A romantic guitar background. An abandoned Bush Hog (for free!). You really know how to hook a guy.

You know, John , she just might be a keeper.

Replace those blades, weld your sheet metal back together and lap the seams and you have a great bush hog there! Congratulations.

I like the logic. Rebuilding that kind of band saw won't be easy.

The concrete for your sawmill. I would add the with of your bucket on Ricky to make it easier to scoop the sawdust.

The rock wall is beautiful, and now Ricky has a friend, Rodney Ranger. They should make you a good working team, and they match both being red and four-wheel drive. I am looking forward to seeing the improved sawmill.

Sharpen those blades for certain, it costs nothing and will make it work so much better. I also agree about the tail wheel get one from somewhere.

Well there you are, not far off a Century :-) I have always been a pass it forward person, sometimes things work out well, and sometimes nothing comes of it. However, I feel if I can not do a good deed for someone, how can I ever expect to get a good deed back. The joy on your faces when the bush hog worked after the disappointment of the PTO not working was a thing to behold :-)

Yes, put the dolly wheel on the brush cutter.

Spoken like a genuine husband, “Im going to take Megs advice.” You made your wife shine when you stated that across the airwaves.

Be sure to replace the back wheel or you'll destroy the blades. The wheel keeps the frame off the ground.

Look at the mill set up Jessie Muller has for his mill he has a shed the motor & blades live in on a big slab. 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

That brush hog is an amazing score!!! Congratulations! Toys.. er.. Equipment makes doing chores fun!

hiya john n meg, building your rock wall reminded me of The Last Castle movie with Robert Redford, great channel, Dean in the UK x

Wall looks great Meg. Looks like you did not use enough sunscreen on your shoulders. Please don’t damage your alabaster skin!

Nice score on the truck and brush hog! Beware flying debris from brush hog! When I used to do tractor work with that particular implement, I had a rock come out and dent my truck pretty bad. Nice job on the wall Meg!

You want a full 3 feet for the walkway, if not more, plus a couple feet on the other side so you can do maintenance etc. without standing in the mud. You probably also want a few feet on either end as well. Concrete is fairly cheap.

Great saving the brushhog. That PU will be handy in the snow.

That brush hog is so fitting for W&W....love it. ♥ Nice wall, Meg!!

Love, love, love the rock wall guys!!

Great job meg on the rock 🪨 wall

On the box blade if you adjust it to so the overhang is to the right side it will make it so the tractor doesn't have to drive right up next to the bank...

Your rock wall is looking good

Good sawmill improvement project ! May I suggest you to protect your slab from freezing soil movement by adding a drain around the slab and underlaying a good 6 to 10 inches of crushed stone ?

Meg & Jon, Speaking of making lumber from trees . . . . your first cuts off a log leaves a sizeable chunk of wasted tree. What if you were to go to Harbor Freight and buy a "15 Amp 12-1/2 in. Portable Thickness Planer"? Now what would you want a Thickness Planer for? Well for starters, you could plane down those pieces of trees into 2x4, 2x6 and maybe even 2x8's and the chips will make fantastic fire starter or compost!

Love your Truck

When you were using the box blade, pull the pins out of the lift arms and push it to the right as far as you can where you can still pin it. That will give your tires some relief from the wall edge, plus make sure you get all of the trench cleaned out.

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Again.

Another great video! I would think about draining the oil in the gear box and putting fresh gear lube in it. In the bush hog.

your boots are looking good

For curisoity sake how tall is Meg . Didn't realize her stature until the ground shot of her using the jack hammer ...You one luck man . That Meg is one intellegent woman ... A grout mix will make your rock wall permanent . Sand and neat cement ...

Love the wall Meg!

I would call that bush hog a Super deal at free 99. Looking good keep up the good content enjoy working on your property god bless

Very nice job on the rock wall, looks amazing

The saw is lookin good. I'd wager any saw will be made to a spec. good enough to be equal with their competition. The dilemma is to help a fellow worker or rush to the aid of your wife.

Meg I love the rock wall. Great job.

The wall's looking great!

Jon & Meg You never cease to amaze your subscribers with the inventive ways you find to solve your challenges. Watching your weeks adventure, has become such an important part of our end of week enjoyment moment. Wouldn't miss it. I would never presume to tell either of you how to operate what you have, how ever you may want to oversize your concrete slab. In my 70+ years I have found, more often than not, it's better to have a little more of the basic need. If a fair share of your mill work is to be done in winter the concrete pad will only enhance the original investment of the saw mill. Just a thought. Keep up the great adventure and BE SAFE. Your friendly Utah subscriber Bill

I like your logic. Hope the plan comes to fruition.

