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Examine Second Creek Crossing and Future Plans

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Farm almost lost in the blink of an eye....days of hard work..just lost..

What happens here

Driving through a wooded area, the narrator points out a second creek crossing that has suffered even worse damage than the previous one. He shows that the entire rock covering the pipe has been washed away, and a 4-5 foot section of the actual road is gone, indicating the creek essentially became a river. He also notes that he has plans to build a pond dam and a five-acre lake in this area, along with a cabin within the next two years, expressing concern about the long-term impact of such extreme weather on these projects. He retrieves a stick to lift a temporary fence barrier before continuing.

Goal: The narrator continues to a second creek crossing, noting even more severe damage. He highlights that 4-5 feet of the road have been washed away and discusses future plans for a pond dam and cabin construction in the area, emphasizing the challenge of controlling natural forces.

Tools and materials

  • Stick
  • UTV (Utility Task Vehicle)
  • Gravel N/A

What they say

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Valley right here and water just came barreling down right through here you can see all the sand and silt that it washed up and this is just sand from the creek bottom we're gonna be putting a pond damn right in here and building a five acre lake hopefully that'll help to control this stuff but here is the road we actually got more rain on top of it yesterday there is the pipe there is no rock on our pipe anymore it's just gone this is what we're going through now the creek rides right alongside our road right here and it just destroyed it and basically destroyed it I don't know what in the world they're gonna do down here so here's what it looks like the creek runs right alongside and that's pretty common here in Appalachia or Appalachia the creek runs right alongside the road here so it crosses right up here and it runs right alongside of the road and what happened was the creek just ran out and the road became a river and it washed away I mean you can see these huge boulders underneath the road right here it just washed it away it's just gone so a four or five foot section of the road is just gone right here all this being said it is a beautiful beautiful morning you guys are new to the farm blog pound that like button subscribe to the channel we're riding by an area right up here that we're going to be clearing so we clear cut the trees off of this area it's starting to regrow it's probably I'm gonna say 22 acres and we're going to clear new pasture right there so it's going to be awesome this road is normally SuperDuper smooth I'm not so smooth now we're gonna go down in the woods and this is where we're gonna build our cabin on the farm blog we're gonna be building our cabin sometime in the next two years or so and we'll go down here and I'll show you what's up got a little system here so we take our stick raise our quote/unquote locked area and then we take our stick here and hold it up so we can get under the fence there's more than one way to get under a fence all right let's get down here in the woods and I'll talk you through we're gonna go see really disappointed this was a lot of work this is days and days and days of work here on the farm just destroyed in 15 minutes this is a new road we built last fall and I anticipated a little washing it's okay you can see here the mud is washed across the road and there are trees down leaves and stuff washed our gravel out right here I'm gonna say ten dump truck loads of gravel is in this Creek now a…

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