I'm 70 years old and damn I love watching a man work that really knows his business. You handle those machines professionally with ease. Keep up the great videos and thanks for sharing with us.

I am a 80 year old woman , but I sure would like to play with one of those machines. Lol I want to rip something apart. ☺️

I always liked to burn my brush on the farm when it was damp, drizzling even better, with heavy evening rain forecasted. Never had to worry about the fire going anywhere.

Your audio and video skills and equipment are great Chris, as I am elderly and hearing is not great, but your awesome narrative skill amaze me thus I can watch for hours. Thanks for taking the time and hard work in sharing ! My favorite as I can relate and greetings from “Bluff Country “ Iowa!

love the "crunchy" sound of the trees being pulled out and broken.

Tree clearing as a science! Snap em' in half and grab the stumps in one move. 😉 Really enjoyed the drone shots of the burn pile. Hard to believe all the debris is gone in one day. ♨️

Chris spending a quiet day doing a bit of gardening.

I see you have been using the bucket Too send up puffs of smoke like smoke signals. 😆. Ive noticed the same people telling you to get a chipper are the same ones telling the same thing to the guys clearing land with Fecons. Guess it means they don’t know very much. Good work Chris

been watching for awhile now and have to say you are the best operator i have ever seen. so pleasurable to watch someone that knows what they are doing. love that you take good care of your equiptment without beating the snot out of it. please keep doing what you do always an adventure and hard to walk away from. all the best for the future. thanks

Why are you building fires? You should be on your way to the Suez Canal, to show those wing dings how to dig a pond quick

Don’t listen to the naysayers Chris. You’re the one with the experience. Keep doing you man!

Ordinarily, watching a bonfire for three quarters of an hour would be like watching earthworms copulating for that time, but Chris turns a mundane exercise into an instructive art form with droll asides that makes for truely compelling viewing! I possess my soul in patience awaiting the next installment! Col, NZ

You have to love the armchair operators out there Great job as always 👏

When a man knows how to roll his ball and not get it dirty you know he knows how to operate

I know you do a lot of work to clear land but the arial view at the end really drives home how much work you do to accomplish clearing land for a home site.

That was awesome Chris!! That dozer can push an enormous load! Burning all of that crap was the best idea.

Chris , I absolutely love your videos , it is amazing to watch a professional who not only does great work but also takes pride in his job !! Thank you

I went to Alabama this spring have watched many of your videos and wanted to say thank you for sharing the experience made my life a lot easier to clear the land

the smoke rolling out the bucket is so satisfying!

I get the feeling this job will produce several burn videos, and I'm here for it.

Just want to say thanks Chris for the last year or so of entertainment,it’s been great watching and listening to yah. With all the crap going on it’s been great to have some consistency and accomplishment,not much in the media,so thx Chris!!! I hope the stinking epa keeps its prying eyes and overreaching hands out of your business! PS yah build a really nice fire.....

Chris I will never question your business practices with the speed and efficiency that you do your jobs shows you know what your doing and making good money so dont even acknowledge the na sayers out there they are not worth the effort 🍻

Amazing how much you get done in a single day!!

It’s always nice to tell someone else how to run there business over the computer!!!! Keep up the great work and videos!

I would like to thank you ! I have been watching you now going on 3 to 4 years and have enjoyed every minute . Thank you Keith

Loved it all ... Even the going to Kansas City instrumental in the drone shot. Mumford did a super version of that in the lost tapes video and dvd. Thanks for taking time to do all the filming. As an old person, I love to watch...

Love watching the birds chase the bugs you stirred up

Impressive accomplishment today.. worked like a charm, and sure pays to have the right equipment and the knowledge how to use it. tks for taking us along.

Sundays are for burning fires!! Fire is rapid oxidation , mullching is decomposition or slow low temp oxidation. results are same with identical biproducts and atmospheric results. Hey, Chris, I really like the acoustic guitar drone music.

I always love these burn videos.

C’mon Tim,,,,, you and I both know, that it just wouldn’t be a proper Letsdig18 series without a “Big Ass Bonfire” once in a while!!!! I think all those that complain should allow you at their job for a day to question the heck out of them why they do this and don’t do that, then allow you to have access to their email to question them even more!!! Haha. When I hire an expert, I trust the expert to do their job. The contractors I have hired are happy to come back for other work, especially when I was still Ranching! They knew they weren’t going to be questioned and have to deal with ridiculous expectations. They could just come out and do the job they were paid to do!! Keep doin what you do Chris!! I’ll keep watching and learning!

