I've used a very similar geofabric on a few government road jobs, the jobs had sections of swampy mess under the roads so we dug down 3 or 4 feet then laid down the fabric then 4 inch rock then built up with stabilized road (cement mixed through the road base) worked really well and 8 years later the road hasn't dropped moved broken up.
That fabric is a vertical drain system placed between a basement wall, and the dirt backfill, and ties into a french drain system at the bottom to drain away water. It is not specifically a roadway or horizontal soil reinforcement system, like a geogrid would be. It might work, it will certainly work to some degree, and it shouldn't decompose too quickly.
But one thing is for sure, grass won't take root on it and no weeds will grow up through it.... "Gosh darn it! I screwed up again...That's two things.....
@@michiganengineer8621 was that a metal grid? I haven't seen anything but plastic for decades now. The plastic tends to last longer than any sort of metal, but may not equal the tensile strength, although some of those plastics are extremely tough.
I love the time lapse. It allows us to see how you do it, but without the long, drawn-out video of actual time. Road is going to be really nice. Having good clean access roads is very important for equipment. I enjoy your channel Chris, keep it coming.
You have a geonet that is used as a leak detection system under an impervious liner, such as are used in waste disposal landfills. You can use this under your road as a stabilization geotextile, but the edges should be daylighted into drainage ditches or properly constructed gravel-filled drains. The plastic mesh serves as drainage layer.
You just saved me typing the same thing ! If he cuts some shallow drains down the side it should as you said it will keep the road pretty dry. A great buy at that price.
The 8” pipe you put in looks like Natural Gas Pipe to me. It’s fused together and has about a 5/8” sidewall. Really thought stuff. Looks like you made a really good score here.
Hello Chris. Happy New Year. I hope you have the best year you've ever had because you sure do deserve it. Thanks for sharing your life with us through your videos. Your the man 👍👍
Chris i think you got a heck of a deal on the fabric and pipe. It might be made for a different reason but i think it will work just fine. Great find on market place. Wish you the best for the new year. and god bless.
I believe that "fabric-grid-fabric" material is sometimes used against a foundation wall prior to backfilling in order to allow any moisture to escape down to the footing where there is probably an underdrain to move the water away from the foundation wall. But I seem to remember that the inner fabric against the foundation wall is usually some kind of solid waterproof fabric, not a non-woven fabric like what I see in the video, so maybe I'm mistaken.
I thought pond building was the most satisfying to watch.. but I must say, all this homework stuff is equally just as good... thanks for sharing.. good work 👍
That was great. I do enjoy the farm builds as well as your actual work. I do hope you take some time to relax and take some time with the doggies. I hope this year brings you all you wish.
Looks like a "green roof" drain underlayment for vegetated roofs or a style of drain tile for similar use. It allows the water pass thru to eventually get to the roof drain system. Used lots of dimple sheet drains for foundations. Except they had plastic core to stop water from passing thru to the wall then directing it down to the french drain.
I just recently came across your channel on UA-cam. Your definitely a good operator and enjoy watching your videos. The decals I ordered just arrived and can't wait to put one on my hardhat at work.
Hey Chris the 8" pipe looks to be what is called HDPE. It used for many things around here in Texas. Yes it takes special tools and training to fuse it together properly. I've used it on gas piping and have seen it used for sewer replacement by different cities to keep from digging up the entire road.
Just goes to show that market place has some great deals, big thing is to be first in the line with the cash. Nice score. Going to be a nice road when your done. Thanks for the ride along sir.
Hi Chris, I wanted to say how much that I deeply love your videos, they are amazing at how you make a great artwork out of a complete muddy mess and your road is just awesome!
Chris in on the score. The new year has started great for you. Talk about being at right time, and place for this gem of a deal. Now for a dry period to get those farm jobs done.
Congrats on the find, Happy New Year, This video reminds me of how funny it is when you have all the Equipment to make your own road ( the time lapsed section at the end).
Loved the video! Totally blessed to get that kind of a haul. Good businessman! Enjoying the plans for new pond and roads. Thank u so much for video! God's blessings and be safe.
