I'm not even that delicate moving them by hand. Although the last one was to draw attention to a small lake, so like fuck was I stepping in it to drop a cone.
I randomly came across your videos a few weeks ago and have probably given you about 50 hours of watch time in the past month! Haha. Then I notice that this job is 1/4 mile from my property on 96. Super cool that you're local! Love the dirt work buddy!
Took me 3 minutes in the video to noticed Oak Grove Church. I put a lot of vehicles on the shoulder right there on your trailers park. Good job brother enjoy watching your videos.
You keep bursting my snow globe I thought it was your natural perfectionism coming out. I believe you could un-frost a cake without disturbing one crumb.
That truck load of sand gave me chills! When I was 18 (1984) I was still laboring for my dad in the masonry business and the last job before I started laying brick was a huge huge warehouse. Every day a truck that size would dump sand and two semis would unload Cherokee block. If you were the ground men you mixed mortar and raised block non stop. Some days we only turned the mixers off at lunch. 60 scoops of sand 3 bags of cement and 15 gallons of water per batch, all day. repeat the next day for two months. No I didn't walk up hill to school every day. I didn't go half the time in high school I was working! lol My nephews pay to go to the gym and couldn't push a wheelbarrow filled with cement without dumping it if that had to...
Lol Think about it though Would you really think to slow down for a little 200 foot construction zone… Your intentions were in the right place though I’ll give you that
@@dominicfarzetta I would give you odds that many of those drivers didn't even notice or pay attention to the work going on there, let alone slow down for it.
I deliver bricks most of the time off the side of the road and let me tell you it is very rare for anyone to slow down I have a near death experience at least once a week.
Looks like your off to a pretty good start Chris, Hope you don't get to many spots on that stretch, that start pumping on ya, and have to dig a lot more out .... Can't hardly get away from it with that much rain and water in the ground this time of year . But, hopefully it all goes pretty good and you can't get it all knocked out pretty quick !! lolol.... Have a Great Evening Man !! On too the Next....
After watching all these years of you using the grading bucket on the mini and now on your 220 I went out and got one of my own and love it. Keep up the great work.
yes , what a wet mess things have been. springs coming out out the ground we've never seen. several new ditch lines in the woods. trees falling over. not cool. if it ever dries out I've got quite a bit of fixing to do on the farm.
What gravel size did you use to cover the road culvert and the transition into the driveway? On top of the material for the driveway, what sizes or rock/gravel were used from bottom to top layer and the depth of each layer if the sizes were larger to smaller? Thanks.
Letsdig18...your skills with all of your equipment is freaking amazing!!!! I’ve helped in some insane surgeries before, but watching you operate your equipment is even more impressive. Edit: That dump truck came in hot!!!! Driver knew exactly what they were doing!! Very impressive.
I watch a lot of people on equipment and I must say you are amazing on the excavator and rest of your equipment as well, and that swivel bucket on the yanmar excavator is amazing!!!
Man, you scared me yesterday with no video, I was ready to start combing the ditches of NC. You had a string going there, and it was part of my daily routine. I enjoy the vid's, thanks.
That's sure a busy stretch of road. The wide entrance for safer exit and entrance to the drive is a must. I don't need one, but I'd love to have a skid steer just to play and make a mess with.
Those 4 in 1 buckets are really nice for driveway work and dirt moving . Nice work on the project. You guys do good quality work you probably stay pretty busy. Nice video keep up the good work and stay safe !
More cars have gone past you in this video than have gone by my house in 8 years. I'm literally not joking. Makes me glad to live in rural Montana even if my driveway isn't as nice as this one.
Awesome video. I have never done a culvert before but I was wondering why everyone is digging about 20-30' feet instead of just digging the area will be culvert has to be placed? And then use gravel to cover it up? It seems more efficient and cost effective for the owner. But again, I never done so I was just wondering.
Hey Chris you definitely need some help I have to try to find another Tim, lol. But anyway brother another great video you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming in again I can’t wait do you get back on the animal shelter project that’s going to make some good videos
It is interesting to see the different driveways you get involved in versus the ones I am familiar with in Northern Utah and used to be familiar with in the South Bay Area (between San Jose and Monterey CA). Has to be zoning and permits process in part as well as climate and soils. I have lived from coast to coast as well as Canada to Gulf of Mexico in my 70+ years..
For sure. Some of those cars really appear to be flying. Not sure what the speed limit might be but you think they might ease up a bit with equipment operating so close to the road. But I can sort of relate. I live in a semi-rural residential neighborhood with a 25 mph speed limit. If I had a buck for every car going under 40....I'd be broke.
