I watched the first few minutes, skipped through it and all bad home builders seek to build where water is poor.....in america, we have alot of under ground water, but you can easily find a dead hole, such as this fellow did.
Luckily here in Ohio, land of GREEN, my area i loaded with limestone from the ancient ocean and above or below the limestone is loaded with water...actually in my area artesian wells are not that uncommon....my neighbor has them, all around me has them, but since i live on a hill, my water is about 15-20 feet below the earth...
I have 2 water wells that produce 100 gallons of water per minute with 3hp pumps each....our house water well uses a 3/4 hp pump, but the well has produced 100 gpm when i had a 3 hp pump in it...
I run the 2 big pumps durring te summer dry months to keep the ponds full, they cost approx. $10 per day each to run.
so for $10 I get 144,000 gallons of clean wellwater from below the ancient limestone layer.
To live at a house where you get 1/2 gallon water per minute would be deadful, but many people do this or have to carry in their water in bad areas they chose to live.
wood chips?????
wood chips and leaves are "acidic" and acid loving plants like it, while grass basically dies.....so the video is correct in that dead grass makes for better grass, but put down those acid wood chips and grass dies out.
Thanks to local power companies and wood cutters, there are trucks searching to dump for free their massive loads of wood chips....i had probably 50 such loads a few years ago making a mountain of wood chips.......my black berries and trees love this stuff as long as it stays low...if you pile it up around a tree, it kills the tree, even 60 foot tall trees die quickly if you pile these acid chips up around them choking them off with acid waste.
I am a believer in wood chips, the video makes me wish i had a large wood chipper that you feed a tree into and bam, comes out as chips...
think of this:
Medical proved back in 1850's that trees are made of AIR and they actually in a lab created wood from nothing but AIR........
They proved a red wood tree has zero dirt inside and that every tree is made from AIR...
ALL LIFE is really made from AIR, we all are BREATHAIRIANS........take a tree and put inside your car and roll up the windows in the summer time, a tree can die within a few minutes as it uses up the air and smothers to death just as fast as a human would.
So wood chips are what? Solidified air..
Some wood chips are TOXIC to certain animals, such asblack walnut the de-wormer tree....put black walnut chips in a horse stall or chicken coop and they will be killed by the wood chips....
Take certain dead evergreen chips and a cow will eat them and drop over dead.
Goats will die so fast you will wonder what happened...
Farmers I assume avoided dead wood because they chose to raise animals and grass (corn) type stuff.
As for me, I have no problem with putting dead wood into the ground, wish I had more...ayone got a diesel powered wood shipper for sale!!!
MH