Very good job your wife is a very hard worker and you guys are doing a very good job I just found you guys so I will be watching you from now on to see how things are going looks like you got a lot of work ahead of you have a good day God bless

Hi Guys, It is very uplifting watching you dive headlong into your new project. It is a big jump from city life to "back woods" life. I love your "let's give it a go" attitude, even if you don't know much about the process at the start. Being prepared to make mistakes along the way so that you can learn and grow is so rare these days. Have you thought of giving your property a name? Even a nickname like "Piglet" due to its shape or something more endearing? The new house location looks like it is a long way from the front cv road. It is hard to tell if it is going to be toward the middle or more toward the back boundary? You both seem to a great vision of your future on the property. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

Greetings from the BIG SKY. I agree with your logic. The new bars will allow you to cut ANY length board you need. I still have pause to using green wood though.

First off I would like to say, beautiful job on the wall. The brush hog and the pickup were absolutely a major score. As for the brush hog, you should definitely straighten the metal as best as you can and weld it up even if you need to add small pieces to close any gaps. It will only make it stronger. And definitely add the caster wheel on the back. It will add stability and help to keep pressure off of your 3 pt. hydraulics. My last suggestion would be to make the concrete slab at least a couple of feet long on each end and at least 5 to 6 feet wide to give a little extra walking room on the side. Just a couple of suggestions from an old man with a tractor of the green variety. God bless you both and your family and God bless America!! Keep up the great work. P.S. Please see about fabricating or buying a cover for the PTO shaft. There are videos on KZfaq about what can happen if someone were to accidentally get caught up in it and it's not pretty. P.P.S. I almost forgot, the milky looking gear oil that came out of the gear box was from water so I would flush it out good and put fresh gear oil in it. 👍😊

Sure can't beat the price for that brush hog! Be careful standing anywhere close to it...I've thrown some rocks a good ways with mine. Rock wall looks nice!

Well if you weren't in shape before starting this adventure, you will be when it's done

I have a friend in central Kentucky that just told me about catalytic converters being stolen from parked trucks at the lake he fishes.

🤣you guys work well together!!

John, I think your idea for mill is great but do not forget to factor in the weight of a 20 foot log on it with it suspended on rods . seems as a good bump with rambo and log could put you in a mess or stall your efforts

Try grinding the blades for bush hog to give them some edge and it would do a lot better job. Thanks for sharing the video

Like any cutting implement, the BushMaster will work a lot better if 'sharp'; It should 'mulch cut' , reducing the vegetation to 'tea leaves' which will enrich the soil below .... Also, if you are cutting an area, start in the middle and work your way out, thus 'scaring any critters away rather than coralling them in a decreacing area to 'meet their doom' .

Build a shed to house it in and operate it out of!

The MEGA Wall

Meg nice rock work

Maybe wide enough that when you walk around the handle to lift the slab off you don’t have to step off the slab and back on. Just a thought. 😊

NICE job on the wall Meg - and kudos to John for correcting himself when he said "cement" but he meant "concrete"!

use a sledge hammer straighten out metal. just make sure it is sturdy when you hit it. bought many a thing like this,... all bend and broken up,.. good heavy hammer knocks it back where it belongs wire feed welder keeps it in place. But like you i would replace decking with new steel. These work awesome even if decking is cheap metal.. i up dated a friends to heaver metal i use it and his tractor now and then. i cut lots of sage brush with it. take care be safe have fun,.. love the wall. putting gear oil in,.. use a hose!!. Put hose on to squirt bottle put hose inside gear box squeeze bottle from above gravity takes care of the rest. And the missing wheel on back? that is a MUST HAVE.. make sure you either make one or buy one,.. but install one or you will have a real world of hurt with that machine. keep all animals and vehicles away from it while on too.... or someone something will get hurt.

You can sharpen the blades too, just a peanut grinder is all you need and you have one, that how I sharpen mine

I couldn't stand those plastic shrouds on bush hog drive shafts, so I always took them off. Drive shafts are perfectly safe when you get off your tractor, the seat switch kills the engine,

John, nice score there brother! I got a King Kutter 5’ bush hog and I love it! I use it all the time. I had a 99 Ford Ranger that I bought used with 85k miles on her. When she finally gave up the ghost she had 385k miles. Those are tough trucks! Meg the wall looks great.

