@@tujuprojects Please. There are plenty of farms around the US that are messy or have junk lying around. Jon's is just a better example of keeping it tidy.
Zero years of professional construction experience, but I think it’s a trade off between how much to spend now to push maintenance further down the road. No matter how large the pipe, Mother Nature will eventually throw enough stuff at it to clog it. However, I usually overbuild and spend more than I should up front to put off maintenance as long as possible. I like making things but hate maintaining them. I can’t recommend my approach for others, but I’m stuck with who I am.
If you want to protect the upstream soil banks from erosion, use soil bags. Hessian bags filled with top soil, place them on the banks. An seeds in the soil will row and the roots will stitch them all together.
You created some UA-cam classics in 2023, but in '24 you continue to kill it! I really appreciate the work, but you bring the work to the video quality, and you make this channel a joy to watch.
I couldn't tell with the camera angle, but next time if your ramps get stuck pull up as close to the front of the trailer as you can to load up the tongue weight. It lifts the rear of the trailer and the ramps usually drop on my trailer its very similar.
Take solace in the full saying of the old adage 'A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one'. Hydraulics, auto electrical, civil works, engine rebuilds, sawyer, just to name a few. Well done 👏
Waiting months to add the results of your labor, adds so much to the overall enjoyment of the video. Just seeing the grass come up, out of that straw, made me smile.
And here was me thinking the boom behind looked awkward but made some sense with managing centre of gravity. OTOH the boom downhill can be an even better tool to manage problems due to centre of gravity. If all else fails he can just walk it off the side and everyone can have a comment. 😉
Why would it be annoying? I'd feel sketchy going down a trailer backwards tbh, but each to their own. I don't see how that would be annoying anyway, the way I look at it, I don't look at safety things as an annoying thing, rather a necessary thing to enjoy the activity you are doing safely, and the privilege of being able to continue doing that activity since you don't get injured! I mean yeah it's probably a bit easier to do it without safety gear or safety procedures but then it's only gonna be a matter of time until you hurt yourself so you can't even do that anymore at all.
Always impressed with your tackling everyday jobs/requirements on the farm. It’s not necessarily rocket science (although at times you do venture into that arena) - it’s actually the stuff that makes the world go round. Thanks!
Hell, I'd even argue stuff that makes the world go around is more important than rocket science, at least to the everyday life of people! Though the frontier of space and science is important as well.
From my own experience with plastic culverts they are much more resistant to blocking if you concrete around the entrance to remove the sharp edge. The collar face can be at a 90 degree angle to the pipe, but is better if slightly angled in by 10 to 20 degrees. The collar will funnel small sticks & debris into the pipe without them blocking the entrance. Even if larger sticks and logs wedge pile up, the angled collar will hold them away from the pipe entrance, leaving gaps for the water to pass through to the culvert pipe.
You're one of the most blessed persons on this earth You have family and to be able to work and live as you do.. Give thanks to the Lord for what you have. ... Enjoy your video, thanks😊
Hi John this is Ross from Down Under Sydney Australia... I really like your videos content because you are a very down to earth person and say it as it is. As a farmer myself I have many Creeks and Streams on my property. I found the best solution to keep the water flowing is to widen the creeks and streams the full width of my dozer... And the streams the width of the of my Excavator Bucket. Maybe you will find this helpful. Regards Ross. 🙂🙂
Great work John. Makes you realise the work a modern machine like the Yanmar and materials like the pipe can do and save you, in the past those jobs would have been quite a big undertaking digging out with hand tools, stone lining and capping the culverts. Thanks as always for brining us along!
Jon, the best part of watching your channel is the dedication to solving problems. Your channel is the escape from the chaos in the rest of the world. Thank you. jim
You should consider putting a hitch receiver on the backfill blade of your excavator. It would come in handy for towing your side by side around a job site for quick runs back to your truck, and also towing a small trailer for supplies and tools around job sites. Several people have done videos on that and cotton top has a good video on mounting the receiver hitch.
