When you have sufficient experience, your vision becomes a reality. It is really interesting how your business involves both very serious water engineering AND the artistic skills needed to execute the science.
Watching your videos has had me looking at the drainage around my house and possible solutions. Great job! Thank you for the detailed explanations and showing the outcome afterwards when the water is flowing. Wishing you and your crew a prosperous and healthy 2021!
A good tidy job done there, and it will be word of mouth free advertising for potential future work, well done and greetings from England, have a Happy New Year to you and your Crew.
I always try to do the same on every job I design, because I want to know that my methods and assumptions were correct. It helps. It's also a great feeling when you see water flow exactly how you envisioned it in your plan.
The ending comments from Shawn and homeowner hit me hard. She has access to this level of irrigation genius and she is not pouring everything she has into whatever he suggests. If I could find someone in my area to work like this, I would not stop until all of my drainage issues were resolved.
Not everyone has the money to hire people. My husband and I are going to try and go this ourselves with shovels and our own manual labor. Just have to buy more rip rap.
Excellent fix, very sad the city or county had no input on size pipe. Seems they would have but your in a different jurisdiction then I am in. The city or county in Oregon would have required a permit and dictated what min size culvert could be installed. That pip rap really slowed the flow down. I noticed the water coming out of the culvert was almost at the spring line. That culvert will have a max flow, on some rains it still may over flow. But that is a top notch fix, someone that understand how water flows and how you can effect it. Fluid dynamics good job. I sure enjoyed working in that industry from 1980 to 1996.
Thanks for commenting and watching! This was a crappy situation for the homeowner so I tried to make the best of it for her. She understands that the concrete people didn't do their job right. I try not to dwell on the past but try to focus on doing the best I can with what I have to work with.
Awesome job , I had one semi similar to this last summer . Customer had a stone driveway , clogged culvert , all the rock from years of neglect fell in , and it overflowed over the driveway taking 12” of base with it . The guys daughter ripped a muffler off her car before he realized he had to do something. Dredged everything on both sides , fixed the driveways with more 2a modified , and reset all the rocks that were in the ditch prior for the same reason as your clip here . The guy sent me pics from the next heavy rain and it was flowing perfectly . All done with my boxer mini skid , with backhoe attachment. I like that size Kubota mini excavator you have there . I’d love one someday .
Thanks for sharing Rob. if you have the work for it, get a mini ex. I wish I had gotten one with a factory thumb instead of me adding one later. That little ex has done a tremendous amount of work. And would pair well with your mini skid. I have the Bobcat mini skid.
@@GCFD I’m not quite there yet , I have a boxer mini skid loader for doing tree and trash work , grapple claw and material bucket etc . I bought the backhoe attachment to start getting my name out for digging. It does the job but won’t hold a candle to a mini excavator. You guys put out some awesome information.
For sure! The homeowner was not happy at all. I never badmouth other contractors and try to focus on moving forward. I see contractors screwing over homeowners all the time, unfortunately.
@@GCFD That just looks like (concrete contractor) LAZINESS!!! That ditch is crying out for a slightly OVER-sized culvert- pipe! (nothing crazy, just an inch or two). I can't imagine the cost difference being THAT much to be a deal-breaker! Nice Job! PS- The post-job follow up is definitely a great asset to your videos! That feature was the tipping point to come back and subscribe!!
I don't really like and subscribe except for a few channels, but I liked and subscribed for your channel. I've got this dip in my back yard where the concrete patio meets this big incline that starts at the top left of my yard. Water pools there. It's very annoying. So I've been looking at what I could put there. Started researching about 8 months ago just looking up videos here and there. Your videos keep popping up in my UA-cam feed. You do good work and your channel is very educational. It's nice to see all the nuance to these types of situations regarding drainage and how to fix the issues we commonly see. Keep up the good work. Do it safely. Bad knees are a bitch to deal with especially when your area of expertise is blue collar work. If you plan on training guys it might be worth it to research into how to mitigate wear and tear on the body and training your guys. You want a strong and healthy work force. Just food for thought. Using the machines you use are a great start. Letting a control panel and machines dig out ditches is a hell of a lot better than using shovels. Lol
Hey Joe thank you for your comments and subbing me. I'm glad you're enjoying the channel! I completely agree and I'm not shy about buying whatever equipment the guys think we need. I would much rather pay quality help to run equipment than cheap help to dig by hand..
Who on Earth puts plastic currugated pipe under concrete again??? Always though it is supposed to be steel or concrete to support the load. 🤔 You really did an awsome job here. Sad the person who did her driveway ripped her off that way.😞 Thank you for A+ help.
