**Huge Fire on The Sanctuary!  — Transcript & Summary | SozAI**
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Robert Arrington renovates The Sanctuary property with pond building, debris clearing, and fire management, showcasing progress and teamwork.

## Key Takeaways

- Significant land transformation requires careful planning, heavy equipment, and teamwork.
- Controlled fires are an effective method for clearing large amounts of debris.
- Preserving mature trees is a priority during land development to maintain natural beauty.
- Storms can cause unexpected damage, highlighting the importance of safety precautions.
- The Sanctuary project is a long-term effort with visible progress and community involvement.

## What the video covers

- Robert Arrington and his team work on clearing and improving The Sanctuary property after a stroke and previous hog hunts.
- They build new ponds and berms to manage runoff and enhance the land's usability.
- Heavy machinery like bulldozers and front-end loaders are used to grade land, clear debris, and create parking areas.
- The team manages large controlled fires to burn debris efficiently and safely.
- Efforts are made to preserve important trees like magnolias, oaks, and mature pines during land clearing.
- Shell rock is laid down to create a beach area and control weed growth, though some grass still grows through.
- Storm damage is noted, including a lightning strike on a tree, emphasizing safety during storms.
- Plans include adding more ponds, pasture areas, and amenities like swings and makeup vanities.
- The video highlights teamwork, progress, and the transformation of the property into a functional sanctuary.
- The project is ongoing, with anticipation of finishing touches like sod laying and final grading.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction and Property Overview
2. 01:16 Using Equipment and Clearing Debris
3. 02:29 Building the New Pond and Berm
4. 05:08 Planning Vehicle Maneuvers and Berm Construction
5. 08:26 Land Clearing and Tree Preservation
6. 09:42 Managing Large Controlled Fires
7. 11:39 Storm Damage and Property Improvements
8. 13:03 Final Touches and Project Progress

Answers

## Questions about this video

What is the main purpose of the video?

The video documents the ongoing work to clear, renovate, and improve The Sanctuary property, including pond construction, debris clearing, and land management.

How does the team manage debris on the property?

The team uses controlled fires to burn debris efficiently, stacking wood and trees to create hot fires that burn from the inside out.

What safety concerns are mentioned in the video?

The video highlights the dangers of storms, showing a tree struck by lightning, and advises not to stand near trees during storms.

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00:01

Speaker A

Whoa. Getting hot now.

00:20

Speaker A

[music] Good morning, happy people. I'm Robert Arrington. This is Dear Meat for Dinner, and we are on the sanctuary. Whenever I had my stroke, I was right [music] there.

00:36

Speaker A

Whenever we caught the hog with Maverick and Camo, that big bar hog, it was right over here. Now the whole property is usable. What's up, happy people? All this is going to be cleaned out. These are all pelmetas. Look, there's no use

00:50

Speaker A

for the pelmets. Do you think you can do it? I'll try. Come about 80 feet off this trail and then start clearing it, and then you bon it. Soon this will all become very, very nice.

01:07

Speaker A

[music] [music] I'll leave this to him. Now I got to figure out something else to do.

01:16

Speaker A

She likes it. You're loving this thing, huh? Oh, babe. This is a lifesaver. Listen, this is mine. She likes me.

01:42

Speaker A

Yeah, right. Get rid of these people. [music] [music] Land is out here picking up trash because we're going to level this off.

02:06

Speaker A

Yeah. Going the wrong way. It might be one of the guys. You never know what you're going to find. It's like a church, babe.

02:12

Speaker A

Before that last 10, I pretty much single-handedly had filled all that up this morning.

02:20

Speaker A

Really? You know how many loads of this have gone? Thank God for the Kawasaki.

02:29

Speaker A

There's leftover metal on that side of the building. Yeah. Don't get rid of that stuff because that's good yet.

02:47

Speaker A

You okay? Need some water? Yeah, I do. Um, that was the first time I kind of blacked out. I've never done that before. When I hopped out, like it went black. Anyway, um, there's tin over there. Don't get rid of that because we

02:52

Speaker A

could use it as a roof for the pump house. You know what I mean? You, sweetheart, you need to get element right now.