Having a long enough pipe to receive and discharge water is a big key to working properly. Entry water has a swirl that 'eats' the bank away, fills the pipe or washes it down stream. A thoughtful and expert operator (Jon) makes for a good job and video. Thank you for relaxing & enjoyable time in the woods.
Your body language and posture when you were off the machine placing stones on the white pipe tells the tale of how accustomed you have become using machines to lift and move heavy objects. Plus your comment about loving your excavator. The evolution of a working man.
You're right! Water always wins! And, it doesn't take very long! One gully washer here took out 6 ft of dirt on a farm road, in 15 minutes! Great video, Jon! Lee
Great long term video time line, so we could see the results of the seeding. Looking good. Thanks for the cute Dozer vid, too! What a goofy puppy. 21:14
As a kid on my uncles farm, we used chicken wire to stabilize the down stream side of a couple crossings, then added rock over the top to hold it in place.
Nice piece of land and a nice lifestyle you have, well done. Sounds like a video soon on replacing noisy bucket pins and bushes maybe heading our way, as always an interesting video, thanks for sharing.
That's great work Here in the Adirondacks we'll usually dig "down and out" around 4ft before the culvert. This will slow the water before entry and give a place for sediment to collect. Easy to clean out if needed. Nothing broke down....
I love your videos where you're doing maintenance and repairs on the farm. I grew up on a small farm and it brings back memories of a happy time in my life.
You are a fortunate man to have the stewardship of such a beautiful piece of property. Well done sir. Your excavator is like having your own Super man suit!
Sackrete works just like rocks sometimes. Stack it in the bags like a revetment and it will hydrate with all that water just fine. Layer it like you want and even pin it with rebar or pieces of t-posts--whatever. It's like sandbags that turn into rocks.
you could make "trash racks" for the culverts, just a box or wedge shape of rebar. so if the front gets clogged the water can flow over the top of the rack and still go through the pipe.
With time and persistence, water can create wonderful landscapes and block even the largest pipe. It is very wise of you not to fight against water, but to use it as your ally. Good job John!
Those jobs looked like they came out really well! I have a suggestion: get some polypropolene rope and run it thru each pipe, tying it off at each end. Someting like 1/2" - so that if/when the pipe gets clogged, you can feed a wire rope or chian thru and pull a tire through to clear the pipe. Just a thought! Maybe a plastic cleat on each end to tie it to so it doesn't go anywhere. That rope is impervious to rot, so it can stay there for years until you need it.
Clogging culverts happens in big snowsmelt, and rain. Its often starts with bigger branches, and stones, and builds up from that with leaves, or gravel, and so on with finer dirt, until it stops. So if you see branches up stream, you can wait until they "comes to you", or remove them.🙂
My father in law used bags of sacreete on the down side of his creek crossing culvert. He just layed them in dry and they got solid as rocks and haven't need attention since the mid 1990's but that was in a different time when a bag was a buck and a half.....now they are 6 bucks
Just a suggestion. While you have the pipe clear you should threadle a piece of chain through it. If it ever gets clogged in the future you can just tie something (such as an old tyre) to the end of the chain and pull it through. Thereby clearing the blockage. You then threadle the chain back through ready for the next time.
Hey Jon - the way to keep culverts from clogging is water velocity. In general your easy to alter (relatively) values are slope (greater slope, greater velocity) and roughness (roughness slows down water). A corrugated pipe is going to have greater roughness (and probably effective hydraulic radius) than a smooth wall pipe but the smooth wall pipe needs to be thicker to support the same earth loads thus can be expensive. But if you got 1 clog in 15 years you don't really have a problem. Maybe an easy solution if you see some areas of the bank sloughing off into the culvert and blocking is to armor the bank with some rocks. Hard to say if its worth the effort given the relatively trouble free history and small culvert size. Alternately for something that clogs more often, some kind of grating on the culvert opening to stope larger pieces of debris from getting in and causing a buildup of soil. I also wouldn't put rocks directly around the pipe you're having issues with floating. You're right about digging it deeper to try to stop water from getting underneath it, but those large rocks make very porous areas the pipe. Bed it with something more sandy, then layer more normal soil on top, then put rocks on top and on the faces/banks to keep everything weighted down without risking damage to the pipe.