127 inches of rain, hell that's far more than our rainy average here in Oregon. No wonder the soil there is so easy to scoop out. Doing a project like that in this state would take an environmental study and approval by snowflakes, flagmen, coned off to one lane access, 2 guys with hand held shovels, a foreman, a permit that takes forever to get approved, an inspection before, during, then after. And at least one teammate with CPR/first aid training. High fuel costs and smog regulations plus high taxes, to really put the squeeze on.
When you said ten feet of rain fall "somehow" reminds me of my neighbor? Some fancy politician predicted 25 years ago that most of Florida would be underwater by 2006 or so. My neighbor panicked and literally gave away his home for pennies on the dollar and moved to Arizona. The polar ice was melting and melting fast they said, learn to swim or move to higher ground they said, gonna be ten feet of water over your house Bill. Fast forward to 2020 and the only thing that has changed is that his home he sold is now worth a hundred times more than what he sold it for and is still high and dry, we laugh to this day about that and he stopped listening to those fancy politicians, lol!
Hiii dear Friend ! In my old age, I do have a Komatsu PC27 M2 for developing my piece of land / ground in French Guyana, I think this is why I love seeing you work but often I am "jealous" of your machinery and the easy of you working. Nota Bene. No coca-cola nor pepsi-cola nooooo fruit juice !!! I drink coconut water, lemon juice, mango juice etc....... OK keep well and strong one must work while he is young and fit........ Old it become's heavy and too slow !! I know !
What's the sizes of gravel that you used in this project? I'm a DIYer and I am going to attempt to take on my driveway install myself. Thanks in advance!
Jobs like that close to busy roads always make me uneasy, people are more worried about what you're doing then driving. Stay safe out there bud you do excellent work 🤘
New subscriber here, just wanted to say really looking forward to watching some of your videos. I recently went "all in" for starting a excavating business full time now. At the moment things are slow but really excited to see where it takes me, great video and be safe and God bless!
Is that a sand type material you used around the culvert? It's not a crushed stone is it? Nothing large in there to puncture the pipe which makes it look like sand. It looks light, fluffy, sandy material.
You remind me of a guy who taught me a LOT running equipment. I swear he could Knit with a skidsteer! Watching you work... I absolutely love the dexterity with an excavator... you should clamp a paintbrush on your bucket and paint a picture! Keep on keepin on man! 😁
Just ran across your videos and I was wondering what is the stuff you put on top of the culvert prior to putting gravel on it or chat, some kind of sand?
nice Takeuchi skid steer Takeuch iis getting popular..... lot of contractors here in Texas use the mini Takeuchi trackhoes for installing conduit for roadway lighting
Gee just watching this video Chris is that America is on the move with type's of freight moving along the highway Chris give different perspective to your work 👍🇺🇲👍🇦🇺
Hello Chris from another Chris... 😂 Good Morning from England. I have been watching for a good while now and enjoy the content no end. I find watching very much relaxing and find myself very chilled as the end of the video. Has there ever been a job to big that you have had to turn it down???
Sorry, I had to pause the video to eat dinner last night. Just getting back to finish watching I hope that didn't cause the truck to tie up traffic that long also!🤣😁 love the videos!
Why is watching a dude scrape sod with a skid steer so relaxing? Maybe cause up North we been plowing snow all day...
Bossman nailed the timing on that first dump!
I was expecting 200 cars to pass when he went to dump.
It was flawless.
It's like he's done that before. Smooth pull in, dump, and gone in 30 sec. :)
He did a perfect 10 on that drop.....
And not a drop spilled on the road either
He still should have “be prepared to stop”signs out on that road and at least jump out with a flag to get traffic stopped.
Your videos are great Covid relief. Such delicate touch in moving the cone.
I'm not even that delicate moving them by hand.
Although the last one was to draw attention to a small lake, so like fuck was I stepping in it to drop a cone.
I like the way you provide just enough commentary to explain what you’re doing without overloading your videos with too much talking.
@ Rick - Well Said.... Yes exactly, i prefer channels like this, that don't overdo it
Oh ... much more civilized then humping silt, sand and mud out of a pond! I could watch this all night. And, no snakes!
The way you effortlessly use that 4in1 bucket is truly amazing.. you are amazing at what you do..
I was thinking I couldn't move that cone with my foot as tenderly as he moved it with the bucket.
I randomly came across your videos a few weeks ago and have probably given you about 50 hours of watch time in the past month! Haha. Then I notice that this job is 1/4 mile from my property on 96. Super cool that you're local! Love the dirt work buddy!
Took me 3 minutes in the video to noticed Oak Grove Church. I put a lot of vehicles on the shoulder right there on your trailers park. Good job brother enjoy watching your videos.