Don't know why but watching you burn and clear is enjoyable, thanks.

YOU ARE ONE HARD WORKING MAN!!!!.ALWAYS LOOKING FINISHED AT THE END...

Wow, the way you can grab a clump of trees eight feet of the ground, break them off, drop them and then pull up their trunks and root balls, shake off the dirt and throw the whole mess on the pile in one fell swoop is ….. amazing!!

Wow man.. this is awesome. I hope to get into this line of work one day. Your videos are inspiring🙏🏼 can’t wait to see this finished up.

Well that looks great Chris, awesome job brother! Thanks for sharing my friend! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks for taking the time at the end of a long day to fly the drone over the site -excellent perspective.

The Carpenter Bee drove me NUTZ! I wear a headset so I don't disturb the rest of the house and I thought the darn thing was buzzing MY HEAD!

For what it's worth, you can attach an old 110 volt oil furnace squirrel fan to a 14 inch X 14 foot galvanized pipe and turn your standard fire into a blast furnace. Works great for burning stumps and large fire piles in a hurry. Best to turn the fan off when getting near the fire with equipment as it will melt your hydraulic lines. On the down side, all the dirt under the fire pit will be sterile and not grow anything.

Chris is a One Man Show! Very therapeutic watching this vlog and others you do. Keep em coming!

We've been burning in GA with a pit and an ACD permit. First time burning really doing 30 acres of stumps, underbrush, and slash. Its crazy how hot that pit gets and how fast you can feed it.

Drying out nicely, love the clean burn piles not full of dirt.

Absolutely 💯job. Thanks for sharing your videos

That turned out great.everything gone as if nothing happened.couple horseflies wanted To be in Front of the camera 🤣🤣.i always like the drone views from the jobsite. That was a Lot of brush and debris for 1 acre clearing .stay safe 😀

Yea only thing that crap good for is ashes. The ashes are good for clay it will improve it. Now if you could find someone to buy the ashes. Spread it around and work it into the soil or bury it. I agree.

Man we r slow w work right now. Storm clean up should provide little but not sure. I'd so load up am come work for someone like u or John n a minute if i knew I could stay busy a few weeks. Awsome video man as usual!!! U r blessed to have plenty of work

You do such a great job in everything you do. I love your videos.

Thank you for the insight into the mulching question; it seems logical at first glance but if it's worthless then it's worthless.

Your video quality is getting really good. Appreciate more of the walk through stuff, great job.

Spring Cleaning takes on a whole new meaning....

I enjoy the 2 different angles of the same work !

WOW, You Really Get The Job Done! That is inspirational. EYL Chris and Rick From Chicago❤

Sap's not so bad for burning, as it contains a good deal of sugars. Flakes of dried sap added to tinder actually makes it burn hotter. Trouble with trees in spring is all the extra water being pumped up alongside the sap.

I keep wondering how many people are going to keep asking why you don't grind and sell mulch when you have explained that over and over time after time, give me a break guys he has explained that so many times that anybody that has watched a few of your videos had to have heard you explain it, keep up the good work and good videos, Thanks

the brush rake works great love it

Couldn't help notice how the overhead drone shot at the end made it look like a small campfire. I could blink one way and see a huge debris pile burning, and blink another , and see something I'd walk up to with hotdogs and marshmallows on a stick.

Fun video. I like how the smoke gets trapped in the bucket. 👀👍

I think if we built fires like that over here in the UK or most places in Europe on a building plot we would be shot and we would have to chip it or pay to have it put into the closest landfill. The joys of all our laws

Chris is a one man wrecking machine got to love his professional work .

Yeah! The burn videos are my favorite!!!

45:20 Got a lot done today. Indeed you did Chris, a lot for one guy.👍👍

Your so right about mulching Chris its knowing where it is needed like clearing a very good landscaped garden to a clearing project.....upsetting a bees nest though that brings a bad day (24:00)

The 'slap it on the top' technique is working well.

The amount of pollution your fire was putting out Chris compared to what all the volcanoes that are erupting at the moment are would be minute have a great day burning.

Chris, I am amazed that you can get all that done in 8. Be careful out there, I think those were bees around your camera, don't want anything stopping the videos.

BURN IT, BURN IT ALL ! You just need to get that inner core temp up ! Lol. Great video as always Chris.

Yep Chris, my dad always said if you get a burning pile hot enough it'll burn anything!

Thank Chris, always look forward to a new video of yours. Can you show a little of the root raking sometime? Thanks! Cheers from the Pacific NW.

you move dirt like a baker decorating a cake. Impressive as always.

