I wish I could sneak over there and blast it for him, it's easier than you think. A small dose of ANFO would make that rock a lot more workable. That stuff is easy drilling also.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast he already had it blasted a couple months ago, just hasn't posted the video yet. You can see in his video before this one all the new space it created.
I'm old enough to remember when Andrew didn't have a single piece of equipment with an enclosed cab......including that Hitachi excavator......come a LONG way......👍👍
I remember him saying in a video that he didn't like enclosed cabs that much. But it is handy while it's snowing, or if you're doing something really dusty.
Millions of years have past since those stone saw daylight. Hydraulics and the determination of one person to create something that did not exist…. Is mind blowing. There is no higher learning than to create. Not university, not college, not even high school. Being a man whom see a vision and acts until its reality is why and explains the meaning of life. Cheers. Love your consistent progression.
Perhaps off subject but in 10,000 years the machines will have rotted into dust and the stone will still be here. All trace of our machines will be gone. Really makes me wonder how vastly ancient people moved multi ton stone and built they things they built. They moved stones that we cannot move today without our modern equipment! Yet they tell us people wearing sandals and pulling ropes did it. I’m not so sure about that. We may not be the first to have machines or some sort of technology to move around massive stone and earth
I am certain Andrew could get overgrown kids like me to pay HIM to run these machines and do his work if he marketed it as an playground for grownups! :D
Actually mowed a good portion of a Field for him using his Ford 1520 way back. Couldn’t finish when my wife became ill and called me home with her eventually having to be hospitalized. The tractor did overheat so I had to baby it. He eventually solved the issue in another video. He’s the real deal, just as he presents on his videos. Buy some merch from him and support his channel!
Yup, you love your big toys, & we armchair YT viewers love watching a young guy work hard, succeed & continue to work hard! Just love watching your channel...oh yes, thanks for telling us about your 'B' videos. Yes, retired guys like me watch everything you, Jesse Muller, Matt at Diesel Creek (& others) do...you guys are mighty fine! Love your style of no nonsense, let's get-it-done work. Andrew, very glad to see you get more equipment to do bigger jobs. Just love watching you knock out these projects. Your geology, Shale? Limestone? Granite? is definitely more challenging than what we have here in New Orleans area. Appreciate your 'can do' attitude & all the time you invest to make, position camera's, film, edit, voice over & real time commentary as you do these projects. All just great! Carry on Sir!👍👍👍🧑🔧🍷
Watching your Timelapse’s of you digging it can be really easy to under appreciate just how much time and patience goes into one of these digs, and then you bring the footage back down to normal time and it really puts it into perspective just how much time you spend digging
I have a 10 ft deep, 500 ft long swale i would LOVE to have filled with this shale(i live at the other end of the limestone seam, in TN) but have no way to get it here!
Thank You for taking the time to share what you do with us. The vast majority of us recognize that sharing is optional and a lot of work for you, and we appreciate it. Thanks.
Andrew I cant believe how far your channel has come, I havent watched any of your vids for a while due to real life and I just started watching again recently and see youre over 1 million subs now WOW!! that is awesome!! And to think I started watching your channel when you were clearing the lot for the container castle....whats that been like 4-5 years now? Man time flies lol and I wouldnt mind getting 40-50 tri-axle loads of that shell, that stuff makes awesome fill Congrats on the million sub milestone!! Now Im gonna be binge watching for a while to see what all youve been up too and what I missed lol
Andrew, your lower road has a very long flat stretch followed by a steep stretch. If you raised the flat bit, you'd reduce the slope of the steep bit. You'd need thousands of cubic yards of material, but you've got that.
Hey Andrew, I wish I could sneak over there and blast it for you, it's easier than you think. A small dose of ANFO would make that rock a lot more workable. That stuff is easy drilling also.
I've been fighting my neighboors over noise complaints about heavy machinery for years now, finally the situation has improved...only to find myself at night watching noisy videos of a guy doing the same stuff....but in a much better, edited, fun and entertaining way
What would be really interesting ( for me ) would be if Andrew did a video on the geological makeup of the hill/mountain he is on, plus the history of previous industries that occupied the site/area, such as maybe slate mining or something. The hill "looks" really unstable shale type stuff, with the odd granite big boulder looking stuff, all held together with mud. I'm interested in the history of the site and how/why Andrew came to choose/own it. Maybe such a video already exists that covers some of that? If so, could someone add the link please. Many Thanks.
