Had a road give way under my vehicle next to a cliff. Had to hire a backhoe to dig in from the other side, and pull me through. The operator was so good, I could have sworn he was conceived in the thing.
This brings back memories. We built 30 years ago in Texas on a lot that had terrible percolation. The city made us put in a drainage field with 2500 feet of lateral line (5 bedrooms with 7 kids). I am glad they did. The system was strained only a couple times during the years (during excessive spring rains). About 15 years after we built, the city put in a sewer system but we passed on hooking up. We paid a fortune (for us at the time) for that septic system and I was determined to get my money's worth.
My uncle Pete used to install septic systems. Uncle Pete was not a pleasant person nearly my whole life - he wouldn't talk to any of us and always made us feel unwelcome. Then he got lung cancer a decade ago and he knew he was going to die. The last 6 months or so of his life he was wonderful. He was always around, he was interested in hearing about our lives, and he spent as much time with us as he could. This video made me thing of him. Rest in peace, Uncle Pete.
Wow, I just spent 6 months in Roseburg building a 25,000 SQ ft home on a mountain. I love Roseburg and the surrounding area!!! Drove all the way from Texas to build it. Was my first time in the Pacific Northwest and have visited more places there than I've been in my home state.
Place is off of Bank Road headed to Glide. They have a wedding venue at the lower end of the mountain, which is the only reason I mention where this place is, so if ya need to get married. Oddly enough you drive by Orenco, which I used to wonder every day what that place was. You can also see the house from the interstate right as you hit the Sutherlin city limit sign headed to Roseburg. Place is amazing. I've been fortunate to have built many 10,000+ sq ft homes in the past 30 years but this is the biggest house with the nicest location.
@@horatiohornblower868 The money was to good. Especially after being out of work for so long due to COVID-19. I've worked music festivals for the last 15 years trying to transition out of framing because, as you've said, it's just to dang hot. That and I'm getting old. Pandemic ended festivals so pulled the tool bags out a little earlier than usual this last year.
Woke up this morning, checked my email, got my coffee, and am watching a septic tank replacement video from Essential Craftsman. This weekend is off to a good start.
Another great video! Replaced our failing steel tank about 15 years ago and it is interesting to see how the technology has progressed. We were fortunate to have a gravity feed since we line on a hill. You have a great group of contractors working with you.
I have had to install 8 septic systems over my life. 2 of these I installed here in Chile. 4,000 liters each. Love your video on this. I had no inspections or permit needed here. Jim in Chile.
70 years old? I’m surprised it didn’t have a cess pool instead. I’m a plumber and when I worked in a small town we did quite a few septic tanks. Now that I’m in a city they have contractors that only do septic systems. I haven’t done one in almost 20 years. We had issues with them. Though it’s a different situation where I was. It was west Texas so the dirt was very sandy and loose. Critters would get inside the panels and less things up. We started putting netting around them to keep them out. I left before I learned whether that actually worked or not. An interesting septic tank story. We got in with a welder who started building metal framed hunting cabins by a big lake in west Texas. He had a septic guy do the tanks. One day we were working on the rough when they were digging the hole. They hit bedrock. They had a way to break it a little faster than a breaker attachment. They had dug about 5’ when they hit rock. They then drilled a bunch of holes in the rock, stuffed it with TNT and then filled the whole hole back in. We had to stop working to get a safe distance while they blasted but when they did every bit of dirt in the hole collectively went up about 6’ in the air and back down. Then they just dig it out. They dig probably a 10’ x 10’ hole through about 2’ of solid rock in a few hours.
I moved to Midland from Colorado about 2 years ago. People are debating what the boundaries of West Texas are. People disagree whether Lubbock and San Angelo are in and some even said El Paso is not in, because it has a different culture, and it's not what they're talking about when they say west Texas.
@@countysecession I live in Austin and I’m from a small town between Abilene and San Angelo. I always considered west Texas to start when the terrain changed from hilly to flat which is around Brady or mason depending on your route. I’ve had people tell me Sam Angelo isn’t west Texas but I’m almost 40 and they’ve been called west Texas since I can remember. I have heard the El Paso thing. It’s like the put everything west of the Pecos in its own category. However El peso is as west Texas as you can get. I count Lubbock but separate Amarillo as being the panhandle. I always defined west Texas as a combo of location, climate, and terrain. It has to be west of Brady because that’s the heart (center) of Texas, it has to be flat, dry, and windy.
The excavator company needs their own YT channel. They don't even need narration, just digging underneath pipes, or skootching the slab of concrete away from the house before tenderly picking it up and depositing on the pile. Totally entrancing!
I bought a house built in the 50's 5 years ago. It was a dream of mine to own my house out right asap because I had never owned anything. I've already paid it off. It's a fixer/upper, I've done 90 % of the work myself. When I bought it they told me it had a septic tank which I don't remember even caring about...today I love the fact that it does. I pay 10 bucks a month on my water bill. In my book, that's a win. One day I'll have little ones and I hope they love this project as much as I have and that they keep it in the fam when I'm gone. Next up, I'm looking into solar panels. I'm trying to be off the grid and as independent as possible.
