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Shaping the Berm and Incorporating Trees

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Cutting in a Driveway and Building a Privacy berm #1

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What happens here

The creator continues to shape and build the privacy berm, focusing on increasing its height and width. He intentionally integrates felled trees, including a dangerous 'widowmaker' tree (a leaning dead tree held up by another), into the berm. He uses the Kubota loader's bucket to push, drag, and 'encapsulate' these organic materials with sand. The goal is to reach a height of about 8-10 feet to provide visual privacy and create a stable foundation that will eventually support wildflowers and natural vegetation.

Goal: Achieve the desired height and width for the privacy berm while integrating organic material for soil stitching.

Tools and materials

  • Skid Loader Bucket Kubota — Manipulating and moving material, and hooking onto root balls for dragging trees
  • Felled Trees N/A — Providing structural integrity and organic material within the berm
  • Sandy Soil N/A — Covering and encapsulating organic material to build the berm

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in my neck of the woods is sand so it all gets mixed together into the burb [Music] there we go that's looking good right there this property had been neglected for decades zero to no maintenance well just no maintenance has been done on it and you see that tree that's leaning there that technically was a widow maker and it was being held up by another tree and it had to go all right you guys well the widowmaker is down i don't like how she went down but i'll be straight with you guys i didn't really try to make it do anything i got plenty the middle of the woods it doesn't really bother me if it goes left right as long as it doesn't go on top of me um so now i'm gonna try to get sneaky snake this bad boy out of here yeah i don't really want it up in here so i want to harvest this material right here so let's just try to get it out so now you're more than welcome to go ahead and tell me all the different ways techniques and tools i should be using to move this tree but understand this the only thing i have available at my disposal is this kubota skid loader with a bucket i don't have a brush bucket i don't have a beak i don't have chains i don't even have a chainsaw available i have this skid loader and this bucket and that's it by leaving the root ball on i can stick my bucket into that nasty old tangled mess of roots hook it in there and just use that to drag my tree to where i want it to go right what the heck all right well you know what we still got a couple hours of daylight let's see what time it is here and i want to work past 7 30 tonight what time is it 7 10. damn time flies anytime i hop in a skid loader let's cut that back and add it over there and then at the end of the day we're going to wrap this one up and see how much progress we made [Music] all right guys let's uh shape up this burn before we call the day about 7 30. i don't want to leave this

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