Footing Prep | Part 2 | Forest to Farm

In the beginning of the episode, Brian and Terry recall the work they conducted on their house foundation to show how much progress they had made. They will be digging out to divert water before the rain arrives.

First, they’re setting up a new field where their house is located. Doing so requires them to concentrate their efforts on locating the lowest point. However, if they discover any vertical faces, they will go ahead and begin excavating.

Their tractor will take the soil mound away, but won’t move it unless it is lower in relation to the hole they are digging for the crawl space.

Once they have formed this little trough, they can dig around the crawl area and remove the dirt.

Thus, for the task at hand, if the box plate is level and the teeth are fully extended, it will be less aggressive. As a consequence, they’ll move it to a lower point and see if it works. If this does not work, it will also be demoted in the second tier with its nails, dragging the soil away.

As such, the quicker one can make a hole, the more likely they are to notch and try different ideas. They are going to increase the aggression to the point where it penetrates a little deeper than they anticipated. In an attempt for digging to be more efficient, they’ll try to get to a lower point once more.

When you revisit Brian's appearance at that point where he stopped digging, you will see how low that dip is. They will need to lower the point directly above where the tracks are positioned further apart. In other words, that is a substantial amount of soil they must move.

In simple terms, they are burying a box blade flat in the ground on a sloped location. They have already constructed an upward slope, and the water will be drained quite efficiently in this manner.

It is really simple to redirect the water that flows around the home. This confirms that the rainfall that followed after doing this was a positive thing, since if they had not done that, there would have been water flooding all over the place. The length of the lawn grows when they get it up and running.

The mound will not be especially steep, but it will be a long, gradual slope that you will barely notice.

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