Great deal on the cutter and the wall looks great 🙂

👍 job John

Like to see a little trim on that jagged metal as its going to dig into something maybe... who knows. On the mill though John.... once its setting in place ( I try to set the small end of a log in a mill first) I measure from the frame up to the "pith" (center or heart) and see what the distance is... say for example this log on the large end is sixteen inches but just from where its laying to the pith is seven inches... I go to that small end and using this tool I shall describe in a second, raise it up till when measured it will be seven inches from the "deck" (where log is laying) so the log is what I call true... or centered so the difference in size doesn't cause the cuts to be a slash cut, no structural strength at all, just bad! How do we do this you might think..... that ford ranger has under the hood, a screw jack.... a small scissor jack that can be used with the drill if so desired as its really quick that way. I personally would take a piece of flat metal and attach it to the bottom of your rails on either side and point the side that you walk along so no bending over each time to find where the spot to raise this jack up and down is. The top of this jack is probably too small for most things an will be too hard to keep it "still" (steady or not moving) under this log. A old truck leaf spring has a slight curve or it could just be flat, makes no difference to me, (after all, I live in alaska) but anyway weld it to the top of this jack so when its screwed up in the air to this desired height or now this small end of the log has the pith at the same height. Its going to save a lot of frustration, make the cuts more desirable, and you will be able once this is done ... you screw it back down so the now sawn side is true to the deck an all of the log cuts are true. I truly think for your best and most honest information, "Out of the woods" with Nathan will let you know exactly what blade that you need as he is not sponsored but even though he worked hard to get the mill he has now (it does everything but shampoo carpets) as I don't mill wood anymore. I have built some of the largest mills for some kinds of trees and my mills are still running over thirty year ago now... One of my first mills is .... I built the first part before I went into the service in 66 so do the math... I think I started it in 1962, I never did a very good job because this guy that has it will not sell it, his last time I had heard from him was "IT RUNS PERFECT". Having a dad who was a logger, miller of trees, and a slave driver as a rented mule was treated better than I was. I truly feel I earned the title of a millrite. Make sure that when the mill is lowered down to its lowest spot on the handle that raises and lowers the saw to a spot of at around a quarter of a inch above the stops on the log stops, it keeps that metal thingy that chews those trees into boards... you know... thingy or "blade". I try to keep stuff on the inch mark and really should you ever try to saw a board and keep it secured while this blade spinning at one thousand and eight hundred RPM's for nice smooth and true cuts. I don't blame anyone for trying to just finish a day without changing a blade thats dull, even I have done it too. I should say used to as to work as a tree board maker.... been a while considering I was on crutches... I just finished building a mill for my son. He had to do the manual labor but its my own mill design will cut boards 72" (seventy two inches) or six foot wide. I think he is qualified, he is the boss for Red Dog Mining on the building of different systems inside their mining equipment and its hundreds of feet underground. His weekly check is more than I get for a half of my social security check ... per year! Little pri** buys me some bacon for my breakfast meals every now and then. This last mill I built (designed) is powered by a four cylinder turbo Kubota engine. Of course this blade is a five inch wide blade with teeth on both sides of this blade. So best of luck building that forever house on a wineberry trail

Also make a skid plate for the sides to help keep the sheetmetle square

You should put a guard over the top of the bush hog. Know of one person that caught part of their clothing and gor hurt bad on the turning pipe/knuckle.

You can cover those cuts with muffler tape,also the fuel filer needs changing. I think it's on.the rail by the driver door. That bushhog.is one.of.the Ole ones it will cut trees size of your wrist. SEMPER FI

That's a great score, I would like to get a bush hog for a long time. Congrats on your new tool and a farm truck to boot.

Suggestion for sawmill is to go long enough to build atleast a kind of outhouse to keep mill saw head in when not in use

Cinder block are fragile, I hope you use concrete block which more durable than cinder block. concrete block are also heavier .

Love your solutions using free materials you have IE the wall turned out beautiful... It's possible you'll find a wobble wheel for the "bussh hag" (Harbor Freight?) but in the meantime - welding a pipe @ 90 degrees to a short ski-like foot would work fine.

The telescoping part of the pto shaft should get greased to. (not sure if you did)

I built a deck with 20ftX20ft dimensions. Every thing about 20ft is a pain in the butt. 20ft boards are heavy, crooked, flimsy, easily damaged and almost impossible to not be flawed. They are hard to transport. I am not going any longer than 16 ft boards on any new structure I personally build.

