All that room you filled in under the front porch. Here in northwest Missouri, we use that for storm shelter or gunvolts. Just make a door from the basement into it water proof it and wire it and finish it out. For a gun volt just add the heavy metal door. Sad to waste that space!!
Boss man… that was a nice dance. Pirouette, side step, stomp, waltz, strut, square dance, moonwalk, break dancing, slide… the full repertoire on display. And doing it in the space of a shoe box!!! All the time, keeping beat with the Idler Band blaring out its melody. Boss man, you are truly the Kubota dance master!!!!
I was working on a tunnel job. I was in a 600’ x 1200’ open cut part of the tunnel station. I was cutting interior column footings with a 16’ cutter bar rock trencher. Had tons of spoils. Had nowhere to move the spoils for a short time before backfilling. So… I shoved everything into a corner of the hole but it was on the side where I our access ramp was… so I was really cramped on space. Ramped up nearly to the top of the 60’ hole. That was SKETCHY pushing spoils that high with a track skid steer on such a steep slope. She did it tho. 😂 I fell in love with tracked skid steers on that job. Some of the smallest equipment on the site but at the same time… some of the most important.
I've been told that I've done somethings with my Kubota 95 that was sketchy and nail biting BUT I've been watching a lot of your videos and went back and took another look at the one you posted of Basement footings Windham Mountain and this video here where you come down inside the foundation Dirt Boss my stuff is a cake walk compared to the trying situation you get into. You take first place as far as I'm concerned. Nerves of steel. Good job.
I love working with nice clean #2 stone, but it seems like we're putting in either the excavated material if it's good enough or imported fill which is so much slower and needs the jumping jack to compact. We always to the last 4-6 inches in stone though, makes a nicer finish product
Great to see you doing more videos these days! Love to see that D51 work...great power with awesome visibility! Keep up the great work!! (Floyd...an old excavation guy)
I don’t see the crazy part but a great operator that knows how to to a good job. A guy not smashing the controls, bogging down the motor, and doing things three times to get a half ass result is hard to find. I miss doing that work.Nice job! ✌️
I used to have to spread the stone in the basements by hand with my shovel. My boss would throw buckets of stone into the basement with the excavator and I would spread it out when I was a teenager 🙂 Good way to build muscles. I actually enjoyed it.
That aggregate looks clean, if so, I have never seen any one suggest that clean is compactible as there are no fines to compact. Those lifts are mighty proud to compact with a that small compactor
How do you price your bids on jobs like these and determine how much stone is needed? I have a buddy who is a project manager for a custom home builder in my area and he’s asked if I’d like to take on some of these backfilling and grading jobs for him but don’t know how to price them. Could you give me some insight? Awesome stuff by the way, I love learning from you.
Was this requested from the home owner or the builder designed for this? Sold the idea to the home owner? Just curious how a homeowner opts in for all this stone+work+ time = money
Can you tell me why they dug that out so much I used to put on Facebook then we never talked the garage off like that that must have cost a homeowner a lot of money
I love seeing how people do this in other places. Here in Virgnia, we would do that fill with 3/4" clean stone, granite. Not required to compact it, the engineers say that the stone creates a bridge effect at that size and will not settle over time. If you do work it with the compactor, it really doesn't seem to go far; I have had my worries before about that. Anyway, I wonder if it is the nature of the stone you use for the fill that requires you all up there to have to compact where we don't? Thanks for the videos.
Well stone is 90% self-compaction I agree All you're doing is massaging it so it fills all those little voids like a puzzle..but from bottom to top that would equal about 4 in no lie..
At my old house, I leveled out under our deck by building a retaining wall, then backfilled the sloped area with 57. I didn’t really mechanically compact it. Only ran over it with the dingo I was using to move the material. It settled out around 2” over the course of a year. It was a gravel patio area anyways so it didn’t matter that it settled, but I could tell how much it settled based on the amount of the top of the retaining wall that was exposed.