You keep bursting my snow globe I thought it was your natural perfectionism coming out. I believe you could un-frost a cake without disturbing one crumb.
This was a great video Chris. It showed much more of the process in order. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
Great job! That's the proper way to install a driveway.
That truck load of sand gave me chills! When I was 18 (1984) I was still laboring for my dad in the masonry business and the last job before I started laying brick was a huge huge warehouse. Every day a truck that size would dump sand and two semis would unload Cherokee block. If you were the ground men you mixed mortar and raised block non stop. Some days we only turned the mixers off at lunch. 60 scoops of sand 3 bags of cement and 15 gallons of water per batch, all day. repeat the next day for two months. No I didn't walk up hill to school every day. I didn't go half the time in high school I was working! lol My nephews pay to go to the gym and couldn't push a wheelbarrow filled with cement without dumping it if that had to...
You are getting more rain than England Chris🙂
Thanks for the video 👍🇬🇧
Wow, 10 ft of rain. We in the Central Valley of California have had less than 1 inch since July 1. Last year, less than one foot!
You are right about one thing and that is one busy road. Those folks are going to have more in that driveway than I payed for my house.
I'm thinking the same thing LOL
Love the sound of the Yanmar oil pump...
I like how the traffic slows down and drives carefully past you as you work next to the road....
Lol
Think about it though
Would you really think to slow down for a little 200 foot construction zone…
Your intentions were in the right place though I’ll give you that
@@dominicfarzetta I would give you odds that many of those drivers didn't even notice or pay attention to the work going on there, let alone slow down for it.
Rubber necking.
I deliver bricks most of the time off the side of the road and let me tell you it is very rare for anyone to slow down I have a near death experience at least once a week.
Yeah! I was noticing that too! Damn... And no median strips?!
Nice little project. Jon getting it done in pure Jon fashion balls to walls 😁
What is the fine material he is using under the abc?
@@charlesstevens8378 screenings it’s the fines that come in base rock
Gonna be fun putting the culvert in the creek to get across it. Looks like it'll take a lot of fill.
Looks like your off to a pretty good start Chris, Hope you don't get to many spots on that stretch, that start pumping on ya, and have to dig a lot more out .... Can't hardly get away from it with that much rain and water in the ground this time of year . But, hopefully it all goes pretty good and you can't get it all knocked out pretty quick !! lolol.... Have a Great Evening Man !! On too the Next....
Chris that main road is like a racetrack, your work is awesome. Kevin
After watching all these years of you using the grading bucket on the mini and now on your 220 I went out and got one of my own and love it. Keep up the great work.
makes you wonder how you went without one for so long
Figured got to buy more equipment to do the work my self good employees are hard to find.
I just love watching the way you work so smooth and precise, keep up the great work can't wait for more 👍
Your probably loving that new bucket, looks like it works great! Well worth the investment
yes , what a wet mess things have been. springs coming out out the ground we've never seen. several new ditch lines in the woods. trees falling over. not cool. if it ever dries out I've got quite a bit of fixing to do on the farm.
Coffee is my drug of choice...tks for video
Same here, can't live without it. Actually, I could live without it but why would I do that?
What gravel size did you use to cover the road culvert and the transition into the driveway? On top of the material for the driveway, what sizes or rock/gravel were used from bottom to top layer and the depth of each layer if the sizes were larger to smaller? Thanks.
Letsdig18...your skills with all of your equipment is freaking amazing!!!! I’ve helped in some insane surgeries before, but watching you operate your equipment is even more impressive.
Edit: That dump truck came in hot!!!! Driver knew exactly what they were doing!! Very impressive.
I watch a lot of people on equipment and I must say you are amazing on the excavator and rest of your equipment as well, and that swivel bucket on the yanmar excavator is amazing!!!
Man, you scared me yesterday with no video, I was ready to start combing the ditches of NC. You had a string going there, and it was part of my daily routine. I enjoy the vid's, thanks.
haha Yeah I was bored out of my mind with no work to do lol
@@letsdig18 Just a day to goof around with the moo-moos :D
Your a Pure pro no shaking, vibrations, and totally smooth. Plus your def expert level with grading bucket. Good work and job outta you.
Details fella you are, most operators would not of thought of putting the clay soil at the end of the pipe to keep the sand from washing away. NICE!!!
That's sure a busy stretch of road. The wide entrance for safer exit and entrance to the drive is a must. I don't need one, but I'd love to have a skid steer just to play and make a mess with.
*Forty-two freaking inches of SNOW just last night it's one of the many pleasures of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York*
If y’all have to much, send it south!