The cost of machinery is not cheap but it makes jobs sooo much more efficient. Renting equip gets expensive and with all the back and forth, jobs are put on hold until you have enough to make the rental worthwhile. When you can fix your shit, buying used is the way to go. Things get done when they should get done and once you have it you find so many uses for it. Great video as always John. Nice to see the grass all up and looking great.
Whenever I run into an insurmountable problem at work I always look down at my "WWJD?" bracelet and think..... "What Would Jon Do?"........ Keep up the good work Sir!.... Always entertaining and educational.....
I agree, I have driven excavator type machines for 30 years and quite often come home from work and watch excavator videos 🤦I run a Tigercat LH855e felling trees
I have plenty of rocks on my property - it's usually a matter of transport. I was wondering when you were going to break out the "new" skidsteer to get the rocks where you need them. Happy you got the "that's not going anywhere" comment in there! 😄
54:31 looks really good. You might think about doing a bridge chattel can use on the first one if it floods that bad i am sure you have other places you can use the pipe on. Also the Rocks can help finnish other projects.
I don't have near the amount of land to manage as you but man an excavator would make my life so much easier. Great work as always. Thanks for taking us along.
Speaking of creeks and flowing water, I highly recommend watching two videos from "Practical Engineering" - "Why Rivers Move" and " Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers", they explain in simple terms, e.g. why you just can't straighten river without erosion. I think it's good know this, if you are already making dams.
Looks like it came out good! I like top stack 3 smaller pipes in a triangle formation so that if the one pipe gets clogged it won't wash out before I catch it. It saves me a lot of redoing.
When you are strapping a single piece of pipe of any kind to a flat bed trailer, take one strap and wrap it around the pipe in a clockwise direction one wrap. Then wrap another in a counter clockwise direction one wrap. That way they will pull against each other firmly securing the pipe in place.
You mentioned once in a video about your cloths how the dirt was ground in and wouldn’t come out. Try this one time. Put the load in the washer. Add a cup of Oxi Clean, a cup of borax and then your normal detergent. Let the cloths run through the wash cycle. Then shut off the washer and let them soak. I do this in the evening and let them soak all night. In the morning I turn on the washer and let them wash again and cycle on through the other cycles. If needed you can repeat this when they need to be washed again. But I have never needed to do that. Enjoy all your videos. Good luck and God Bless. Later
I’ve got two 16’ sections of 14” smooth internal wall ribbed outer wall black plastic pipe in my backyard. When I picked them up at the lumber yard I guess they weighed a little over 109 lbs. Now leave one set a little while outside and it will weigh 209-300 lbs from water condensing in the ribbed chambers form the little holes in the pipe.
Suggestion: I'm in Michigan and we have close to the same weather. When planting fesque on dirt I mix with annual ryegrass because the rye comes up REALLY FAST to hold the soil and germinated seeds in place, then dies off, leaving some composted bio to help the grass. I also soak the seed mixture overnight in warm water with +- a dozen tea bags. That will literally start showing sprouts in a day or so. I especially use on slopes. I do the same with lawn type grasses. Never fails.
John you can get pipes for farm ranch stuff from road contractors when they dig up and replace them for construction even your local county, that's where I get mine.