My city (in NZ) has old sewer lines at capacity, with sewerage overflowing down streets becoming increasingly common. They won't even allow new houses to connect to the city sewers (so you can't build a house). We'd love septic systems but there always isn't the space or soil conditions - city sewer lines cost A LOT to maintain and process the waste.
This "repair/replacement" was way to much! If the percolation test forced the move of only the drain lines not the tank? NEVER used a power pump if you don't "HAVE" too!
Sir, your videos are a free 'how to' course on many trades, hard and honest work, on video making, on attitude toward people and tools and machines (you always praise people around you). However I think I am more hooked up by your excellent articulation. Thank you, sir.
I had a similar system installed last year in the pacific northwest. Quite a lot of labor and expense. Makes you appreciate the ease of city sewer hookup. 😊
As a sewage enforcement officer for septic in Pa, you do a good job at presenting the information. In the d-box you can add speed levers so if the box settles (it will) you can make sure all laterals are equally dosed. Also you should pull and hose down the effluent filter once a year.
Principals are everywhere the same ;-) this is why we love them, this is why we understand each other wherever we live, all the best from Poland Mr. Scott! Lost my granddads when I was like 5-7, lost my father when I was 20, now I'm 35 and wishing you were anywhere close so I could listen and learn :-) all I got is EC and EC2 so I take it all :-)))) Grats for 1 MIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am here since, I recon, 200k subs so been a while ;-)
Man oh man, I can recall when I was just a young boy and my dad had to finally replace the septic tank on our house, but the one memory from that, strongest of all.. Was him telling us not to climb on the big pile of dirt they had dug out of the ground! What a bummer for us kids, but looking back, who knows all the nasty crud that was mixed in that soil!
Enjoyed this because it brought back memories. When I was 10 my parents bought a shore home, it was a converted summer house built in the 1930's on the Chesapeake Bay. The septic system was inadequate to say the least. Then later on I built a house in the Shenandoah Valley and installed a septic system, it was a gravity type. It works fine even though the installer put the tank in backwards, I discovered this 20 years later while pumping it out, during normal maintenance.
I have to get a new system and I’m going through the permitting/grant process. Because my lot is small, and in the Chesapeake Bay critical watershed, I have to get a drywell and an aerobic septic tank. I hate to think of the cost. Thank God for the Bay Restoration Fund.
Have done a lot of septic systems, one thing we always did was to fill the tank with water in a chance of rain . Concrete tanks are heavy but they will float if the hole gets filled with water ,
Was thinking this and also thought it was odd that this was only a two chamber tank and the spray pump was in the second part. I also wasn't a big fan of that clunky filter assembly I can just imagine laying on my belly pulling that big piece of junk out to check something. Now imagine doing that 5-10x a day. No thanks. Here in MS the main tank is two compartments then it goes to the final chamber which we call the "spray tank" its either in the same tank just a third compartment or another smaller tank where it either gets sprayed out in sprinklers or distributed to drip lines like this one. With an overland it just goes out of the end of the treatment system in 4" sched 40 to wherever is specified by the health department.
@@Therealtimshady97 In Arkansas the typical tank we install is just a single compartment tank. A two compartment tank is only used for pumping. A three compartment tank is only for an Areobic system. Im a manufacturer of tanks in my area.
Congratulations on reaching 1 million subs. Highly deserving. Canadian that would love to visit but travel restrictions in the past prevented it and moving to Costa Rica next week so likely hard to happen in the future. Will always watch. Enjoy your summer
I used to deliver and set septic tanks in rural Colorado. Most of the lots sloped down from the road. By the time I arrived the customer had everything excavated, a pit for the tank, leach field, and trenches for the lines so all I needed to do was set the tank. Well sometimes they would get a rainstorm before they got the tank backfilled and the rainwater would run off the roof into the trench and into the tank pit, filling it up and floating the tank. Yes, hard to believe, but concrete will float.
Concrete is lighter than aluminum (yes really, look up the densities), and aluminum boats float if they displace enough water. A big hollow box is no different than a boat.
@@MattsAwesomeStuff It's possible to make a lead boat float, it's just gonna sit really low in the water. You know those boats you might have made as a kid out of aluminum foil? Well they'd probably work just as well made out of lead foil, and yes you can get lead foil.
Yeah we use concrete parking curbs with cable ran over the top of the tank and then through two curbs on each side of the tank and 3 cable clamps On each end of each side of the curbs to hold the cable tight and then the backfill over the curbs holds the tanks Down from floating.
I have an Orenco system that sat in an aux septic tank in my side yard for 16 years, unused, underwater. I needed it awhile back so plugged it in and it worked fine!! Good stuff!
The guy doing the digging is a master of his craft. Last week I saw one of those being used by a kid who ... was not (he was just using it to compact the contents of a dumpster, so he didn't mess anything up, it was just funny watching the jerky movements and pauses while he remembered which handle did what).
I had learned, and became somewhat comfortable, to be at least somewhat productive on a mini excavator by using the Backhoe operation option. One day I tried the Excavator settings, and looked like I came straight from the special olympics trying to run that thing
Dang I didn’t catch that. Had a scaffolding fall similar to that. I was “THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL SCAFFOLDING SO DONT F%#K IT UP.” So with confidence it was right, I was walking a corner section and sure enough the other hod carrier moved some boards and didn’t take the time to get it proper so I went belly down on whatever else was there with my butt clenched. 😳
@@devinmahoney3777 mine was a missed step across two rafters on a rehab in Kentucky. Was lucky enough to throw my arms out and catch the rafters under my armpits. Clenched so tight I could have made a diamond from coal.