That wall is amazing. It looks like a park already around there. I can't wait to see what the house looks like. As far as the bush hog goes, my dad used to cut large yards with one. Just keep the blades sharp and you would be surprised how good it can look. Well... You may wanna put the wheel back on lol. 😎

For ease make the concrete platform at least 28 feet long by 7 feet wide. Think Winter with damp sawdust where you are walking.

Good job Meg, love the wall. Jon, great find for brush hog and truck. You both are good neighbors by looking out for the neighbor lady. About 36 years ago we had elderly neighbors that practically adopted my wife and I. It's great when you have somebody to look out for and in return they want to help you back.

Use 3''x3'' square tube 1/4'' wall as cross members under your 3''x3'' angle track. Bolt the track to the cross member and use your anchor bolts to adjust the cross member.

have you thought of putting the mill closer to your home sight you would have less travel for your lumber to be hauled

GOT'A HAVE A MEG

Lovin' that brush hog and Meg's instincts of which rock can go where in the border wall! That IS a pretty wall! Best video ever! (For me)

Technically that mill will cut as long a log as you want just by moving the log back to the other end. You could set up a series of rollers and as the mill head reaches the end of its travel you move the mill end back the push the log back and start cutting the log from where it finished up and repeat till the slab is cut off. It would be more work but still could be done. I do like your idea of a full length roller bed though...

I re-decked a 109 inch bush hog mower in the 90's with T1 plate because it is tougher than the steel the factory used. I have no idea where it is or if it is still in use because as the 90's drew to an end I left the orchard life behind never to return...

Are you going to put a roof over the mill. And if you can make the slab bigger.. Concrete is easy to clean. Oh yeah great job on the rock wall..

You both do great work!

Ohhh Yeahh! Pensei que a lâmina não virava assim...mas ajuda muito na organização da estrada e Barrancos Laterais!

Engage the pto at low rpm, them slowly increase the rpm to correct range once the attachment is moving

Just think how much better it will cut once you sharpen the blades on the brushog.

Have you considered a shed to cover the mill? I figured keeping it dry would reduce potential maintenance costs.

Just though, with how wet it gets, have you considered putting the saw mill somewhere else? Especially with the amount of lumber you will be milling. I know you are going to pour a slab and consider putting a roof over it, BUT maybe it might be an idea?

Break out the angle grinder and sharpen the blades on the bush hog and you're golden

Hey Jon and Meg, this looks good! You've heard others say about the back wheel on the rotary cutter, that is true. One thing I found out was to keep the front bucket down an inch or two off the ground, it will catch rocks and logs that you can't see.

Nice work on the ditch/drain. Just wondering if your going to fill it with some rock so run off doesn't eat it away.

John, Meg, I enjoy your videos and look forward to your challenges. When rebuilding your Sawmill bed I have a suggestion. Install Logs stop mount tubes on the other side of the bed like the originals and some extra log clamps facing the other direction. Quick release clamps would also be a huge timesaver. I saw "Oregon Old Timer" mount one on his sawmill which was not designed for it. After you make your 1st cut this will allow you to rotate the log toward you without having to slide it as far, if any and also put clean wood where the blade enters the cut. I heard dirt in the bark dulls the blade and if the bark/dirt is on the exiting side the blade will not drag it all the way through the cut thus blade life should be longer. Also less effort moving the logs from side to side could really save time and frustration with all the lumber you need to cut. I have never seen this modification on any of the sawmill videos on You Tube but if I had a sawmill I would make this modification. Work Smarter, not Harder. Good luck with your many projects and please keep amusing us. Remember "Everyone needs a Meg"!! 😀😃😄

Watch that gear oil in the bush hog and maybe some new blades since it does work.

Great work guys,I’ve got an rk 24 had bout a year now like you I haven’t used the pto yet, Jon do you have an idea what may have blown that fuse, enjoy the videos ,

When will you start the foundation of your new home? I haven’t seen any new videos for a while. It seemed that you were really excited to get started.

How much land did you guys get? Looks beautiful, a little to east for me but you guys have a great place

Uma pergunta John? Vcs não pensam limpar A esses riachos e nascentes D"água?? Tipo retirar pedras e país e entulhos e deixar a água correr livre???

Só tem que tomar cuidado com país and rocks para não destruir as lâminas!

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I was wondering, since you have a ballscrew driving the vertical travel of the saw, would it be possible to mount a stepper motor and control the travel more accurately since you will want very precisely sawn boards for you home building ?

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