You can make a strainer made out of 2 to 3 inch pipes. Build a frame that has a 90 degree triangle shape about 6 foot thick. Weld the pipe so that it runs length wise along the hypotenuse with the pipes about 8 to 10 inches apart. Weld some more pipes vertically along the sides the same distance apart. Place the triangle in front of the culvert so that the hypotenuse starts at the top of the pipe and runs outward away from the pipe. Once in place it will prevent most of the larger sticks and limbs from blocking the end of the culvert and as the water rises the sloping pipes will cause the wood to rise up toward the top of the triangle and allow the water, soil, and smaller debris to flow through the culvert unimpeded. I have also seen where people will buy bags on concrete and line the bank with those bags at the entrance to the culvert to prevent the water from eroding the soil around the culvert . Once the bags are laid and it starts to rain and/or the water starts to flow, the concrete will get wet and start to cure and the bags will prevent the rain or running water from washing the concrete away. Once it cures it will be like having a bunch of rocks in place when all the bag material eventually decomposes and washes away. That way you can save all the large and medium size rocks for the discharge side of the culvert to act as a diffuser so the water flowing out of the culvert is spread over a larger area and will not erode the downstream end near as much.
At jobs like this one (actually always) I have s shovel with me in excavator. Shovelling sometimes saves way much time than tryin' to do all with machinery. That thumb in excavator boom is pretty unknown at least here in Scandinavia. Almost all excavators newer than 30 years or lighter than 25 metric tons have a rototilt of some kind installed. Interesting to see how it works. Nice video (as well as others in this channel), enjoy to watch.
Jon. You need a couple of brackets on your digger rear deck to hold a spade and D-handle shovel. Did the same on the roof of my skidsteer. Handy as....
Wow at crossing 3 at the end Looks like a Rain Forrest with all the birds and water moving noise and that grass grew nice Jon 53:21 @FarmCraft101
i like how there's no junk laying around on your farm. It's neat and makes for nice scenery.
Yes, it’s not russia.
@@tujuprojects Please. There are plenty of farms around the US that are messy or have junk lying around. Jon's is just a better example of keeping it tidy.
Or... he just chooses to not show us his junk.
@@arcanewyrm6295 sure, i didn’t claim anything against it. But in russia there is not. It’s all the same.
I think he's just really good at keeping it out of sight. Junk is useful for making things.
45yrs of construction has taught me that what ever size pipe you think you need get the next size larger 😂
And even then it's not big enough.
When you’re laying pipe, size matters
Yeah man - read my comment to be vindicated. Exactly what you said happened. I was ready but even then I got lucky.
This is true for most things. Bigger is almost always better.
Zero years of professional construction experience, but I think it’s a trade off between how much to spend now to push maintenance further down the road. No matter how large the pipe, Mother Nature will eventually throw enough stuff at it to clog it.
However, I usually overbuild and spend more than I should up front to put off maintenance as long as possible. I like making things but hate maintaining them. I can’t recommend my approach for others, but I’m stuck with who I am.
Lmfao at Dozer Playing in the mud 😂 he is way bigger now he growing fast Jon to adorable and cute 21:21 @FarmCraft101
There's a big difference between not having enough rocks, and not having rocks where you need them. Classic!
I know it is more hassle, but adding concrete between rocks tie them together as well as stopping water going on the outside of the pipe.
No laying pipe jokes? Also, Dozer blowing bubbles with his nose. That's some serious cuteness.
I recognize that welder! ROFLMAO
I know right. Starting to wonder if we lost are guy to maturity .
Haa! Someone beat me to it. 😂
Should have been playing some David Wilcox, layin'pipe.
John doesn't dick around like that.
If you want to protect the upstream soil banks from erosion, use soil bags. Hessian bags filled with top soil, place them on the banks. An seeds in the soil will row and the roots will stitch them all together.
You created some UA-cam classics in 2023, but in '24 you continue to kill it! I really appreciate the work, but you bring the work to the video quality, and you make this channel a joy to watch.
Amen to that. Some of the best I've watched.
I couldn't tell with the camera angle, but next time if your ramps get stuck pull up as close to the front of the trailer as you can to load up the tongue weight. It lifts the rear of the trailer and the ramps usually drop on my trailer its very similar.
Take solace in the full saying of the old adage 'A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one'. Hydraulics, auto electrical, civil works, engine rebuilds, sawyer, just to name a few. Well done 👏
Damn - missed opportunity - this was the perfect chance for a FarmCraft + Post10 collaboration
Could you imagine Post10 with an excavator!