Why so Much clear stone. Is that code ? Why pay that much money when the dirt is free. And compacting clear stone ? Is that a thing ? Never heard of it
First of all dirt is not free it cost money to dig it out of the ground second the dirt on this site is Clay we would never use clay for structural fill third Rock is our only resource in this area on this project hopefully that cleared it up for you
@@DIRT-BOSS and are the definitions of structural fill different where you live ? I’m not busting balls. I’m just curious. Dig out the dirt/clay, truck it away. Then truck in clear stone.
Man you would go broke if you replaced everything these couch mechanics wantedyou to. Run it and get the good out of it. We do same thing on every basement we backfill. Who wants to take a chance on concrete settling. Nice job
Understand, I've got a good friend that's been running a skid loader for years and he agrees. There's a bunch of builders around here that don't understand the cost and time needed to fill a basement with rock chucking but they still use them. Watched my friend fill a basement over dig, garage and a big wrap around porch in about 1/4 the time that a rock chucking did the same thing
Those look like some big lifts what's rule of thumb for lifts? I did 6 to 8 inches but I am a dumbass Diy who has to overkill everything because I don't know what I am doing.
What I don't understand is if this is going to be a garage, why is the builder spending $700 a load on rock when a load of good dirt is only like $200? 🙆♂️ I'd hate to see the bill for this job.
@@DIRT-BOSS I understand that had to replace them before, been a heavy equipment operator for 20 years. I'm an electrician by trade, but on and off heavy equipment operator. Have dug a lot of footers go to be really good to dig footers. Enjoyed watching you work very skilled you are!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️
Undue wear on the track gear with all that tight maneuvers. Why not use the excavator that is sitting there doing nothing. Would be far easier, quicker and safer
All that room you filled in under the front porch. Here in northwest Missouri, we use that for storm shelter or gunvolts. Just make a door from the basement into it water proof it and wire it and finish it out. For a gun volt just add the heavy metal door. Sad to waste that space!!
Yeah we've done that before too All depends on what the homeowner wants
Same in southern wisconsin. It serves as storage and emergency
Gun vault.lol
maybe the don't have storms or guns
Liberty makes a nice vault door that can be installed there.
There's a big difference between running a machine,and truly operating it within tight quarters where it matters.Nice work!
Well said
Lol
The quality of your work stands out as you go the extra mile is great, I'm sure the manager see's that and apricates having the best on his job.
You are the best “FREE” advertising Kubota could ever want. Think they should reward you.
Set it up Ted set it up!
Boss man… that was a nice dance. Pirouette, side step, stomp, waltz, strut, square dance, moonwalk, break dancing, slide… the full repertoire on display. And doing it in the space of a shoe box!!! All the time, keeping beat with the Idler Band blaring out its melody.
Boss man, you are truly the Kubota dance master!!!!
🤣🤣🤣 I like that one SV!
I was working on a tunnel job. I was in a 600’ x 1200’ open cut part of the tunnel station. I was cutting interior column footings with a 16’ cutter bar rock trencher. Had tons of spoils. Had nowhere to move the spoils for a short time before backfilling. So… I shoved everything into a corner of the hole but it was on the side where I our access ramp was… so I was really cramped on space. Ramped up nearly to the top of the 60’ hole. That was SKETCHY pushing spoils that high with a track skid steer on such a steep slope. She did it tho. 😂 I fell in love with tracked skid steers on that job. Some of the smallest equipment on the site but at the same time… some of the most important.
Think what they could have built if the Egyptians or Aztecs had just one of them!!!
That's a lot of stone - takes a lot to build a solid foundation - and where would it be without it! Great job.
Monday I will be honored to be pumping the slabs on possibly my first ever dirt boss job site
Oh yeah buddy! 💪💪💪
I've been told that I've done somethings with my Kubota 95 that was sketchy and nail biting BUT I've been watching a lot of your videos and went back and took another look at the one you posted of Basement footings Windham Mountain and this video here where you come down inside the foundation Dirt Boss my stuff is a cake walk compared to the trying situation you get into. You take first place as far as I'm concerned. Nerves of steel. Good job.
Lol thanks man!