I think it's double corrugated, which is the right pipe under the concrete. The problem is the pipe was way too small. I suspect the concrete people didn't have the equipment to dig a trench for a larger pipe. Thanks for commenting Andrea! - Shawn
Looks like it worked fairly well. Not sure where her property starts, but you could have some smaller "check dams" upstream of the inflow. Assuming you used more rip-rap downstream of the culvert?
Raising a dump bed with a heavy load on it to move the rock to the rear. Playing with major inconvenience there. One time when I was around 12 years old about 52 years ago, we were harvesting wheat when my father had to go to town to take care of business at the bank and left me there to continue cutting wheat. I can not remember why but for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to start loading the truck at the back of the bed and work forward. After a couple of loads I decided to move the truck up to the combine instead of driving the combine to the truck but when I started moving forward I saw the front of the bed start rising up in the mirror and immediately slammed on the brakes which brought the bed back down. If I had not hit the brakes the bed would have raised all the way up and put the rear of the bed onto the ground and who knows how many bushels of wheat would have spilled onto the ground. And then I would have had to spend time getting several come-a-longs to pull the bed down far enough to dump the next load of wheat into the front to get enough weight to hold it down and then shovel all of the spilled wheat back into the bed and then crawled under the truck to get the come-a-longs out if the bed did not come down on the cables. So I walked back to the combine and dumped the next load into the front and did not move the truck until it was full and ready to drive to the co-op to be put into storage. That was the first and last time I ever started filling the truck up at the rear of the bed instead of at the front of the bed.
Great video , and info . Do a video on that truck it's sick where did you get it love it. I been hitting that button , and subscribe to your trailer. You do good work and keep it real with good video on the job
Thanks! I got the truck from a junkyard after they bought it at auction. It's a builders FirstSource truck with a flatbed dump on it. I had the sides built and I built the tailgate on it.
Joseph - we cut down some of the extra dirt and it took like 5 mins. I didn't film it. I can try to include this project in a future revisit video during the rain!
Great job👍👍 Just found your channel today and been binge watching your videos. What’s the song music used in this video please? Love a great 80s beat. Keep up the good work👍
Good job but probably temporary improvement. I can fully appreciate the problem and the homeowner's distress. Slowing the water merely delays it's arrival. Slowing the traffic on a highway doesn't improve handling of volume.
I have no idea. This was work that was done within the last year or so. It needs to be replaced but the homeowner doesn't want to do that and I don't blame her!
@@GCFD As long as it works like you did in the video, very impressive by the way! where i live the ditches are higher then the road, water chills on the road and when winter comes it damages the pavement badly. im just shocked the city signed off on the undersized pipe, considering its the right of way and would have needed the approval for the approach. Maybe they downsized it after city approved the plans and the city never came back.?
I KNOW THIS IS HARD WORK BUT YOU LOOK LIKE YOU LIKE WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND THATS GOOD MY PROJECT TOOK ME 2 MONTHS TOO DO I DID IT ALL BY MYSELF THANKS TO YOUR VIDEOS FULL BUBBLE BOSS! I KINDA WANT TO DO ANOTHER ONE I MISS IT . AND THIS WAS A GREAT SOLUTION WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR IDEAS FROM ON HOW TO FIX THES PROBLEMS ?
Awesome! I'm glad you got finished up. As far as ideas, I just try to think about the source of water, how to collect it into a pipe, and then where to take the water so it's gone forever. I try to think logically and realistically about a solution.
Why pull out the concrete to put in a new culvert pipe?? Use a horizontal hole drill machine to drill a large diameter hole, and slide the new pipe in under the concrete.
That is now the City's responsibility, not the homeowners. Once they approve the culvert they become responsible for it. She needs to contact the City and have them replace it. We would make you pull all that rip rap out if you installed it without a permit. The City should be putting rip rap in too if its needed. Not to take away from your business, but homeowners need to start holding their jurisdiction accountable. Our citizens have no issue complaining to us, lol.
@@GCFD That sucks. I work for the county and we deal with drainage issues all the time. If it was in my county we would have done what you did to start. If that culvert was too small and still causing issues, we would have ripped it out and replaced it and given her a new driveway in the process. We require a minimum of 18" for our culverts and they have to have 12" of fill on top. New culverts must be HDPE.
I don’t understand why they don’t contact the local county municipality to fix issues obviously in county or state right aways. It just doesn’t make sense to me
Can I ask something for future videos? Your work is great and I LOVE watching time lapse of work being done, but can you change the camera placement? Time lapse works better if the camera is stationary. The moving shots are great at showing your perspective, but it's a little hard to keep up with when it's sped up so much. Keep up the great work and I look forward to watching more of your stuff!