I can tell how you feel about the work of the excavator operator because it's the same way I feel - damn impressed. I saw him tiptoeing that bucket around the waste pipes and sprinkler lines, excellent precision work! I've been on job sites where the excavators either just don't care and end up tearing stuff up because they don't pay attention or they're so terrible that you have to go in by hand to correct everything with a shovel. Very few rise to the level of an artist like this operator.
In 1965 the family and I installed a septic system that was pored in place 12 miles east of Roseburg on Highway 138. Had it inspected twice, 1500 gallon 2 chamber. Hope it is still working as well as it did for the 25 years I lived there.
That's a nice soft ground and flat area. For those of us in hills, we can do a cross over leach field (top fills first then overflows into the lower one) or do a distribution box like what was installed here. Of course depends on what your county/city requires.
Another great video. 8 yrs ago I did this by myself. It was a great learning experience as that was the first time I ran an escavator. Eight years later and many winters at -30 deg c with no freezing I'm happy as a pig in brown water.
Back in the late 70s the church my family attended tried to get a permit to build a new church. The town health department figured the size of the septic system on the maximum building occupancy of 140 persons all using the toilets every day. Plans were put on hold. A few years later we had a new pastor, who having worked with the state of Maine, knew a bit about dealing with bureaucracies. He did a study of water usage by churches of a similar size to what we proposed to build and got a much smaller system approved.
The minister had pastored a small church in New Sweden, and also had a job with the State department of corrections. Our church was in southwest CT, where nobody wants you to build anything without crossing every t and dotting every i, as well as jumping through hoops
Been through this just last December. Had to replace a 30 year old system. Went with a PVC tank. It's funny how similar we do things down here in Patagonia. Greetings friends!
Nice job, I see why you use them. Very neat work, the time of year really was perfect. They didn’t have to contend with any mud, didn’t leave huge tracks everywhere. It looks like the only thing you had to do when they left was spread some grass seed around and wait for some rain. Just more of keeping up the good work!
You guys continue to teach us you tubers so much about things that enhance our brains. Every episode is full of knowledge. Thank you for your work, always.
Congratulations, you almost guaranteed yourself that the state will be putting in city sewer within the year now that you put that new system in. Happened to the best of us.
Grandma and Grandpa had the outhouse in the backyard and the well in the front yard. Apparently killed them when they were in their late eighties. Hog lot was probably too close to the house. P.S. Septic guys rarely bite their fingernails.
Great video. When we abandoned a concrete septic tank, the county made us punch big holes in the bottom using some kind of major pneumatic hammer on a backhoe, then fill it with soil.
I do certainly appreciate this video as I have just had to replace my pump float switch on my sand filter septic system. A stinky job! Many thanks to the pros in my area of Oregon!
We live in rural interior Alaska. Our septic tank was steel and lasted 40 years...we had it replaced with a plastic septic tank and lines 4 years ago. That steel tank looked like it had been shot with buckshot....plastic tank will not rust out. The contractor used a backhoe and replaced the plastic tank in the same hole as the old steel tank. He then dug a hole and buried the crushed steel tank in that hole...we live in the Alaska wilderness.
Those guys from Reynolds should start up a youtube channel. Their guys seem like they're comfortable around the camera, and more importantly, they're good at what they're doing. Brain really knows his stuff and it shows. I bet they work on all sorts of cool projects that would be entertaining to watch.
@@MrEazyE357 from the video description - "If you live in Southern Oregon and are looking for an excavation contractor, I can not recommend Brian Reynolds highly enough."
God this is such a perfectly well made video here. I have been siting here watching these videos for hours. I skipped breakfast to learn about all these septic systems. My best friend is my computer, no longer my dog.
As a carpenter I love these types of videos, getting a glimpse of all the invisible, but important stuff, even though it’s probably a little different here in Denmark.. As a guitarist, that outro piece was simply amazing, who is that? Thanks for sharing your wisdom
EC , u make everything enjoyable to watch especially with your narration and knowledge, am constantly finding myself wanting the video Not to end, so thank u for the Edutainment.
Good thing that steel tank is gone. There have been plenty of instances where they have failed and people (especially kids) have fallen in and drowned. You got lucky that your soil percolated well. I had one system that the drain fields were 12 ft deep before they hit sand. That bio tube thing is a great invention and using a pump like that is awesome.
Pick up my septic tank tomorrow, i have a 2 Bedroom was built in 60s but it had a septic tank just came out of the ground a little wasn't completely barred but close, but has big crack down back of it, has everything else of course, so i need replace it i would say if i had to guess was a 750 or 1000 gallon tank replacing it with 1,250 gallon plastic tank cant wait to install it finally move in
Great video. Thanks for sharing. One thing I'd like to add is concerning Perk Test. Most places require a Perk Test to see how fast the effluent in the leach field drains through the soil. Where I live the soil is too sandy and rocky. My perk test drained too fast, so we had to add material to slow down the absorption so the effluent can filter properly though the soil. I hope that's clear as mud. 😁
Nice to have easy digging, to get a septic tank in the ground around here is rock hammering or blasting a hole, leach fields are mound systems. Some places you can get away with a gravity system but most places now are sand mound. Its easy 30,000 dollars for a new septic system.
