Tear DOWN This Wall: Mini Skid Steer vs. Colossal Concrete Block Wall
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- This job entailed the removal of a colossal retaining wall made of concrete blocks. Once the blocks and buried debris are removed, 4 triaxles of earth are moved throughout the sloped backyard. The backyard is on a steep hill, but the customer prefers the hill over the dilapidated wall.
This job would have been difficult for larger machines to navigate the small backyard. The mini skid steer was perfect for demolishing block Wall, re-grading the hillside and maneuvering throughout the narrow gates. Schott Services is your "backyard demolition specialist"!
Call, text, or email John Schott, owner of Schott Services, at 317-784-8760
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Geeeez that would overwhelm me pretty quick...once that wall was down I was like ugh he's got to be regretting this job....but I should know better than to underestimate you. Well done!
That looks like a lot of fun.
It definitely is!
Love the attachments!!!
UNDERRATED CHANNEL. Have a mini on order, hoping to get into the industry soon
I appreciate that! Tell your friends! Have a good day!
Best calf exercise machine you'll ever buy. Oh I guess I shouldn't forget the glutes. They hurt pretty bad after the first week. 😂
@ haha looking forward to the challenge
Excellent job. Really digging the forward facing angle. Shows the hand work which is cool to see
Great job!!!!
Great job. From my construction days, block walls can be calculated height (3 blocks high is 24"), width (3 blocks wide is 48"). So if you need to know for other service installations and FORGOT, your measuring tape, you can still get a good idea.
Thank you! Good to know!
Have a nice day! Great job, I'm your regular viewer. I envy you in white. Nowadays, due to sanctions, such equipment cannot be bought or welcomed in Russia. For me and my team, such a technique would make our work much easier. After all, we demolish houses and clear land)
Good luck to you and development of the channel💪
Thank you!
Since you live in Russia, you can order such a machine in China. I researched for a long time and found a couple of excellent producers. One of them is Mattson. It has been producing mini loaders since 2011 and has many sequels. Greetings from Serbia..
I am so mesmerized that I forgot to press the like and since Im watching every video it jumps to the next. I will go back and like.
That's great! Thanks for watching!
Nice job 👍
Great video and sounds like a good neighbor too, that let you use their driveway..
I'm glad you think so! It was a really big job, but thankfully the neighbor was super helpful.
@@SchottServices I am sure all neighbours were happy that nightmare of ugliness was removed!
I think I have seem all of your content,... This looks complex, but you get it done!
You are up early or going to bed late...
Good job my friend
Thank-you! That was quite the job!
Nice job, I have Ditch Witch SK1050 so when I get off it at the end of the day sometimes my legs are aching. But you can’t beat the 360° view on a mini skid steer.
It's hard to beat the view on a mini skid steer!
I cannot believe how well that angle iron ruckus rake works.
It's my favorite attachment. So simple, yet the greatest results! Thanks for watching!
Great help for newbies to see an expert in action…to see capabilities
Faszinierend zu beobachten 😊
Thanks for watching!
Wow what a difference in the look now. Awesome work!!
Just found your UA-cam Channel. You do great work. All "interesting". New subscriber in Spain !!
Wow! Spain, that might be a first. I've never been there but would like to see it someday. Thanks for watching!
Excellent filming and WORK... Wowie!
It's a work in progress but trying to get better at filming/editing. Definitely a learning curve to it!
Funny how you start a job and find out all left over material where buried there that's a cost plus job but I know you did it right to make up for the extra work thanks again
Great job
Looks amazing!
We had a large retaining wall in our backyard fall over and had to have it reconstructed. Frankly, I’m surprised that these people did not want to rebuild the retaining wall because that is going to be one heck of a slope with water running right down against their house, but you did a great job and the people who first installed it obviously never put any drainage behind it for water to be able to drain through the wall, which ultimately pushed it forward, but bearing trash and concrete behind it only added to the problem that’s a lot of fill to have toreconfigure in that yard that’s already on a steep slope
It was definitely an interesting job, for sure! They looked at it for several years like that and had other contractors look at it to fix or tear it down. I think most were concerned about being able to get a machine back there. Yes, it's definitely a sloped backyard. But to expensive to replace the wall and not worth repairing.
Thanks for the feedback and support!
It looks perfect if you re asking me....i wanted ro ask how many attachments do you have for your machine?
I would be soooooo pissed off finding all that random backfill like that. Good job!!!!
It definitely was a surprise but was understanding of final price being a little higher because of it! Surprisingly, I still stayed within the original price range I had given to them!
J'ai cru que vous n'alliez pas donner une pente douce pour effacer ces horribles murs de béton... Je m'excuse quand on voit le travail effectué😅. Vous êtes un virtuose, vivement la prochaine vidéo.
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching!
Two different property have fun
Still watching you thanks again for posting
good job again
Thank you!
Good job.
You making these yards look good. I just bought me a mt-100 bobcat
That's great! They are handy machines. Thanks for watching!
Me gusta mucho tus videos ,ver como una sola persona puede desarrollar todo este trabajo es muy buen
Nice
And that is why a lot of jurisdictions require permits and inspections for walls above 3 feet. That wall was not installed properly and someone could have been injured or killed. Nice work.