It's funny that you mention that Rob. My channel has almost doubled in the last month and I've been thinking about how to improve things. Holding the camera doesn't come naturally to me and I have to constantly think about filming. Keeping in mind that the audience can't see the whole project has been a major improvement for having the video become a story with a problem stated, solution installed, and resolution at the end. I welcome any additional info or thoughts you might have as I am interested in taking things to the next level. Maybe not Andrew Camarata level, but improving things.
@@GCFD I Love Andrew too! I found him a while ago when I was searching for time lapse stuff. It really is gratifying to watch projects like yours get done, but the scale of them makes time lapse the best way to get it into a video of manageable length. For us viewers, if the camera is stationary we get to see how the project progresses with every scoop of the shovel and pass of the blade. That visible progress is lost on us when the camera is moving around at high speed. Definitely keep the "operator view" for things that come up that are a bit unusual, but keep those at regular speed....and you telling us what's going on and why you're doing what you're doing. Don't worry, you'll be jet skiing with a dog and a drone to film it in no time!! :-D
@@GCFD One thing I really like that you do with your videos, that a lot of other content creators don't do, is going back and showing how your work performs. I frequently find myself saying, "yeah, it looks nice and I understand what you're trying to do, but DOES IT WORK?!?" So please keep going back, when it's possible, and getting video of your handiwork doing it's job. I just found you today, but you got a new subscriber. Wish you were in Knoxville, I'd have you come look at my squish back yard that doesn't want to drain.
@@robl.9758 I appreciate the feedback. I recently brush hogged my camera and mount (oops!) but have since replaced it. I plan to leave a camera set up on a tripod for large chunks of the job and use that as my time lapse. The other thing I worry about is the video being too long and I think I speed things up too fast to try and shorten it. I can't wait to get some better quality stuff out there and see how it's received. Thanks again.
@@GCFD Try not to worry too much about length of videos. I happily watch 20, 30 and 40 min long videos, possibly even up to an hour or so for a particularly interesting and involved piece of work. The longer videos are great when there is a lot more involved. One thing I enjoy in a video like this is explanations of things such as why you put flat rocks around the opening, things like that are quite fascinating when backed up with reasons why. In terms of watching it in action, all I'd say is don't be afraid to linger a little bit and pick a couple of bits of the way something is working to highlight in the video, obv's not everything, but stuff like that is handy for passive and entertaining learning. Depends who your target audience is though, I watch folks like "post 10", "Drain Addict" and then a whole variety of lawncare videos too. I suspect your videos are going to reach much the same audience (although I might be incorrect). Either way, I'm enjoying watching your videos so thanks for uploading them and putting the time in to creating them!
The heck i though this was post 10.. your profile picture looks like post 10 and thats why i started watching.. other than that this vid is very interesting.
All the rocks on the in put side are doing is acting as a filter ruprap is used for erosion controll on out let's, to slow on inlets make deeper and big rocks to change direction in a zig zag
I think that ditch should be double or triple the width it is there. Usually grass swales need maintenance every 5-7 years but the larger you make it the longer maintenance intervals they'll have. She might look into modifying the inlet as the thin-edge-projecting inlet there has the worst intake ratings, & 8:24 that culvert is installed backwards.
It's definitely not an ideal situation. We talked about it and she wanted me to give it a shot with just mucking it out and not reworking things too much. She is not happy that it's a problem when it should have been done right the first time.
@@GCFD IDK what her local authority would approve but here is a demo of how awful it is that they've installed the culvert backwards, ua-cam.com/video/vnXmGyb_hKQ/v-deo.html
@@SlackerU Andrew Camarata was talking about this in a video the other day and I really didn't think it could be that big of a deal. Thanks for this link. Definitely interesting to see in action.
@@mattkeller2466 AC has such an interesting business & the coolest welded-DIY castle on YT. Ya, Letsdig18 replaced multiple pond-overflows this year with backyards-installed piping. That highway-culvert-class demo is legit.
@@SlackerU I saw Letsdig redoing a pond with backwards culverts also. Crazy how many people who do this for a living don't know that and have to have things redone by actual pros at a later date.
Man, that whole ditch looked like it was in pretty poor shape. Hate to see jobs done like that, I know people are just trying to save money, but if you do it right the first time... Nice job working with what your given.
When you hold your cell phone "camera" vertical the camera records a "Tall and Skinny" video. Please hold you phone horizontal when video recording. Why? Because then your video will be recorded in the "Widescreen" mode instead of the "Tall and Shiny" mode as seen in the cell phone video. Thanks and blue Sky's.