I was thinking the same thing lol. Post10 would clear the culverts for free!
Post10 only needs his rake to do that.
They all came out very nice Jon especially the 3rd one 48:00 @FarmCraft101
Waiting months to add the results of your labor, adds so much to the overall enjoyment of the video. Just seeing the grass come up, out of that straw, made me smile.
the man, the myth, the legend. Man your content is just the best for a chill friday evening after a stressfull week.
Tip:Try to remember to always unload with boom and bucket always facing the ground.Not on trailer.I know annoying but hey it's a comment.
And here was me thinking the boom behind looked awkward but made some sense with managing centre of gravity. OTOH the boom downhill can be an even better tool to manage problems due to centre of gravity. If all else fails he can just walk it off the side and everyone can have a comment. 😉
Why would it be annoying? I'd feel sketchy going down a trailer backwards tbh, but each to their own. I don't see how that would be annoying anyway, the way I look at it, I don't look at safety things as an annoying thing, rather a necessary thing to enjoy the activity you are doing safely, and the privilege of being able to continue doing that activity since you don't get injured! I mean yeah it's probably a bit easier to do it without safety gear or safety procedures but then it's only gonna be a matter of time until you hurt yourself so you can't even do that anymore at all.
Always impressed with your tackling everyday jobs/requirements on the farm. It’s not necessarily rocket science (although at times you do venture into that arena) - it’s actually the stuff that makes the world go round. Thanks!
Hell, I'd even argue stuff that makes the world go around is more important than rocket science, at least to the everyday life of people! Though the frontier of space and science is important as well.
From my own experience with plastic culverts they are much more resistant to blocking if you concrete around the entrance to remove the sharp edge. The collar face can be at a 90 degree angle to the pipe, but is better if slightly angled in by 10 to 20 degrees. The collar will funnel small sticks & debris into the pipe without them blocking the entrance. Even if larger sticks and logs wedge pile up, the angled collar will hold them away from the pipe entrance, leaving gaps for the water to pass through to the culvert pipe.
my jaw dropped at the 3 month mark, that turned out amazing
You're one of the most blessed persons on this earth You have family and to be able to work and live as you do.. Give thanks to the Lord for what you have. ... Enjoy your video, thanks😊
Hi John this is Ross from Down Under Sydney Australia... I really like your videos content because you are a very down to earth person and say it as it is. As a farmer myself I have many Creeks and Streams on my property. I found the best solution to keep the water flowing is to widen the creeks and streams the full width of my dozer... And the streams the width of the of my Excavator Bucket. Maybe you will find this helpful. Regards Ross. 🙂🙂
Great work John. Makes you realise the work a modern machine like the Yanmar and materials like the pipe can do and save you, in the past those jobs would have been quite a big undertaking digging out with hand tools, stone lining and capping the culverts. Thanks as always for brining us along!
"Sometimes by hand is easier" - Don't we all know... ;)
Got it !
Jon, the best part of watching your channel is the dedication to solving problems. Your channel is the escape from the chaos in the rest of the world. Thank you. jim
It's nice to see a man with pride and love of his property!! Great video!!
You should consider putting a hitch receiver on the backfill blade of your excavator.
It would come in handy for towing your side by side around a job site for quick runs back to your truck, and also towing a small trailer for supplies and tools around job sites.
Several people have done videos on that and cotton top has a good video on mounting the receiver hitch.
Having a long enough pipe to receive and discharge water is a big key to working properly. Entry water has a swirl that 'eats' the bank away, fills the pipe or washes it down stream. A thoughtful and expert operator (Jon) makes for a good job and video. Thank you for relaxing & enjoyable time in the woods.
Oh i even can smell the rainy air in the woods at the end of the video. 🙂
Your body language and posture when you were off the machine placing stones on the white pipe tells the tale of how accustomed you have become using machines to lift and move heavy objects. Plus your comment about loving your excavator. The evolution of a working man.
You are amazing. You remind me of my dad who is longer with us. Keep up the great work and videos. I so enjoy them.
