Hey there Cody, is Mrs. W going to let you and your grimy feet soil her new linen bedsheets? 😂😂😂

Why yes, I did just watch a man dig and cover a hole for 9 minutes. No, I would not do this for another channel.

My Dad & Grandad built something like this outside near the barn, back in 1930's. We eventually roofed the whole area when I was a kid in the 1960's. I'm 65 now, and it's all still there. Everything, from building boats, to the giant 4' x 5' cast iron bowl over a Stone fireplace for prepping the meat, making soap etc., and more is done in that area all three seasons. I KNOW they didn't have heavy equipment when they sunk those logs! THAT'S a huge bonus!

Being called beloved is just as nice as an old black woman calling me sugar

I’m not triggered, but a juice box would be refreshing. Fresh dirt feels amazing between the toes. Thanks for another great video.

Let's all take a minute to admire the skill in which Cody uses that Cat, amazing work.

Cody: “Grandad said buy the best boots you can afford”. Also Cody: “I don’t need to wear any boots”. 😂😂. Just joshing brother wear what you want.

I've been watching your channel since you had around 40k subscribers. I went to the 1 million subscriber meet and greet and had the opportunity of meeting you and your family. I've learned more from this channel than i ever learned in school. Working on cars, equipment, the outdoors, family. The one aspect i never took away from your channel was the Faith aspect. Last year, i gave my life to Christ and it's been the most wonderful, inspiring, life changing experience. Now, coming back to your channel, i can see exactly how Christ has been the foundation of your family and life. And without me knowing it, your love and passion for the Lord was teaching me all these years! I'm 25b (we share the same birthday, April 1st) years old now and i need and appreciate your videos more than ever! Keep up the great work with you and your family, keep spreading the Gospel. I'll be glad to tell my children and grand children one day that i learned so much of my life skills from this channel and be able to pass it down to them! God bless you and your family!

What we have here is a world treasure. This great teacher is one of the greatest, the coolest, most wonderful men alive.

I can't believe people find a man walking barefoot in his own yard an issue...keep doing the Lord's work wranglestar

Love the backdrop of this area for your videos... Perfect spot to set up camp!

He's gonna cry like a baby when he loses a toe. It's not big and tough to be stupid.

It’s very dangerous to climb into a hole like that if it’s not braced

Please never get into a hole like that again Wranglerstar. That’s way too dangerous. We all need you to keep making vids

I always love the content and nothing beats the commentary!!!😂😅🎉

God bless you too W.

First affiliate link in description: JK Boots Cody: After years of preaching about proper equipment and safety gear, proceeds to operate machinery barefoot, calling people that ask why "babies". Gotcha.

1:17 Cody getting triggered by someone getting triggered. The barefoot thing . . . It’s weird, that’s all.

As a Texan, I am fascinated at how easy that was to dig.

Never would have believed you could dig such a narrow deep hole with a mini digger, good work 👍

Man makes a tree stump. Okay!😊

"Bunch of babies!" As Cody gets into a excavator about to do man stuff. Now that was gold, brother. 😂 Your videos lift my spirit. God bless you and your family!

You should consider a wood block/brick flooring. When done correctly they are beautiful in a black smith’s shop.

I`m an East Coast man, and we always wear boots when we work!

At this point, your basically using Earth as your anvil mount....I love it!! I'll have a hard time replicating this as I don't have heavy equipment, but I'm going to make this happen

A man who knows his tools and how to use them is a force to reckon with! A man who can screed with a log and finish with a plow can walk anywhere he wants, even barefoot! 🍻

I have anvil envy. Great anvil base. I'm just collecting things together for a forge. I want to make some woodworking tools and blades, and lathe tools. I also plan on making a couple really nice knives for camping. I'm retired and buying things a little at a time. ABANA and Rocky Mountain Smiths are a great resource.

That was a display great talent.

Such a pleasure watching you operate that excavator. Used it like it was your own hand. Thanks for the satisfaction ; )

I'm honestly impressed with just how versatile that little excavator is. I never thought they were all that good, but my great grandfather's point was just proven. It's not about what you have, it's about how you use your head. Thank you for that reminder sir.

So glad to see an actual video again! Livestreams are fine but love to see some work get done and get ideas for the homestead!

