Thanks for the video. Thank you Eva for the camera work you are fourth child but first in our hearts.

Couldn't agree more about spreading stone by pushing backwards with the land plane. I have to do it all the time maintaining our steep road that gets the "rumble strips" in it. That said, I'm custom making a 6' land plane that is attached to a quick attach plate and mounts to the loader so I can do the same thing while driving forward. I almost have it finished, except for finding a used land plane, a quick attach plate, and the time to modify all of it and weld it up....lol.

@daveschmidt5713

4 жыл бұрын

This might be an idea for an episode. Folks can send in to Mike the various improvised solutions to the jobs they have.

Good job. My opinion is we can never win the battle with mother nature. The best we can ever do is work with her and adjust accordingly.

More rain coming. Morgan fixed his driveway. 👍

Do the right thing Mike and get your family a pool! Have a day!

@wayawolf1967

4 жыл бұрын

A pool is a hard thing to justify. Expensive to install , purchase , keep it maintained , etc. We have thought about it around here for over a decade and to be honest it wouldnt get used more than a dozen times a year. The same reason I dont have a pontoon boat.

@daveschooley8514

4 жыл бұрын

Pool requires a lot of maintenance time, it will take away from everything else.

@realairplane261

4 жыл бұрын

Naw, a pool is a money pit. Fix the pond and put up a rope awing.

@realairplane261

4 жыл бұрын

I meant a rope swing.

Good morning Mike and Melissa, Hanna and Eva, and Hunter. Looking good around there and another good lesson with the land plane. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred.

You can crown or cut a V by adjust the tilt of the land plane using the lift arm leveling assembly on the 3pt hitch.

Y’all make me smile!

It’s always nice to see the girls show up in a video. It just makes me smile to see them. Learning to run the cameras is a good idea. My sister has a Subaru.Tell Hannah to get the timing belt changed when it supposed to be done or some engines can be seriously damaged if it breaks. Have a great day and the driveway turned out very nice.

@jamesmorse4110

4 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more on incorporating the girls in your vlogs 👍

@jamesmorse4110

4 жыл бұрын

Mike I didn’t miss the hand clap at the beginning. By the way I do miss the intros and extros from your faithful and talented viewers. Glad to see the girls in your vlog.

@waltermattson5566

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmorse4110 I wonder what happened to the intros and outros? I haven’t heard they can’t use them.

I love how you explain stuff you do. Its really helpful

Liked your Yinz statement. I was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio and raised in the Ohio valley area. Not far from youins. lol I have often been asked "What does youins mean" and my favorite reply is the Youins means 'You All, plus one. Have a day!

I grew up on a horse farm, until I joined the Navy. Since then I have always lived in cities (except when deployed). I really enjoy watching you and the family work in the great outdoors. I often think, that tractor is great, look at all the things you can do with it. I've got to get me one of those. Then I come back down to earth and realize I don't "need" one. Still, watching your videos allows me to live vicariously for a few minutes each day. Thanks!

That rabbit is funny. I have several rabbits and a couple of skunks. They wait for me at work. I bring them apples, carrots ect. They all get so excited to see me. God bless

MELISSA!!!! There's Hope! Mike said you'll have a pool before he paves the lot! And he said " Im not saying I'd ever pave this either" (7:15 mark) .I couldn't believe what I heard, had to replay that clip 4 times!

Mike Morgan.....aka. "The Driveway Doctor"!!💪💪💪

Yessir, that "Grader Scraper" is worth it's weight in gold. I have the same model on a 40hp Kubota, 6-foot is perfect for crowning those gravel drives. Great video, Thank you.

ARCHIE!!!! …. Your such a good puppy-smart-easy going

Nice job getting the crown perfect! Thank you for the great videos Mike!

Very clever road crown technique. Always learn from you. Thanks for explaining as you go.

Good evening Morgan's!! Hope all is well. Looking forward to the 🎆 fireworks. Have a great rest of your week. Mums place is looking good. Thanks for the video. Have a day.

Good morning on another pretty day in MidMo. On the screened porch listening to the birds. About time to go turn on the water for the sod we patched some spots with. Have a good day!

Yes Melissa I agree, pave it!!! Let’s all vote!

- Going to have some pretty “fancy schmancy” company for 4th celebration.😂 Nothing like a new load of gravel for the driveway. - Your taken super care of the power equipment. Washing, maintaining and covered storage.