Relatively new pour and both corners of the driveway broken already. I'm surprised there isn't something in the building code to determine size of culvert. Big brother certainly had a lot to say about one of the other culverts you did, covering with 12" concrete all around etc. How big was the concrete one at the end?? Bigger than 12" I'll bet.. Good thing about this vid, no snakes or bright T shirts that send me running for sunglasses. One last point, you have a competitor whose practices seem top be diametrically opposite to yours. Not trying to put you in an awkward spot. I disagree with him.
Hey Knight, I agree that I seem to do things completely differently than others. I try to let my work and results speak for themselves. I also re-visit my jobs to check in on them.
@@GCFD I agree with your methods. After you have explained the issues with perforated corrugated pipe, I get it. But he says roots get into a solid PVC pipe?? I can't see how if the joints are tite and pipe not cracked..
LOL, THE WORD "MUCKING" mean, "remove manure and other dirt from a stable or other building where animals are kept". Quit saying people's homes are animal buildings. Educate your vocabulary!!!
Anyone else just love the sound of rocks hitting each other 😂
For sure Sarah! 👍
I find it beautiful that you go back out and check on you work to make sure the fix is working! Love the content!
Thank you! Thanks for watching and commenting! - Shawn
When you have sufficient experience, your vision becomes a reality.
It is really interesting how your business involves both very serious water engineering AND the artistic skills needed to execute the science.
Thank you! It's interesting because you can't fake the results during the rain!
Lol...gotta love the dog jumping into his new pool:)
Bennie
Thanks for great explanations of the process and outcome.
Thanks for watching Linda!
Nice!!! It's always a good feeling to go out the next day and see it working like you intended. 👍
I thought this was a Post10 video, but other than that the video was very interesting to watch...
Thanks for watching!
Hell yes I know exactly which you tuber you are talking about
@Mason Forrest Post10 is everyone's hero . He should be given a medal for his work .
Post10 dovetails nicely with Sean’s work!
Post 10 is gonna find this house and fix it with his rake
I sure like the Side gates on that Dump. Makes loading and unloading a breeze... Great Job!
Post 10 should be with you all he’d be an amazing addition to the team
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Watching your videos has had me looking at the drainage around my house and possible solutions. Great job! Thank you for the detailed explanations and showing the outcome afterwards when the water is flowing. Wishing you and your crew a prosperous and healthy 2021!
Thank you!
A good tidy job done there, and it will be word of mouth free advertising for potential future work, well done and greetings from England, have a Happy New Year to you and your Crew.
Thanks Tom. Thanks for watching!
Ok. I love how you come back to see how it's going and include that in your video. I'm new to the channel... watching from Washington state 🌲
Thank you Alice! Let me know what you think of the channel!
I always try to do the same on every job I design, because I want to know that my methods and assumptions were correct. It helps. It's also a great feeling when you see water flow exactly how you envisioned it in your plan.
The ending comments from Shawn and homeowner hit me hard. She has access to this level of irrigation genius and she is not pouring everything she has into whatever he suggests.
If I could find someone in my area to work like this, I would not stop until all of my drainage issues were resolved.
Not everyone has the money to hire people. My husband and I are going to try and go this ourselves with shovels and our own manual labor. Just have to buy more rip rap.
Collab with Post 10 when?
I need to contact him.
literally about to watch "making mosquitoes very angry" after this lmao
When the water goes where you plan it.......priceless
I'm always excited to see the system working like I hoped/planned it would!
Excellent fix, very sad the city or county had no input on size pipe. Seems they would have but your in a different jurisdiction then I am in. The city or county in Oregon would have required a permit and dictated what min size culvert could be installed. That pip rap really slowed the flow down. I noticed the water coming out of the culvert was almost at the spring line. That culvert will have a max flow, on some rains it still may over flow. But that is a top notch fix, someone that understand how water flows and how you can effect it. Fluid dynamics good job. I sure enjoyed working in that industry from 1980 to 1996.
Thanks for commenting and watching! This was a crappy situation for the homeowner so I tried to make the best of it for her. She understands that the concrete people didn't do their job right. I try not to dwell on the past but try to focus on doing the best I can with what I have to work with.
Excellent job!
You are good and passionate with your work; absolutely good work ethic, and excellent customer service! Wish you were here in MI👍
👍 Thank you!
Great fix.
WOW! That is IMPRESSIVE!
Thank you!
Great job man!
Awesome job , I had one semi similar to this last summer . Customer had a stone driveway , clogged culvert , all the rock from years of neglect fell in , and it overflowed over the driveway taking 12” of base with it . The guys daughter ripped a muffler off her car before he realized he had to do something. Dredged everything on both sides , fixed the driveways with more 2a modified , and reset all the rocks that were in the ditch prior for the same reason as your clip here . The guy sent me pics from the next heavy rain and it was flowing perfectly . All done with my boxer mini skid , with backhoe attachment. I like that size Kubota mini excavator you have there . I’d love one someday .
