Day 563 - Training a Future Pro!

PPO3 is supported by Timber King sawmills. For more information on my 1220 CRZ mill or one of many fully hydraulic options, go to timberking.com. You ready? >> Yeah. See the arrow? >> This arrow points it down to the ground. This arrow points it up in the air. Does that make sense? That means this has to go that way to go up in the air. Go all the way. It's kind of tough. All the way. All the way. There you go. All right. Now, your grapple, your loader is in the ground. You got to pick up the loader. Okay, that's good. Now remember, left and right curls it. Okay, so if I push it left, if you push it left, what happens? Go left. Now go right. Now go left. All the way left. Yep. All the way right. Yep. Now go in the middle. I'm I'm sorry. Go in the middle of the travel. So go left until that's in the middle. Right about there. Huh? Right about there. Now you have two buttons for your thumb. You remember what they do? Buttons for your thumb. There's thumb buttons right there. Remember that. What do they do? Find out. That one closes. That one opens. Open it up all the way. Now close it all the way. Pretty cool, right? So, now you got to use your brain to get on top of some logs, put it open it up, put it down, grab the log, pick it up, and then we drive away. You want to try it? >> Yeah. >> All right, let's go. Hold on. We got to make sure the dogs are not around you. Graciey's okay. Go that way. Nlly, no. Let's make sure you're in the slow gear. See how it says B right there? That's the middle range. I want you to go to A. So, it's slower. When it's slower, you have more power. That's called low gear. There you go. Now you're in low gear. It's going to be a little slower, but you got power. Open it up. Let's go down a little bit. Down. That's good. Drive forward slightly. Now squeeze it. You got it, girl. Pick it up. That's good. >> Going down just a little bit. That's good. Oh, I think I got to put her in four-wheel drive. Let's see what she does. Yep, she's spinning over there. Yeah, I got to put it in a four-wheel drive. Your tires are spinning because only the back two are are have power to them, right? So, we need to put make all four tires spin. We got to put it in four-wheel drive. That's this lever right here. Push. Use your foot to step on that and push it all the way down. It's a tough one, huh? Push all the way down. You want me to Oh, you're actually stuck in between gears. All right. Um, go to neutral. Wiggle one of the pedals. Give the the forward or backward pedal. Just give it a quick push. All right, that's good. There we go. Sometimes it's a little tricky. Now you got all four tires spinning. Not grace. Not grace. Come on. Snap that tree in half. Oh, she's turning. Let's go this way. Ning Grace, come on. Hey, keep going back. She's got a long swing on the front here. Go back. Gracie, that's not a stick. Gracie. Gracie. Not a stick. Gracie. Grace. Okay. I think she ran over a stump. She knew what she was doing and I told her to go keep going back and she she ran over that stump even further. She's going to hit it with her tire. See what she does. Oh, didn't run it over. Gracie, no sticky. That's not a stick. Okay, Grace, you have manners. You have manners? No, not today. You do, Mr. Nlly boy. You sure do. Watch where you're driving. There's a pole in front of you. Don't run it over. Oh, you coming this side. Do your thing, girl. I'm confusing you. Go ahead. Do your thing. All right. So, this is I think the second time using the grapple. She Grace, leave it alone. Grace, leave it alone. So she is >> burn pile. Second time using the grass grapple. I think I I I recall her. No, actually first time grapple. She used the bucket first. Okay. She's driven the tractor many times. She's used the bucket a few times. This is the first time using a grapple. Grace, no ma'am. Leave it alone, Grace. That is not a boy. Do it all by herself. Do whatever you Yeah, you got it, girl. Yes. Oh, this is so cool. Got to watch the dogs more than I got to watch her. Gracie, are you going to get a pine? Oh, running over the tree. Okay. Okay. Let's see what happens. She's going in for a big bite. She's going in for a big bite. She put her down a little bit. It's too much. Got to go up. There you go. There you go. She's figuring it out. She is figuring it out. She's going to get whacked with trees over there. Oh, she got a little bite. Let's see what she does. Yep. She didn't grab anything. >> Try again. You're doing good, kiddo. Too much. You're on the ground. There you go. Got stay ground. Yeah. Yeah. You're good. You got to stay above the ground just a little bit. You're good. You're good. Heat. Heat. She's got too big of a bite. You're good. >> Grace. >> Grace. Now go to your right and forward. That's way too big of a log for the grip that she has. It's just going to drop here in a second. We'll figure out what that looks like. Yeah, I got a stopper. All right. So, what you did, you did good. You got the log, you got the tree in a position to where we can more easily get at it. Okay. It's kind of buried back there. We couldn't find out where it is. Now, we What's going on is this side over here is super heavy compared to that side. So, you're dragging over there on that on that side. Does that make sense? What we got to do is we got to let go back up and then grab it once again in the middle. Okay. Now let go. Nope. You got to let go. Uh, sure. She outsmarted me. Oh, I thought she was going to drive. I don't know why she picked it up. All right, Gracie. Nelly, come this way. Now she's got to get a grip in the middle. Grace. No, ma'am. He's got it. He's all the way. There you go. You got it. She's getting a little flustered. What? Oh, it's not going to hit me. You're good. So, she got a little flustered there. She didn't understand what I was saying, and I wasn't really articulating it that well. Uh, but, uh, she's doing great. She's going to hit this pole. I think she's trying to go in between two poles. And I think the tree is bigger. She's not going to damage the poles if she hits them. It's okay. Yeah, the the top over here is going to hit right there. Just a little. It's okay. That's okay. She avoided the big one. Uh, she avoided the pole