Only 29 inches here, we are just outside the lake effect region.
@@Blazer02LS in S.C.we are lucky to get 2-3 inches a year.
24" last night in Acton Maine and it sucks lol
Those 4 in 1 buckets are really nice for driveway work and dirt moving . Nice work on the project. You guys do good quality work you probably stay pretty busy. Nice video keep up the good work and stay safe !
Awesome job!!!! It was cool to see that different camera angle!!!
Chris! I like the big yellow tripod you have on this job !
More cars have gone past you in this video than have gone by my house in 8 years. I'm literally not joking. Makes me glad to live in rural Montana even if my driveway isn't as nice as this one.
We visited Montana a few years ago and loved it. We were in the Bozeman area
I'm in Amish country in Ohio. I actually told people to go home at one point in the video. I share your anxiety.
10', holy crap!!! we haven't gotten that much in 10 years and the cattle know it
Awesome video. I have never done a culvert before but I was wondering why everyone is digging about 20-30' feet instead of just digging the area will be culvert has to be placed? And then use gravel to cover it up? It seems more efficient and cost effective for the owner. But again, I never done so I was just wondering.
Hey Chris you definitely need some help I have to try to find another Tim, lol. But anyway brother another great video you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming in again I can’t wait do you get back on the animal shelter project that’s going to make some good videos
I really enjoy watching you.
Thank you!
Hopefully there will be a part 2 so we can see this job completed. Awesome video!
Woo, new project. Thanks for the vid, Chris. You need a Pepsi sponsorship, IMO.
Awesome job Chris
127" of rain!!!
Man, that's really wet- 2½ or more times the usual annual amount for NC. No wonder everything you've worked on has been so muddy!
We’ve had 161” in my city here in Louisiana this year
It is interesting to see the different driveways you get involved in versus the ones I am familiar with in Northern Utah and used to be familiar with in the South Bay Area (between San Jose and Monterey CA). Has to be zoning and permits process in part as well as climate and soils. I have lived from coast to coast as well as Canada to Gulf of Mexico in my 70+ years..
Love the content, video, camera view and channel! Need more driveway work in the next year!
Looks like that road is the Indianapolis 500!!!
The Human race heading back and forth between home and the Rat race!
For sure. Some of those cars really appear to be flying. Not sure what the speed limit might be but you think they might ease up a bit with equipment operating so close to the road. But I can sort of relate. I live in a semi-rural residential neighborhood with a 25 mph speed limit. If I had a buck for every car going under 40....I'd be broke.
Can there be any doubt Chris is the Ninja Master of Skid Steers !?😎?!
He handles that machine as tho the two of them are a Borg.
Fun to watch the 12V2 push wet rock! 🙂
127 inches of rain, hell that's far more than our rainy average here in Oregon. No wonder the soil there is so easy to scoop out. Doing a project like that in this state would take an environmental study and approval by snowflakes, flagmen, coned off to one lane access, 2 guys with hand held shovels, a foreman, a permit that takes forever to get approved, an inspection before, during, then after. And at least one teammate with CPR/first aid training. High fuel costs and smog regulations plus high taxes, to really put the squeeze on.
Sounds more like California
Got my new shirt yesterday. Like the new logo.
Holy cow Chris I think it's time to build an ark that's 10 ft of rain with some change Don't drown I like your channel
Ya got a good start on it - lots more twisting and turning...
Great video Chris and u make great fast progress.
What material did you use?
Uncle John rolls in like a boss and was gone before anyone could complain.
He had paperwork to do!
@@cathiwim uuu8
Maybe it’s just me, or where I live (Oregon), but it super wet here as well and we use 3” rock first and then 3/4” minus to lock it in. Opinions?
Bossman, Uncle John was a Ninja with that second load.
Loved the shout to old dirt perpect
When you said ten feet of rain fall "somehow" reminds me of my neighbor? Some fancy politician predicted 25 years ago that most of Florida would be underwater by 2006 or so. My neighbor panicked and literally gave away his home for pennies on the dollar and moved to Arizona.
The polar ice was melting and melting fast they said, learn to swim or move to higher ground they
said, gonna be ten feet of water over your house Bill.
Fast forward to 2020 and the only thing that has changed is that his home he sold is now worth a hundred times more than what he sold it for and is still high and dry, we laugh to this day about that and he stopped listening to those fancy politicians, lol!
Hiii dear Friend ! In my old age, I do have a Komatsu PC27 M2 for developing my piece of land / ground in French Guyana, I think this is why I love seeing you work but often I am "jealous" of your machinery and the easy of you working. Nota Bene. No coca-cola nor pepsi-cola nooooo fruit juice !!! I drink coconut water, lemon juice, mango juice etc....... OK keep well and strong one must work while he is young and fit........ Old it become's heavy and too slow !! I know !