Thanks for sharing Rob. if you have the work for it, get a mini ex. I wish I had gotten one with a factory thumb instead of me adding one later. That little ex has done a tremendous amount of work. And would pair well with your mini skid. I have the Bobcat mini skid.
@@GCFD I’m not quite there yet , I have a boxer mini skid loader for doing tree and trash work , grapple claw and material bucket etc . I bought the backhoe attachment to start getting my name out for digging. It does the job but won’t hold a candle to a mini excavator. You guys put out some awesome information.
Nice work!
Thank you Sapient!
This channel and Post10’s are the perfect relaxation combo
Good job……the homeowner needs to Keep the inlet clear at all times
I have passed by this a few times in the rain. They seem to be doing a good job at keeping it clean as it's always flowing well.
Sean, great job here.
I feel this video in my Post10.
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Another great video. I'm loving these.
Thank you! Thanks for watching and commenting! - Shawn
Concrete contractor needs to be called back for 'warranty' work. City approval or not.
For sure! The homeowner was not happy at all. I never badmouth other contractors and try to focus on moving forward. I see contractors screwing over homeowners all the time, unfortunately.
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That just looks like (concrete contractor) LAZINESS!!!
That ditch is crying out for a slightly OVER-sized culvert- pipe! (nothing crazy, just an inch or two).
I can't imagine the cost difference being THAT much to be a
deal-breaker!
Nice Job!
PS- The post-job follow up is definitely a great asset to your videos!
That feature was the tipping point to come back and subscribe!!
Sean, I really enjoy the program.....
Thank you!
I just found your channel and I really like stuff like this you what wrong and how it gets fixed...
I'm glad you're enjoying the channel!
Like your before and after videos. Good ad for your business.
👍 Thank you Roberto!
The project just keep coming .
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Customer is happy
With the bad situation she has, she is happy with the results we gave her!
I don't really like and subscribe except for a few channels, but I liked and subscribed for your channel.
I've got this dip in my back yard where the concrete patio meets this big incline that starts at the top left of my yard. Water pools there. It's very annoying.
So I've been looking at what I could put there. Started researching about 8 months ago just looking up videos here and there. Your videos keep popping up in my UA-cam feed.
You do good work and your channel is very educational. It's nice to see all the nuance to these types of situations regarding drainage and how to fix the issues we commonly see.
Keep up the good work. Do it safely. Bad knees are a bitch to deal with especially when your area of expertise is blue collar work. If you plan on training guys it might be worth it to research into how to mitigate wear and tear on the body and training your guys. You want a strong and healthy work force. Just food for thought.
Using the machines you use are a great start. Letting a control panel and machines dig out ditches is a hell of a lot better than using shovels. Lol
Hey Joe thank you for your comments and subbing me. I'm glad you're enjoying the channel! I completely agree and I'm not shy about buying whatever equipment the guys think we need. I would much rather pay quality help to run equipment than cheap help to dig by hand..
Who on Earth puts plastic currugated pipe under concrete again??? Always though it is supposed to be steel or concrete to support the load. 🤔 You really did an awsome job here. Sad the person who did her driveway ripped her off that way.😞 Thank you for A+ help.
I think it's double corrugated, which is the right pipe under the concrete. The problem is the pipe was way too small. I suspect the concrete people didn't have the equipment to dig a trench for a larger pipe. Thanks for commenting Andrea! - Shawn
That’s standard practice. Metal rusts away.
Good video
Thank you Jim!
Looks like it worked fairly well. Not sure where her property starts, but you could have some smaller "check dams" upstream of the inflow. Assuming you used more rip-rap downstream of the culvert?
Great comment Nat! We pretty much ran up her property line.
What size pipe should that culvert be? I got way less flow and the guy wants a 36" double wall. I was thinking 18"
same as others thought this was post10 Great vid btw. Also you said greensboro what state? I am ga
NC 👍
Thats the 336 we have the worst planners with the fattest pay checks
Raising a dump bed with a heavy load on it to move the rock to the rear. Playing with major inconvenience there.
One time when I was around 12 years old about 52 years ago, we were harvesting wheat when my father had to go to town to take care of business at the bank and left me there to continue cutting wheat. I can not remember why but for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to start loading the truck at the back of the bed and work forward.
After a couple of loads I decided to move the truck up to the combine instead of driving the combine to the truck but when I started moving forward I saw the front of the bed start rising up in the mirror and immediately slammed on the brakes which brought the bed back down.