@stannelson7038

4 жыл бұрын

And just think if you had A POOL you could have a party

Good morning Morgan’s 👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I'm liking this Kubota more and more.

Enjoyed the video today. You and your family make my day.! Excellent!

Just want you to know I felled and bucked my first two trees this week. I also am making a Renewable Energy Processing Station in my back yard. Notice I said station, that way it can be the REPS for short. I think Melissa and the girls will like that!

@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@realairplane261

4 жыл бұрын

Steve did you take your white shirt and tie off first? 🤔

Awsome job on the Driveway touch up!!👍👊

You're doing a great job Mike Have a GREAT day

Sooo Happy to See All the Ladies on the Vlogs ❣❣❣ Great Job in changing the Head Lights there Hannah and don't give the Cop's Probable Cause to Pull you over for that Headlight especially at Night. Stay Safe ❣❣❣

Thanks Mike. Very helpful tips.

I agree. I have a subaru forester and it gets around great in snow.

Congratulations Melissa you are going to get your swimming pool before the driveway gets paved I think this means you are getting closer anyway??? Hey Hannah of course you can change a light bulb. Driveway is looking good Mike. Thank you for sharing your video with us. Hello Hunter. Ed

very well done as usual . we use electric deer whistle on our trucks so far so good . bodbless

The land plane sure does a nice job. I've seen you work on your driveway numerous times now and it seems like its just not routed well for the water. I think you either need to build up the stone several inches higher so you can effectively divert water to the sides, or you need to reroute the driveway so it doesn't follow the fall line

Awesome channel I love the Morgan’s with all there projects going on Say hi to Hunter

Great and timely video - have. to rejuvenate a road on our property in the Rockies ....and still learning how to best use my B2650

Still Enjoying your content and education. Thanks Mike and Family! Idaho Dreaming Cal in Kuwait.

You do good work Mike!

Mellisa phone the pavers!😃

Idea for you. Would putting in a few piers and installing used outdoor pallet racking help keep the RRPC tidier. You could put lumber, firewood baskets, and attachments on it freeing up space in the yard.

@kylerayk

4 жыл бұрын

I have four sections of 8'x8' pallet racking with a simple metal shed roof that I store my firewood on. Each one holds 1.75 cords. Thinking of getting several sections of 12' pallet rack, putting them back to back with a gable roof over the top and two tiers for storing implements on pallets.

I hope you’uns are having a great day, too. Loved the wabbit.🤣

I agree with you about the Subaru Mike, I worked in a Subaru/Isuzu garage for years and always preferred the Scooby for snowy roads

Lol loved the bunny disclosure across the bottom!

Good tip on the land plane!

I agree Mike. We have a Subaru crosstrek and an F250. In the snow the Subaru is unstoppable.

Kudos on the crown, keeping it high will solve a lot of the problems with the side of the road washouts and it does not hurt of there is a little dirt in it, I've found. Up in UpState NY, we found that shale was even better for building driveways and back roads. It packed down like concrete and would not wash away like gravel (fine stone as you call it).

Nothing I love more than left over mashed potatoes lol

@mikemcguire8351

4 жыл бұрын

I like to add some onions to the potatoes and make patties and fry them.

Good morning from St John Parish, Louisiana.

Great job Hannah being able to change her own headlight, most dont even attempt it. Lots of heavy rain on Tuesday, that pipe at your moms did its job.

@PatrickWagz

4 жыл бұрын

*Mum's ;-))

Gonna have to create a ditch that pitches water into the ditch and rip rapping the entire length of that ditch with 3 to 6” stone. Will catch and slow the flow of that run off.

Thanks for the lesson, getting 4 x 16 tons of ABC delivered & tailgated later this week. Going to try the backward land plane method.

Another interesting Morgans video!

The stone yard must send you a Christmas card! Looking good

@wallacesmith865

4 жыл бұрын

That’s what I’m talking about. He must have bought over 250 yards of stone in the last 3 years!!

Good stuff mike!

Good morning Mike from Buffalo, NY! First rainfall here yesterday as well for the first time in 2 weeks. Cooler today as well

I agree with you about the Subaru, Mike. I've owned several. Even with my 1993 Legacy, which sats much lower to the ground, I've never been stuck in the snows of Anchorage, AK. I'll never be so stupid to say that you can't get stuck but never have in over 30 yrs. When the snows were over bumper high, I'd drive my 4x4 pickup, otherwise, it was always my Subura!

