Inspecting Pond and Rip Rap Delivery Prep

you mess with my freedom I'll change as well as you can be let's take you guys around for a little bit of a journey before the gravel truck gets here and what the gravel truck is bringing is called riprap and it's a large stone about big as a football and we're going to put it down on the back side of our Pond Dam in case we have any washing issues or anything like that that will slow the water down water damage doesn't come from water sitting it comes from water moving so we don't want a Trojan now over the last few days I've had a fella bringing truckloads of composted manure here for the farm we're trying to get away from any kind of commercial type fertilizers so I've been up here and we opened this gate for him he's going to come in through the top side of the farm this is the gate this is our new fence I've still got some fence work to do maybe maybe me and mrs. Stoney Ridge can get some gates hung we've got about five gates that need to be hung on this side of the farm before we can go ahead and get our cattle in and there are three posts that I had a hard time hanging wire on I just need to dedicate myself to getting that done we had to move around some equipment here get it down here out of the way so we can put more manure what's coming in on the truck today is a switcher lawnmower zero-turn mower with a brush cutting deck and an attachment to go on the tractor for leveling land and smoothing land out so we got five acres of land to smooth out over here on the other side of the farm so if you guys aren't already subscribed pound that like button subscribe to the channel come on back and see us we'll teach you how to plant grass how to establish pasture it's just a good time here on the Stoney Ridge let's get down here and wait for the dump truck big shout out to Rocky Mount tractor up in Rocky Mount Virginia gave us a great deal on our Kubota right here what we have is our pond that we just built here last week and the water levels coming up about this much we still haven't reached our pipe for drainage yet and what we're doing with the riprap you'll see in just a minute so this is all the logs that we cut out from where the pond was and these are big saw logs we're going to take them over to our log pile and later on today after all this moving and shaking we're gonna go visit our sawmill guy he's in his 80s he doesn't work when it's above 90 degrees and it's been hot here so we don't want to stress him we're in no big big hurry but we got a…