03:00

Speaker A

Yeah. Land, what are we doing? Oh, trying to grade out some dirt and pick up all the trash.

03:04

Speaker A

Trying to get your parking area nice and flat up here where you ain't got no holes.

03:10

Speaker A

How old are you, Landon? 20 years old. 20? Yes, sir. That's awesome. Who's your buddy?

03:18

Speaker A

Jake. He's my manager of my company. And that's Adam in the dozer. He's my main operator.

03:31

Speaker A

Do I have a bug on my back? No. Something just crawled from my back to my front. Back to my back again.

03:37

Speaker A

No. No. It's not there underneath. Oh, okay. Watch. Watch out. Watch out. Watch out.

04:03

Speaker A

Watch out. Get it. I swear. An hour ago, this was all filled up with dirt. Now, with a bulldozer, he's done an amazing job. My dad started this a couple days ago. Now, we got it finished.

04:15

Speaker A

This is the new pond. There's the house. This is the pond that we just built. And now they're going to build a berm all the way around it. That's what he's doing with the front-end loader.

04:33

Speaker A

They're going to pick up some of the dirt right here. And we're going to use the bulldozer and make a berm all the way around it so that it doesn't get so much runoff.

04:45

Speaker A

That's a Dodge. You better lock it in. You know that. So, what we're doing right now is we're figuring out our turn radius. We're going to go this way and then we're going to come right back. Then we're

04:52

Speaker A

going to make a berm around both ponds. You'll see. It's going to be amazing.

05:00

Speaker A

Can we actually do it? Are we going to get it done? Yes, sir. Hopefully, we'll have it done by tomorrow afternoon before we put saw in by the end of the week.

05:08

Speaker A

Telling you guys, these boys are getting it done. The trainer cost more than the truck to get.

05:15

Speaker A

Let me show you why this is called the sanctuary. There's a house. Deer tracks.

05:38

Speaker A

Deer tracks. It's working, you guys. Osprey. Everything is working. We're trying to figure out where the swing is going to be. Whenever I get my boat and I come around, we got to make sure we have enough swing.

05:45

Speaker A

What do you think? I think we're going to need to build it up so all your weight isn't on the front as you're trying to go out 100%.

05:55

Speaker A

But I think if he starts turning about now, that's perfect. I think you can get that out because that truck's longer than your flat Denoi, and your Denoi will turn way better than that.

06:04

Speaker A

Yeah. Go all the way around. Go and come right through. And then we're going to figure out where this is going to naturally go.

06:47

Speaker A

Okay. [music] [music] Now, we're going to clean out this whole entire corner and take all of this fill and make all of this level.

07:15

Speaker A

You can't imagine how much work he's doing. So fast. Words cannot properly explain what he's doing.

07:45

Speaker A

This right here is good. What I'm doing is I'm going along and figuring out what we want to keep and what we want to take. These are nice. This is good.

08:17

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[music] [music] [music] This big magnolia tree was one of the trees that I really wanted to save.

08:26

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There used to be a path right here. Now there's going to be a big pond right there.

08:44

Speaker A

Look at that tree. That big oak tree is just absolutely amazing. It doesn't look like they're doing a lot, but you can't imagine how much they're clearing.

09:03

Speaker A

Every day we're going to have big piles just like this burning the debris. [music] We got a big fire going on right here.

09:22

Speaker A

And now he's clearing and stacking everything here so that we have two fires. It's amazing how fast the fires burn. Once they get very, very hot, they start burning from the inside out. This is Adam. Adam, what's the plan? Move the

09:27

Speaker A

fire to the other fire and get a big fire going and get it all cleared [laughter] and gone.

09:42

Speaker A

This was a huge fire yesterday. It's burned down to just little logs. We're going to take that stump and all that is trees and put it on that. They have a method to their madness.

10:33

Speaker A

[music] [music] [music] Whoa. You definitely need to—Getting hot now. We almost burned the truck down.

11:00

Speaker A

[music] Honey Pie, come on. I have not looked yet. Okay, come here. Now I get to show Sarah Mama aka dear mom. Let me show her what we've been doing.