Love the random insect photobombs. Must have been the Annual Ugly Bug Ball. (that was a Beetle not a spider a :37:00) "Come on and crawl, gotta crawl, gotta crawl, to the Ugly Bug Ball, to the Ball, to the Ball and a happy time was had there, one and all, at the Ugly Bug Ball" LoL (thank you Burl Ives)

I’ve been watching your videos for the last couple of weeks now after I ran into your feed. Look forward to every new one. I work in the coal mines and run big equipment every day. Usually a 260 ton end dump or a 24 Cat grader. Ran excavators years ago. Like your style. Keep the videos coming!!!!

You guys do know that if it turns a buck Chris would have considered it. He's still filling that dream equipment list. He alluded to the fact that there is dense underbrush. A recipe for disaster when wooded areas are neglected. Show me one job where he didn't leave it better than he found it. Karen? I didn't think so.

a great video with sweet drone footage going to dark excellent chris

' Once the fire gets a hot nugget ' ...... Playing in mud, making fires, making rivers in the mud.... I used to do that when I was a boot 10.... GOOD TIMES

Thanks for explaining why this wood couldn’t be used for other things.

You really do a nice job of that clearing.. The root rake is doin its job as well..

Chris, hope you stay safe from those awful storms down south.

I like the use of the drone to give one last blast of air to the fire lol Very productive day indeed , Cheers Chris

When you get Betty ready it will make the larger piles easier to push.

Amazing how nice it dried out Kool

Burn it, less trouble, you go Chris! Good job! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Where I live, they would still run it through a chipper. The laws on burn piles are rather restrictive, so contractors have gotten inventive. I haven't seen a company take down a tree like you do anywhere near where I live. Everything that might be usable is cut down, sorted and meticulously stacked before being sent out. There's plenty of "we sell firewood, you figure how to move it". There's a variety of uses other then for mulch. For exemple, my town used a large amount of mulch on a muddy walking trail in a parc. It did wonders and didn't cost anything other then transport. It's a great solution that has almost no environmental impact. Contractors will also use it for similar reasons to deal with muddy soil. Crushed more finely, it can be added to compost piles. Some companies clean the mulch, compress it and make compressed fire logs. We've also got a cogeneration facility north of where I live that will burn just about any wood waste. When they can't do that, they just chip it up on site and mix it with the dirt. I get where you are coming from, and there's no question that if everyone else is doing it, you probably have little choice but to go along if you want to keep your prices reasonable. It also helps tremendously to have an entire industrial core that is capable of handling that product.

I'm seriously jealous. You play with heavy machinery and get to build bonfires. I noticed the bees seem to take a liking to your cameras too!

one of the smoothest operators i ever saw

awesome....love and peace

The art of pile burning... love it

Chris, I respect the fact that you are in this business, and you know what makes economic sense. I do appreciate you educating those of us who don't know the business, and don't know why you don't chip. Thanks. I have a chipper that mounts on my tractor, and people say "... but I gave you that whole pile of limbs." they don't realize that that pile of limbs ends up as three wheel barrel loads of chips. I chip when it makes sense, definitely not to make money. Between my time, the fuel and the machine, it always loses money.

Dude! You are an artist!

Random person: Chris, you ever build a fire? Chris: 😏a couple small ones.

Chris I like the way you tell about what you are doing and no you don't talk to much and you do have a good sense of humor

I agree, none of that stuff would make decent mulch but the ashes will make a good addition to the soil for future grassing etc.

Looks like fun with the dozer, but i think you could benefit from a vertical brush guard on top of the blade to help tame the top of the brush pile. You could make it removable.

Man chris I love watching your videos. Man you get to a job and get it done quick. Thanks for the job you big fan here

You know you should talk to your bucket about smoking. LOL Stay Safe Chris!!!

Houston, this is Mars Colony Alpha. Is Chris building another bonfire? Houston: Roger Mars Colony Alpha. MCA: Oh....thought so.

I enjoy watching your big fires burn Chris 👏👏👏👍🇬🇧🍺

What if they send YOU to the Suez canal . . . would you raise the water level around the ship or dig it? I really enjoy your videos - - you make complicated work look simple. Don't change anything, please.

Hey Chris look into thunder creek trailers for fuel and service equipment needs up to 900 gallon fuel tank

Great job Chris,didn"t take to long to burn it all away.

I enjoyed watching the hummingbirds fluttering around your camera when you first started pushing stuff. I was hoping that at least one would have come up to the camera to inspect it.