Every skid steer should come with that swivel attachment! Thats badass
Yes sir!
Welcome to the club! A normal day for use!
World's best drainage under this slab!
I love working with nice clean #2 stone, but it seems like we're putting in either the excavated material if it's good enough or imported fill which is so much slower and needs the jumping jack to compact. We always to the last 4-6 inches in stone though, makes a nicer finish product
Gettin it done 💪🏻 nice work as always! I love working with clean stone
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Great to see you doing more videos these days! Love to see that D51 work...great power with awesome visibility! Keep up the great work!! (Floyd...an old excavation guy)
Job starting to shape up. Excellent work Dirt Boss Man.👍👍
I don’t see the crazy part but a great operator that knows how to to a good job. A guy not smashing the controls, bogging down the motor, and doing things three times to get a half ass result is hard to find. I miss doing that work.Nice job! ✌️
Thanks man The crazy part was just on a thumbnail trying to get everybody to watch you know the game!
DirtBoss, glad to see that you seem to be uploading more videos.
There is something very satisfying watch you fill that with rock and compact it😁
I used to have to spread the stone in the basements by hand with my shovel. My boss would throw buckets of stone into the basement with the excavator and I would spread it out when I was a teenager 🙂 Good way to build muscles. I actually enjoyed it.
I did that for you years also
That aggregate looks clean, if so, I have never seen any one suggest that clean is compactible as there are no fines to compact. Those lifts are mighty proud to compact with a that small compactor
Well I guess you failed compaction School then
@@DIRT-BOSS nah probably not...Clear will only drop 1in to compact 8%...so more like properly orienting the gravel rather than compacting ..it's all 💯
I agree Derek. We always used modified stone which had small pieces and stone. Compacted with a Wacker at 4" per lift. That's my 2 cents.
Wow. Great techniques. Nice job. Thank you
Came out great . I got a roller starting to squeal. I just did the 2 fronts and now I got one in the middle 🤦♂️ never ends
Yeah usually when I got one bad one I replace them all when it comes to bottom rollers cuz you're just chase that for the next year and a half
@@DIRT-BOSS yeah that’s true !
@@DirtBrute I used a paint roller with the same problem last week…. Do you think there is a epidemic?
@@sassafrasvalley1939 😂😂😂😂. Your killing me !!
Nice thanks for sharing
Must be different Kubotas between New York and Indiana! Lol!
Yep 100%
Best all around skidloader ever
I agree I just demoed a 2022 TL 12 and it just wasn't for me..
Wow! it's Amazing I did it well ! Perfect work !
I can tell the Kubota loves those rocks, it's squealing with delight.
🤣 Got brand new front idlers for it just got to install them one just went out two weeks ago
My first thought was that it was an SVL-65, then I saw it was a 90. Gall-dang those are some skills operating on the skid steer!
Thanks man I'm glad you could appreciate it! 💪
At my old job we had to line the bottom of a retention pond with stone by hand, it was about the same size pile if not more, that was a long day haha
Well played dirt boss !
Awesome work Mike
New subscriber here....that was soooooo satisfying to watch! 💜💜💜💜
Thanks for subbing!
Nice! And it takes my neighbor a year and a half to do a simple top off rehab and addition 🙄
How do you price your bids on jobs like these and determine how much stone is needed? I have a buddy who is a project manager for a custom home builder in my area and he’s asked if I’d like to take on some of these backfilling and grading jobs for him but don’t know how to price them. Could you give me some insight? Awesome stuff by the way, I love learning from you.
Length times width times height get your quantities
Nice and clean, things are starting to take off. Nice work Mike 💪👍🇺🇸
Was there a slope on that rock? My eyes just thought there was some slope. If there was could you explain why?
Yes very good eye the rock is pictured 2 in so the concrete floor will pitch 2 in
One word your an animal Mr Dirt Boss. Aka stone boss
That took some Stones!
Boa tarde amigo like ótimo trabalho abraço
Was this requested from the home owner or the builder designed for this? Sold the idea to the home owner? Just curious how a homeowner opts in for all this stone+work+ time = money
It was the only option due to elevation and materials in the area
Awesome job ''BOSS''!!