Good morning from Yukon. Have a fantastic day. God Bless.

Good morning from NE Pennsylvania. Have a day

One nice feature on these Land Pride land plane is that the blades height is adjustable on each side. To crown a road, you can set one side lower than the other and let the blades do the work for you instead of trying to incline the whole tractor.

@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans

4 жыл бұрын

Yea you can definitely adjust them, I just like to keep the land plane level and do it the way I did because it's faster and easier for me. Also if you were wanting to pull some stone back up a driveway you would have to keep adjusting, or make sure sure your passes are in different directions for each side of driveway

@davidmorse8432

4 жыл бұрын

I remember a time before box blades when we used a straight blade behind a tractor. You could angle it and drop one edge to shape a crown. More like a road grader. After that, take the land plane and work each side to take out ripples made by the straight blade.

@johnsadler8637

4 жыл бұрын

All we ever have had is a straight blade. If the drive is too flat, we drop the right lift lever with the crank and pull some back to the middle. I turn the blade around to smooth. I’m not sure I could accurately back up the 300 yards of relatively flat drive up on top and I’m not ever going to back down the hill. That’s a recipe for a serious accident as steep as it is. I might experiment with turning the blade around and knocking out some of the rolling humps - those tend to build when the front goes over the top so the blade jumps up and then gouges. Good idea.

Hey bud, nice work! Especially for using a land plane!

I just purchased a rhino grader scraper. GS96. My driveway is wide. I love it.

NEVER pave your driveway! Let the water go through it. Smart Mike.

Pave your drive and tell Melissa you lied about the pool. Hehe!

I have limestone too I put calcium after then it really packs. And no dust. We are way up north in manitoba Canada so I also use it for ice melt. We have lots of ice and cold but it works great

Looks good, now pave it. Such grand entrance dont mix with gravel.

Well great job Mike and wow Hanna has sure grown up in to a pretty young lady. And Mike I'd say that new stove for Melissa would be cheaper than a pool but hey a pool would be Nice to come on Mike think about the ladies. I'm trying Melissa Stay safe Morgans

Well big guy, when my wife wants to go out to eat, she has my daughter ask me. She thinks I don’t know what’s going on but she knows that I have a hard time saying no to my daughter. Thats how my wife ended up with a pool, hahahaha. With that said, I am getting ready to buy “daughter Shelby” a ranger. Stay well, stay safe and yall HAVE A DAY 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Pitch the drive, Dig out a ditch and rip rap it to slow the water velocity will a fix that run/wash off the road

Imagine that...a subaru headlight out! I love subarus but they ALWAYS have headlights out. Great video as always!!!

Great video like always. Archie is growing fast and training is progressing very well. I’m guessing that by episode 2000 there’ll be a ground breaking video for the new pool. Mike.....she’s relentless so give in now. Besides with Melissa’s $$ from the firewood business it’ll be paid for in no time lol. Take care everyone.

Hey Mike, You do realize when you use the land plane backwards you are using it rock against normal probably A36 steal, not the Abrasion resistant steal it has on the cutting blades forward? It works yes, but the steal won't last over the years that way, blades are made to bolt on replace, that support steal will probably have to be cut out and new welded in.

@paybax

4 жыл бұрын

My LP Grading Scraper has replaceable cutting edges on both sides so going backwards is no issue. I ended up bending the metal on my cutting edge on my previous one, however it didn’t have a replaceable edge so it got mangled when I hit a rock.

@jdub229r

4 жыл бұрын

Steel angle is cheap, I don’t have cutters on mine. Got a plasma cutter & a mig that I love using.

Good Morning, John from Wilmington, Delaware.

My Land Pride LP actually came with a cutting edge on the back

Good information mike Hi girls an Archie have a day love from TEXAS

Good morning Hunter ;-)

Mike you need a roller ,I got one and it stops a lot of the rain washout . like you said a 6 ft is a perfect size to crown a road a pass each side, get a trailed vibrating one with its own engine.

Can't believe you scared that rabbit, you big meany. : )

Piper is still the star 🌟 🏆 Go Piper #1

Just want to tell you I received a yellow Simple Strap today in the mail. It is going to be wrapped around some lumber yard boards in the very near future.

Please explain 'cement stabilize' when referencing a well pad. Enjoy the videos. Keep'em coming.