If I had not hit the brakes the bed would have raised all the way up and put the rear of the bed onto the ground and who knows how many bushels of wheat would have spilled onto the ground. And then I would have had to spend time getting several come-a-longs to pull the bed down far enough to dump the next load of wheat into the front to get enough weight to hold it down and then shovel all of the spilled wheat back into the bed and then crawled under the truck to get the come-a-longs out if the bed did not come down on the cables.
So I walked back to the combine and dumped the next load into the front and did not move the truck until it was full and ready to drive to the co-op to be put into storage. That was the first and last time I ever started filling the truck up at the rear of the bed instead of at the front of the bed.
Great story, thanks for sharing!
Great video , and info . Do a video on that truck it's sick where did you get it love it. I been hitting that button , and subscribe to your trailer. You do good work and keep it real with good video on the job
Thanks! I got the truck from a junkyard after they bought it at auction. It's a builders FirstSource truck with a flatbed dump on it. I had the sides built and I built the tailgate on it.
Slow down, you move too fast♫♪♬♩
You got to make the morning last♫♪♬♩
Just kicking down the cobblestones♫♪♬♩
Make it happen!
That looks like a place we bid on off of Wendover Ave.
Could be, but this wasn't off wendover.
Thats actually a lot of water overflowing
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I really wished you guys were in my area. I'd love to have you work on my property.
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I love the idea of the drop sides on a mason dump. How long is that body?!
It's a 16' truck that was owned by a building supply company. It was a flat bed dump they hauled trusses on.
Was there ever a follow up to the other side?
Joseph - we cut down some of the extra dirt and it took like 5 mins. I didn't film it. I can try to include this project in a future revisit video during the rain!
Nicely done. have you been back out in heavier rains? Still working well?
Yes it's still working well. I was out there a couple months ago and got some footage.
Ppl don't realize how much water runs through. All they want is to get rid of it they don't care where it goes..
We send most of our surface waters here into reservoirs then to the Atlantic.
Great job!!! do your company come to Mississippi?
No we don't come down that far, unfortunately 👍
Greensboro where? What state? There are a lot of Greensboro's
If that smaller flex pipe is a drain, I wonder why they put it on the upside of the culvert and not on the other side?
Maybe they couldn't go under the driveway?
that pipe under the driveway is backwards. They have the bell on the down hill side.
It depends of it working on the amount of rain.
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The days you wish for a side tipper.
Im amazed that such small culvert was used there. Very poor planning and attention to customer needs.
Yes, the homeowner was pretty disgusted with how things were working after she paid to have the driveway done...
Great job👍👍 Just found your channel today and been binge watching your videos. What’s the song music used in this video please? Love a great 80s beat. Keep up the good work👍
It's Midnight - DJ Alvin from the youtube audio library
@@GCFD Thank you very much. ☺️
Greensboro nc ????
Does homeowners Insurance cover these fixes or is it the homeowner who pays out of pocket???
Homeowners pay usually. Sometimes if there is a flooding event and we can demonstrate that it's not long-term the insurance will pay.
Good job but probably temporary improvement. I can fully appreciate the problem and the homeowner's distress. Slowing the water merely delays it's arrival. Slowing the traffic on a highway doesn't improve handling of volume.
How did they get by the city approval?
I have no idea. This was work that was done within the last year or so. It needs to be replaced but the homeowner doesn't want to do that and I don't blame her!
@@GCFD As long as it works like you did in the video, very impressive by the way! where i live the ditches are higher then the road, water chills on the road and when winter comes it damages the pavement badly. im just shocked the city signed off on the undersized pipe, considering its the right of way and would have needed the approval for the approach. Maybe they downsized it after city approved the plans and the city never came back.?
they don't like to spend the money, but so happy when it's done
👍 Money well spent.
I KNOW THIS IS HARD WORK BUT YOU LOOK LIKE YOU LIKE WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND THATS GOOD MY PROJECT TOOK ME 2 MONTHS TOO DO I DID IT ALL BY MYSELF THANKS TO YOUR VIDEOS FULL BUBBLE BOSS! I KINDA WANT TO DO ANOTHER ONE I MISS IT . AND THIS WAS A GREAT SOLUTION WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR IDEAS FROM ON HOW TO FIX THES PROBLEMS ?
Awesome! I'm glad you got finished up. As far as ideas, I just try to think about the source of water, how to collect it into a pipe, and then where to take the water so it's gone forever. I try to think logically and realistically about a solution.
Why pull out the concrete to put in a new culvert pipe?? Use a horizontal hole drill machine to drill a large diameter hole, and slide the new pipe in under the concrete.