I like these rocks how they separate as almost perfect flat slabs, could be used for a variety of purposes if you have a property with some land, or some construction
Some time ago I watched a video by someone, who did a video about visiting andrew. He actually got to drive some of his machines in an "this pedal does that, this lever is for this and I wish you a lot of fun" like attitude
Wow! You have been making awesome progress!! You moved a lot of rock! I thought some of those were stuck there. It shows experience, you worked around and under them and destabilized their foundation and them wiggled them out!
Andrew, please please please make a cave warehouse storage area, keep digging in the hillside then put in support pilars and concrete reinforcement ...
"I'm getting some rocks out of there but I really want to BLAST" LMAO Andrew you put out the best videos and I love your dry sense of humor, you're the best thing on UA-cam. BTW I noticed the collection of Tonka trucks up on the wall every kids dream! Take care and happy holidays. Peace
I guessed it wouldn't be long before Andrew started to think about blasting those rocks in the hillside. Although it's fun & satisfying to watch the Caterpillar loader pry the giant rocks out of the hillside, blasting would be more efficient (because it appears there is a lot of rock in the hillside he wants to remove), & without the wear & tear to the equipment. But It looks like so much fun to remove the rocks with the loader! Great job, as usual!
What gorgeous stone slabs!!! landscapers will be drooling. Thanks for entertaining me on a cold wet west coast day..... Your machinery handling skills are a treat to watch....
About track pad grousers: The channel "The Jackson Brothers" has some videos on greatly speeding up welding new grousers on the track pads for their two D11s. They ended up using a clamp to hold seven welding rods at once and running around 350 amps if I recall right. In the videos they shared the evolution of their setup, what worked (and some attempts that did not quite work right) and a few tests to find the best current settings for a given number of sticks. The grousers on this girl look like they could generate more traction.
Hi Andrew, I love your channel. I was thinking that you showed earlier that in your area the stone was actually cut into slabs and sold as a kind of pavement or decorative stone trim. I would be fun if you would have a go at this yourself with stone from your property :)
Shale rock is very brittle, which is why it is not used in decorative stonework or pavement. It would break up into gravel with enough traffic and exposure.
Hi Andrew, if you want an indestructible Frisbe for Cody, use a rubber brake diaphragm. My husband is a Heavy Equipment Mechanic and discovered this. Have fun! 😁
I wouldhave use a bit of the rock breaker first not go too deep to loosen those rocks make it easier for the bucket. Andrew knows what hes doing so I trust him. Great video!!👍👍👍
Hi Andrew. I think such a mission can not be accomplished easily and successfully without using a hydraulic rock breaker that splits rocks as if they were made of glass. We are eagerly looking forward to seeing it added to your inventory of attachments. Congrats in advance.
That is great to watch, it is a mixture of knowing what you want to achieve but making it up as you go along. The rock you are digging looks like some form of layered soft slate.
Move those shipping containers, get into the hillside at the level of the soft layer under the bluestone, and undermine the big slabs of rock until they drop out of their own weight. Much faster than trying to lever them out, I think. No need to blast, the bluestone comes apart so easily under it's own weight.
That's what I have been saying, you need to get a blaster's license. Take a look ad Demolition Dave Drilling and Blasting channel. He's in Australia, doing what you need to do. You can make your own blasting mats from old tires and a lot of 3/8" cable. Thanks for the videos. Jon
Andrew consider yourself lucky having shale type rock. I live in Massachusetts where granite is the rock of choice and blasting is the only way to break it up.
Have you seen the expanding chemical method of breaking up rock? Bentonamit and Dexpan are two such products. Mixed wit water and poured into pre-drilled holes, they exert very large expansion forces in the rock. There are UA-cam videos about them.
@@russnixon6020 Dexpan is the poor mans alternative to blasting. If you have to split a rock, drill holes in a row 2 inches apart using feathers and wedges will take care of that.
He's down around the Catskills, so he has that type of rock. In northern NY, up in the Adirondacks, it's quite different -- most of what's up there is quite hard. It's like the Mohawk River is a dividing line.
Old 988B was the first loader I ever really ran. It was a real hunk of junk but it had a rebuilt engine, trans, and torque converter so it was also an absolute beast. Still my favorite loader of all time.
