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THIS WAS A MISTAKE | Learning From Bad News

Mar 21, 2024
Good morning and welcome back to a new video. It's a gorgeous day, it's pretty cold and you might be able to hear Theos just starting up the UTV because we have a few places to go today and we're going to drink. you, together with us, are Indie Projects B and Theo in 2017 we bought an abandoned property in the center of Portugal and spent the last few years converting it into a full-fledged farm, converting an old stone barn into a small cozy house working without stall. And overcoming many obstacles, it turned out better than we could have ever imagined.
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As one chapter closes, another begins. Our dreams of living even more remotely in a fairytale forest with space for animals to roam and our passions to grow became a reality before we could have imagined it. Even when he moved there, it was devastated by a large forest fire that drastically altered the landscape. Immense flash floods followed as the land could not hold water. Follow us as we forge our new life on Miracle Mountain. Thank you, come on, we have arrived, really surreal. Down here now we were watching clips of

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place in I think it was September and wow, the change is incredible.
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I can't wait to show it to you so you can see here that I've been very busy with the excavator digging tons. of silt and stone and I'm going to play a clip right now of what

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area looked like immediately after the flood so you can see on this Lower Terrace that there are all these stones that have been washed away and there is a lot of sand and sediment that has been washed off the top of the mountain and what can usually happen is when there is a fire it rains and we had some serious flooding in this area, unfortunately what happens is the ground is so dry that the water hits it and it can't sink. the ground to find its way down and obviously with all the fire damage it means that all the areas where naturally maybe water would normally flow have changed their path and you can see the water flowing down here and all this debris that has been in It's actually pretty crazy to see because none of this was here and you can see the force of the water because some of the sizes of the stones that have been washed away are really big.
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There's my foot for comparison, so it's not completely finished. However, you can see these big grooves in the ground that we filled with these huge stones and then compacted loads of smaller stones around them and it really works well with the excavator to then move all the silk and stone that I dug out of the ground. valley and leave it here level it and complete this road it looks much better now you can drive over it very well which you couldn't before and I'm about to get into the hole that I dug so you can see the big difference between what it was look how deep he had to dig the fear, it was all completely buried, it was literally at ground level, it's amazing and he managed to find the pipe, so I'm currently sitting and there is a huge trench that I dug.
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Next to the concrete pipe I managed to find I felt like a real archaeologist finding it because I had no idea where it was, but I used my initiative. All these concrete pipes are in straight lines so I found the other side and it was approximately 10 meter long pipe on the other side of the dirt road that connects it to our first terrace and everywhere where there is a level change or terrace on this property there is a concrete pipe that goes underground to protect the road system and it has done an incredible job. There are three of these pipes on the property that are completely blocked so I unlocked the first one, the one at the top of the property is now unlocked and I have another one to unlock very soon and I've actually expanded it. ditch, so if we have a really bad fall and we have flooding like before, it won't be a problem this time because we can handle a lot more water, we are almost at the bottom of the property here and we need to head to the middle of the property towards the tanks of water to pick up some stuff we left there so let's go back to YouTube so now we're leaving the lower terrace of the property and you can see here we're driving over the pieces.
Theo dug and on the left is the stream he had been digging to get to the pipe which is brilliant and you can see the olive trees on the right side are starting to try and thrive and it's really nice to see all the green. on the ground here now up here we are reaching the Second Terrace we have quite a few fruit trees that unfortunately haven't survived from the looks of it since the fire, they look totally dead but we're just going to leave Leave it for a year and see what happens to them before to eliminate them completely.
Now that we're going up the hill, it's actually really nice to be able to be on the UTV because it may not seem like it, but walking that far on a routine basis is very tiring. and just up here on the left you can't see very well. I don't think we'll be able to catch it on camera, but the ruins are just to the left of us here and we're driving right now. Basically this is almost all apple trees, there are some cherries on the right, but mainly apples and also some citrus. It's very helpful to have access to all these different tracks and they come onto the paved road here which is great for driving.
We have more olive trees on the right and on the left cherries will appear on the right side of our huge cherry orchard. We counted this orchard the other day and as we passed by. Now I'm trying to remember how many were there and you know what number I've completely forgotten. We're planning to build a lumber shop on the left, right there, which should be very useful while we're gathering here. You can see we still have the cherry orchard on the right side and the buds have started to come out there which is brilliant, the chickens are also down there on the right and there's the house that I wish the camera could actually see.
I'm showing you how steep this road is, so this track that we're going to go up on the left here to the house is very steep and this vehicle just eats up the track, it's brilliantly foreign if you're wondering what those little concrete houses are. there are dog sheds and kennels, there are some kennels left. It's crazy how much this track has changed since we cleaned it just a few months ago. Now this is the easiest access to get to the water tanks on the UTV. Walk here. Quite a bit, it's a nice easy path, so if we continue to the right, it would take us back to the house and then this other right turn takes us to where the pond was that is now full of silt, which is another project for us.