Great job again can you give me information on that bucket. Thank you Tony from Las Cruces NM
Bradco paladin tilt attachment..
Not to shabby , good shit not hitting the walls , easy peezy though 😎
This seems so expensive and wasteful, I live in Ga, they fill with dirt the top with gravel.
Do you have to do it this way because of code?
Can you tell me why they dug that out so much I used to put on Facebook then we never talked the garage off like that that must have cost a homeowner a lot of money
Nicey nice Dirt Boss!!! 💪💪💪
Awesome job DB
Nice and nice.
great job, damn who got the bill for the stone?
I love seeing how people do this in other places. Here in Virgnia, we would do that fill with 3/4" clean stone, granite. Not required to compact it, the engineers say that the stone creates a bridge effect at that size and will not settle over time. If you do work it with the compactor, it really doesn't seem to go far; I have had my worries before about that. Anyway, I wonder if it is the nature of the stone you use for the fill that requires you all up there to have to compact where we don't?
Thanks for the videos.
Well stone is 90% self-compaction I agree All you're doing is massaging it so it fills all those little voids like a puzzle..but from bottom to top that would equal about 4 in no lie..
At my old house, I leveled out under our deck by building a retaining wall, then backfilled the sloped area with 57. I didn’t really mechanically compact it. Only ran over it with the dingo I was using to move the material. It settled out around 2” over the course of a year. It was a gravel patio area anyways so it didn’t matter that it settled, but I could tell how much it settled based on the amount of the top of the retaining wall that was exposed.
It most certainly will settle
Should have spent some of that money you spent on stone and put it towards some grease lol
I pretty much explained what that noise is if he follow the channel you would see in the next coming videos
Just a little curious, why didn't you just backfill with the fill that was excavated from the footers?
Junk material
Gotcha I didn't want to seem like a troll or that I was being judgemental. Great job btw.
How’d them compaction tests turn out 😂
Kidding me
Here in Minnesota only the top 4" needs to be radon rock. We fill the foundations with sand or pit run (a lot cheaper).
I agree but this was the only material for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Shouldn't there be some fines in with that rock to help it pack better when compacted?
No
Tilt Bucket For The Win! ....Hey Mike🙋♂
Hey buddy
God damn that machine calling out for grease.
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nice job
Crazy smart if you ask me, that is the difference between running and operating a piece of equipment.
Thanks
Looking good but for Pete's Sake, lubricant that bad boy!
New idlers next video its up now
You can have a concrete truck deliver the 2 stone as well use the chute and spread the stone no machine needed..
10 times the cost
It’s weird…I thought buying those idlers was gonna stop the squealing. Maybe you gotta put ‘em on …or sumpin ;)
This weekend the machine will come back to be installed!
Food for algorithm
Why so
Much clear stone. Is that code ? Why pay that much money when the dirt is free. And compacting clear stone ? Is that a thing ? Never heard of it
First of all dirt is not free it cost money to dig it out of the ground second the dirt on this site is Clay we would never use clay for structural fill third Rock is our only resource in this area on this project hopefully that cleared it up for you
@@DIRT-BOSS all but the compacting of the clear stone. Can you touch on that for me pal ?
@@DIRT-BOSS and are the definitions of structural fill different where you live ? I’m not busting balls. I’m just curious. Dig out the dirt/clay, truck it away. Then truck in clear stone.
What size and kind of rock is that?
#2
Compacted to what percent?
95 is industry standards but I guarantee this is 102
@@DIRT-BOSS Proctor test? I know 95 is pretty much standard but I’ve been on a few that had to be 97%.
Man you would go broke if you replaced everything these couch mechanics wantedyou to. Run it and get the good out of it. We do same thing on every basement we backfill. Who wants to take a chance on concrete settling.
Nice job
Exactly plus what they don't understand is it's the only material locally gravel sand etc is an hour plus away
Been me in would've ordered 200+/- yards of proflo/cdf and filled the their thing up to about 25 inches from top, then put my road base over that.