Love those mini excavators! If I ever won the lottery that’s the first thing I’d buy! Just to play with on my huge “2 acre” 😂 lot! If I lived down there I’d love to be “on call” when Chris needed an extra stick man once in a while!
Hi Chris I don't know anything about the membrane your putting in the bottom of you road but I do know your doing a Absolutely great job it looks like your putting in a hi-way and not a farm road it's great you got the rolls of reinforced fabric or what ever it is and all the pip you got on market place I know you will find a job for all of it, I hope a fantastic 2023 and I'm looking forward to more great video's like all the rest.
I feel almost as excited for your bargain with the culverts and fabric as if it was me who'd found it. I've seen a lot of comments about getting set for the end of the financial year with people spending money on plant rather than leave it for their accountants to hide. It's a stretch, but I wonder if the seller was sorting out his assets ready for end of year tax assessment? I am retired and was never self employed, and I don't know how it works. It is somehow more exciting seeing Chris work on his own projects, and having the equipment and skills to do such a stand out job.
Hey chris we use that fabric at work its called non woven fabric we mostly use it in storm ponds and areas where we want to keep gravel/sand seperate from the soil but still allow water to get through. The one with the plastic in the middle is for putting under gravel in areas where the base is horrible and is not cost effective to dig deep. The plastic is very strong and will cut you pretty good if you catch a sharp edge on the skin👍
you nailed it.. we've used in under basment floors as well were water leaks in and can't get a stable soild base.. gravel then this stuff then crush and run then concrete.. WE used in on large concrete drianage ways as well.
@@chrissheathewoodguy I love seeing so many industry people commenting on Chris's videos. It feels respectful that people who do the work still have time what someone else do the work. Good on you guys, and kudos for sharing your knowledge.
Wow nice road. All the neighbors will be jealous. Super nice buy on all the material. That was the deal of the year! Pipe and triple wall fabric. Yippee.
HDPE = high density polyethylene. The black is typically used in water distribution and yellow in gas. Quite expensive. A special machine is needed to butt weld the pipe.
Congrats on all those Pipes and these Rolls of Road Base Fabrics - what a nice Bargain for the Start of 2023 - well done indeed!!!! Re-Stack the Fire and way she went ! The old Pond is Bursting Full and the Reflections on the Water Surface is Fantastic ! Continuing building Your Road and using the new Fabric ! Installing Your Drain Pipe as well ! We have us some Road Building Music - ha ! Another Enjoyable Video and many Cheers from us in Australia !!!! PS = More Progress !!!!
That grid/non woven geotextile often used as the drainage layer placed over an impervious HDPE or VLDPE liner when capping or excavating a landfill. At least that’s how I’ve used it over the years.
After watching you plan and work, you most likely have already thought about this, but just in case, you may want to ensure that a semi truck and trailer can navigate to the cabin construction sites to get materials, equipment to the construction site without getting stuck or damaging your fields. Generally you need at least 27 feet of road with for a average truck and trailer. As I said, you probably have already thought of this and I don't mean to insult. But just in case. Great score on the road base material and the duct pipe. That is an amazing score. Thanks very much for sharing.
Nice score on the pipe and fabric. Culvert pipe prices are crazy high her in low country SC so you have a nice find. Fabric is pretty cool stuff. Looks like it will work fine for a private road.
I was driving from back to Raleigh from Flowers Plantation area when that frog strangler came through. Almost had to find a place to pull over. I figured Bealy Good pond would fill up after that.
I think that’s the same fabric we used for putting over liner we did for sealing fly ash , put the liner down , weld the liner together , then that goes over it overlapping the plastic grid part zip tied and then the flaps get sowed together ,then 10”-12” of back fill on top so nothing punctures the liner , and for drainage, but I’m sure it has other uses to
Thanks Chris for a day after the holidays are over video. I gotta wonder when the heck do you get to rest. Between your business, the time you work for your Uncle John and the time you spend working on your own property I haven't a clue when you could. Makes me tired just watching you working so hard. One thing for sure. Since you're the one building that road there's absolutely no doubt that it'll last a long time. Yes, bring Charlie over to help. That'll be a treat for your subs.