One thing I learned in construction: if ya want to pack the ground as tight as possible, flood it.

You have inspired me in so many ways. Today, I cut down a large birch that recently died. I cut off a four foot piece at the bottom to turn into a work table. I have two questions. 1) On the bottom, there is a hole where it has started to decay. It is about 5% of the surface area and goes ten inches deep. Can I just fill that hole with epoxy and stop the rot or is this piece doomed? Second, after cutting the bark from the sides, does it need linseed oil everywhere or only on the ends? I ask because more than once you have said they dry from the ends. Thank you for teaching us so much. My axe, my aluminum axe sheath, my belt from Grizzly, my saw technique are all thanks to you.

It's amazing what people can do with technology these days. I do a lot of digging and earth moving by hand, and a hole that size would've taken me all day. Looks like you did it in under an hour. I wish I had that kind of equipment

Literally laughed for 5 minutes after your comment to the woke-sters out there. You so much encourage my soul at times PROHO! So glad there are people like you out there still, keep doing you my man!

What happened to the tactical crocs?

Omg. Can’t believe he jumped in that hole. He heard a trench rescue.

Love learning from you cody your a real role model!

I dont care if you run around bare feet... but I would take a juice box plz

An example of the law of diminishing returns. But if you've nothing better to do, why not? Looks like fun.

Shame the anvil didn’t lane on your toes real man 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I think we just worry about you hurting your feet, especially around heavy equipment, tools and 600 pound logs. You are a great machine operator, that looked so easy.

If I am not in a restaurant or a business, I do not wear shoes. And I have not worn shoes in almost 5 years. It is been the best decision I have made to quit wearing shoes I feel so much better and I feel more connected with the land.

How the us forest service serves trespassing thieves and child predators

That looks like a lot of good top soil there

One of the things I greatly appreciate about wranglestar is that his videos are always done with purpose. Sometimes the purpose is a little obscure, but always with intent and purpose.

Man was meant to walk the Earth, to feel it, to be grounded by it.

She's a beauty !!!

Which half of the 40s is that anvil from

I'll admit, I scratched my head at the whole barefoot thing in the beginning. Then, I went barefoot for awhile each day. I've realized, that if a person is in tune with themselves and their surroundings, they'll notice a difference when going barefoot. This is a "don't knock it till ya try it" sorta thing I think. Then again, with as brain dead as a lot of folks are nowadays with their fluoride minds, they may never get it.

"This is my anvil, its a 400 pound german monster...built in the 40's" Everyone watching: 😮 *nervous sweating* "Nineteeeen fourty eight" *Giant sigh of relief from everyone watching* That was a close one.

Damm i want to do this but the ground we use is not ours we just kinds use it

I figured a man that forged in his bare feet would dig that hole with a hand shovel.

I can't believe how fertile that soil is!!!!! Glad to see you have another big project to show us. Looking forward to the longer videos again.

Please research and educate your audience on the dangers of entering open pits. Yikes that gave me anxiety. Test pits have been the vehicle to the Lord for many of good geologists and field engineers. Please act accordingly.

Couldn’t you have just cut a tree down and used the stump? Doesn’t get anymore solid than that?

1:22 Someone needed to say it

It's always a pleasure watching someone who is skilled at something do that something

I get the barefoot thing we did it as kids and could run thru the field and woods wide open. After many years of not feeling the earth beneath my feet and crippling from always wears boots ive been yearning to do this again and getting stable.

what a nice feature to add a portable canopy over the top of the anvil and wondering what you will use to oil the anvil to prevent rust....now you need a post vise close by too

Southern man doesn’t walk with his shoes off in his yard. It has stickers and fire ants.

Bunch of babies 😂👍🏻 thanks Cody, look forward to the series!

Don't take this the wrong way Cody, but I fkin' love you dude! lol Never stop doing what you're doing.

He should spray truck bed spray all over that log before he puts it in so ground moisture doesn’t let it rot overtime.

only thing missing is a shot of Cody talking from the hole with only has eyes showing like Mr Wilson on Home Improvement

Love all the thought n pride u put in everything u do keep up the Great videos

Imagine calling yourself a man and worrying about another man not wearing shoes in his home or on his property.