You're right! Water always wins! And, it doesn't take very long! One gully washer here took out 6 ft of dirt on a farm road, in 15 minutes! Great video, Jon! Lee
@21:28 the little nose bubbles, adorable.
Great long term video time line, so we could see the results of the seeding. Looking good. Thanks for the cute Dozer vid, too! What a goofy puppy. 21:14
As a kid on my uncles farm, we used chicken wire to stabilize the down stream side of a couple crossings, then added rock over the top to hold it in place.
The Yanmar is clearly repaying all the hard work it received. Beautiful area. Thank you for posting. Best from the UK.
Nice piece of land and a nice lifestyle you have, well done. Sounds like a video soon on replacing noisy bucket pins and bushes maybe heading our way, as always an interesting video, thanks for sharing.
That's great work
Here in the Adirondacks we'll usually dig "down and out" around 4ft before the culvert. This will slow the water before entry and give a place for sediment to collect. Easy to clean out if needed. Nothing broke down....
I feel a warm, fuzzy sense of accomplishment watching you use the Yanmar that you worked so hard on.
I love your videos where you're doing maintenance and repairs on the farm. I grew up on a small farm and it brings back memories of a happy time in my life.
21:21 Pupper doing pupper things is so cute!
Brilliant job as always John, and just shows how mother nature will always fight back.
Thats what I call farmcraft. You have the most beautiful farm. I'm jealous. Love the drone shots.
You are a fortunate man to have the stewardship of such a beautiful piece of property. Well done sir. Your excavator is like having your own Super man suit!
Great job! I so love watching you work. What a beautiful place you have. It is like your own private state park.
Thanks!
I appreciate the camera work and content you put into your videos. Keep it up please. That’s all.
Sackrete works just like rocks sometimes. Stack it in the bags like a revetment and it will hydrate with all that water just fine. Layer it like you want and even pin it with rebar or pieces of t-posts--whatever. It's like sandbags that turn into rocks.
Dozer nose bubbles. That's cute 😊
you could make "trash racks" for the culverts, just a box or wedge shape of rebar. so if the front gets clogged the water can flow over the top of the rack and still go through the pipe.
With time and persistence, water can create wonderful landscapes and block even the largest pipe. It is very wise of you not to fight against water, but to use it as your ally. Good job John!
Those jobs looked like they came out really well!
I have a suggestion: get some polypropolene rope and run it thru each pipe, tying it off at each end. Someting like 1/2" - so that if/when the pipe gets clogged, you can feed a wire rope or chian thru and pull a tire through to clear the pipe.
Just a thought! Maybe a plastic cleat on each end to tie it to so it doesn't go anywhere. That rope is impervious to rot, so it can stay there for years until you need it.
Maybe tie it so it's against the top of the pipe?
Clogging culverts happens in big snowsmelt, and rain.
Its often starts with bigger branches, and stones, and builds up from that with leaves, or gravel, and so on with finer dirt, until it stops.
So if you see branches up stream, you can wait until they "comes to you", or remove them.🙂
Gosh, you get to have so much fun!
My father in law used bags of sacreete on the down side of his creek crossing culvert. He just layed them in dry and they got solid as rocks and haven't need attention since the mid 1990's but that was in a different time when a bag was a buck and a half.....now they are 6 bucks
Just a suggestion. While you have the pipe clear you should threadle a piece of chain through it. If it ever gets clogged in the future you can just tie something (such as an old tyre) to the end of the chain and pull it through. Thereby clearing the blockage. You then threadle the chain back through ready for the next time.
Agree with stacking rocks and broken concrete on the downstream side. It forms a spillway to stop over-topping water from washing out the crossing.
15 years and first time it was completly clogged on the first one that isnt to bad at all Jon 13:41 @FarmCraft101
You are the best on youtube in my opinion. Fixing, building and excavation.