That 8" plastic pipe is probably HDPE, it is used extensively in mining and chemical processing. It has to be heat fused to other pipe or terminations, usually flange adapters. For a drain pipe it will outlast you and several other people.
You scored pretty good Chris the material you got looks like it’s going to good for your road base for sure I’ll be watching to see how the rest turns out very nice so far 6:59am North Country NY 😎🇺🇸
Marketplace is a pretty good place. I found a 73 year old vintage tractor for $800. It runs very well and it uses gas. That's good, considering the price of diesel here in Sweden. 12$/gallon is too much.
one of these days you'll sculpt the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln into the road with your grading bucket. Looking forward to that 😉
As a lot of other commenters have said the roll is a type of foundation waterproofing for a wall. Its what you put on top of the waterproofing membrane to keep the wall dry in combo with the drain tile for the foundation. Putting it horizontal idk how it will work it may act as a subsurface drain or it could actually hold water in that grid between the 2 pieces of fabric. Best bet figure out which fabric is the not so water permeable side and put that on the bottom.
We were always required to use that indestructible pipe "casing" to run fiber optics thru when crossing state or interstate roadways and when crossing pipelines.
We are dirt contractor's and do landfills and they use that fabric all the time over top of the liner for a trash cell but get you a hooked carpet blade for your razor knife it cuts like butter just watch the plastic on your fingers.
Bless you my good sir. You have all the toys we wanted when we played with our Tonkas as children....You are having the best time of your life. I so envy you! Play safe and well my friend.🚜🔥👎
With the added strength from the plastic grid within that matting used on a roadway I would bet you could cut the stone depth needed by a fair amount and have the same weight limit able to use it.
Culvert pipe is in polyethylene. Very durable and strong. Thanks for your daily videos Chris!
I've used a very similar geofabric on a few government road jobs, the jobs had sections of swampy mess under the roads so we dug down 3 or 4 feet then laid down the fabric then 4 inch rock then built up with stabilized road (cement mixed through the road base) worked really well and 8 years later the road hasn't dropped moved broken up.
I love watching you work with the grading bucket! Looking good Chris! Going to be an awesome road! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The viewers on this channel are really knowledgeable.
That fabric is a vertical drain system placed between a basement wall, and the dirt backfill, and ties into a french drain system at the bottom to drain away water. It is not specifically a roadway or horizontal soil reinforcement system, like a geogrid would be. It might work, it will certainly work to some degree, and it shouldn't decompose too quickly.
YEP !!
But one thing is for sure, grass won't take root on it and no weeds will grow up through it.... "Gosh darn it! I screwed up again...That's two things.....
Even when the fabric rots away, the metal mesh _should_ help keep the gravel in place.
is that for a system that does not utilized wash stone for drainage?
@@michiganengineer8621 was that a metal grid? I haven't seen anything but plastic for decades now. The plastic tends to last longer than any sort of metal, but may not equal the tensile strength, although some of those plastics are extremely tough.
I love the time lapse. It allows us to see how you do it, but without the long, drawn-out video of actual time. Road is going to be really nice. Having good clean access roads is very important for equipment. I enjoy your channel Chris, keep it coming.
SCORE!!! Right place-right time--Well bought, Chris !!!
The new highway is really coming along nicely Chris!😊
You have a geonet that is used as a leak detection system under an impervious liner, such as are used in waste disposal landfills. You can use this under your road as a stabilization geotextile, but the edges should be daylighted into drainage ditches or properly constructed gravel-filled drains. The plastic mesh serves as drainage layer.
You just saved me typing the same thing ! If he cuts some shallow drains down the side it should as you said it will keep the road pretty dry. A great buy at that price.
Thank you!!! I was going to say the same thing
That’s what I’ve used it for to
The 8” pipe you put in looks like Natural Gas Pipe to me. It’s fused together and has about a 5/8” sidewall. Really thought stuff. Looks like you made a really good score here.
