Sticky grass is removed from lawnmower without using water or lifting it up! Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

We took care of them and did NOT spare the rod! Proverbs 13:24
Triple T Ranch & Sawmill

Wind took the top out of an ash during the same storm that took the previous videos of white oak and hickory (bottom land). We put the ash log on the mill and struggled to make some boards.

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

We look for the dead tops along with some green . The pine resin seeps out of neatly drilled holes.

Triple T Ranch & Sawmill - We have been clearing our corner lot. This video is our version of the OldGuyDIY grub.

Why do you need to make this?

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Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

Using a smart plug, generic contactor and some wire, make a automated battery charger controller. Take the dead battery to the edge and bring it back.

2 out of 3 batteries were saved.

Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

Found a Honda CT70 on marketplace but hasn’t run in many years. Fixed spark wire, electrical wiring and cleaned carburetor. It fired up and ran. First time to ride a Honda 70 in 50 years! Grandkids will have a blast!!!

Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

John Deere manure spreader on Pecan Grove. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill.

We continue to prep for old age here on our homestead in Texas. These coffin vaults will do just fine for raised beds. We gather the fill materials from our property to keep the cost down. We paid $50 for both vaults.
The homemade hickory charcoal is ground down using rocks in a RED LION cement mixer. The fill materials are also mixed in the cement mixer along with tumbling rocks to bust up the woodland humus. We layered in BIOCHAR in the fill material. We plan to plant after last frost and will definitely have peppers in the raised beds.

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

A hung up widow maker come apart 50' up in the air

Our 1964 Case tractor pulled a hay bailer way back when. My grandfather would be proud to see it today yanking these huge logs out of the creek!

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

In Texas, we are not accustomed to frozen pipes. This video documents pulling, diagnosing and repairing the problem. Some explanation on how a bladderless retention tank works.

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

200 yr old red oak, 5 ft diameter and hollow

Installed a flat solid bottom grapple on our old Kubota and tried it out.
Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

Made from cable spool, hardware cloth, broken brace and bit, cedar, walnut, pine.

Hauling trash, overview of dump bed, troubleshooting motor, shifting gears.

Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

We had a stand that was just about gone, so we refurbished it, lifted it and decorated it. The stand is on a remote part of our property so we built a garage to park the four wheeler in when its raining. Inspired by my grandfather's duck hunting adventures.

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

We re-purposed metal roof (that's why the different colors), cut our own cedar timbers on a vintage sawmill, used a homemade ditcher, re-used railroad trestle timbers, and built a 12'x16' greenhouse for approximately $6000.

Here are the steps:
00:00:00 1 intro
00:01:19 2 design
00:02:04 3 below
00:09:04 4 foundation
00:19:05 5 logging
00:29:09 6 walls
00:43:49 7 skinning
01:07:17 8 roof
01:26:45 9 re-erecting
01:45:30 10 walkabout
01:53:48 11 reckoning

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

Pignut hickory germinated before WW2 died last summer. It was competing with an oak & winning in the center of canopy. Used chainsaws and rope saws and a tractor to fall it aways from the kid's fort. Charted the growth rings. Made some beautiful hickory planks.

Adding 3 More Steps, Install Mini Split

Our garage is a spill out area for our 800 square foot haybarn conversion home.

We show the TWENTY-TWO steps to install a 120 VOLT Senville Leto mini split heat pump.

Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

For entertainment use only. Ignition coil outputs 20-40kV. Sperry contactless meter rated to 600V. The electromagnetic field reaches more than 12" from insulated secondary wire. The input to the coil is 24V but it is intermittent so a digital VOM will not accurately measure.

The motor runs off of wellhead gas.