Andrew get everything done around the home stead you can before you have kids. I love the time you put into your own projects keep up the great work. Motivational bro
Have you ever considered to buy a rock crusher? I think it would make a great addition to your machine collection and you can use the gravel for your driveway pot holes maybe. Very nice video as usual with great edit and machine operating skills😎
I think a crusher is definitely what he needs since he does a lot of long driveways in that saugerties area. My boss rented or hired a machine to come and crush on a few different sites and we just got discount because we let operator use my boss' cx 160 case to load it but yes, you can adjust size of the stones and with all that room Andrew has a place to stockpile it.... ONE MAJOR PROBLEM, SHALE NO BROBLEM BUT ITS NOT MEANT FOR BIG TOUCH ROCK LIKE GRANITE ITS MAINLY TO CRUSH CONCRETE AND AN OCCASIONAL ROCK. ITS GOOD TO MAKE RCA. BUT HE USES 3/4 CLEAN ON HIS DRIVEWAYS
Andrew! Please do a video of you, describing issues you have had with your equipment, what you thing is good, what to watch out for, whats good, whats bad. You sort of did that in your "how i got started in excavation" video but you have a lit more equipment now. Long time viewer.
That video reminded me of my Volvo EC55 and the work I put down at a friends place. Stone upon stone upon stone, and without a hammer, a large job for that smallish machine. I wore the far left tooth on the bucket a lot, picking at the stones, but eventually had to give up. He just has to get a larger tool for those stones, and my excavator was sold. I got more for it than I gave anyway, so I was happy, although I miss the hours I spent tinkering with that machine. New belts, buckets and bright LED's all around made it a very useful machine.
Love watching you use all your equipment. I love driving heavy equipment. I would give my left leg for a mini track loaders, Kubota preferably.. I could run heavy equipment all day. Thanks for sharing.
Andrew carving a mountainside down……don’t get any better than that……and multiple pieces of equipment in us…..it’s a great day with UA-cam and Andrew…..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You know, at this rate you almost need a rock crusher or something, just to bust all the chunks up into gravel that you could dump on that crazy-long mountain road that keeps eating vehicles. xD
Wow Andrew that's some work there. Great teamwork. You'll need a massive steel warehouse soon for all the equipment. You should build a Diesel Creek container workshop but twice the height
@Andrew-Camarata I was imagining a stepped terrace could be beautiful using the large smooth stones as your face of each step and stepping the hill side back as you cut it giving you a way to safely shore the hill from slumping in the future when it gets oversaturated and has less support then it did previously. Unless you are shoring it with piles and or placing pins or similar back into the hillside. I would hate to have your hard work get knocked over or undone because of a landslide. Check out the OSO landslide in WA state( I know your condition is much different but still interesting)
As a Landscaper who specializes in pond, water features, etc., I am drooling over those rocks. We have quarries here in the PNW where I get rock from, but the prices have skyrocketed in the last 20 years! I bet Andrew can’t stand them rocks!
Andrew gets a call from the government department responsible for land maps in his area. Could you please stop removing mountains, as we can't keep up with re drawing the maps due to change in elevation levels when they're gone !
Probably about five minutes before you said "I really want to blast", I thought, I can't wait to see what happens when he gets a blast drill and some ammonium nitrate. Lookout windows in the castle. I used to enjoy watching when we put off a shot at the strip mine I worked at years ago. BOOM BOOM Andrew! I'll be waiting for the video.
I just wanted to thank you for allowing us to live vicariously through your adventures. I don't always agree with your methods, but it's not my dallor so it isn't my say and sometimes I get instructed and see the value in just trying. I have put a bit of your adventures to use in helping me to just try it and most times it works out. So again thank you very much! I dont have amuch silver or gold to offer, but I do have Jesus Christ. I am not sure of where you stand with God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit and I am not your judge, but I offer them to you as something to look into if you are not already a believer in Jesus Christ. Much Love! P.S. I was sorry to hear about Levi and Cody is awesome! Merry Christmas!
I wonder if Andrew has ever witnessed a mud slide? With angles that steep, I would be afraid that all of the soil and loose rock above the area he is removing could possibly become fluid enough with a large rainfall and slide off/ I do realize there is not much soil above the rocks and shale, and the vegetation and it's root systems will help to stabilize the hillside. Perhaps it is a non-issue? It was just the first thing that came to mind while watching this? Great video as always!