This is hilarious! In rural Australia, we drop a concrete septic into the ground. We connect it to the house sewerage pipe (not the kitchen or laundry water). The tank starts filling with sh1t and p1ss. We throw a dead cat, possum or wallaby into the tank to start the bacterial reaction. The waste water then runs through the drain channels and into the ground. No plastic parts, ball floats and electrical cables and components to go wrong. The system then lasts for 100 years.
I used to live in a house with an aerobic septic system - it had the normal tank, but instead of a soakage field it had a second tank split into chambers filled with baffles through which air would be pumped to provide oxygen for bacteria to grow on them and digest the nutrients. When the effluent flowed into the last chamber it would be pumped out into the garden irrigation system with a bit of chlorine injected into it on its way out. That house always had a lush green lawn during the long, hot and dry summers (subsurface drip) but we had to be careful about the sorts of cleaning products we used in the house so as to not kill off the bacteria.
My home was built in 1904 and we still use the original septic system, though I had to do some repairs to it 20 years ago. One thing we do not do is flush toilet paper into the septic. That way we do not have to pump it out every 3-5 years. it's been 14 years since the last time it was cleaned out and works fine.
Cool video! Brian, Dexter, Dewey and Zack just did the septic system at our home under construction. We also did the same system with the two compartment tank and pumped Orenco system. They do excellent work!
@Andy Maxwell that's only true in the spring where the heat melts the snow and warms the soil, by the summer the patch over the septic is too warm and it's the first place to go brown, at least at my house. I do appreciate the reference I remember the book on my parents bookshelf when I was growing up.
Thank god for all that progress and bureaucracy they added. Just think that steel tank they threw in the ground only last 7 decades and performed without issue. Now when one of the 17 electric pumps or actuators fails in the next 3 years and floods your yard with poop you'll remember how far we've come and thank them so much.
I like the old way with the ABS perforated 4" pipe and 1 1/2 limestone gravel., more work but doesn't take electricity to work and no filter to replace...I've put in about 50 septic systems the old way and haven't had any problems... The last one I put in was 22 years ago in the house I'm living in now...No problems so far..no filter changes or $500 water pumps to replace.
Hello friends so grateful for the content you've provided us over the years. I've thoroughly enjoyed every video. Great camera work on this one. Thanks for all you do
It is always interesting to watch a skilled excavator operator at work. The equipment is an extension of the operator's arms and legs.
Go check out a channel called “Hedblom” if you want your mind blown by a skilled operator.
Had a road give way under my vehicle next to a cliff. Had to hire a backhoe to dig in from the other side, and pull me through. The operator was so good, I could have sworn he was conceived in the thing.
Camera work is outstanding on this video. Well done to everyone at EC!
This brings back memories. We built 30 years ago in Texas on a lot that had terrible percolation. The city made us put in a drainage field with 2500 feet of lateral line (5 bedrooms with 7 kids). I am glad they did. The system was strained only a couple times during the years (during excessive spring rains). About 15 years after we built, the city put in a sewer system but we passed on hooking up. We paid a fortune (for us at the time) for that septic system and I was determined to get my money's worth.
My uncle Pete used to install septic systems. Uncle Pete was not a pleasant person nearly my whole life - he wouldn't talk to any of us and always made us feel unwelcome. Then he got lung cancer a decade ago and he knew he was going to die. The last 6 months or so of his life he was wonderful. He was always around, he was interested in hearing about our lives, and he spent as much time with us as he could. This video made me thing of him. Rest in peace, Uncle Pete.
Wow, I just spent 6 months in Roseburg building a 25,000 SQ ft home on a mountain. I love Roseburg and the surrounding area!!!
Drove all the way from Texas to build it. Was my first time in the Pacific Northwest and have visited more places there than I've been in my home state.
Wow I would love to see that house!
Place is off of Bank Road headed to Glide. They have a wedding venue at the lower end of the mountain, which is the only reason I mention where this place is, so if ya need to get married. Oddly enough you drive by Orenco, which I used to wonder every day what that place was. You can also see the house from the interstate right as you hit the Sutherlin city limit sign headed to Roseburg. Place is amazing. I've been fortunate to have built many 10,000+ sq ft homes in the past 30 years but this is the biggest house with the nicest location.
Normally people use to move from the cold north to the warm south. Was it too hot in the lone star state?
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The money was to good. Especially after being out of work for so long due to COVID-19. I've worked music festivals for the last 15 years trying to transition out of framing because, as you've said, it's just to dang hot. That and I'm getting old. Pandemic ended festivals so pulled the tool bags out a little earlier than usual this last year.
Jerrell Bevers You certainly made the right decision. If I had the means I wouldn't hesitate to move to Oregon.
Woke up this morning, checked my email, got my coffee, and am watching a septic tank replacement video from Essential Craftsman. This weekend is off to a good start.
Never thought watching a septic tank go in would be so entertaining
Watching knowledgeable people do their jobs really well is always entertaining!
