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Discuss Land Management Philosophy and Future Work

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Timber Crew Building our farm! Pasture Planning, clearing land!

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What happens here

The narrator reiterates his philosophy of active land and forest management, explaining that thinning trees prevents overcrowding and improves the health of the remaining hardwoods, which will be left to grow large. He clarifies that clearing isn't about deforestation but about responsible stewardship, replanting, and creating a sustainable ecosystem. Upcoming tasks include pulling stumps, flattening the land, disking the soil to break up clots, and planting grass seed. He mentions increasing the total cleared acreage significantly across his property. The narrator expresses his intent to purchase a Caterpillar loader and an excavator to accomplish these extensive earthmoving and grading projects, which could directly involve constructing berms, and preparing the land for new uses.

Goal: The narrator emphasizes the importance of active forest management, including thinning and replanting, and details upcoming tasks like stump removal, land leveling, and grass seeding to create a beautiful homestead.

Tools and materials

  • Caterpillar Loader
  • Disk Harrow
  • Excavator
  • Grass Seed

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farm so you can check on your livestock this thing's awesome awesome stuff I can watch it in real time and uh and check out everything that's going on on the farm in 15 seconds without spending any fuel any time going over across the farm if I've got a cow and I wonder if it had a calf and it's a half a mile over here on the other side the farm I just pop the Drone up in the air and this is it this is how big it is I mean I've got a pretty big hand but it it's not very big it's very durable this camera shaking it's a I think a five AIS gimbal which means it can really really make a smooth shot and I get full HD on my tablet my Samsung tablet there'll be a video coming out soon of how to use your Samsung tablet cuz this thing is pretty much designed for Apple products so that's a lot of what I wanted to show you today guys it's 94° it is super duper hot out here so I'm going to sit on the porch and fly my drone and check everything out see where the timber guys are see what's going on on the farm I wanted to show you the fields that we're taking back and I also want to talk to you about why we're doing this we're cutting timber because we have a multitude of trees that are like this big managing your Forest means cutting some trees you can't just leave your farm and your forest alone you you're you're just not doing your Forest any favor any of you guys that don't want any trees cut whatsoever you need to do your research before you start throwing stones at me okay trees need to be thinned trees need to be managed trees need to be cut now the forest will naturally manage these things over hundreds and hundreds of years or you can naturally manage them over decades okay so over the next decades the hardwood trees that we're leaving we're going to leave those and let them grow we've got some oak trees in here you know this big round and they'll be huge we'll go in and we'll thin and we want a tree about every 30 ft that's the thought here okay so we're taking a forest with trees that are twisted and cut all over each other and falling like dominoes and we're clearing that out and we're going to replant and we're going to take back fields and we're going to manage this farm and have a beautiful place a beautiful Homestead to live so guys thanks for watching don't forget to click that like button leave me a comment tell me what you think about cutting trees going to have a lot of cleared land here so basically we had oh 15 Acres of cleared land on a 60 acre…

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