on the big side. Let's see if she remembers to uh drop the curl. Curl it forward before she drops it. Oh, she does. Okay. Okay. Curl it some more. See what happens. That's what I'm talking about. That's awesome, girl. Open the jaws. Open the Open the jaws. Open the jaws. Molly and Grace. No. Open the jaws all the way. There you go. There you go. She's doing great. All right. So, this is her third drop, and I'm not going to talk anymore. I'm going to let her do what she wants and and interact and see what does what. Oh, she's got a soft spot right there. Noted. Let's let her do whatever she wants now. See what uh see what she does. Okay, that one's going up over the poles, I guess. You're good. You good? She's doing great. I'm going to give her more space. Let's see what she does. Oh, you want me to come up? Try and give her more space. I think she's done. >> Yeah. Love you. Hey, you did fantastic. What did you think? >> Um, fun. >> Huh? Fun. Was it a little bit tricky sometimes? >> Yeah. >> Do I give bad instructions sometimes? Yeah, I understand. But you did fantastic. I love you. Heat up here. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Everything okay? >> No. >> I bent a hydraulic line. I'm going to have to take it off, straighten it out, see if I can't reuse it. If not, I got to buy a new hydraulic line. This thing needs underbody armor so bad. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Spraying fluid from the bottom of the pump. That's bent. That's the wrong angle. So that means I pulled that solid line that's on the bottom. Yep. Again. All right. So, this line right here comes from the bottom of this uh filter block. Oh, I'm sorry. This this line comes in from the pump, right? Yeah, I snagged it on something. See how low it's hanging right there? All right. All right. Okay. Okay. Okay. But that's going to have to wait for another day cuz we have kung fu here in a little bit. don't have time to get all dirty and all that. Um, got about half of that pine cleared up and I've got to get it done before, see, Saturday night. It's Thursday right now. So, tomorrow and then the beginning of the next day because at that point we have 4 days of rain in the forecast. Our rainy season, I think, is about to begin. And where all that pine is that I want to clear up? Well, that's the lowest point of the clearing, so it's going to be soggy for quite a while. Good afternoon to you. It's shortly afternoon. And I had a productive morning so far. I went over to my uncle's house or Jamie's uncle's and cut up a stump that was in the way of a fence line. Got it out of the way. Didn't record any of that. But I've got to get my tractor going again. This hydraulic line underneath, I got to put skid plate of some kind under there. Uh, so I stopped bending this and leaking fluid. Um, but I bent it. I got to get this going again because someone contacted me on Facebook needing two 6x6 6x6 or 4x6 two I think 6x6 posts um today. So I got to get this going so I can load some logs. I don't know if it's going to be best to just take the whole line off right here, this line, and uh try and straighten it out or just bend it back in place and then receat the joints. I think it's just the joint right here that was just spraying fluid. What you doing, Gracie? What's he doing, Gracie? I got to Oh, Gracie. That's my belly. Gracie. No. No. No. No. Gracie, that's my belly. Gracie. Grace. Can't be climbing on my belly. I need to push this up, but it won't go anymore. Hm. Well, maybe if I I don't know. So, it just needs to bend that way. Jeez Louise, man. The force that's required to push this back tells me a lot about the force that was used to put it in this bent location. Well, no luck bending the line back. Uh, but I can tell definitely where it's loose right here when I wiggle the line. So, this I mean, hell heck. There's your problem right there. 27 mm. Back in business with the tractor. Although I do not like how low that that hose is hanging. I couldn't bend it back. But it's all I could do right now. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. When I first got a tractor, tractor time I'd consider like therapy time. And I still do. It's It's a lot of fun just zoning out on the tractor and, you know, doing tractor things. And the sawmill is kind of sort of becoming that same thing. Just getting focused on cutting up the log and shutting out the outside world. It's It's like therapy time. I I really enjoy it. Two 6x6 by 8 and some change. Check the box. I moved my saw horses for the offcut slabs over to this side because I think we're going to move the fire pit over to here just closer to the main door that we use here in the shop, which is this door. Um, but they were right here, those off cuts, and I just chopped them into a million pieces and just let them fall right here. That was a huge mess. As I was cutting on the sawmill today, Jamie kind of piled these up so that way I can at least just pick this whole thing up and take it over to the fire pit. Uh, so that's really cool. these off cuts for um night nightly fires in our Brio fire pit is just has just been just been a lot of fun. Really really enjoyable. Uh I still have a whole pile of junk over there. Pile of burnables right there that I'm not even going to worry about stacking or whatever. We're just going to go through them and burn them. And then once that pile is gone, we'll move the fire pit over to the other side. Uh this these two logs yielded a lot of extra one by material. Unfortunately, I'm out of stickers. Um, I changed my dimensions slightly, so these are all a different size. I could use those, but I think what would be best is to put all these onebys back up on the mill. Not today. Probably tomorrow or the next day. Put them back on the mill and cut them all into stickers. uh because well I've got a bunch of one by material on hand already. So there's no immediate need to go ahead and stack this. So you know what? One of the cuts is already made on all these boards. Let's just turn them into stickers. I think that is a very appropriate plan. Another very appropriate plan is to figure out what the plan is for supper. It's 4:00 in the afternoon and we've been eating too late far too often. So checking out.