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This is a walk-through to show you everything after we finished all of our excavation work.

In this video, we work the property over pretty good to be able to get rain water to flow away from the house both to the east and to the west. I also leave a ramp to be able to drive all the way up into his lateral field. We are using a cat 315 excavator and my bobcat s250 skid steer to do all of the work.

We had to fix our grade for the entire project. Then I'm able to start digging the footers.

We didn't finish everything the first time so we had to rent the Cat 315 excavator. We rented a rock breaker, 18 inch bucket, and 48 inch bucket.

This video just shows the start of us clearing the power line path.

In this video, we put a culvert pipe into the ravine at the west side of the property where the lateral field for the septic system will be. They're going to have to do a pump tank style system.

We're getting close to pouring concrete for the footers! We're going to have to do a step down footer and then a stem wall to get up to the floor level.

In this video, I use the excavator where we have a few hours left to clear trees at the top of my hill and also clear the lateral field for my septic system.

We spent 40 hours in a cat 315 excavator and the skid steer over the last week. Fixed some grading issues and dug the footers and finished the driveway!

Yee Hah! Time for some speed racing!

This video is the next 10 days of excavator and those are work at the new in-law homestead. We use a rock breaker on the excavator, on the skid steer, and we also use the excavator and dozer how they're supposed to be used to move a lot of dirt and rock. We still did not reach our goal but got enough done to be able to build their house.

This is the first day where we rent a dozer and really figure out what we're going to have to do to make this project work. We're building a new house for my in-laws just across the valley from me. The goal is to build a Barndominiun style home. In this one we use a cat D5k dozer which has been reclassified to be a D3 from my understanding

This is a pretty cool drone aerial view of the homestead. You can see where we're building both my home and my in-law's house. It's really coming together!

This is what it looks like following one day with the excavator at the top of my hill. We used it to clear the path for my lateral field and also to create a second driveway and move the circle driveway.

S250 Bobcat skid loader. In this one, I show just how much work goes into pushing over a big tree on the side of the hill.

I had my lunch box set out next to all my stuff at the homestead and all of these butterflies flocked to it. There were actually seven or eight at one point but I didn't get them on video at that moment.

We're changing the plans and no longer going to build a walkout basement house. We're going to fill in the hole and build a one level Barndominiun.

So we're getting ready to start a new project, we're going to flatten out the side of a hill and make an area where we can build my in-laws at home. This will be an interesting project and should be fun to follow along. We use my bobcat s250 skid steer and will be running a dozer soon to do the heavy lifting. Lots of tree work goes into this project.

It's time for the dozer. This is a walk through to show all the plans for next week and where we left it. We did a lot of work clearing trees and getting the brush cleaned up as much as possible.

It's finally time to install the water heater and build a closet for the washer and dryer.

We're getting several things finished up. That includes shutoff valves in the kitchen and bathroom, setup for the kitchen sink so it's ready to install, and then I build a couple shelves for each side of the oven range. We're slowly getting there.

In this video, we are using an acrylic pour to cover the countertops that we made out of flooring that's about 100 years old or close to it. It's ideal that we have the temperatures a little warmer but we probably rushed it and did it with a temperature of about 65°. Ideally we would have been in the 70° or even 80° range which would help it set up faster and better.

In this video, we put up a 32 foot long span of gutters. We're amateurs so it took a while. We could easily do it in half the time now.

We're getting down to some smaller finishing projects. It won't be too long and we'll finish up the apartment. Then I'll start working outside on the property again prepping for the house build!

Time to trim out the shower and then work on the countertops. We cut the hole for the kitchen sink also.