Dozer is so cute. He is a keeper 🥹
Hey Jon - the way to keep culverts from clogging is water velocity. In general your easy to alter (relatively) values are slope (greater slope, greater velocity) and roughness (roughness slows down water). A corrugated pipe is going to have greater roughness (and probably effective hydraulic radius) than a smooth wall pipe but the smooth wall pipe needs to be thicker to support the same earth loads thus can be expensive.
But if you got 1 clog in 15 years you don't really have a problem. Maybe an easy solution if you see some areas of the bank sloughing off into the culvert and blocking is to armor the bank with some rocks. Hard to say if its worth the effort given the relatively trouble free history and small culvert size. Alternately for something that clogs more often, some kind of grating on the culvert opening to stope larger pieces of debris from getting in and causing a buildup of soil.
I also wouldn't put rocks directly around the pipe you're having issues with floating. You're right about digging it deeper to try to stop water from getting underneath it, but those large rocks make very porous areas the pipe. Bed it with something more sandy, then layer more normal soil on top, then put rocks on top and on the faces/banks to keep everything weighted down without risking damage to the pipe.
The cost of machinery is not cheap but it makes jobs sooo much more efficient. Renting equip gets expensive and with all the back and forth, jobs are put on hold until you have enough to make the rental worthwhile. When you can fix your shit, buying used is the way to go. Things get done when they should get done and once you have it you find so many uses for it.
Great video as always John. Nice to see the grass all up and looking great.
G,day from Sydney Australia. Soil erosion control: rocks/ concrete block 45° out from inlet and 1:4 ratio from base to top.
🌏🇦🇺
Watching you crush up and destroy that old pipe was oddly satisfying!!!!!
Whenever I run into an insurmountable problem at work I always look down at my "WWJD?" bracelet and think..... "What Would Jon Do?"........ Keep up the good work Sir!.... Always entertaining and educational.....
What a lovely place to live in and take care of for the next generation.
Bill Mollison was a permiculture person who wrote a great book. Terracing paddocks to increase grass growth was 1 of his ideas.
Nice work John ,looks like it should work out great..
Water is the enemy of anything you want to build. Roads, any kind of structure, any arable land. Good job maintaining, fixing and upgrading.
Fill the entire cross-section with concrete pipes. Then lay a bit of gravel and/or dirt on top to provide a smooth roadway. 🙂
Watching the water start flowing after clearing the first one, was extremely satisfying. 😁😎👍
Short pipes and big stones = more cleaning and rebuild videos to come. I like that ;)
I dont know why, but watching excavators in action has always been mesmerizing to me.
I agree, I have driven excavator type machines for 30 years and quite often come home from work and watch excavator videos 🤦I run a Tigercat LH855e felling trees
Not a one "Laying pipe" joke? Who are you and what have you done with Jon.
Always good to see Dozer being a little goof.
Frankly, I miss the Johnson jokes and puns.
I have plenty of rocks on my property - it's usually a matter of transport. I was wondering when you were going to break out the "new" skidsteer to get the rocks where you need them. Happy you got the "that's not going anywhere" comment in there! 😄
54:31 looks really good.
You might think about doing a bridge chattel can use on the first one if it floods that bad i am sure you have other places you can use the pipe on. Also the Rocks can help finnish other projects.
That part of Dozer in the ditch, he is living his best life right there
That crossing 3 turned out beautiful. They all did, actually.
I don't have near the amount of land to manage as you but man an excavator would make my life so much easier. Great work as always. Thanks for taking us along.
Speaking of creeks and flowing water, I highly recommend watching two videos from "Practical Engineering" - "Why Rivers Move" and "
Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers", they explain in simple terms, e.g. why you just can't straighten river without erosion.
I think it's good know this, if you are already making dams.
Awesome job gotta love those excavators
Looks like it came out good! I like top stack 3 smaller pipes in a triangle formation so that if the one pipe gets clogged it won't wash out before I catch it. It saves me a lot of redoing.
@letsdig18 approves the bell end of the pipe facing upstream! One of his pet peeves 😂😂😂
When you are strapping a single piece of pipe of any kind to a flat bed trailer, take one strap and wrap it around the pipe in a clockwise direction one wrap. Then wrap another in a counter clockwise direction one wrap. That way they will pull against each other firmly securing the pipe in place.