It's the excavator
You just gave me a great idea
good shit to watch
Another great video!
Replaced our failing steel tank about 15 years ago and it is interesting to see how the technology has progressed. We were fortunate to have a gravity feed since we line on a hill. You have a great group of contractors working with you.
I have had to install 8 septic systems over my life. 2 of these I installed here in Chile. 4,000 liters each. Love your video on this. I had no inspections or permit needed here. Jim in Chile.
70 years old? I’m surprised it didn’t have a cess pool instead. I’m a plumber and when I worked in a small town we did quite a few septic tanks. Now that I’m in a city they have contractors that only do septic systems. I haven’t done one in almost 20 years. We had issues with them. Though it’s a different situation where I was. It was west Texas so the dirt was very sandy and loose. Critters would get inside the panels and less things up. We started putting netting around them to keep them out. I left before I learned whether that actually worked or not.
An interesting septic tank story. We got in with a welder who started building metal framed hunting cabins by a big lake in west Texas. He had a septic guy do the tanks. One day we were working on the rough when they were digging the hole. They hit bedrock. They had a way to break it a little faster than a breaker attachment. They had dug about 5’ when they hit rock. They then drilled a bunch of holes in the rock, stuffed it with TNT and then filled the whole hole back in. We had to stop working to get a safe distance while they blasted but when they did every bit of dirt in the hole collectively went up about 6’ in the air and back down. Then they just dig it out. They dig probably a 10’ x 10’ hole through about 2’ of solid rock in a few hours.
I moved to Midland from Colorado about 2 years ago. People are debating what the boundaries of West Texas are. People disagree whether Lubbock and San Angelo are in and some even said El Paso is not in, because it has a different culture, and it's not what they're talking about when they say west Texas.
@@countysecession I live in Austin and I’m from a small town between Abilene and San Angelo. I always considered west Texas to start when the terrain changed from hilly to flat which is around Brady or mason depending on your route. I’ve had people tell me Sam Angelo isn’t west Texas but I’m almost 40 and they’ve been called west Texas since I can remember. I have heard the El Paso thing. It’s like the put everything west of the Pecos in its own category. However El peso is as west Texas as you can get. I count Lubbock but separate Amarillo as being the panhandle. I always defined west Texas as a combo of location, climate, and terrain. It has to be west of Brady because that’s the heart (center) of Texas, it has to be flat, dry, and windy.
The excavator company needs their own YT channel. They don't even need narration, just digging underneath pipes, or skootching the slab of concrete away from the house before tenderly picking it up and depositing on the pile. Totally entrancing!
I bought a house built in the 50's 5 years ago. It was a dream of mine to own my house out right asap because I had never owned anything. I've already paid it off. It's a fixer/upper, I've done 90 % of the work myself. When I bought it they told me it had a septic tank which I don't remember even caring about...today I love the fact that it does. I pay 10 bucks a month on my water bill. In my book, that's a win.
One day I'll have little ones and I hope they love this project as much as I have and that they keep it in the fam when I'm gone.
Next up, I'm looking into solar panels. I'm trying to be off the grid and as independent as possible.
It’s always a great pleasure watching (and listening) to professionals that really know what they’re doing!
This video was enough to make me glad I'm hooked up to the city sewer line.
My city (in NZ) has old sewer lines at capacity, with sewerage overflowing down streets becoming increasingly common. They won't even allow new houses to connect to the city sewers (so you can't build a house). We'd love septic systems but there always isn't the space or soil conditions - city sewer lines cost A LOT to maintain and process the waste.
This "repair/replacement" was way to much! If the percolation test forced the move of only the drain lines not the tank? NEVER used a power pump if you don't "HAVE" too!
@@brada1803 i don’t understand why they couldn’t have engineered a design without a pump
@@brada1803 that pump is going to be a pain in the ass for the next 100 years
@@packers45678, I thought he said the tank was too low ?
Honestly, I dont think there's another chanel that has such great music. Between the narration and the music, it feels so comforting.
Good to see you had a little supervisor. I’m always loved watched work happens when I was a kid.
Sir, your videos are a free 'how to' course on many trades, hard and honest work, on video making, on attitude toward people and tools and machines (you always praise people around you).
However I think I am more hooked up by your excellent articulation.
Thank you, sir.
I had a similar system installed last year in the pacific northwest. Quite a lot of labor and expense. Makes you appreciate the ease of city sewer hookup. 😊
It's really impressive how such big machines can be so precise.
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As a sewage enforcement officer for septic in Pa, you do a good job at presenting the information. In the d-box you can add speed levers so if the box settles (it will) you can make sure all laterals are equally dosed. Also you should pull and hose down the effluent filter once a year.
Principals are everywhere the same ;-) this is why we love them, this is why we understand each other wherever we live, all the best from Poland Mr. Scott!
Lost my granddads when I was like 5-7, lost my father when I was 20, now I'm 35 and wishing you were anywhere close so I could listen and learn :-) all I got is EC and EC2 so I take it all :-))))
Grats for 1 MIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am here since, I recon, 200k subs so been a while ;-)
Man oh man, I can recall when I was just a young boy and my dad had to finally replace the septic tank on our house, but the one memory from that, strongest of all.. Was him telling us not to climb on the big pile of dirt they had dug out of the ground! What a bummer for us kids, but looking back, who knows all the nasty crud that was mixed in that soil!