11:21

Speaker A

They brought it all the way over here. That looks so good. Yeah, this beach just keeps getting better [music] and better. What started off as this area has now shifted and become a massive beach. Landon and his guys took

11:33

Speaker A

shell [music] rock and they went around these two oak trees. So now we have sand all this way underneath the [music] swing. The table is back and over here we just have to spray for all of these weeds. It's shocking [music] because we

11:39

Speaker A

have like six inches of shell rock here and the grass still wants to grow through it.

11:50

Speaker A

All the way up there. Oh my gosh. Look at the tree. It got—it literally came all the way from the top to the bottom.

11:58

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Do you see it way up there? It came all the way down. Wow. Look at that.

12:08

Speaker A

That happened yesterday because I was here yesterday and that wasn't there. That's crazy. We had that bad storm that came through and it was a lot of lightning.

12:14

Speaker A

Look at—I mean, that goes to show you don't stand near trees during a storm.

12:24

Speaker A

Wow. I mean, I don't know how y'all can see it went all the way and it traveled all the way down to the—Wow.

12:32

Speaker A

I mean the tree, look it. It blew it off. That's from that. Yeah, this is from it, too.

12:44

Speaker A

Yeah, that had been so loud. Holy mackerel. All that's from it. Yeah. There's your tree stand.

12:47

Speaker A

Yeah, I know. Are they going to clean up this area a little bit more?

12:56

Speaker A

Yeah. Yeah. So, you'll see. See how he's stripping it right now? Wow. This is all going to be pasture.

13:03

Speaker A

So, we left all the oaks, the mature pines, and now this will all get cleaned.

13:09

Speaker A

Wow, look how smooth it looks. It's going to be a lot better than that.

13:14

Speaker A

And they put saw today. The saw is coming today. Where do they put it?

13:32

Speaker A

Around the pond. Oh, but look how much bigger the property looks now. So, when we bought this property, we were thinking like down the road one day, if the kids wanted to live by us, we would have the space for the kids.

13:41

Speaker A

This was typically a trail that goes through here. Yeah. But it was unusable. Now we have all the oaks.

13:48

Speaker A

Imagine right here. This is going to be another pond that connects to that pond.

13:57

Speaker A

Look how good that magnolia tree looks. You see how we just saved certain trees?

14:06

Speaker A

A good one. Corner pieces of the property. We have got a lot done today.

14:17

Speaker A

I mean, more than you can imagine. Honey, let's go up our stairs for the very first time.

14:31

Speaker A

They

14:36

Speaker A

Yeah, like a cluster chandelier. Wow. So, this is all getting cut back to finish it. So, like there's two more steps going this way. And then when it finishes the stairs, we're going to have a 42 in wall here, here, and then it

14:53

Speaker A

goes tall to the ceiling. Okay. So, it's going to be a solid wall, you know, not a railing.

14:58

Speaker A

This is our bathroom right here. And then your closet. Oh, where's the bathroom? Right here.

15:09

Speaker A

spent all day cleaning. Now I'm staying on top of it. Cleaning up all the junk. This is where the toilet is right there.

15:20

Speaker A

Oops. Explain to me the bathroom. Okay. So, we have our double sinks right here. This is my vanity. Watch the nails. And then it's going to be ceiling height cabinets. Hey guys, I want to explain to you that's her vanity. This is my vanity

15:40

Speaker A

right here, babe. This is the makeup vanity, like the Jupiter Farms one. My little makeup spot. And then these are the two sinks.

15:47

Speaker A

Okay, that means this this is going to be my my vanity right here. Click like if you agree, babe. It takes you That's not even a joke.

15:58

Speaker A

It takes you 2 minutes to get ready. What are you talking about? And good morning you guys.

16:04

Speaker A

Every morning they get the fire started, stoked up so they could burn all day long.

16:13

Speaker A

What he's doing right there is shaking off the root, making sure all the dirt falls on the ground and the all the all the debris goes on the fire.

16:27

Speaker A

KMA, what do you think? Yeah. He takes all that debris and puts it on top of the fire. It looks It looks like it's just smoldering, but it's super hot. That looks like it's dead and nothing. But now that one is burning.