You mentioned once in a video about your cloths how the dirt was ground in and wouldn’t come out. Try this one time. Put the load in the washer. Add a cup of Oxi Clean, a cup of borax and then your normal detergent. Let the cloths run through the wash cycle. Then shut off the washer and let them soak. I do this in the evening and let them soak all night. In the morning I turn on the washer and let them wash again and cycle on through the other cycles. If needed you can repeat this when they need to be washed again. But I have never needed to do that. Enjoy all your videos. Good luck and God Bless. Later
I’ve got two 16’ sections of 14” smooth internal wall ribbed outer wall black plastic pipe in my backyard. When I picked them up at the lumber yard I guess they weighed a little over 109 lbs. Now leave one set a little while outside and it will weigh 209-300 lbs from water condensing in the ribbed chambers form the little holes in the pipe.
Suggestion: I'm in Michigan and we have close to the same weather. When planting fesque on dirt I mix with annual ryegrass because the rye comes up REALLY FAST to hold the soil and germinated seeds in place, then dies off, leaving some composted bio to help the grass. I also soak the seed mixture overnight in warm water with +- a dozen tea bags. That will literally start showing sprouts in a day or so. I especially use on slopes. I do the same with lawn type grasses. Never fails.
Mixing clover seed in with your grass will give you some deep, protective roots, plus you get the benefit of nitrogen fixation.
John you can get pipes for farm ranch stuff from road contractors when they dig up and replace them for construction even your local county, that's where I get mine.
Oh man! A full hour of “THA CLAW!!”
Im so excited.
You can make a strainer made out of 2 to 3 inch pipes. Build a frame that has a 90 degree triangle shape about 6 foot thick. Weld the pipe so that it runs length wise along the hypotenuse with the pipes about 8 to 10 inches apart. Weld some more pipes vertically along the sides the same distance apart. Place the triangle in front of the culvert so that the hypotenuse starts at the top of the pipe and runs outward away from the pipe.
Once in place it will prevent most of the larger sticks and limbs from blocking the end of the culvert and as the water rises the sloping pipes will cause the wood to rise up toward the top of the triangle and allow the water, soil, and smaller debris to flow through the culvert unimpeded.
I have also seen where people will buy bags on concrete and line the bank with those bags at the entrance to the culvert to prevent the water from eroding the soil around the culvert . Once the bags are laid and it starts to rain and/or the water starts to flow, the concrete will get wet and start to cure and the bags will prevent the rain or running water from washing the concrete away. Once it cures it will be like having a bunch of rocks in place when all the bag material eventually decomposes and washes away.
That way you can save all the large and medium size rocks for the discharge side of the culvert to act as a diffuser so the water flowing out of the culvert is spread over a larger area and will not erode the downstream end near as much.
Hey Jon, interesting and informative video for a city boy. Many thanks from UK.
At jobs like this one (actually always) I have s shovel with me in excavator. Shovelling sometimes saves way much time than tryin' to do all with machinery. That thumb in excavator boom is pretty unknown at least here in Scandinavia. Almost all excavators newer than 30 years or lighter than 25 metric tons have a rototilt of some kind installed. Interesting to see how it works. Nice video (as well as others in this channel), enjoy to watch.
that Yanmar has paid for itself . all that pain doing it up was well worth it
I loved the camera placement at the end of the first job returning to the shop.
crossing 3 sure looks good
Great job! You have got the handling of the equipment down pat!
Dozer sure is an adorable puppy.
Looks good from my house. Good job John, on both the excavation and the video. Thanks.
This was huge :)
Those pipes look great, especially with grass on top, adds to soil rigity.
Jon. You need a couple of brackets on your digger rear deck to hold a spade and D-handle shovel. Did the same on the roof of my skidsteer. Handy as....
Stay safe and we'll see you next time.
Should'a been called "pipe dreams"..love this channel .. never miss an episode.