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Splitting wood in my back yard today. Hopefully we will be able to sell some of it soon.

Still working around my driveway. We're trying to get it cleared out on the South side of the driveway so it can be more open to dry out quickly. We also want to plant some redbud trees and dogwoods along the tree line to make the driveway turn into a scenic drive. In this video, I push over some bigger trees and Kim wraps up the video using the log splitter.

Bought a 22 ton log splitter and got to use it for the first time. Used my skid steer to unload it and load it back up.

Spent a couple days, probably a good 5 hrs cutting this firewood. Now it's time for a log splitter!

I just couldn't burn the old entertainment center so I cut it down to scraps. You just never know what you can re-purpose it for. Then I went on to cut some more firewood.

We made some huge progress on the monster in-law tree. This tree had 4 main stems. We're now down to just one remaining. We take dome limbs out using a friction saver device. Then we started speeding it up by tying high in the tree and pulling it over with my truck as I cut it loose in the tree. My father-in-law burned some serious rubber too. My top handle chainsaw continues to be awesome.

I'm in the tree. After cutting a wedge, I moved around to the back of the tree, tied in and then the fun happens. I cut the back cut and my father-in-law pulls the tree top over. It was leaning back so we took it against the lean. I used my Husqvarna top handle saw to cut it free and then just held on for the ride. This isn't recommended but it worked our well. I didn't know my truck had enough acceleration to squeal like that. The weight of the limb may have has something to do with that.

Having some fun splitting wood. I knew the last one wouldn't split with one swing but thought I'd see if I could get lucky. Not so much.

I purchased a new top handle chainsaw for some tree work I'm doing. I expect it to help immensely!! Music: Piledriver Musician: Jason Shaw URL: https://audionautix.com License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Water problems in your crawlspace? You may just need a French drain, sump pump, vapor barrier, and dehumidifier. In this video, I show all the steps in the process to go from water problems to pump in place. The next step is the vapor barrier. I'll have another video for the rest of the job. I dig the ditch, pick up gravel at the landscaping rock place, install the corrugated perforated 4 inch drainage pipe, cover it all with gravel and install my new sump pump. Under the pipe, I use 3/8 inch clean gravel to make the bottom nice and smooth and over it, I use 3/4 inch clean rock. It took me about 50+ man hours and I spent 30 hrs under the house digging the trench. The trench slopes downhill 1 inch every 8 feet.

Checking out the water flow. Trying to assess how all my work is paying off.

My dog Cooper was really tired this evening. He ran around a bunch this afternoon playing while I spent time splitting wood and cleaning up the back yard. He's just so darn sweet although often quite grouchy when he is tired. Tonight, not so much. He was just sweet.

Plated with my dogs. Split a little wood. Sharpened my splitting maul by hand a bit and then again using a grinder. Then we loaded up some wood to bring home. Hopefully we can sell some of it soon.

At 23 weeks pregnant, my wife is still crushing it!!

We've been having some trespassers so it's time to get a gate up.

I extended 3 of our culverts to help widen our road a bit. One of them now has an additional 10 feet. Another hot an additional 6 feet. And the last one got 4 feet. I Also got to use my 'new to me' Bobcat S250 skid steer. It's going to be a huge help getting our property ready to build a house.

Brought out the chainsaw, stihl ms291, to finish cleaning up the rest of the In-law monster tree that we started working in just after Christmas day. I recently had a surgery on my hip so it'll be a few weeks before I get around to finishing the tree.

Our gender reveal was fun. We had a friend order us some targets to shoot with shotguns. She had to fill them with the chalk. She also got us a cake to celebrate with.

Kim wanted to shoot as well.

I decided to have a little fun while splitting some firewood. Our 8 inches of snow has melted away a bunch but still enough on the ground to make a mess. Just disregard my terrible outfit! 🙃

I was playing with my dogs in the snow simply trying to make a fun video and completely forgot about the snow covered pile of wood. Thankfully, I'm okay with just a small chunk of skin missing in my hand. The video gave us some huge laughs when my wife looked it up on our security camera.

Just preparing for global warming 2021-2022. 😎

Cooper just having some fun.

Spent an hour splitting wood in the cold today and was blessed to hang out with my dogs too. They love it when I split wood in their back yard.

In this video, my wife shows you how she made some firecracker decorations using an old 4x4 fence post. Music credit goes to Lee Greenwood for: The Battle Hymn of the Republic And America the Beautiful