Thank you! Yes it was poorly installed. Customer inherited from previous owner and looked at repairing it. But that was to costly. Thanks for watching!
Nice job, always enjoy your videos! Look forward to your next one! 👍👍😎🙏♥️
@@donaldcason163 I agree with you!
Also what does a project like this cost a customer?
Impressive it did that with flatt bucket
Wow! Amazing finish.
Mr John you do excellent work.
Any plans for grass seeding and straw?
This was last fall so to late for seed. The customer is doing themselves this spring
Long time watcher... When you're using the land plane, are you using the float control on the machine, or manually controlling it? Obviously when moving around the yard, it controlled, but for the flat areas, do you float or manual? Thanks
Mostly float but sometimes manual if I need to scrape high areas that the float position just rolls over.
Do you do the landscaping also
I only remove/demo landscaping. No installation
Great work man! What do you do with all the spoils and junk you take away from these jobs? Do you have your own place or take it to a city dump?
Clean topsoil I try to reuse. Trash/junk goes to landfill. Brush/concrete gets recycled at Greencycle. Thanks for watching!
The GOAT! Another great video with content! Love the commentary and the end result! You can do anything with the mini!
Do you use a transit are eyeball it me I did both
Eyeball
With the Vermeers auxiliary hydraulics, you could conceivably add a thumb to that mini excavator attachment. Is there one available for that particular unit?
Not for the brand I bought but there are brands that offer that
so how do u charge for a job like this?
I bid everything by the job, not by the hour.
@@SchottServices just curious - what are you thinking about when u do that?
Time-
Dump fees for all that concrete?
Fuel?
About what would u charge for that job?
Yes dump fees. Time. I don't necessarily have a formula for it though!
Great work! One question, did you plug the hydraulic hose with the engine still on?
What part of video? Not sure what you mean
@@SchottServices5:22 when you went to connect your grapple. I was just wondering if that was ok to connect through hydraulic hose with the engine still running
@@tractorworkandmore411 Yes, it's ok. There's no fluid flowing through that connection until it is activated with a control stick. I do it all the time. However, sometimes, I can't because there is pressure built up in the lines from heat/cold, so I shut off my machine, and lock the control valve in the "on" position (fwd or reverse; doesn't matter. Mine has a detent in the reverse direction, so that's what I use) and connect it without problem. But most of the time, you just hook it up and go.
@@ajsemtb thanks, that makes sense. I was always wondering if hydraulic fluid would splash everywhere. And locking it in position with engine off might also make it easier to insert the hose on the low flow side of the machine. I’ll give it a try next time. Thanks
Where do you dump all the stuff from your demo projects?
With jobs like this have you thought about adding a mini excavator like a Deere 35g to your fleet?
I have but this job for example would have been very difficult to get anything much bigger onto this hillside. Although I really like the idea of a mini ex with the hydra/rotating bucket!
Do you use weights in the front or back of your machine? And if you do how much weight?
The machine has weights that came on it when I bought it but I am not sure how much they weigh unfortunately.
Whats the attachment you had to bust it dirt with ..?not the excavator
Stump bucket
You have more attachments then batman
That was serious mess ..i know how it is when it turns into a nightmare underbid..
What size truck do you have with dump box on it
F550
I’m in the market for the same machine if you don’t mind me asking how has the machine been so far for you and what kind of problems does it have if any. Thanks
Great machine. It can overheat when using brush cutter. But if you keep an eye on radiator and blow it out every 15-20 minutes then it does fine. Also, depends on how dusty the area you are working. I wish Vermeer would make forward amd reverse same speed. And speed machine up a bit!
I have the 40 hp gas machine. It does everything I need 90-95% of the time. Thanks for watching!
@@SchottServices thanks for responding I do mostly all hardscape and concrete work so mostly will just be using it to dig for patios, and scooping up concrete and moving gravel. Is their anything I should always have on the job site for the machine like hoses and couplings and things like that sorry if this sounds like a silly question this is my first machine and just trying to see what I should expect.
Not to much really. I actually only had 1 hose get a leak since I've been running Vermeer. I get new hoses made thru Hosepower which is nearby me. But they do offer 24/7 mobile hose repair if needed.
I do keep fuses with me but have only had that happen once or twice where a fuse is blown. I've had the random o-ring go bad or it overheat on me in dead of summer. But most days it starts right up every time! Great machine!
@@SchottServices thanks for taking the time to answer my questions I love the videos to btw keep it up. Sounds like a great machine I’m going to get one this week.
I bought a Vermeer S925tx for my son’s Landscaping business four years ago along with several attachments. He uses it all the time, and in four years he’s only had one small problem; a blown hydraulic hose on one of the lifting cylinders. The Vermeer is a great little machine that also comes standard with auxiliary hydraulics. Also, Vermeer is a huge American company.
Hell even my wife like the machine
That's great! Thanks for watching!
Did you swap your gas machine for a diesel powered unit?
Still gas
You realy neeeddd ed a tooth bucket ..i felt your pain..
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