Continue Clearing and Rough Grading

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He tossed me the keys to the Excavator!! Let's learn how it works!

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The excavation work progresses with the operator carefully removing more tree stumps and rocks. The process involves delicately maneuvering the excavator's bucket to skim the ground, extracting debris while attempting to preserve certain desired trees, like a hickory tree mentioned by the presenter. This meticulous approach ensures that valuable existing flora is protected while unwanted elements are cleared. The goal is to achieve a ground level that is even with the surrounding pasture, creating a smooth and consistent base. This rough grading is a critical step before any final landscaping or mulch application can occur, as it addresses significant elevation changes and removes major obstructions.

Goal: The operator continues to clear tree stumps and rocks, delicately skimming the ground to achieve a level surface even with the pasture while preserving select trees.

Tools and materials

Kobelco SK210LC Excavator
Rocks
Tree Stumps and Roots

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[Applause] [Music] so folks what you're seeing here is the delicate balance that I have to find here because I want to keep this tree this is a hickory tree and it's gonna make a beautiful beautiful tree so I have to barely stick the forks or the times and the ground here on the bucket and just skim this area taking out all the rocks that are in the area and then we'll come back in and dress it up with the loader so that's what's going on here you see how many rocks this is why we call it the Stoney Ridge farm so we're going to keep this tree here let's see that is a hickory tree and there's also a red oak back in here that we may be able to keep we've got to bring the ground level here down just a little bit to make it even with the pasture now there's a hump and this is where people have piled rocks on this farm for hundreds of years evidently pretty much since the settlers days and this is an old tobacco farm so that's what's going on this may give you a little better perspective of the hump that we're working with here so there's a big pretty rolling field here which he used to be a nasty mess and we cleaned it up there's a big pretty hump right here and then there's a big beautiful field right here that used to be a nasty mess when we first bought this farm and we cleaned it up so this is just part of it if we can build our home here we'll have a beautiful beautiful view so that's what's going on when I'm digging in a barely skimming the ground you'll get some various camera angles while we're working here but you can see we've got a hole right here that needs to be filled in we've got dirt here but not a lot of dirt so we've got to roll this stuff around stir it around get the rocks out let the dirt settle and then come back dress up and fill in all these holes it is a fine art so I'll work myself all the way around this side and then I'll come back and work my way all the way around this side blunt stuff guys I want to give you some words of encouragement if your kids are video game kids and you think they're not gonna amount to nothing cuz you keep playing those games that thing is like playing a video game it's a lot more dangerous than a video game but it sure is fun and all you're doing is moving joysticks and hitting buttons it's just like a video game so there are some words of encouragement you could future heavy equipment operator it's

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