Yes! More parking space for more equipment! Enjoyed the video!!
Love your vids!
@@bulkhak1 Thank you very much!!
I believe he said he was gonna put in a new building but I'm not sure
How about a collaboration video with you two?
@@Well_I_am_just_saying "we're going to test that!", and proceed to test limits on heavy equipment
Andrew: "I'm gettin some rock out, but...I really wanna blast."
Me: I can't wait for the next video!!
🤣🤣🤣 Me too !
He's pulling out car sized boulders I don't get it. Rock breakers littering the property are nowhere to be seen.
I'd drive down from Canada to watch that live .
I wish I could sneak over there and blast it for him, it's easier than you think. A small dose of ANFO would make that rock a lot more workable. That stuff is easy drilling also.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast he already had it blasted a couple months ago, just hasn't posted the video yet. You can see in his video before this one all the new space it created.
I'm old enough to remember when Andrew didn't have a single piece of equipment with an enclosed cab......including that Hitachi excavator......come a LONG way......👍👍
Same, I have a piece of his “100,000” subscriber track.
I remember him saying in a video that he didn't like enclosed cabs that much. But it is handy while it's snowing, or if you're doing something really dusty.
UA-cam Revenue will make you a lot of Money to buy the things you want.
I remember when he would take abandoned lawnmowers and fix them up for resale.
Millions of years have past since those stone saw daylight. Hydraulics and the determination of one person to create something that did not exist…. Is mind blowing. There is no higher learning than to create. Not university, not college, not even high school. Being a man whom see a vision and acts until its reality is why and explains the meaning of life. Cheers. Love your consistent progression.
Man.. that is great thought! I will keep in mind
There is no way better than to just get on the machine and learn to work it. I was in to heavy equipment for 10 years.
Perhaps off subject but in 10,000 years the machines will have rotted into dust and the stone will still be here. All trace of our machines will be gone. Really makes me wonder how vastly ancient people moved multi ton stone and built they things they built. They moved stones that we cannot move today without our modern equipment! Yet they tell us people wearing sandals and pulling ropes did it. I’m not so sure about that. We may not be the first to have machines or some sort of technology to move around massive stone and earth
@@JohnnyRebKy don’t forget, you said they. My reference was to the one or two who do what “they” only dream of in this case.
I am certain Andrew could get overgrown kids like me to pay HIM to run these machines and do his work if he marketed it as an playground for grownups! :D
Where do i sign up? :)
Shut up and take my money!
I know that's right
ME TOO ME TOO!
Actually mowed a good portion of a Field for him using his Ford 1520 way back. Couldn’t finish when my wife became ill and called me home with her eventually having to be hospitalized. The tractor did overheat so I had to baby it. He eventually solved the issue in another video. He’s the real deal, just as he presents on his videos. Buy some merch from him and support his channel!
Thanks, Andrew! Just watching all I can, enjoying every minute!
A 2 hour long video on this project wouldnt have been too long Andrew. You have done it before and I loved it.
I agree
Yup, you love your big toys, & we armchair YT viewers love watching a young guy work hard, succeed & continue to work hard! Just love watching your channel...oh yes, thanks for telling us about your 'B' videos. Yes, retired guys like me watch everything you, Jesse Muller, Matt at Diesel Creek (& others) do...you guys are mighty fine! Love your style of no nonsense, let's get-it-done work. Andrew, very glad to see you get more equipment to do bigger jobs. Just love watching you knock out these projects. Your geology, Shale? Limestone? Granite? is definitely more challenging than what we have here in New Orleans area. Appreciate your 'can do' attitude & all the time you invest to make, position camera's, film, edit, voice over & real time commentary as you do these projects. All just great! Carry on Sir!👍👍👍🧑🔧🍷
Watching Andrew move some rocks and take a couple scoops out of that wall there
"Wall" I'd call that a mountain side!!
Watching your Timelapse’s of you digging it can be really easy to under appreciate just how much time and patience goes into one of these digs, and then you bring the footage back down to normal time and it really puts it into perspective just how much time you spend digging
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy watching you chipping away at that wall. That’s good thing todo.
I appreciate that you let us hear the sounds of the work more than the music. You strike a good balance between the two. Thanks
Hell yeah Andrew. Keep throwing it over the side and you will get so much more usable property. Making your own mountain into your very own plateau
I have a 10 ft deep, 500 ft long swale i would LOVE to have filled with this shale(i live at the other end of the limestone seam, in TN) but have no way to get it here!