Enjoyed this because it brought back memories. When I was 10 my parents bought a shore home, it was a converted summer house built in the 1930's on the Chesapeake Bay. The septic system was inadequate to say the least. Then later on I built a house in the Shenandoah Valley and installed a septic system, it was a gravity type. It works fine even though the installer put the tank in backwards, I discovered this 20 years later while pumping it out, during normal maintenance.
It's amazing, the amount of knowledge involved in doing what most people think are simple jobs.
I have to get a new system and I’m going through the permitting/grant process. Because my lot is small, and in the Chesapeake Bay critical watershed, I have to get a drywell and an aerobic septic tank. I hate to think of the cost. Thank God for the Bay Restoration Fund.
Have done a lot of septic systems, one thing we always did was to fill the tank with water in a chance of rain . Concrete tanks are heavy but they will float if the hole gets filled with water ,
Was thinking this and also thought it was odd that this was only a two chamber tank and the spray pump was in the second part. I also wasn't a big fan of that clunky filter assembly I can just imagine laying on my belly pulling that big piece of junk out to check something. Now imagine doing that 5-10x a day. No thanks. Here in MS the main tank is two compartments then it goes to the final chamber which we call the "spray tank" its either in the same tank just a third compartment or another smaller tank where it either gets sprayed out in sprinklers or distributed to drip lines like this one. With an overland it just goes out of the end of the treatment system in 4" sched 40 to wherever is specified by the health department.
@@Therealtimshady97 In Arkansas the typical tank we install is just a single compartment tank. A two compartment tank is only used for pumping. A three compartment tank is only for an Areobic system. Im a manufacturer of tanks in my area.
@@travismitchell5383 So yall mostly install non aerobic septic tanks. That's odd here in MS 99% of new installs are ATS spray.
@@Therealtimshady97 In Arkansas it’s not legal for spray irrigation
@@Therealtimshady97 there gonna be different type of pumps everywhere but yes I agree this plastic looks like garbage
Congratulations on reaching 1 million subs. Highly deserving. Canadian that would love to visit but travel restrictions in the past prevented it and moving to Costa Rica next week so likely hard to happen in the future. Will always watch. Enjoy your summer
I used to deliver and set septic tanks in rural Colorado. Most of the lots sloped down from the road. By the time I arrived the customer had everything excavated, a pit for the tank, leach field, and trenches for the lines so all I needed to do was set the tank. Well sometimes they would get a rainstorm before they got the tank backfilled and the rainwater would run off the roof into the trench and into the tank pit, filling it up and floating the tank. Yes, hard to believe, but concrete will float.
Concrete is lighter than aluminum (yes really, look up the densities), and aluminum boats float if they displace enough water. A big hollow box is no different than a boat.
@@MattsAwesomeStuff It's possible to make a lead boat float, it's just gonna sit really low in the water. You know those boats you might have made as a kid out of aluminum foil? Well they'd probably work just as well made out of lead foil, and yes you can get lead foil.
@@MattsAwesomeStuff down at Cal Poly San Louis Obispo, they have an annual concrete canoe race ( engineering class builds and is graded on them)
Yeah we use concrete parking curbs with cable ran over the top of the tank and then through two curbs on each side of the tank and 3 cable clamps On each end of each side of the curbs to hold the cable tight and then the backfill over the curbs holds the tanks Down from floating.
Some ships were made of concrete. Called Ferrocement.
I have an Orenco system that sat
in an aux septic tank in my side yard for 16 years, unused, underwater. I needed it awhile back so plugged it in and it worked fine!! Good stuff!
Kids made the show and someday the kids will watch the show again for fun and remember all the work daddy done.
The guy doing the digging is a master of his craft. Last week I saw one of those being used by a kid who ... was not (he was just using it to compact the contents of a dumpster, so he didn't mess anything up, it was just funny watching the jerky movements and pauses while he remembered which handle did what).
Its a way to learn. We all have to start somewhere. At least he’s actually using it.
I still do some of those jerky moves with the excavators.
But, Hey, I'm learning. Eventually I'll get there.
I had learned, and became somewhat comfortable, to be at least somewhat productive on a mini excavator by using the Backhoe operation option. One day I tried the Excavator settings, and looked like I came straight from the special olympics trying to run that thing
@@poopsk8s it's like flying a helicopter, with all the sticks and pedals, innit? But at least the digger isn't constantly trying to kill you.
Heads up catch there at the 1:16 mark. Had something like that happen to me once. Wakes you up faster than coffee.
Should really be like 1:14 for the viewer, but holy shit! That could have been bad! Nice save Nate!
Lucky guy! That could’ve been really bad!
Dang I didn’t catch that. Had a scaffolding fall similar to that. I was “THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL SCAFFOLDING SO DONT F%#K IT UP.” So with confidence it was right, I was walking a corner section and sure enough the other hod carrier moved some boards and didn’t take the time to get it proper so I went belly down on whatever else was there with my butt clenched. 😳
@@devinmahoney3777 mine was a missed step across two rafters on a rehab in Kentucky. Was lucky enough to throw my arms out and catch the rafters under my armpits. Clenched so tight I could have made a diamond from coal.