Hello Chris. Happy New Year. I hope you have the best year you've ever had because you sure do deserve it. Thanks for sharing your life with us through your videos. Your the man 👍👍
Chris i think you got a heck of a deal on the fabric and pipe. It might be made for a different reason but i think it will work just fine. Great find on market place. Wish you the best for the new year. and god bless.
I believe that "fabric-grid-fabric" material is sometimes used against a foundation wall prior to backfilling in order to allow any moisture to escape down to the footing where there is probably an underdrain to move the water away from the foundation wall. But I seem to remember that the inner fabric against the foundation wall is usually some kind of solid waterproof fabric, not a non-woven fabric like what I see in the video, so maybe I'm mistaken.
tar it to walls
We use that same fabric in the landfill to make temporary roads to keep the mud from coming up into the slate roads works very well
I thought pond building was the most satisfying to watch.. but I must say, all this homework stuff is equally just as good... thanks for sharing.. good work 👍
That fancy fabric is also used over old broken concrete streets prior to laying new asphalt. They used that in front of my house!
That was great. I do enjoy the farm builds as well as your actual work. I do hope you take some time to relax and take some time with the doggies. I hope this year brings you all you wish.
Looks like a "green roof" drain underlayment for vegetated roofs or a style of drain tile for similar use. It allows the water pass thru to eventually get to the roof drain system. Used lots of dimple sheet drains for foundations. Except they had plastic core to stop water from passing thru to the wall then directing it down to the french drain.
I just recently came across your channel on UA-cam. Your definitely a good operator and enjoy watching your videos. The decals I ordered just arrived and can't wait to put one on my hardhat at work.
Hey Chris can't wait till you start your pond build on your farm
Yahoooo what bargains you found!! Love Marketplace & NextDoor sales. Road's coming along very nicely👍👏👍
Hey Chris the 8" pipe looks to be what is called HDPE. It used for many things around here in Texas. Yes it takes special tools and training to fuse it together properly. I've used it on gas piping and have seen it used for sewer replacement by different cities to keep from digging up the entire road.
Just goes to show that market place has some great deals, big thing is to be first in the line with the cash. Nice score. Going to be a nice road when your done. Thanks for the ride along sir.
....good find, keep well in '23...
Hi Chris, I wanted to say how much that I deeply love your videos, they are amazing at how you make a great artwork out of a complete muddy mess and your road is just awesome!
Chris in on the score. The new year has started great for you.
Talk about being at right time, and place for this gem of a deal.
Now for a dry period to get those farm jobs done.
Gotta love the Marketplace scores!! Loving the progress on the farm projects.
Happy & Healthy New Year from Germany! 🥂🥳
That’s a big score Chris, pipe & fabric/mesh, right place, right time. The road is looking good😊 Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰
Congrats on the find, Happy New Year, This video reminds me of how funny it is when you have all the Equipment to make your own road ( the time lapsed section at the end).
Loved the video! Totally blessed to get that kind of a haul. Good businessman! Enjoying the plans for new pond and roads. Thank u so much for video! God's blessings and be safe.
Love those mini excavators! If I ever won the lottery that’s the first thing I’d buy! Just to play with on my huge “2 acre” 😂 lot! If I lived down there I’d love to be “on call” when Chris needed an extra stick man once in a while!
Hi Chris I don't know anything about the membrane your putting in the bottom of you road but I do know your doing a Absolutely great job it looks like your putting in a hi-way and not a farm road it's great you got the rolls of reinforced fabric or what ever it is and all the pip you got on market place I know you will find a job for all of it, I hope a fantastic 2023 and I'm looking forward to more great video's like all the rest.
That was the buy of the year & got you extra stuff for the farm or a future job like small road crossing or driveway !
Those bargains never to seem to pop up when you've got extra cash.
Happy newyear Chris.!! Thanks for the video!! Keep up the Awsome work
Hello Chris, I love your u tube channel. You are making your farmstead a beautiful place.