16:51

Speaker A

That was just like that. There's so much heat trapped in these coals. That's what you call a fire.

17:02

Speaker A

Got grass. [music] Camo, are you en are are you enjoying the water? Yeah. Now we're literally going to have sod all the way around [music] the edge of the pond.

17:28

Speaker A

Next week we're going to do the same thing over there. They're going to offload the whole truck. Then he will take it away. Then they're going to spread all the sod. The sod is important because when the rain washes it out,

17:44

Speaker A

well, that's a problem. The sod keeps it from washing out. [music] [music] Hey, this is the boss right here. What's your name?

18:14

Speaker A

Eric. Eric. Yeah. What's your What's your company? Eric Shaw. Yeah. Yeah. [music] You need to come back right up here where you don't get no wash out.

18:25

Speaker A

Put something on stable ground. Really? Yeah. Camo, what do you think? They're basically saying that we have to go to to where it's flat. If it's on the hill, then it can wash out. We're trying not to have a wash out.

18:52

Speaker A

What's your name? Wayne. Wayne. Yeah. Nice to meet you. Is this your truck? Yes, sir.

18:57

Speaker A

Awesome, man. Hunt Soden, [music] [music] man. I got my boys here. What's your name?

19:17

Speaker A

Aaron. Aaron. Aaron. Knight. Dorian. Dorian. Dorian. What? Hi. Yeah. These guys are an amazing team. They came in.

19:29

Speaker A

They laid all the sod. [music] It looks absolutely perfect. We have one thing left to do, but you're going to have to wait to see it to know what they're going to do. But right there, we have one more. One more

19:44

Speaker A

secret. I'll see you there. All right, brother. See you, man. See you. Yes, sir.

19:52

Speaker A

All right. Next week, we're going to come come back and saw the other pond. So, I love good people that do good work. Now, the boys are putting on the windows and doors.

20:06

Speaker A

This is Brandon. How's it going, guys? What's up, man? Another day in paradise, [laughter] right?

20:14

Speaker A

I should have worn my jacket today. It's pretty cold out here, right? Uh hopefully you understand. He's kidding. It's about 150° out here. This is going to be our front door, our French door, and uh it's all coming

20:30

Speaker A

together. It's Saturday, and [snorts] the guys are working. Eventually, you're going to see a nice pool here, a pond, a pond, and all of the property right there. It's all coming together. Good morning, happy people.

20:50

Speaker A

This is the first pond. This is where we all started it. Now, we have the house, the other pond. We're doing the big property job. Now, it's time to make this pond perfect. We're going to use the esavator and the bulldozer. Let's do

21:07

Speaker A

it. [music] [music] There's the man right here. I had no idea exactly what you were going to do, but now I can see it. It's absolutely perfect. That's what you're looking for. That's what we want.

21:34

Speaker A

Yeah, man. You hire the right people [music] to do the right job and let them go to work.

21:44

Speaker A

[singing] [music] I've been inside editing the gator video. I came out here and I'm like, are you kidding me? They're making a burm all the way around here. They're doing such such a great job. There he is, man.

22:11

Speaker A

How you doing? What's going on? Nothing. How about you? That looks good. Looking amazing.

22:17

Speaker A

You got your pond bank now, right? You got the right shoes on. Exactly. I've been lazy today. I've been doing a bunch of work. I just went swimming in the pond across the street.

22:27

Speaker A

Oh, no way. We had to set the pump out. Is that as deep as we're going with it?

22:31

Speaker A

Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Was that enough saw to do everything over there? Yep. I haven't been out here since then.

22:36

Speaker A

Perfect. That looks really good. What do we have to do? You doing anything else to this pond? Is this it?

22:43

Speaker A

That's it. All we're going to do is just make a burm around here and shape it up.

22:48

Speaker A

What about the bat side? That side? Anything on the back? Nope. Leave it. Leave it alone.