I love this guy . he doesn’t deserve to be bullied , he is just trying to teach people. Don’t listen to the haters

I was always advised that when putting raw/untreated wood in the ground, the best thing to make the wood last the longest was to char it first. Is there a reason anyone knows why he didn't do that? And I'll be up front and say I have never sunk that thick a piece of log into dirt before, so I easily may be missing something...

ugh i cringe on seeing people jump into excavations without benching or shoring. I know the ground looks stable but I know a couple guys who died from much shallower cave ins. Please folks, consider safety as it can happen in a instant. Anything over 4 feet is very dangerous and fatal.

I have to add, I was struck by the irony of the finished product. After having watched videos in the past of Cody removing stumps, I just watched him spend much of a day building a stump.

Did you put it the right side up?

Shoring please !

Have your feet gotten stronger?

Barefoot is essential for healthy and strong feet. Coming from a northeast upstate ny man. Don’t judge NY based on our 5 confused cities.

beneath the spreading Doug Fur tree tree the village Wranglerstar did work. This is going to be an awesome work area. Looking forward to see how the rest of the area comes together,

😂😂😂 damn babies

you are not right

Great video. Looks like nice dirt / good for digging. I’ve spent many hours in a similar machine. They’re great tools to have.

After winter in Idaho, and work all day in the metal shop, no shoes for yard work in spring summer and fall feels amazing!

Love your work Cody! Would it be worth painting/sealing the part of the log that is buried to prevent rot and water log? Looking forward to seeing some black smithing videos.

i mean someone seems pretty triggered about someone being triggered about him not having shoes on.

The only thing I would be concerned about regarding your feet is doing work where you might injure them with tools, heavy objects, or chemicals and burns. But they're your feet as long as I don't have to pay your medical bills do what you want! 😁

If I had a running water resource like you have, I would build a water wheel on a boom on a trailer that could be backed down to the river and if it hits the fan I could just lower it into the water for immediate power generation. No modifications to the bank. No inspector will be inspecting it during a shtf scenario. If he does, just eat the evidence or float it on down the river .

"Men are not men anymore but emotional babies" I think you say that for more comments, more views. If you cannot see the other side of the debate on proper footwear, well, ......................

"Do you want a juice box?". That is the best thing I have heard in a long time and perfectly sums up so many things. Genius! 1:33 in and my day has been made!

Cody, are you going to use used motors oil for this log to prevent it from rotting away? And loved your video too!

I write specifications for earthwork projects and always specify backfill to be placed and compacted in 12” lifts with vibratory plates, except for clay backfill in 6” lifts with a sheepsfoot roller, or 4-ft lifts when compacted by a barefoot man using a steel probing rod.

I've read quite a bit about smithing, but I have never seen this technique. It's really quite brilliant and I will be borrowing it for my own outdoor forge 👍

That's some mighty fine tractor work!

I walk miles on concert in boots 5+ days a week and I find wearing minimalist shoes with just a thin sole to protect the feet to be very relaxing. But I've also injured my feet working in gardens and in the forest because I was either bare foot or wearing the wrong kind of foot wear. There is a time and place for different kinds of foot wear. Also the Savior did a lot of work in just sandals.

screeding with a log is something that has never crossed my mind. Thanks for that.

At 9 minutes "You don't get to pound on something like that every day." Should have been the title of the video. New to the channel and love it.

This one is gonna need a LOT of used motor oil...

And the bonus is that when this is all complete if somebody can remove the anvil they are king of England. Or something like that

Did i miss somthing about being barefoot? Im not judging, just wondering why?

Lol when the video started and you had that shovel…as an east coast guy…I thought there is no way that baby is going to dig that by hand!!! I was correct!!

Seeing the Hogue rake at the end reminded me that I have bought several of their tools based on your recommendations. Appreciate the knowledge sharing!

Barefoot, yes, yes - grew up that way. I had the shock of my life when I went to Canada, I met some teenagers that have NEVER walked on grass bare foot in their lives. It stunned me. They could not use a bicycle pump to pump their tires themselves - felt like the twilight zone

I love this kind of stuff, I especially appreciate watching the slower parts of the process for my future hobbies Thank you