Thank You for taking the time to share what you do with us. The vast majority of us recognize that sharing is optional and a lot of work for you, and we appreciate it. Thanks.
All of the dreams I had playing with my Tonka trucks as a kid are brought to reality on your channel. Love the old iron.
Andrew I cant believe how far your channel has come, I havent watched any of your vids for a while due to real life and I just started watching again recently and see youre over 1 million subs now WOW!! that is awesome!! And to think I started watching your channel when you were clearing the lot for the container castle....whats that been like 4-5 years now? Man time flies lol
and I wouldnt mind getting 40-50 tri-axle loads of that shell, that stuff makes awesome fill
Congrats on the million sub milestone!! Now Im gonna be binge watching for a while to see what all youve been up too and what I missed lol
Andrew, your lower road has a very long flat stretch followed by a steep stretch. If you raised the flat bit, you'd reduce the slope of the steep bit. You'd need thousands of cubic yards of material, but you've got that.
But steep hills are more fun!
@@MarkRose1337 He's got a second, steeper mountain for having fun.
@@hermitoldguy6312 Yeah, but that one breaks everything 😂
@@MarkRose1337, that's the whole point, so Andrew can rebuild them things in his image. 😇
In the video you can see the front end loader going down the driveway next to the castle. I think Cody was driving. Lol
Hey Andrew, I wish I could sneak over there and blast it for you, it's easier than you think. A small dose of ANFO would make that rock a lot more workable. That stuff is easy drilling also.
I was going to comment, “Time to call Demolition Dave” but you beat me to it.
I've been fighting my neighboors over noise complaints about heavy machinery for years now, finally the situation has improved...only to find myself at night watching noisy videos of a guy doing the same stuff....but in a much better, edited, fun and entertaining way
What would be really interesting ( for me ) would be if Andrew did a video on the geological makeup of the hill/mountain he is on, plus the history of previous industries that occupied the site/area, such as maybe slate mining or something. The hill "looks" really unstable shale type stuff, with the odd granite big boulder looking stuff, all held together with mud. I'm interested in the history of the site and how/why Andrew came to choose/own it. Maybe such a video already exists that covers some of that? If so, could someone add the link please. Many Thanks.
if you wanna go exploring right now, the place is called "Catskill Mountains
" in NY
I like these rocks how they separate as almost perfect flat slabs, could be used for a variety of purposes if you have a property with some land, or some construction
Out on the site today...Andrew is taking down a mountain!
The most epic AC statement yet: "We're moving some rock...but I want to blast" :)
💣💣💣
Years later still love your channel Andrew...never miss it.
Either the wheel loader is haunted, or Andrew had somebody else driving one of his machines during this video. Very exciting.
Some time ago I watched a video by someone, who did a video about visiting andrew. He actually got to drive some of his machines in an "this pedal does that, this lever is for this and I wish you a lot of fun" like attitude
This is his UA-cam
ua-cam.com/users/CerebralAilment
yeah at 6:12 you can see the ghost
Andrew's probably driving both
Boo
Wow! You have been making awesome progress!! You moved a lot of rock! I thought some of those were stuck there. It shows experience, you worked around and under them and destabilized their foundation and them wiggled them out!
Andrew, please please please make a cave warehouse storage area, keep digging in the hillside then put in support pilars and concrete reinforcement ...
That would be awesome. Also, would keep the equipment out of the rain. The main supports would of course have to be containers...
Just like they do in Missouri and Kansas!!
I'm so excited cause AC is almost craziest enought to make it happen. I'm just gitty at the thought...
Limestone maybe but this shale can be a little unstable .
Hey Andrew At 0:26 find the Dog rock. Should have been saved as some kind of entry stone. Mel
"I'm getting some rocks out of there but I really want to BLAST" LMAO Andrew you put out the best videos and I love your dry sense of humor, you're the best thing on UA-cam. BTW I noticed the collection of Tonka trucks up on the wall
every kids dream! Take care and happy holidays. Peace
Was it just a joke? I thought maybe a foreshadowing
At that point I wanted to do it, I did it though, it worked great
@@AndrewCamarata Andrew with the TNT 😦
@@ballgoodrape i'm guessing ANFO or dynamite but I'm no expert. Hopefully we will see in a future video
@@AndrewCamarata gonna need to see proof :D
I guessed it wouldn't be long before Andrew started to think about blasting those rocks in the hillside. Although it's fun & satisfying to watch the Caterpillar loader pry the giant rocks out of the hillside, blasting would be more efficient (because it appears there is a lot of rock in the hillside he wants to remove), & without the wear & tear to the equipment. But It looks like so much fun to remove the rocks with the loader! Great job, as usual!