I work early and now it appears so steep it's amazing how this UTV completely eats up the track, right up here it heads towards the Witch's House which is on the left side, you won't be able to see it from the camera. I don't think so, but we're almost to the water tanks, right down there, I say water tanks, there's only one, we just made the water tank now. Do you want your own website but don't know where to start? Why not try it? Discover Squarespace and see for yourself how easy it is to create your own professional-looking website in no time.
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I've seen them ironing them. I know they're ready to move in and Theo's is going to stream a strip where the electric fence goes because these things are pretty tall and obviously if there's a lot of different plants touching the electric fence it doesn't work as effectively as it should so we need to do it before to move the actual fence, so this is my first time starting this. New brushcutter, it's an absolute beast, this thing can go through anything and now I just have to get through some weeds and grass so it should be a small two minute job and then we can get this electric fence because I know them.
The goats have done an amazing job on the pasture and will love going through all these new weeds, especially the foreign baby, which is by far the best weeder I have ever used. I had to set one up, but it was like a lower level, so it's only designed for cutting grass. It has so much power that it is designed to cut through all types of weeds, so it cuts through grass like a breeze. I just pull the trigger and it's just I have so much energy, this is going to be amazing on the property, I sure can't wait to see the goats' faces when they run into this field, especially the baby, the baby will be like he hit the gold, so the electric fence works. solar powered which is brilliant and at the moment we have it installed here around the horse box and we're basically going to do the same thing we have here but right down there so the horse box will be inside the box electrical. fence so they have shelter to sleep in and whatever and now it's off so we don't get electrocuted and I'm going to start by removing the support posts and then unrolling them and putting them in there it's so simple It's ridiculous hey so this electric fence system smart comes with these black posts, but what B is doing is just removing the white post that we added ourselves just to give it a little bit more rigidity and they work great exactly the longer we can keep this fence. of the ground, the stronger and better it works, the goats really make me laugh because they know they are being moved to a cool piece of land where they can graze to their content or they can graze until we want to move them. because what we're doing is strip grazing so you can see behind me and I'll launch the drone up so you can see a clear picture of how different this area looks to where we're moving them right now and we've already cleaned it up really well from that we moved and now it's time to move them, they will graze there and then turn gray somewhere else and it will give this piece of land time to use its grays to grow back and it's a really nice system.
It means the earth is full of good things that are pooping in the ground, everything is fine, the grass will grow back and then just before summer we will probably move them back here like I'm catching the biggest fish in the world. all the time it's definitely a catfish, so B has almost completely rolled up the entire fence, so it's wide open. Goats can go wherever they want, but they are very good goats and they stay with us and will follow us, so what do we do? What we are going to do is simply put up the fence and then we will guide you to your New Pasture.
The baby, on the other hand, is there and we will put a leash on her and tie her to the horse box for just five minutes. while we were moving her enclosure and what we have been doing is letting her out every day to get used to the other goats because obviously there is a herd mentality and she will be at the back and she will be fighting for her house so we will let her out little by little. a little every day so he can find his place and everyone gets along well together. Lush grass that will love to circle around me, you will be fine, you will have it all. the grass of the world all the other goats are inside the enclosure we still have to make some adjustments with the enclosure but it won't take long and all these panels interlock together very quick to put together and they all just lock on the feet and then you just put this ring there keeps it nice and secure look at that look good girl so the fence is all the way down and I'm ready to put in this red wire that starts the electricity so I'm I'm going to keep this one there's only one way to know if it's working, sacrifice, yes, noIt works nowhere so I swapped out the nylon thread for this, basically it's a circular saw blade that will go through the entire burnt broom. we don't want it anymore and we're going to burn it and recently yesterday I brought this in and it made us look like a plastic fuel bottle but all the plastic fuel bottles I've used just leak and this is one that is designed directly for stationary equipment so I have the spout here and all you have to do is literally turn it upside down, push it in and fill it, it's the easiest thing. no leak no leak system is just brilliant so now it's full and we're ready to go so I don't know if you can hear me over the incredibly loud machine but this is all that has been cut so far and it does really light work it is brilliant all of this is just dead beyond repair and it is a broom that is very invasive and grows like a weed, so it's ideal to get rid of it, burn it and get rid of it, it's really good to see. the progress that can be made so quickly with this tool all of these trees are completely dead on top some of them are growing some shoes and look like they could be some type of oak that we obviously want to keep so we're just cutting the pieces off dead that are at the top to allow the new pieces that come out from below to grow.
There will be many copper-style trees growing, but the more leaves the bear will provide shade. the summer shelter abroad is absolutely crazy already in about 10 minutes I have made 50 meters of broom and dense undergrowth that has just been burned and is dead and just sitting there and needs to be removed before next summer so it all clumps up and it burns but I'm going to keep going down The Terraces, okay, super good exercise, in fact, with this brace your back doesn't hurt or anything because it supports all the weight of this little metal hook, but what I'm going to say do.
What to do now I'm covered in ash my only day is just cleaning this I have to take care of this equipment it's all amazing equipment but it only works if you take care of it so I turn the compressor on and off excuse me, we have Many people asked us what's going on with the lake, how it is filling up. Can you have an update? We first wanted to give it a little time to see how it went, as we said before it was an experiment. I wanted to know if it was good or bad before I gave you an update and we will give you an update right now.
We have quality control for lake filling here to give you their verdict on how it is. Let's say what we have to say Fernandez or if you have strayed from your duties, as you can see, the lake is not full and it is really not good