How did you go about figuring out the price for this kind of job?
Time, equipment, materials, location, access.
Thanks!
Is the city not responsible for fixing things like this??
They might be but hardly anyone I have talked to has had luck working with them.
@@GCFD Crazy.. sounds about right tho.
Man, they got raped by the city for allowing such a poor developer.
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That is now the City's responsibility, not the homeowners. Once they approve the culvert they become responsible for it. She needs to contact the City and have them replace it. We would make you pull all that rip rap out if you installed it without a permit. The City should be putting rip rap in too if its needed. Not to take away from your business, but homeowners need to start holding their jurisdiction accountable. Our citizens have no issue complaining to us, lol.
My customers have had almost zero luck contacting the city or county for drainage problems here.
@@GCFD That sucks. I work for the county and we deal with drainage issues all the time. If it was in my county we would have done what you did to start. If that culvert was too small and still causing issues, we would have ripped it out and replaced it and given her a new driveway in the process. We require a minimum of 18" for our culverts and they have to have 12" of fill on top. New culverts must be HDPE.
slightly taps bumper with mini. oh well hope no one will notice lol
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I don’t understand why they don’t contact the local county municipality to fix issues obviously in county or state right aways. It just doesn’t make sense to me
I have yet to hear of the local municipality actually fixing a problem on their right of way. They just don't want to.
Why haven't I seen this video yet? I subbed.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the channel!
@@GCFD Indeed I do!
You really should have Traffic Control in place for your safety
Can I ask something for future videos? Your work is great and I LOVE watching time lapse of work being done, but can you change the camera placement? Time lapse works better if the camera is stationary. The moving shots are great at showing your perspective, but it's a little hard to keep up with when it's sped up so much. Keep up the great work and I look forward to watching more of your stuff!
It's funny that you mention that Rob. My channel has almost doubled in the last month and I've been thinking about how to improve things. Holding the camera doesn't come naturally to me and I have to constantly think about filming. Keeping in mind that the audience can't see the whole project has been a major improvement for having the video become a story with a problem stated, solution installed, and resolution at the end. I welcome any additional info or thoughts you might have as I am interested in taking things to the next level. Maybe not Andrew Camarata level, but improving things.
@@GCFD I Love Andrew too! I found him a while ago when I was searching for time lapse stuff. It really is gratifying to watch projects like yours get done, but the scale of them makes time lapse the best way to get it into a video of manageable length. For us viewers, if the camera is stationary we get to see how the project progresses with every scoop of the shovel and pass of the blade. That visible progress is lost on us when the camera is moving around at high speed. Definitely keep the "operator view" for things that come up that are a bit unusual, but keep those at regular speed....and you telling us what's going on and why you're doing what you're doing. Don't worry, you'll be jet skiing with a dog and a drone to film it in no time!! :-D
@@GCFD One thing I really like that you do with your videos, that a lot of other content creators don't do, is going back and showing how your work performs. I frequently find myself saying, "yeah, it looks nice and I understand what you're trying to do, but DOES IT WORK?!?" So please keep going back, when it's possible, and getting video of your handiwork doing it's job. I just found you today, but you got a new subscriber. Wish you were in Knoxville, I'd have you come look at my squish back yard that doesn't want to drain.
@@robl.9758 I appreciate the feedback. I recently brush hogged my camera and mount (oops!) but have since replaced it. I plan to leave a camera set up on a tripod for large chunks of the job and use that as my time lapse. The other thing I worry about is the video being too long and I think I speed things up too fast to try and shorten it. I can't wait to get some better quality stuff out there and see how it's received. Thanks again.
@@GCFD Try not to worry too much about length of videos. I happily watch 20, 30 and 40 min long videos, possibly even up to an hour or so for a particularly interesting and involved piece of work. The longer videos are great when there is a lot more involved. One thing I enjoy in a video like this is explanations of things such as why you put flat rocks around the opening, things like that are quite fascinating when backed up with reasons why. In terms of watching it in action, all I'd say is don't be afraid to linger a little bit and pick a couple of bits of the way something is working to highlight in the video, obv's not everything, but stuff like that is handy for passive and entertaining learning. Depends who your target audience is though, I watch folks like "post 10", "Drain Addict" and then a whole variety of lawncare videos too. I suspect your videos are going to reach much the same audience (although I might be incorrect).
Either way, I'm enjoying watching your videos so thanks for uploading them and putting the time in to creating them!
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Thank you!! - Shawn
The heck i though this was post 10.. your profile picture looks like post 10 and thats why i started watching.. other than that this vid is very interesting.
