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Some take the road less travelled, we make our own [access road to future house]

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Some take the road less travelled, we make our own [access road to future house]

The last few months we started on a new stage of our life here on the homestead. We would like to build a house on the top of our land, but since there is no road that way we had to dig one. So we started clearing and scoping out the best place to do this. Lots of digging work, using a jackhammer on bigger rocks, and then more digging. The end result is excellent and should make it possible for us to drive to the future building site.

0:00 Intro
0:57 Starting on the road
3:49 First obstacles found
7:29 Reaching the top
10:00 Jackhammer time
15:18 Future house plot
17:35 Leveling out the new road
21:39 The end result

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New here? My name is Lea and I live with my partner Maarten, our toddler Puck and baby Bo on our land in Central Portugal. We left the rat race in the Netherlands in 2018 and moved south in our old campervan. Two years ago we bought land in Portugal that had been abandoned for several decades. After lots of hard work we now live in a beautiful yurt and keep ourselves busy growing our own vegetables as well as producing olive oil, wine and honey on a small scale. This channel documents all the different jobs we have to do, and sometimes some nice footage of this beautiful country we now call home.

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  6. Ok. New to the channel. Great content and thank you for your efforts. Rock out crops. There is a product, Dexpan. It is a powdered, water based, high expansion grout. A slow motion explosive. It usually takes 24 to 48 hours to work. By drilling holes in out crops and filling them with the Dexpan slurry…fissures will slowly form and allow your digger to pull the rock apart. Demo Dave from Australia uses it and I have used it on his recommendation. Seven holes and I was able to break a large hunk of hard limestone into manageable pieces. I used it in cold weather and it required 72 hours to expand.

  8. What a gorgeous view you'll have! And it seems big enough up there for a decent sized home – I don't imagine you'll be building a massive palace, but enough room for an indoor kitchen and bath. I'm very much looking forward to seeing things develop a bit at a time including why you make the decisions you do – you're very good at explaining things as you go. What a lot of work, but you both contribute so much that I'm certain it will all be done. Helping neighbors is good – 'many hands make work light' I think is the old saying.

  9. I totally understand why you want that spot for your house. The view is breathtaking!
    When there are larger rocks/boulders right there where you want a part of the house … I've seen photos of houses they built in such a way that those rocks became part of the walls! F.e. a wonderful bath room with a large piece of rock coming into it, natural decoration!

  10. Ik wil jullie hartelijk bedanken voor het delen van jullie ‘reis’. Zo tof om te zien hoever jullie zijn gekomen en hoeveel jullie zelf doen. Onmetelijk inspirerend! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

  18. Knap stukje werk om je eigen weg te kunnen maken. Ik adviseer je toch sterk om op de steilere stukken een regengoot te plaatsen. Dit kan een stuk pijp zijn, bijvoorbeeld PE buis, in de lengte doorgezaagd. Leg dit dan dwars op je nieuwe weg en graaf dit in. Hiermee voorkom je dat bij de eerste stevige regenbui alle grond wegspoelt en je weer veel herstel werk hebt.

  30. You are doing a great job on opening up that area for access Maarten and what a great little excavator, they are like the Swiss Army Knives of equipment and you are getting the most out of it as you work with it. The road is going to open up a little piece of Heaven for you at the top of your property, fun to watch you grow your skills, your harvest and your family. Thanks for your efforts to bring us along on the journey with your Video's, it is very much appreciated. All the best for a prosperous future!

  32. 1. Mod the camera for water cooling
    2. Get a dump truck
    3. Get a license to use explosives on the big rocks
    4. Get boom sticks
    5. Make a boom stick extravaganza viral video
    6. Profit

  33. You did a very good job with such a small excavator. There is a product for braking up your big holders. You just drill a hole and fill it with this product and after two or three days it just pushes the rock into pieces. Hope you can find it on line. I think you will find the trees you left along the road should be removed just for safety and not damage your car going up and down the hill. Can’t wait to see the house. You two have come a very long way. You should be proud of your selves. Thanks for the video. Take a couple days off. You deserve it.

  43. Martin you and your machine are doing a wonderful job. The potential building site is fantastic view. Your house idea is perfect. Keep up the good work. It is coming along nicely. Love it.

  45. Ooh yes thats a great spot for a house! It's like a boys dream to digg out a road in the mountain with a excavator and make everything exactly like how you want to look like. Great job!

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