Above, we are grading and widening a road that was rough cut. Towards the end of the video we test the road with our 20′ gooseneck and discover that a couple of the turns are still a little too tight.
Below we are installing 24′ steel posts in the ground for a shade structure. We performed a final scrape of the road and leveled out the job site for ease of future construction.
In the video below, the owner of this dome house wanted more earthen material placed on top. Due to the proximity of propane tanks it was not safe for us to travel on top of the home, we placed as much material on the side as we could reach, and created a dry stack of large rocks surrounding the right side of the entryway.
For WoodGate Road, we regraded the road that reaches the interior of this property from the highway. This road was crossed by two dry creeks and needed some erosion control.
On the way back out to Terlingua my last trip, I stopped in at ProFab Welding in Mason, Texas to pick up this really nice (and RED!) rock bucket. Let me tell you, it is extremely well built and has excellent carrying capacity. It is well paired with my SVL 75-3 https://www.profabweld.com/
Today we install a GoPro on a brand spanking new track steer as we start our adventure in land clearing.
Why the Kubota SVL75-3 Is Built for This Work
The machine in this video is our Kubota SVL75-3, and it’s become the backbone of everything we do at iLandClearing.com. It’s powered by a 74.3-horsepower Kubota diesel engine with strong torque, and it’s rated to handle a bucket breakout force of over 6,100 lbs — enough muscle for clearing brush, moving material, grading, and digging without slowing down.
What really makes it earn its keep is the Advanced Multifunction Valve, which lets us run the bucket, loader arm, and auxiliary hydraulics all at the same time. That matters a lot when we’re running attachments like a grapple, auger, or mulcher head — smoother, more responsive control means faster work and fewer stalls out in the field. The sealed cab keeps dust and debris out of the operator’s space, which is no small thing on a dusty Texas job site, and the 2-speed travel gets us moving quickly between spots on larger properties. Whether we’re clearing raw land, cutting a trench, building a road, or working a straight-up construction project like a parking lot or a sports facility, the SVL75-3 is the machine that gets it done.
Why We Use a GoPro Hero 13 to Document the Work
Every project we run gets documented, and the GoPro Hero 13 Black has become our go-to camera for it. It shoots up to 5.3K video at 60 frames per second, which gives us plenty of resolution to crop, stabilize, and edit footage for our YouTube channel without losing quality. HyperSmooth 6.0 stabilization is the real workhorse feature here — mounted on a piece of equipment that’s bouncing over rough ground all day, in-camera stabilization means the footage comes out smooth without needing a gimbal or heavy post-production work.
It’s also built for the environment we actually work in. The Hero 13 is waterproof and rugged enough to handle dust, mud, and vibration on a job site, and the longer-running Enduro battery means it can keep rolling through a full day of clearing or trenching without constant battery swaps. Mounting it inside the cab, like we show in this video, gives viewers a real operator’s-eye view of what a project actually looks like from start to finish — which is exactly the kind of footage that makes our project videos useful to people scoping out their own land clearing jobs, not just fun to watch.
Planning a project that could use documentation like this, or just want to see more of our equipment in action? Reach out to iLandClearing, or subscribe to our YouTube channel to follow along.