What gorgeous stone slabs!!! landscapers will be drooling. Thanks for entertaining me on a cold wet west coast day..... Your machinery handling skills are a treat to watch....
Is there any risk of causing landslides when digging into the hillside in this type of terrain?
I was wondering that too - I thought that huge rock would fall down on him too
I'm waiting for Andrew to tunnel into his rock hillside and make a real man cave!
CAT 988 is one of the best front end loaders of it’s time.When i was hauling coal from strip mines in pa , 988’s were the king of the coal pits .
The value of that bluestone down south would make you feel like your digging gold
About track pad grousers: The channel "The Jackson Brothers" has some videos on greatly speeding up welding new grousers on the track pads for their two D11s. They ended up using a clamp to hold seven welding rods at once and running around 350 amps if I recall right. In the videos they shared the evolution of their setup, what worked (and some attempts that did not quite work right) and a few tests to find the best current settings for a given number of sticks. The grousers on this girl look like they could generate more traction.
I'm guessing you're trying to make more level ground, but would the jack hammer not be good to use there?
Yes, the jack hammer would split those rocks up nicely into manageable pieces..
that was kind of what I was thinking, the hammer would make the job go faster.
This is a great channel noting toxic just enjoying the build and machienery
Hi Andrew, I love your channel. I was thinking that you showed earlier that in your area the stone was actually cut into slabs and sold as a kind of pavement or decorative stone trim. I would be fun if you would have a go at this yourself with stone from your property :)
Shale rock is very brittle, which is why it is not used in decorative stonework or pavement. It would break up into gravel with enough traffic and exposure.
Those are big enough pieces to be rearranged into natural retaining walls.
I agree, there was many counter tops harmed in the making of this video. I believe that Andrew said that it was called blue stone in a previous video.
Hi Andrew, if you want an indestructible Frisbe for Cody, use a rubber brake diaphragm. My husband is a Heavy Equipment Mechanic and discovered this. Have fun! 😁
Santas gonna struggle with Andrews new D11 Bulldozer :)
I wouldhave use a bit of the rock breaker first not go too deep to loosen those rocks make it easier for the bucket. Andrew knows what hes doing so I trust him.
Great video!!👍👍👍
Merry Christmas to all the Camaratas from the Lonneke family of Virginia and Black Lab, Dexter!
Keep up the wonderful vids!
Very nice of you merry Christmas to you and your family from East Coast of England 🇬🇧 near whitby
And more good wishes from Virginia!
Hi Andrew. I think such a mission can not be accomplished easily and successfully without using a hydraulic rock breaker that splits rocks as if they were made of glass. We are eagerly looking forward to seeing it added to your inventory of attachments. Congrats in advance.
"Ya know, I really want to blast" - OH YES PLEASE!
That is great to watch, it is a mixture of knowing what you want to achieve but making it up as you go along. The rock you are digging looks like some form of layered soft slate.
Now those are some big rock's, but I guess digging the side of a mountain will do that. Thanks for another great video, appreciate it. God bless.
Glad you explained about the layers… I always seem to be hoping for more narration as what your doing and why, especially at the castle location
Being his friend must be awesome. Imagine hanging out all day playing with those big toys.
Hey Andrew... east coast blue stone is pure gold out west. Don't crush them rockie's...
When I saw the front end loader come into the picture I was like damn! He taught Cody how to drive!!
Tractors power full digging
Good video my friend
Move those shipping containers, get into the hillside at the level of the soft layer under the bluestone, and undermine the big slabs of rock until they drop out of their own weight. Much faster than trying to lever them out, I think. No need to blast, the bluestone comes apart so easily under it's own weight.
Andrew, please make a great big ROCK garden, it will be one of a kind. Love watching you, you do good work.
HOLY MOSES....moving a mountain ....JUST LIKE ANDREW.....more please!!! cant get enough of this channel....go Andrew!!
