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(Very bouncy, get out your Dramamine b 4 watching)Working land a live feed on the Stony Ridge Farm

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Stoney Ridge Farmer

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This video provides a first-person perspective from the cab of a large John Deere farm tractor, demonstrating the operation of a heavy disc harrow to prepare rough land for planting. The process involves driving the tractor to break up and smooth the soil in various patterns, with special attention to lifting the disc harrow during turns to prevent damage. The presenter explains the scale of the operation and hints at future steps like no-till seeding. While the user specified 'Garden Tractor Tilling using Rotary Tiller,' this video showcases a larger-scale agricultural land preparation using a farm tractor and disc harrow, which is a different but related method of soil cultivation.

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hey guys here we are live on the starting ridge farm I am working up the land here we have a huge disc harrow back here behind us and I totally apologize for the bounciness here it's really bouncy but I'm in a really bouncy tractor you can see I'm just bouncing all around but if you need to take you guys and show you what we're doing we're driving this Harrow and we're taking I'll show you out the window here we're taking this land that's really really rough and we're disking it down and making it smooth I'm riding in a John Deere it's a 500 it's like a 110 horsepower tractor a lot of stuff going on here got a slower down as we bring this disc around we get onto the flat ground here and I have to raise it up bringing her up off the ground because you can't turn around these sharp turns with the disc you'll tear it up you'll break the disc off basically these discs are like 14 inches wide and we're cutting the field back and forth and then we're cutting it diagonally so right now we're on the diagonal cut hang on we got her down it's just really really bouncing here guys I apologize if we got a bad connection everything's kind of coming to fruition here on the farm the guys are working with the bulldozer right now got a fire we're burning some old stumps and brush I'll show you look I almost dropped it I'll show you that it's right here the old fire going what we we have to do to get a fire going like that as we call our county and we let them know that we have a burn permit that we get through the North Carolina Forest Service and we just have some fun we start burning we lift that up this morning it's good to have the bulldozer around because when you line it up you need to fill up it once in a while and get some air in there so you gotta see me bouncing here pretty bad I have an air seat so this tractor has like an air seat it's it's squishy and I can adjust the the balance the amount of bounce kind of like a semi truck so it's pretty cool I hope you can hear me all right but I just wanted to talk to you a little bit today you haven't put up a video that a few houseguests come and we've done some camping here on the Stoney Ridge that's the first time we've done any camping so things are coming together life's good we're out here it's about 75 degrees but i'm in this cab tractor with the air conditioning and it's kind of nice it's not my tractor it's the guy that's doing my bulldozing so I do need a suction cup there buddy we got it sell even the James James King I do need a suction cup and I'm afraid if I had a suction cup it would be bouncing around around I've got one but yeah enough of that bullcrap we're just bouncing around on the tractor so I want to take you guys show you a little bit about what's going on here today we're in a smooth spot colors so nice we're cruising and we're clearing and here's what we've already cleared see all those stumps and all that rough stuff and cut that up and we'll run no teeth left we'll run the no-till see drill over top of all this so pretty interesting I don't know if anybody got theirs ran a big little tractor like this but that's my first time running a great big tractor like this kind of fun hey Ronnie good to see you man meaning out guys just want to show you what's going on today on the farm haven't put a video up in a couple days and my trembling took a big spill the next video you see or next two or three videos you'll see is mowing some hay and try to get the drone up in the air and program it to fly over top of me while I uh well I've worked and I did program it to fly over top of me and that backed up into some trees and that was it so shut me down any uh we're turning around you gotta gas her up here going up a hill grounds nice and loose down here so don't have to worry about breaking any discs what take a minute to thank you guys thank you so much for being on the channel and helping me make this a success soon we'll get this grass going and you know it's which what you really don't realize what goes on here we're trying to take back land and how much work it is just to get grass going all these rocks and sticks this stuff will have to go around and pick up me and mrs. Stoney Ridge and hopefully she'll let me have a little helper soon to help out with all this stuff because it's quite overwhelming to work a job and and do this tractor in time type stuff a lot of money going into this place a lot of time a lot of effort we're gonna have a beautiful place we can pass on to our children so we don't even have children yet we will thanks guys thanks for watching thanks for coming along with me today bounce around on the tractor get a little work done alright thanks [Music] tractor [Music]

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