22:54

Speaker A

It's always amazing to me when you're just walking through something that is going to be water. This pond is drained down. We're going to take all this dirt and move it. This is all called stockpiled dirt. This is all shell rock,

23:13

Speaker A

hard pan, strippins, different kinds of dirt. Now we have a dump truck, a bulldozer, and a esavator. Now he's going to use the bulldozer and create a trail all the way to the excavator. Then the dump truck can pull up here, get

23:29

Speaker A

loaded, and we can start moving all this material where we need it. Camo Well, we laid this sod on Friday.

24:04

Speaker A

Obviously, the sun has just [snorts] forged it. So, I got my trash pump and I'm starting to water. I did not think it would like wither so fast.

24:23

Speaker A

Hopefully it comes back. That would stink. Maverick, you're just getting laps in. I mean, you just What are you doing, buddy?

24:38

Speaker A

Having a good day? Yeah. As a little pup, he hated the water. Now he just swims everywhere. just just for fun. That's him.

24:51

Speaker A

So, the pump is pulling water from the pond and running it to these hoses and then Rob keeps moving these sprinkler heads around so that everything is getting nice and watered. But yes, it was like really dead a little while ago.

25:05

Speaker A

And when you spend money to have sod, the last thing you want to see is dead grass. like you can see new shoes coming coming up over time this will all become nice while he [music] does that I'm going to

25:23

Speaker A

find all the floaties because they always blow this way and then they pop [music] on me like this one the pokey weeds [music] get them and look how blue the water is thing. Like a greenish blue. Oh my gosh, this is a

25:41

Speaker A

good one. Wow, that's a new one. There is a floaty literally way [music] out there.

25:54

Speaker A

Another one over there. Feel like I just got to drive and go pick him up.

26:04

Speaker A

It's amazing that this has been underground for a couple thousand years. This area right here was a huge slew.

26:13

Speaker A

Big old trees. JT and all the guys came in here with a excavator and completely clean it up. And see this right here?

26:23

Speaker A

They used a root rake on a front unloader and that's how they piled all these things up. Now they're going to bury all of this on our fence line because a fence line is you never use that. So you can bury it, get more fill

26:42

Speaker A

and make a better job. [music] When Rob talks about getting fill in replace of all of that debris, what he means by that is they have to dig a big enough hole to fit all that. Well, when you dig a hole, you're getting all great

26:56

Speaker A

fill from the hole. Right here is a prime example of having good fill replacing bad fill because all this was all debris. And look, now we have a huge mound of really good fill. This is the hole that they pulled all the good fill

27:12

Speaker A

[music] out of and all the bad fill in. So, they're going to layer it with a nice top layer of the good fill and [music] then you can plant it. Things are going to want to grow. Then they're

27:21

Speaker A

going to take more fill over there, make this whole thing nice and level and pretty. [music] I I can't say enough about L&M. Landon McFarland and his crew have been absolutely [music] fair price and professional nice guys and they do a great job.

27:39

Speaker A

We didn't even make one lap around the property and the floaties back in the water. Duh.

27:47

Speaker A

And my friend Danny Marshall, who I went gator hunting with last week, he brought us these two paddle boards. Man, these are going to be nice. We can actually take these and put them in [music] the toy hauler and take them places.

27:58

Speaker A

Yeah, this is going to be pretty hard to show because over time this will going to be all water.

28:07

Speaker A

Those are beds. What kind of fish they are, I don't know. They look like tilapia, but they could be brim.

28:15

Speaker A

Eventually, I want to put like 10 or 15 big bass. 5 lbs and up. The big bass need something to eat. Well, you guys, I appreciate you coming here and being a part of Dear Me for Dinner in the

28:32

Speaker A

sanctuary. This is a work in progress and I'm I'm so honored that you are part of it. That area, we have a long way to go. But all the guys from L&M, Landon and his crew, thank you so [music] much.

28:51

Speaker A

this Saturday. I hope you guys are out fishing, having a good day. But everybody who's watching this video, I appreciate you for being a part of Deer Meat for Dinner. There's no way I could ever do this without you guys, but this

29:05

Speaker A

is all I got for you today. Take care. God bless. And say it, say it with me.

29:12

Speaker A

We go.

Topics: The Sanctuary Robert Arrington land clearing pond building controlled fire property renovation heavy machinery tree preservation storm damage shell rock beach


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