The fence will nicely grind down these dirt piles like a cheese grader. Have to try that in the future. ;)

I actually really enjoy mowing the lawn using the ATV. One more reason to hold a handlebar in my hands being a motorbike enthusiast. :D

Tires can be used for everything. :D

Thanks man, and thanks for watching. I do love beer to be honest. Would like that! Thanks for watching.

These mole hills have become an issue on the pastures that are not maintained by us anymore. We used to drag the whole land in the Spring time before cutting the hay in the summer so the ground stayed fairly even. Now it's bumpy as hell. Only plowing or heavily leveling it with heavy equipment would save it in the future. The power on the welder was turned up as much as possible. Worked fairly nice considering its size and carry-on capability. Also the electrodes weren't kept in a dry and warm place, that might have caused a couple of issues while welding. :D

This little machine was already working on the edge of it's capabilities. :D

It's a good idea. (Y)

It is definitely frustrating for me since I don't know what I'm doing. :D But guys who do know they definitely enjoy it. I did too, at the end when the weld came out better and better. It's just weird that you have to feed in the electrode with the same hand you're holding the "torch", in this case the electrode holder. When using MIG/MAG you just point and press the switch and weld will happen by itself. Props to the old school MMA welders out there. ;)

Cheers man!

Although I have a couple of tractors in my command I've chosen to use the ATV for most of the lighter work I do. And in the woods it is irreplaceable when you don't want to cut pathways to get through the trees with a full size tractor. ESAB is pretty neat. I've used Hyundai welding wire before and it was bad, ESAB wire in comparison is smooth and don't spatter at all compared to Hyundai.

Yes, those bastards!

ESAB has good products. I use ESAB welding wire in the MIG/MAG. I've tried different brands but it's the best I've used so far.

I bet the Storks that come back for Summer will show these moles some manners and thin the herd. They will eat and kill anything on their path.

I wish they would come over to my place, lol. Here they don't have any natural predators. Cats are our only line of defense.

I actually have the proper three point hitch attached tools (levelers, graders etc) for tractors but hooking them up takes so much time. So using ATV is a really fast way of getting rid of these piles.

I use ATV for everything. ;) Well, almost.

I borrowed the drone for this aerial shot. Really nifty thing. Probably would like to get one in the future for traveling or something, or for whenever I can bust open some beaver dams again. Would be epic to see it from the air. Stick welding thick material isn't that bad if it's possible to practice for awhile but there are guys who do miracles with stick and weld very thin material. Props to them. :D Yup, that was my grandfather. He's still active with his chainsaw at the age of 85. :D

There is that possibility, yes. ;)

Cheers! Thanks for watching! ;)

I've never checked the big angle grinder brushes - thanks for reminding me that! I replaced the brushes on the previous smaller grinder but the rotor was already bad and it started to eat the brushes. Eventually it died altogether. But I think what got to it was cutting brick. Even though I used a filtering cover on the tail stock to keep the brick dust from entering the motor it still wasn't enough. Now I just avoid cutting brick with the angle grinders.

I'm thinking about building an aerator roller for the lawn I can pull with the ATV, or a 3 point hitch I can use for other equipment on ATV. But I will do that in the future. ;)

Moles are doing that. I searched for a translation for our equivalent word for "mole" in English but didn't find it at first thus didn't clarify this in the video. They are quite a problem for the lawn and will ruin the pastures if they're not graded every Spring since these piles will grow through with weeds and create little hard bumps and making the pastures dreadful to ride on.

TheCrookHook it looks like moles

Flattening the molehills doesn't get rid of the animals. Only catching them is the best solution. Or taking away their food by spreading certain chemicals, which is not environmentally friendly of course.

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I'm pulling it with the ATV and for the size of the ATV the area of the drag creates drag in proportion with the pulling power of the ATV. I've also pulled it up hill on rough terrain and had some wheel spin. It is also nimble when it's narrower in the garden between the trees. But for the large pastures you're right, more coverage would be better.

This was my father walking back and forth tinkering on his own project. ;)

Moles.

Little bastards

I'm a complete dumbass when it comes to stick welding. I just grabbed the welder and a couple of electrodes I laid my eyes on, turned the welder up to eleven and started melting metal. :D Any questions about the electrodes or the machine itself will confuse the heck out of me even more. :D I do have a really thick book on how to MMA weld properly but do you think I've read it? :D I should do it. In the future. Probably. Maybe.

if it holds for you then its solid !! work on friend! waiting for your next vid. cheer's...........

Yes!

Haa! I feel for you. :D

The moles dig little tunnels in the ground and push out the excessive dirt.

I rent out most of the land and they do bale it to some extent. But I like it when the grass is cut low near the house and I mow regularly 4.1 hectares / 10.1 acres of grass using the ATV and the homemade front mount mower. If I figure out how to market the fine grass locally I will start collecting and baling it to earn money with it.

I'm gonna go through different ways of getting rid of the little piles of dirt. Trapping might be one of them if other ways don't make any difference.

Donn DIY we harvest grass seed, these mounds of dirt prohibit us from shipping to certain countries. They get in our windrows at harvest time an then into the bags that eventual get sold wholesale. We’ve tried everything out there. Trapping is the only solution. We pay 20 bucks a critter and the trapper levels the mounds by hand. Good luck in your experiment.

I think you're right. ;)

We got this welding machine for free. It's my father's. I can use it when I want and as you realize I do it not very often. We do have a huge generator based MMA welder which is an animal and you can basically cut metal with it but it's not as portable as this ESAB one I used. I won't rush it next time. ;)

Must be a heavy roller to push these piles of dirt level to the ground. Using a roller after dragging would give probably a better result. ;)

Donn DIY Fair enough! How about a video making a roller with a blade in front? I’ve seen blade rollers before that would be a really cool Video! Love your videos!

He is outside and you can't MIG weld outside, because the wind blows away your shielding gas(es).

Also stick is a lot cheaper and better for "dirty" welds

ha! weld the 'normal' way

Yeah, I'm confused. Since when did you need electricity to weld? My normal oxy-acetylene torch doesn't plug in...

Atticus Draco i'm sorry

It was all the heat that little welder could put out. Once I got the arc started it melted the metal great. ;)

I'm planning on making a drum with knifes on it so it will create little openings in the lawn when rolling. It will be attached to the drag. It's supposed to aerate the lawn or something.

A haro would dig deeper but he doesn’t want to till up his lawn which is why it has skis on it. He only wants to knock down the little mole hills before they become mountains.