Always a pleasure to watch a skilled excavator operator
I can tell how you feel about the work of the excavator operator because it's the same way I feel - damn impressed. I saw him tiptoeing that bucket around the waste pipes and sprinkler lines, excellent precision work! I've been on job sites where the excavators either just don't care and end up tearing stuff up because they don't pay attention or they're so terrible that you have to go in by hand to correct everything with a shovel. Very few rise to the level of an artist like this operator.
Never seen a septic spread out that far for such a small property. Nice work guys.
Incredible video. Just finished watching from start to finish with my 3 year old daughter at my side. She was fascinated, as was I. One of EC's best!
I love watching fellow tradesman do what they do best , good stuff !
It's so nice to see a skilled excavator operator doing his/her thing. Almost puts you in a meditative state.
In 1965 the family and I installed a septic system that was pored in place 12 miles east of Roseburg on Highway 138. Had it inspected twice, 1500 gallon 2 chamber. Hope it is still working as well as it did for the 25 years I lived there.
One of the best parts of this video was watching the excavator operator scrape off the topsoil into a nice roll. He's really good.
That operator is one with his machine. Love it!
That's a nice soft ground and flat area. For those of us in hills, we can do a cross over leach field (top fills first then overflows into the lower one) or do a distribution box like what was installed here. Of course depends on what your county/city requires.
Good description. Every time a question came to mind, you provided an answer. My tank is only about 30' from the house, so we can use gravity.
Another great video. 8 yrs ago I did this by myself. It was a great learning experience as that was the first time I ran an escavator. Eight years later and many winters at -30 deg c with no freezing I'm happy as a pig in brown water.
The leach field is not below the frost line, but effluent doesn' freeze in winter~~~~ amazing system TY.
Back in the late 70s the church my family attended tried to get a permit to build a new church. The town health department figured the size of the septic system on the maximum building occupancy of 140 persons all using the toilets every day. Plans were put on hold. A few years later we had a new pastor, who having worked with the state of Maine, knew a bit about dealing with bureaucracies. He did a study of water usage by churches of a similar size to what we proposed to build and got a much smaller system approved.
thought in maine,anything flew....maybe outhouse...LOL....got married in houlton...
The minister had pastored a small church in New Sweden, and also had a job with the State department of corrections. Our church was in southwest CT, where nobody wants you to build anything without crossing every t and dotting every i, as well as jumping through hoops
Love the kids in the window watching, I would be right there alongside them .
I would seriously buy an Essential Craftsman bumper sticker.
Been through this just last December. Had to replace a 30 year old system. Went with a PVC tank. It's funny how similar we do things down here in Patagonia. Greetings friends!
What a gift to know such a talented and caring crew.
Nice job, I see why you use them. Very neat work, the time of year really was perfect. They didn’t have to contend with any mud, didn’t leave huge tracks everywhere. It looks like the only thing you had to do when they left was spread some grass seed around and wait for some rain.
Just more of keeping up the good work!
These people sure know what they are doing, which is essential with drainage and sewage. Great work!
You guys continue to teach us you tubers so much about things that enhance our brains. Every episode is full of knowledge. Thank you for your work, always.
Congratulations, you almost guaranteed yourself that the state will be putting in city sewer within the year now that you put that new system in. Happened to the best of us.
Grandma and Grandpa had the outhouse in the backyard and the well in the front yard. Apparently killed them when they were in their late eighties. Hog lot was probably too close to the house. P.S. Septic guys rarely bite their fingernails.
late 80s, thats old age they died from.
Congrats on 1 million
Great video. When we abandoned a concrete septic tank, the county made us punch big holes in the bottom using some kind of major pneumatic hammer on a backhoe, then fill it with soil.
I do certainly appreciate this video as I have just had to replace my pump float switch on my sand filter septic system. A stinky job! Many thanks to the pros in my area of Oregon!
As me being an apprentice plumber I greatly respect your videos
We live in rural interior Alaska. Our septic tank was steel and lasted 40 years...we had it replaced with a plastic septic tank and lines 4 years ago. That steel tank looked like it had been shot with buckshot....plastic tank will not rust out. The contractor used a backhoe and replaced the plastic tank in the same hole as the old steel tank. He then dug a hole and buried the crushed steel tank in that hole...we live in the Alaska wilderness.
Those guys from Reynolds should start up a youtube channel. Their guys seem like they're comfortable around the camera, and more importantly, they're good at what they're doing. Brain really knows his stuff and it shows. I bet they work on all sorts of cool projects that would be entertaining to watch.
Brain?
@@MrEazyE357 from the video description - "If you live in Southern Oregon and are looking for an excavation contractor, I can not recommend Brian Reynolds highly enough."
I'm so glad I discovered you guys a couple of years ago... "Keep up the good work."
God this is such a perfectly well made video here. I have been siting here watching these videos for hours. I skipped breakfast to learn about all these septic systems. My best friend is my computer, no longer my dog.
As a carpenter I love these types of videos, getting a glimpse of all the invisible, but important stuff, even though it’s probably a little different here in Denmark..