Very nice, good way to start off the new year, congratulations!
I feel almost as excited for your bargain with the culverts and fabric as if it was me who'd found it. I've seen a lot of comments about getting set for the end of the financial year with people spending money on plant rather than leave it for their accountants to hide. It's a stretch, but I wonder if the seller was sorting out his assets ready for end of year tax assessment? I am retired and was never self employed, and I don't know how it works. It is somehow more exciting seeing Chris work on his own projects, and having the equipment and skills to do such a stand out job.
Very nice, I'm having so much fun watching you do this, and all the toys you have, man,so much fun.
Hey chris we use that fabric at work its called non woven fabric we mostly use it in storm ponds and areas where we want to keep gravel/sand seperate from the soil but still allow water to get through. The one with the plastic in the middle is for putting under gravel in areas where the base is horrible and is not cost effective to dig deep. The plastic is very strong and will cut you pretty good if you catch a sharp edge on the skin👍
you nailed it.. we've used in under basment floors as well were water leaks in and can't get a stable soild base.. gravel then this stuff then crush and run then concrete.. WE used in on large concrete drianage ways as well.
@@chrissheathewoodguy I love seeing so many industry people commenting on Chris's videos. It feels respectful that people who do the work still have time what someone else do the work. Good on you guys, and kudos for sharing your knowledge.
So, the bottom line is, this works just fine for a gravel road base ?
Wow nice road. All the neighbors will be jealous. Super nice buy on all the material. That was the deal of the year! Pipe and triple wall fabric. Yippee.
HDPE = high density polyethylene. The black is typically used in water distribution and yellow in gas. Quite expensive. A special machine is needed to butt weld the pipe.
Congrats on all those Pipes and these Rolls of Road Base Fabrics - what a nice Bargain for the Start of 2023 - well done indeed!!!! Re-Stack the Fire and way she went ! The old Pond is Bursting Full and the Reflections on the Water Surface is Fantastic ! Continuing building Your Road and using the new Fabric ! Installing Your Drain Pipe as well ! We have us some Road Building Music - ha ! Another Enjoyable Video and many Cheers from us in Australia !!!! PS = More Progress !!!!
Always very interesting. Never short of first class work❤❤❤
That grid/non woven geotextile often used as the drainage layer placed over an impervious HDPE or VLDPE liner when capping or excavating a landfill. At least that’s how I’ve used it over the years.
Good find! Great score on the pipe and fabric!
After watching you plan and work, you most likely have already thought about this, but just in case, you may want to ensure that a semi truck and trailer can navigate to the cabin construction sites to get materials, equipment to the construction site without getting stuck or damaging your fields. Generally you need at least 27 feet of road with for a average truck and trailer. As I said, you probably have already thought of this and I don't mean to insult. But just in case. Great score on the road base material and the duct pipe. That is an amazing score. Thanks very much for sharing.
happy new year to you and your family. I'm enjoying your farm pond and road project
Nice score on the pipe and fabric. Culvert pipe prices are crazy high her in low country SC so you have a nice find. Fabric is pretty cool stuff. Looks like it will work fine for a private road.
Happy New Year - great start on the roadway.
Happy New Year! Great buy!
Your road is pavement ready, excellent job Chris, Thank yourself now, you are going to enjoy travelling over that for many years to come
Goodmorning Afternoon evening and good night all
That's awesome nice haul way good. Thanks for the video Chris 👍✅❤️❤️ take care of yourself and Winston.
Happy New Year thank you for sharing
I was driving from back to Raleigh from Flowers Plantation area when that frog strangler came through. Almost had to find a place to pull over. I figured Bealy Good pond would fill up after that.
I think that’s the same fabric we used for putting over liner we did for sealing fly ash , put the liner down , weld the liner together , then that goes over it overlapping the plastic grid part zip tied and then the flaps get sowed together ,then 10”-12” of back fill on top so nothing punctures the liner , and for drainage, but I’m sure it has other uses to
Thanks Chris for a day after the holidays are over video.