Always looking forward to a new Video!!👍👍
What's the sizes of gravel that you used in this project? I'm a DIYer and I am going to attempt to take on my driveway install myself. Thanks in advance!
What did you use for base, then top layers? A lot of different ideas around and curious about yours. Thanks
Just wondered why the fabric doesn't start from the road edge. Coffee and a cig starts the day for me, thats all i need through the day.
NICE JOB CHRIS, WELL DONE LIKE ALWAYS.
I wish you could send some of that rain my way. New Mexico gets by on as little as 12 to 18 inches a year.
I don't know about anybody else but I find it so satisfying to watch you grade with the skid steer lol
Awesome work Chris!
Surprised you weren't vibrating that rock. I love running the roller.
Jobs like that close to busy roads always make me uneasy, people are more worried about what you're doing then driving. Stay safe out there bud you do excellent work 🤘
New subscriber here, just wanted to say really looking forward to watching some of your videos. I recently went "all in" for starting a excavating business full time now. At the moment things are slow but really excited to see where it takes me, great video and be safe and God bless!
Is that a sand type material you used around the culvert? It's not a crushed stone is it? Nothing large in there to puncture the pipe which makes it look like sand. It looks light, fluffy, sandy material.
You remind me of a guy who taught me a LOT running equipment. I swear he could Knit with a skidsteer! Watching you work... I absolutely love the dexterity with an excavator... you should clamp a paintbrush on your bucket and paint a picture! Keep on keepin on man! 😁
Just ran across your videos and I was wondering what is the stuff you put on top of the culvert prior to putting gravel on it or chat, some kind of sand?
Mtn Dew in the morning is breakfast of champions
That’s always my go to, the blue one
I enjoy drinking all kinds of Mtn Dew whenever I get enough money I will be buying one of every Mtn Dew drinks for me to have forever
only Pepsi PLEASE
You have really mastered the 4in 1 bucket. When you have bucket open grading are you watching the front cutting edge or the back blade part
Hello from the west coast of England
Goodbye from the east coast of America.
Hello from SW Germany, Hows Home !?
@@mirage4014 Hello. Well. And with you?
@@Namaste3004 Hi Gisela, Mir gehts gut danke, Just normally go back to England for Christmas, but with Corvid 19 a little difficult this year
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nice Takeuchi skid steer Takeuch iis getting popular..... lot of contractors here in Texas use the mini Takeuchi trackhoes for installing conduit for roadway lighting
Would you recommend a 4in1 as an only bucket for a farm use tractor loader? Would it double as both a bucket and a brush/rock grapple?
Few questions. What type of culvert did you use ? And what exactly is the fabric for that you rolled out before rock
Nice those cars stopped. Around here they would have blasted by as close as they could get.
What is it that you’re using on your base before the ABC? Where I’m at we have to use 3- but I’ve always thought crush would be superior
1336 views in 8 minutes. I must not have been the only one waiting for a new video. :-)
I think I jinxed everyone with the rain when I went out on my own. Been really wet here too. Lol.
Congratulations on going full time hoping for your continued success
Do you have a link to the driveway fabric you use? What kind should I buy for a 1,000 ft driveway
Gee just watching this video Chris is that America is on the move with type's of freight moving along the highway Chris give different perspective to your work 👍🇺🇲👍🇦🇺
Hello Chris from another Chris... 😂
Good Morning from England. I have been watching for a good while now and enjoy the content no end. I find watching very much relaxing and find myself very chilled as the end of the video.
Has there ever been a job to big that you have had to turn it down???
I really enjoy the precision movements ,Do you practice { fooling around } at how precises you can be ????
It's amazing how much power these machines have.
When it is turned, at the beginning, it sounds like something out of star wars.
Just imagine...people used to do this by hand. 👍
For me it was the Dew that got my days started. You know the Mountain Dew, Then Black Folgers Coffee with 4 sugars, Then it was Code Red Mountain Dew.
Might need to tighten up those tracks a bit. You are a great operator, best of luck with your company.
With all that water you’re having it a wonder that roller was pumping that ground.
Sorry, I had to pause the video to eat dinner last night. Just getting back to finish watching I hope that didn't cause the truck to tie up traffic that long also!🤣😁 love the videos!
Idk why but I love watching you build driveways lol
Great videos, I am learning a lot.
What is the fabric you laid down and is the rock crush and run?
I don't know why but I find this oddly relaxing to watch! lol :)