@davidmorse8432

4 жыл бұрын

We call it soil cement in East Texas, and is simply mixing in portland cement with the subgrade material. This is done by placing the cement on top of the subgrade with a bulk cement tractor trailer rig with special dispensing tubes. The amount used is dependent on many factors to numerous to mention here. After the cement is placed a machine that looks like a giant troy-built tiller, and is called a stabilizer, mixes the cement and a layer of subgrade together while adding water to control dust and begin hydration of the cement. This is followed by graders and compactors which develop the final grade. This must all take place before the cement cures. That's why they always seem to be in a hurry.

I like your new video you did a good jop

Interesting you say that just over 3 tons is about all you’d want to pull with the “grocery getter”. I have that same F150 crewcab truck except with the 5 liter V8 and I’m pulling 5+ tons quite regularly. (No question the 3.5L Ecoboost in your truck is even better for pulling). The key factor in allowing me to safely tow more weight is a load equalizing trailer hitch. Although inflatable shocks or air bags in the rear axle will help stop sag, it doesn’t transfer any of the load to the front axle. An equalizing hitch, properly sized and set up for your tow vehicle and trailer, can shift a substantial portion of the load to the front axle, allowing you to pull much higher loads safely and comfortably. It takes a few more minutes to hook up but it’s well worth the time!

@davidmorse8432

4 жыл бұрын

Sure you can pull more weight but can you stop it too? That's where so many people get in trouble pulling trailers with pickups. General rule of thumb is never haul more weight than the combined weight of the vehicle and trailer carrying it. Come up behind a stopped vehicle and try to stop, that weight will push you right into a rear end collision. Electric brakes just don't cut it when stopping a heavy loaded trailer. Those surge brakes, (hitch activated) work pretty good but nothing stops a load like air brakes.

Good morning all, Phil here from Kansas City. The Covid-19 shutdown is affecting my ability to re-order at the Stihl store, 3 of the 4 models I ordered are out of stock. Have a Day.

@wayawolf1967

4 жыл бұрын

I will be glad when enough people wake up to this "plandemic" hoax and kick this country back into gear !

Wondering how the pond is making out with the rain? Mike I seen a video were Hunter even made motions for a pool, seems like your getting out numbered ! Remember Happy Wife Happy Life👍

A cutting edge will help to preserve the land plane. Without it and if you do enough grading it will wear it out and then you will have to have it cut out and replaced. Once it is worn it is to late to add a cutting edge.

Hannah looked like she had had a tough day. She also looked like she was discussed about having to replace the headlight again. At the end of the video, she seemed to be perking up while trying to play fetch with the dogs. Though, it did look like more of a game of I will throw it, then come and get it from you, and then go back and throw it again. My dog used to play that game when she thought I needed more exercise.

Love Yalls Content And It’s Good To Hear My Wife is Not the Only One Being Told No On Swimming Pool And Paving a 2300 Foot driveway 😂

Mike you do need for the long run some cutting edges on the backside of the land plane. Your words ( I like to push backwards )

Make him a nice dinner, and then tell him to start diggin as the pavers are coming next week!

I guess the next thing is a Stihl pole saw gasoline kind I used one don't know what model it is but great power.

Since at the end you like backing up to spread to reduce the washboarding effect, would a box blade be better for the application of crowning? The crown in my driveway is a bit high, from rut base to crown center about 3 inches above my ankle! So needs to be shortened. ( last improved in 1989!!). Gotta get tractor first😃👍

very timely video for me. I'm on the fence on purchasing a land plane or box blade for my 1000' fairly level gravel drive. 10-12' wide. Sub Compact green machine and JD doesn't make a land plane for it with scarifiers. The search is on.

Is the music from the 60’s. Dave from West Virginia.

Mike - another good one with good info & demonstration. Are we ever going to get to see the Africa Room?

You should try using road millings on your driveway sometime. Good compaction.

why not use the frontend loader to level rock--level bucket forward to clip off high spots and slight downward angle of bucket to backdrag

looks like Archie is going to be a big boy. My daughter and her family got a new golden puppy 8 months ago and they said Sunday the Knox weighted in at 100 pounds for his last checkup. Saying he is a big boy is an under statement. They also said the breeder told them the expected him to weigh about 75 pounds.

Mike, have you ever rented a roller and compacting the road when added the stone?

If I went anywhere in a Subaru ! I N the Winter i darn sure have Snow tires on the front Axle!