I gotta wonder when the heck do you get to rest.
Between your business, the time you work for your Uncle John and the time you spend working on your own property I haven't a clue when you could.
Makes me tired just watching you working so hard.
One thing for sure.
Since you're the one building that road there's absolutely no doubt that it'll last a long time.
Yes, bring Charlie over to help.
That'll be a treat for your subs.
He is still quite young. I remember what it was like
before you turned 40. You could handle anything.
Money well spent ! Money saved and great profit later as you go along.. 👍 Thanks LD18
Looks like a 90mph road for sure! LOL Keep up the great work and happy new year!
Always love your Pond videos how big is this one gonna be approximate when it's done
It's great watching u use all ur equipment for ur own benefit 😁😁🥰😍
Happy New Year . Your the best Operator on UA-cam. Can’t wait to see the pound.
That 8" plastic pipe is probably HDPE, it is used extensively in mining and chemical processing. It has to be heat fused to other pipe or terminations, usually flange adapters. For a drain pipe it will outlast you and several other people.
Happy New Year Chris. Real good purchase!!! That is some kind of special GeoTex.
Chris, looks like you got a bargain on that pipe. I hate to think what it would retail for. Great score!
Road looking good 👍🏻🇺🇸
You scored pretty good Chris the material you got looks like it’s going to good for your road base for sure I’ll be watching to see how the rest turns out very nice so far 6:59am North Country NY 😎🇺🇸
Looking great Chris
Happy New year to you too.
Great bargain 👌 Chris the wish vidio was longer 👌 happy new year 🎉 bud 👍
Can’t wait to see the pond build
Chris you kill it with that grading bucket
Marketplace is a pretty good place. I found a 73 year old vintage tractor for $800.
It runs very well and it uses gas. That's good, considering the price of diesel here in Sweden.
12$/gallon is too much.
one of these days you'll sculpt the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln into the road with your grading bucket. Looking forward to that 😉
Happy New Year let's dig 18
Rain rolling in, but you might not catch much of it the way it's rolling in. Whoa! road building on a lot of caffine! 😉
Happy New year! I'm sure that fabric is used under the railway lines..
Great pipe n fabric snag!!
Nice weather for road work
Hello Chris, Happy new year and thank you for all the videos. My son and I were wondering what a Yanmar mini like yours might cost? Cheers from Canada
As a lot of other commenters have said the roll is a type of foundation waterproofing for a wall. Its what you put on top of the waterproofing membrane to keep the wall dry in combo with the drain tile for the foundation. Putting it horizontal idk how it will work it may act as a subsurface drain or it could actually hold water in that grid between the 2 pieces of fabric. Best bet figure out which fabric is the not so water permeable side and put that on the bottom.
No
We were always required to use that indestructible pipe "casing" to run fiber optics thru when crossing state or interstate roadways and when crossing pipelines.
That liner is serious stuff, Facebook is definitely a good place to look out for stuff. Nice road, coming on nicely.
That fabric looks like what was used here under a major highway.
Making progress with style 👍👍
Good for you Chris...
We are dirt contractor's and do landfills and they use that fabric all the time over top of the liner for a trash cell but get you a hooked carpet blade for your razor knife it cuts like butter just watch the plastic on your fingers.
Seen it used in landfill cell construction. Used as a drainage layer between hdpe liner.
I have used that style of fabric for capping a land fill.
Chris thanks for sharing! Kevin
Happy New Year. Chris
Bless you my good sir. You have all the toys we wanted when we played with our Tonkas as children....You are having the best time of your life. I so envy you! Play safe and well my friend.🚜🔥👎
Very productive day for you.everyday making a difference.keep on doing your thing.good video 👍👍👍😎😎😎
With the added strength from the plastic grid within that matting used on a roadway I would bet you could cut the stone depth needed by a fair amount and have the same weight limit able to use it.
Great find
Massive score!!!
Happy new year Chris
That pipe that you used for a culvert is called HDPE it's used a lot for process piping .
You sure got a good buy on that trailer load.