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about the situation of the lake, so let me explain a little bit when we divert the water by first time. The lake was a super exciting time, we didn't live here, we showed up every day and watched it change every day and it was starting to connect around the island and it was probably about three feet deep. in some areas and maybe four feet deep in some areas, that's not much considering this lake can reach three meters in some areas, but it was a start and we were so excited that we thought about maybe this experiment of just diverting Water. in the lake maybe it will work and it will just fill up and hold water, but I was definitely worried so the bottom line is that the lake should never have been empty, it should always have water from the first point where they filled this lake.
His whole life he basically should have kept water in him to stop the problems we are having now. What happened was that in the summer it dried up completely because the source of water that runs into this lake, the stream that comes from above. From the mountain, the spring had diverted away from the lake and down the valley below the property, so the water that was left here eventually dried up over the years and the previous owners did not live on the property. So it dried out and you can see here because it was dry all these weeds and everything dried out and everything turned to ash when we had the fire in the summer and what that did was it dried out all the clay which we also had I had the hottest summer registered, which you can see if you follow me here.
Let me try to find some clay, so this is a really good section. Here all the clay is cracked and you can see all the ash. sitting on top of the clay, it's breaking up in my hands, this clay should be nice and moist and it should be completely a surface, it shouldn't have big gaps where water can seep through, so that's where our problem lies, the solution . We need to find a company, we need to take some soil samples, we need to get a proper engineering company here that will deal with projects of this size, we probably need to get some machinery here, we need to dig out all the mud and silt that has been pushed into down from the flood on the mountain, take out all the plants and start completely new, get tons and tons probably coming down full of clay, recycle everything and then it will hold the water and we can have our amazing lake and It will be amazing, it's huge, it's an acre , it's ten feet deep, we managed to get about four feet deep in some areas when we really filled the water and what happened is when we diverted the spring over here, it flooded very well and it started to fill up very well and I guess because the ground was hard, but then the suction started, the ground started taking up all the water, the 44,000 liters a day that was coming in is now disappearing, so we'll get to the bottom.
We have a lot of other things to do, I'm not sure when it will happen because there is a very specific time that we need to do this, basically, right after the summer, all of this will have to be dug up and then we will have to get it back and then the best time to filling it is when all the rains come in Portugal, so we will dive all the water as much as we can into the lake while it is raining and it is rainy season and that will fill up. I have spoken to the previous owners and this is exactly how they did it at the beginning.
It's going to be epic, but unfortunately Miracle Mountain is a big project and after the fires it's an even bigger project, but I firmly believe we are the right ones. people to address this we are very excited one day I will have a jet ski here I will have a houseboat Ducks all the things it's going to be amazing I think I'll end the video there I hope The guys enjoyed this video. I mean, it's just an Our Lives day. We've done a lot of things today and we've really gotten a lot done, so thanks for joining us and we'll see you next time. video

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