I guess what you're telling me is you want me to travel the world to find your CDF this was the only product available within 50 miles
Somebody get this guy some grease for that machine
Lol watch the next video nothing to do with grease
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Do you guys have a rock chucking company in the area or is the cost to much
Nothing around.. besides that take a lot of chucking
Understand, I've got a good friend that's been running a skid loader for years and he agrees. There's a bunch of builders around here that don't understand the cost and time needed to fill a basement with rock chucking but they still use them. Watched my friend fill a basement over dig, garage and a big wrap around porch in about 1/4 the time that a rock chucking did the same thing
@@bigbuck2720 yes sir
Looks like that should have been a basement.
Just noticed that this is the part under the garage - Nevermind !!
Yup
Where was the crazy part??
On the thumbnail it was written out
Dude it looked like you cut it close a couple time lol be careful
I did 😁
Little grease never hurt a thing
Watch the next video it's not Grease front rollers
With the cost of rock and hauling there's a fortune here. Never seen any project using this much rock just for fill
Really go back into channel you'll see when where I dropped in 45 loads 1,000 ton
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Why does it have to be back filled with stone and not just back fill from when you dug it out
The soil that come out of the ground was clay not suitable for compaction or structural fill in our area
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Those look like some big lifts what's rule of thumb for lifts? I did 6 to 8 inches but I am a dumbass Diy who has to overkill everything because I don't know what I am doing.
Yes when compacting dirt..clean stone is different some don't even compact 🙃
That little plate compactor isn't doing anything with the lifts your putting in
I take it you're not in the industry
@@DIRT-BOSS guess again 2' lifts with a 150lb vibe plate
That's exactly what I was seeing those are some mighty big 6 inch lifts
What I don't understand is if this is going to be a garage, why is the builder spending $700 a load on rock when a load of good dirt is only like $200? 🙆♂️ I'd hate to see the bill for this job.
no fill sand around there??
Nothing
@@DIRT-BOSS interesting! Expensive fill!!
I agree, big waste of space and aggregate.
why so much stone in that garage? someone going to be parking D10's in there??
The only material available in this area
Sounds like that machine needs a grease gun?
Watch the last video I posted
@@DIRT-BOSS I understand that had to replace them before, been a heavy equipment operator for 20 years. I'm an electrician by trade, but on and off heavy equipment operator. Have dug a lot of footers go to be really good to dig footers. Enjoyed watching you work very skilled you are!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️
Why not use a digger less moving around and safer
Nowhere near efficient
That poor machine is screaming for some grease lol
Nope watch the latest video
Why would you make that big hole on the ground do all the concrete work and then fill it full of gravel I don't get it I'm sure there is a good reason
Good question it's because of the elevations you have to have the house a certain height out of the ground for water issues
Need a trench compactor
I got one subscribe you'll see!
You need a hardhat with a Carmer mount on it
Why
☝️ exactly
Come on Karen
Grease that thing man
Watch next video
I see new parts 👍
"This guy is crazy"
Nice little self ego boost in the thumbnail I see. 👍
LOL
Undue wear on the track gear with all that tight maneuvers. Why not use the excavator that is sitting there doing nothing. Would be far easier, quicker and safer
Not quicker
I don't know who's building this but he sure knows how to blow a lot of money to come up with nothing
Your first three words were absolutely correct
@@DIRT-BOSS I've got an a****** too but I chose not to show mine
You can't fix stupidity
@@ksapp8213 Good Morning Pal 😎
All that space why not just make it part of the basement?
Not my house
Get them noisy rollers fixed ! My god
I have the front idlers the right one is bad Brand new ones will be put on this weekend
This guy is pretty dam impressive.
Thanks!
Higher a stone slinger next time
Why
If you'd left the ramp....the next load woulda filled in itself
Installing controlled lifts
That’s nothing, I had to place, grade, compact, 530 tons of stone in Downtown Easton PA. I did it in less than 6 hrs
As you probably know this isn't a competition