That's what I have been saying, you need to get a blaster's license. Take a look ad Demolition Dave Drilling and Blasting channel. He's in Australia, doing what you need to do. You can make your own blasting mats from old tires and a lot of 3/8" cable. Thanks for the videos. Jon
Thanks for the plug 439
Andrew consider yourself lucky having shale type rock. I live in Massachusetts where granite is the rock of choice and blasting is the only way to break it up.
Have you seen the expanding chemical method of breaking up rock? Bentonamit and Dexpan are two such products. Mixed wit water and poured into pre-drilled holes, they exert very large expansion forces in the rock. There are UA-cam videos about them.
@@russnixon6020 Dexpan is the poor mans alternative to blasting. If you have to split a rock, drill holes in a row 2 inches apart using feathers and wedges will take care of that.
He's down around the Catskills, so he has that type of rock. In northern NY, up in the Adirondacks, it's quite different -- most of what's up there is quite hard. It's like the Mohawk River is a dividing line.
My family couldn't afford Tonka toys 75 years ago...but Andrew just full filled a dream of mine but with much bigger equipment!!! Good work.
Old 988B was the first loader I ever really ran. It was a real hunk of junk but it had a rebuilt engine, trans, and torque converter so it was also an absolute beast. Still my favorite loader of all time.
“ I really want to BLAST”…God Bless You AC.
More than a million subscribers! Congratulations! More cool videos for all of us!
Andrew get everything done around the home stead you can before you have kids. I love the time you put into your own projects keep up the great work. Motivational bro
Why did I need this to be 3 hours long?
Yeah, I really would've liked to see that 988 and koehring excavator being used
I would think he is going to make multiple videos but I was expecting the same thing
Boy this is fun. Some huge rocks in there. Amazing how some of them break apart. "I really want to blast". YES!!!!
Bro any thing you do is just the best to watch AC is the mans man
It’s really great that you had a little help running the loader on this project .
Have you ever considered to buy a rock crusher? I think it would make a great addition to your machine collection and you can use the gravel for your driveway pot holes maybe. Very nice video as usual with great edit and machine operating skills😎
That was my thought too! :D
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I think a crusher is definitely what he needs since he does a lot of long driveways in that saugerties area. My boss rented or hired a machine to come and crush on a few different sites and we just got discount because we let operator use my boss' cx 160 case to load it but yes, you can adjust size of the stones and with all that room Andrew has a place to stockpile it.... ONE MAJOR PROBLEM, SHALE NO BROBLEM BUT ITS NOT MEANT FOR BIG TOUCH ROCK LIKE GRANITE ITS MAINLY TO CRUSH CONCRETE AND AN OCCASIONAL ROCK. ITS GOOD TO MAKE RCA. BUT HE USES 3/4 CLEAN ON HIS DRIVEWAYS
“I really want to blast”. Uh oh, Andrew is about to kick it up a notch. 😀 Great video! Thanks!
This is such relaxing content!
Are any of the big boulders worth saving? Seems like they would make a great retaining wall
🔥 FOSSILS 🔥 - Andrew, have you run into any fossils in the rock while digging?
I was wondering about gemstones, quarts, herks, geodes?
ran across a few cats full of fossils
@@thisisnecessary8835 There's some quartz around the area but nothing too exciting. Lots of Devonian fossils .
The oldest known "Tree" fossils in the world are found about thirty minutes from him
Hi Alexander: From what I know is that Bluestone in his area. That is a Metamorphic Rock which does not contain any Fossils. :-)
Andrew! Please do a video of you, describing issues you have had with your equipment, what you thing is good, what to watch out for, whats good, whats bad. You sort of did that in your "how i got started in excavation" video but you have a lit more equipment now. Long time viewer.
awesome. what are your plans for that space?
That video reminded me of my Volvo EC55 and the work I put down at a friends place. Stone upon stone upon stone, and without a hammer, a large job for that smallish machine. I wore the far left tooth on the bucket a lot, picking at the stones, but eventually had to give up. He just has to get a larger tool for those stones, and my excavator was sold. I got more for it than I gave anyway, so I was happy, although I miss the hours I spent tinkering with that machine. New belts, buckets and bright LED's all around made it a very useful machine.
Watching you is a blast!