As a guitarist, that outro piece was simply amazing, who is that? Thanks for sharing your wisdom
Essential craftman and your laudable team thanks for sharing the video sir, may your creativity keep making our World a cleaner place
EC , u make everything enjoyable to watch especially with your narration and knowledge, am constantly finding myself wanting the video Not to end, so thank u for the Edutainment.
Good thing that steel tank is gone. There have been plenty of instances where they have failed and people (especially kids) have fallen in and drowned. You got lucky that your soil percolated well. I had one system that the drain fields were 12 ft deep before they hit sand. That bio tube thing is a great invention and using a pump like that is awesome.
Pick up my septic tank tomorrow, i have a 2 Bedroom was built in 60s but it had a septic tank just came out of the ground a little wasn't completely barred but close, but has big crack down back of it, has everything else of course, so i need replace it i would say if i had to guess was a 750 or 1000 gallon tank replacing it with 1,250 gallon plastic tank cant wait to install it finally move in
I always love your choice of music!
Real men at work. Bravo
Great video. Thanks for sharing. One thing I'd like to add is concerning Perk Test. Most places require a Perk Test to see how fast the effluent in the leach field drains through the soil. Where I live the soil is too sandy and rocky. My perk test drained too fast, so we had to add material to slow down the absorption so the effluent can filter properly though the soil. I hope that's clear as mud. 😁
Nice to have easy digging, to get a septic tank in the ground around here is rock hammering or blasting a hole, leach fields are mound systems. Some places you can get away with a gravity system but most places now are sand mound. Its easy 30,000 dollars for a new septic system.
Wowzers
Good thing it got done before this weekend's heat!
That sir was a great video, I definitely learned quite a lot. You have a really great contractor there in Brian. He's a real gem
I did my 1980 Boise 150 ft septic. Down to city hall. May seem obvious but a super deep catch basin more prone to excess.
Great to see Phil!
One of the best channels on UA-cam!! Thanks guys
This is hilarious! In rural Australia, we drop a concrete septic into the ground. We connect it to the house sewerage pipe (not the kitchen or laundry water). The tank starts filling with sh1t and p1ss. We throw a dead cat, possum or wallaby into the tank to start the bacterial reaction. The waste water then runs through the drain channels and into the ground. No plastic parts, ball floats and electrical cables and components to go wrong. The system then lasts for 100 years.
This video was nicely done and illustrated perfectly the joys of owning a home.
Great content I am just getting familiar with this system dealing with SFR rentals
I used to live in a house with an aerobic septic system - it had the normal tank, but instead of a soakage field it had a second tank split into chambers filled with baffles through which air would be pumped to provide oxygen for bacteria to grow on them and digest the nutrients. When the effluent flowed into the last chamber it would be pumped out into the garden irrigation system with a bit of chlorine injected into it on its way out. That house always had a lush green lawn during the long, hot and dry summers (subsurface drip) but we had to be careful about the sorts of cleaning products we used in the house so as to not kill off the bacteria.
Always enjoy your videos, covering all the topics of construction and homebuilding.
My home was built in 1904 and we still use the original septic system, though I had to do some repairs to it 20 years ago. One thing we do not do is flush toilet paper into the septic. That way we do not have to pump it out every 3-5 years. it's been 14 years since the last time it was cleaned out and works fine.
Cool video! Brian, Dexter, Dewey and Zack just did the septic system at our home under construction. We also did the same system with the two compartment tank and pumped Orenco system. They do excellent work!
So in this instance, Erma Bombeck was wrong.
(The grass wasn't greener over the septic tank.)
@Andy Maxwell that's only true in the spring where the heat melts the snow and warms the soil, by the summer the patch over the septic is too warm and it's the first place to go brown, at least at my house. I do appreciate the reference I remember the book on my parents bookshelf when I was growing up.
I’m in the design and permitting stages right now. Looking very similar to yours. Thanks. -Ed
I’ll be honest I can’t wait for this years anvil launch
What's an anvil launch, Ben? Thanks, buddy.
When the excavator rolled up the sod - that was a beautiful thing!
thanks for posting this video! really helps me understand how septic functions.
I like the planning for when the cast iron pipe is removed
Interesting, I am going to need to be putting one of these in soon
Thank god for all that progress and bureaucracy they added. Just think that steel tank they threw in the ground only last 7 decades and performed without issue. Now when one of the 17 electric pumps or actuators fails in the next 3 years and floods your yard with poop you'll remember how far we've come and thank them so much.
I like the old way with the ABS perforated 4" pipe and 1 1/2 limestone gravel., more work but doesn't take electricity to work and no filter to replace...I've put in about 50 septic systems the old way and haven't had any problems... The last one I put in was 22 years ago in the house I'm living in now...No problems so far..no filter changes or $500 water pumps to replace.
I have to replace the tank in a home I just bought. Good video. THX
Great video as always. Music at the end of the video was outstanding. Thanks again.
First time for me on the septic system with a pump. Very good informational video. My biggest gripe about septic system’s is that many owners
Another fantastic EC video. Thanks for taking the time to produce such great content.
Hello friends so grateful for the content you've provided us over the years. I've thoroughly enjoyed every video.
Great camera work on this one. Thanks for all you do
That filter is a cool way to not have to use a grinder pump. The technological advances sure can be amazing.
You guys make the best videos, really. Content, voice over and video. You, keep up the good work!