, stabilizing the shifting sandy soil.

Goal: Clear vegetation and begin building the privacy berm using felled trees and organic material for stabilization.

Tools and materials

Skid Loader Bucket Kubota — Pushing and moving organic material and soil
Trees and Brush N/A — Organic material to be incorporated into the berm for stabilization

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going to build our road going right straight through the woods all right guys well the first thing we're going to do on this property is start to clean up and build the burn so we're going to outline where the brim is going to go and since this is the area that we've determined to make the berm everything that we don't want shown the top of the berm is going to go in the bottom of the cleaning all these treaties this is good organic material sandy material so we can definitely use these trees to our advantage so before i even start the driveway i start the privacy burn i figure good fences make good neighbors and if i can keep my mess out of their eye shot maybe that'll make them a little bit happier so i want to build the privacy berm up and give it a chance to start growing as soon as possible you'll also notice that i'm intentionally sticking fallen trees into the privacy herb as those things break down and decay that just tiny bit of extra organic material will help that berm to establish wildflowers and wild vegetation on its own hey guys let's just take a look we've been about an hour maybe two hours into this uh berm so far and we're about four foot tall not very wide i mean long i guess this way probably about about 35 40 feet in there but we're about yeah half the height of what i'd like to be so i like to bring her up a lot taller than that which means i've also got to go wider i'm trying to make it so it's a manageable berm i can climb it top it and go down on the other side we don't have any peaks we don't want we don't want peaks like that we want nice flat round berms so we probably got about i'm gonna guess to do this berm and make it look halfway decent eight to ten hours of uh work in here to do we're one to two hours into it so let's keep this uh let's keep this train rolling right three two one [Music] running a skid loader is probably one of the funnest games you can play and if i was going to be doing this on a regular job site i would be sorting the soils as i was digging them out if i was encountering black or organic material i would be setting those to the side and using them as a top dressing but unfortunately pretty much everything up in my neck of the woods is sand so it

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