Lol sorry about that! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! - Shawn
A wider angle camera would really be a benefits to your videos :)
I use action cameras. They are set on wide angle so I might have maxed it out.
All the rocks on the in put side are doing is acting as a filter ruprap is used for erosion controll on out let's, to slow on inlets make deeper and big rocks to change direction in a zig zag
No the riprap is slowing the water and redirecting it into the inlet. Check out the end of the video 👍
Slowing down the water flow is asking for trouble in my opinion.
So is all this rain due to climate change or a one in one hundred year flood?
We are seeing more frequent intense storms in NC. Definitely climate change, especially on the coast.
Has anyone else noticed the pipe is in the ditch backwards? The bell end should always be uphill
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this is like a small job Letsdig18 would do. small simple job.
I've learned a lot from his channel. I like his volvo!
@@GCFD Im Personal friends with. Im the Zach in the vids. I actually referred the GF's parents to you. They call but you 2 weeks out on estimates.
I have a video worst then that. Would love to share!!
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That pipe is only good for yard drains or home gutters that should have a stream pipe in it
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I think that ditch should be double or triple the width it is there. Usually grass swales need maintenance every 5-7 years but the larger you make it the longer maintenance intervals they'll have. She might look into modifying the inlet as the thin-edge-projecting inlet there has the worst intake ratings, & 8:24 that culvert is installed backwards.
It's definitely not an ideal situation. We talked about it and she wanted me to give it a shot with just mucking it out and not reworking things too much. She is not happy that it's a problem when it should have been done right the first time.
@@GCFD IDK what her local authority would approve but here is a demo of how awful it is that they've installed the culvert backwards, ua-cam.com/video/vnXmGyb_hKQ/v-deo.html
@@SlackerU Andrew Camarata was talking about this in a video the other day and I really didn't think it could be that big of a deal. Thanks for this link. Definitely interesting to see in action.
@@mattkeller2466 AC has such an interesting business & the coolest welded-DIY castle on YT. Ya, Letsdig18 replaced multiple pond-overflows this year with backyards-installed piping. That highway-culvert-class demo is legit.
@@SlackerU I saw Letsdig redoing a pond with backwards culverts also. Crazy how many people who do this for a living don't know that and have to have things redone by actual pros at a later date.
Man, that whole ditch looked like it was in pretty poor shape. Hate to see jobs done like that, I know people are just trying to save money, but if you do it right the first time... Nice job working with what your given.
I agree! It's a tough spot to be in when the homeowner is having to pay when they shouldn't have to if the job was right in the first place..
This was a 10 minute job if done by Post10 😅
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@@GCFD Clearing the flood that is. I don't think he can build drains like that. 🤔
When you hold your cell phone "camera" vertical the camera records a "Tall and Skinny" video. Please hold you phone horizontal when video recording. Why? Because then your video will be recorded in the "Widescreen" mode instead of the "Tall and Shiny" mode as seen in the cell phone video. Thanks and blue Sky's.
tell that to all my customers and everyone with a smartphone!
Relatively new pour and both corners of the driveway broken already. I'm surprised there isn't something in the building code to determine size of culvert.
Big brother certainly had a lot to say about one of the other culverts you did, covering with 12" concrete all around etc. How big was the concrete one at the end?? Bigger than 12" I'll bet..
Good thing about this vid, no snakes or bright T shirts that send me running for sunglasses.
One last point, you have a competitor whose practices seem top be diametrically opposite to yours. Not trying to put you in an awkward spot. I disagree with him.
Hey Knight, I agree that I seem to do things completely differently than others. I try to let my work and results speak for themselves. I also re-visit my jobs to check in on them.
@@GCFD I agree with your methods. After you have explained the issues with perforated corrugated pipe, I get it. But he says roots get into a solid PVC pipe?? I can't see how if the joints are tite and pipe not cracked..
@@knighthauler4792 - roots can get into anything. Roots can penetrate concrete. Saying they can get into pvc isn’t really saying much imo.
In a few months, it will be clogged with debris again anyway.
I have been checking on this occasionally and I'm not seeing what you stated will happen. ?
Wow you would get in serious shit for not having flagmen and permits for closing a lane of the street up here. No way you could do that in Ontario.
We do it all the time. No one seems to care around here as they go flying by our workers...
A French drain is not Francais I hope you know?
I sure don't know what that is.
@@GCFD no worries
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wtf
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LOL, THE WORD "MUCKING" mean, "remove manure and other dirt from a stable or other building where animals are kept". Quit saying people's homes are animal buildings. Educate your vocabulary!!!
I am referring to the other meaning of MUCKING, substance with a high organic matter and mud.
Ur nothing like post 10
What does that mean?