Love watching you use all your equipment. I love driving heavy equipment. I would give my left leg for a mini track loaders, Kubota preferably.. I could run heavy equipment all day. Thanks for sharing.
Love your ideas bro.besides I'm glad your putting out vids .we enjoy your content and trial and errors cause that's life
Andrew carving a mountainside down……don’t get any better than that……and multiple pieces of equipment in us…..it’s a great day with UA-cam and Andrew…..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You know, at this rate you almost need a rock crusher or something, just to bust all the chunks up into gravel that you could dump on that crazy-long mountain road that keeps eating vehicles. xD
Andrew noticed your helper on the 988 loader would get only a half bucket and go dump out.
Wow Andrew that's some work there. Great teamwork. You'll need a massive steel warehouse soon for all the equipment. You should build a Diesel Creek container workshop but twice the height
Your D-7 tracked loader is beautiful. So much better than a wheeled loaded and the paint looks great,
@Andrew-Camarata I was imagining a stepped terrace could be beautiful using the large smooth stones as your face of each step and stepping the hill side back as you cut it giving you a way to safely shore the hill from slumping in the future when it gets oversaturated and has less support then it did previously. Unless you are shoring it with piles and or placing pins or similar back into the hillside. I would hate to have your hard work get knocked over or undone because of a landslide. Check out the OSO landslide in WA state( I know your condition is much different but still interesting)
As a Landscaper who specializes in pond, water features, etc., I am drooling over those rocks. We have quarries here in the PNW where I get rock from, but the prices have skyrocketed in the last 20 years! I bet Andrew can’t stand them rocks!
In 80 years Andrew's grandchildren will still be battling with this mountain
He'll have the mountain flattened by then, and it will be on to the next job.
They'll be tearing down the mountain Andrew's building from this one.
I believe it is already flattened
Andrew gets a call from the government department responsible for land maps in his area. Could you please stop removing mountains, as we can't keep up with re drawing the maps due to change in elevation levels when they're gone !
He needs his own kids first
@05:33 that stone would be lovely standing somewhere on your property.
Andrew: "I really want to blast"
Everybody: "We want to see you blast" :-)
We always love some BIG equipment on a big job. Well done guys !
Good work man! Love your videos
Probably about five minutes before you said "I really want to blast", I thought, I can't wait to see what happens when he gets a blast drill and some ammonium nitrate. Lookout windows in the castle. I used to enjoy watching when we put off a shot at the strip mine I worked at years ago. BOOM BOOM Andrew! I'll be waiting for the video.
Merry Christmas Andrew and Cody ❤️
Andrew in another 20 years you'll Level This Hill. Its all your space,
Andrew just doesn’t know when to stop, does he? 😃🇺🇸
He will stop when the castle is on top of the mountain.
Hope he has a family someday
Andrew,
Thank you for the high quality video. It is appreciated. So many channels just upload 1080p, but your video quality is fantastic.
wow, congratulations that crawler loader is a beast, better than the new ones. pity that we find few
Whuld be cool to change the bucket for a large riper claw. 😁
That boulder at 5:33! wow! Awesome! =)
It's always fun to see what you're up to, andrew.
As always. Impressed with your. Skill on operating all your equipment. Thanks for sharing. Texas Dan.
"I really wanna blast" cant wait for the next vid
I just wanted to thank you for allowing us to live vicariously through your adventures. I don't always agree with your methods, but it's not my dallor so it isn't my say and sometimes I get instructed and see the value in just trying. I have put a bit of your adventures to use in helping me to just try it and most times it works out. So again thank you very much! I dont have amuch silver or gold to offer, but I do have Jesus Christ. I am not sure of where you stand with God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit and I am not your judge, but I offer them to you as something to look into if you are not already a believer in Jesus Christ. Much Love!
P.S. I was sorry to hear about Levi and Cody is awesome! Merry Christmas!
I wonder if Andrew has ever witnessed a mud slide? With angles that steep, I would be afraid that all of the soil and loose rock above the area he is removing could possibly become fluid enough with a large rainfall and slide off/ I do realize there is not much soil above the rocks and shale, and the vegetation and it's root systems will help to stabilize the hillside. Perhaps it is a non-issue? It was just the first thing that came to mind while watching this? Great video as always!
Non issue, it's like all rock.. he's prob more worried about a rock slide.. hence why he braced that one rock by his castle.
In other parts of the world it would be a concern but not in the eastern US.