57 - A Challenging Week With the Excavation Site Flooding & the Digger Track Popping Off.
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A new week and a new set of challenges. At this point, we’ve learned a universal truth: rain equals mud, and mud equals... well, problems. Big ones. For example, Bob the dumper-bless his 4x4 heart-got stuck. Enter Fred the digger, our hero, rolling in to save the day, only for his track to pop off. Classic.
But hey, silver linings! Philippe’s added yet another skill to his growing résumé-this time, mastering the fine art of putting tracks back on an excavator. Oh, and amidst all the chaos, he also managed to install the Reolink Argus 4 Pro camera at the back of the barns. It’s going to come in handy when the area becomes a parking spot-at least we’ll have a front-row seat to any future misadventures!
With the rain pouring down and turning everything into a slip 'n slide, progress has slowed to a crawl. We’re starting to wonder: should we push through the mud or just call it quits and wait for better weather? Only time (and maybe the weather gods) will tell.
Enjoy this week’s video! Give it a like and drop a comment. We could use the motivation!
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Incredible effort skill once again I fixing machines then high risk driving then the commitment to removing the bank on the two barns ...Phillips your amazing!!
I was happy to understood about the grease moving the track holders ! I’m learning mechanics! Good explanations ! And wonderful to see that mountain of dirt finally disappearing ! 🎉. Also loved the scenery shots.
Philippe, have you considered dumping the spoil in a temporary location closer to the barn given the risk of getting Mr Thwaites the tipper stuck on the dam ridge or worse still, sliding down off the ridge? It would allow quicker removal of the soil behind the barn to alleviate the immediate issue of water ingress into the buildings and you could shift the temporary spoil heap in spring when ground conditions improve. I know it will add to fuel costs, but getting Mr Thwaites stuck and perhaps even Bob also in the rescue effort would be a game changer. Feel free to say NO Way - I'm just a couch potato and love watching this channel!
I will have to if i want to finish it, fuel cost is okay with these little machines but the dumper does drink a lot more when he has to struggle on the dam!
Philippe's determination to dig this hill is remarkable. Good job, you'll make it soon !
I found your channel a couple of months ago. I went on a complete journey with you and binge watched all while I was crocheting. I look forward to each new adventure with my new young friends. I am 75 and live in south Dakota.
That's a good idea. Make the back-barn area into a large fish-growing pond, tap into the slope springs for fresh water, and proper drainage of the slope's (zone of saturation) water level. Terrace the slope, and have vineyard or orchard terraces, sucking up any excess waters in the soil by the vines, fruit trees, and nut trees. Terraced ig trees would be great water suckers as their wood is soft. Any willows planted around the fish pond would provide shade, but also massive water suckers, keeping the soil behind the barn, dry and maintained.
Old people watching and wish they were young again and accomplishing things as in the past. Thank you for giving us this journey of yours. 🇺🇸
Haha the cutest little mouse helping to clear the grass lol
Or eating wires! 😮
@@SandraH-i7h guess the little mouse lives nearby we all gotta survive somehow :)
Challenging week is an understatement! It was all about solving problems. Thank goodness you have the skills to resolve them.
A savage digger dumper combo , thanks for the update on the slope concerns.
GOOD PROGRESS IN SUCH A BAD CONDITION ...THOUGH I LOVE THIS KIND OF WEATHER... Mr ODIN WILL HELP U SOONKEEP UP AND BE SAFE ... THE LAND LOOKS VERY MESSY NOW , BUT ONE CAN HOPE THE OUT COME WILL BE AWESOME ... STAY BLESSED..
It breaks my heart seeing you week after week struggle with that rain and mud . I wish you had someone to help you ,because that is hard work.Starting to see the end of it though,at least with the digging behind the barne ...keep it up ,well done XoXo
Congrats on your videos, they are really awesome! Regarding the pond you are creating at the bottom of your land, one thing that could be great is to bring there fresh water from your spring behind the barn. Yes it involves finding the source of water and quite a lot of piping, but if you arrange it so the water falls into the pond from a certain height (not to much), it will bring oxygen / current into it, and avoid algae invasion, and ycould give you a quite clear and sane pond You could then swim in the summer, and even the possibility to bring fish in it if you want. and it is better for biodiversity. With the slope on your terrain, I figure it could be possible. And with the excavation your doing now, it is the right moment to implement it if you are interested.
Anyway, keep up the good work, it is a real pleasure to see your weekly accomplishements!
“New skill acquired” indeed ! You explain in the most wonderful way. No mansplaining from you which is refreshing. Great work - keep going.
Philippe and Anicia,
You do a fantastic job with your channel and the content. You are making inspiring work on the homestead. Odin is such a joy and a credit to you both. Thank you for sharing your journey with us as we follow your work as you continue to refurbish the land and your home. Best wishes to you both and appreciation for your editing and filming skills 🇫🇷
I must say, even with the rain, nature on your domain is spectacular. I loved the morning shots, in addition to the always great aerial shots. And it's not Bob's fault. It really performs extraordinary well given the circumstances!
I admire your persistence you are doing a great job by the end you will be quite proficient on a digger ,next time retract the idler with the digger bucket , if your going to slope at 45 do it as you go its not worth the risk and your going to have to go back and do it anyway , many years ago a bank collapsed on me no warning obviously i survived but had to be dug out its not pleasant , you dont have to take my advice after all only been a builder for 53 years lol
❤❤❤ It never ceases to amaze me how much work has to be done in order to get work done!! You are amazing. ❤❤❤
My weekly calm- watching an episode of "Phillippe's dig and dump."
Thank you for sharing this content.
You both have such pleasant personalities even under trying circumstances. Your son is a joy to watch, what a cutie! I do love watching your chickens they love to be under foot I think.
The weather has not bin on your side but you have kept going on and now there’s light at the end of the tunnel good man 👍
As they say, How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time😂 You are building your little kingdom that way. Each challenge you put behind you, you grow. Those new skills you are acquiring will not only take you far but will be passed on to your little Odin. Life is like a dance one step forward sometimes two and then one or two back. You are two positive parents and I love your attitudes. Always here cheering you on🥰🚜🌻🐔🐾
Ou will get to that place whereby rainy days will not affect all of your outbuildings and lands. All that you are doing now will pay dividends for your futures. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧
I admire your vision and tenacity. It is always a joy to see the beautiful coountryside and your family of animals. I am cheering you on here in Kent, England.
Philippe is a genuine mud hero! Almost like 'la grande guerre' of mud! 😊
Hi from Philadelphia. Love your editing. Mornings there seem so peaceful. Can almost smell the fresh air...
Ah, Sunday mornings with Phillippe, Anicia, Odin (and Bob)! My favorite time to sit back, watch and chill. Prayers for nothing but sunshine and dry weather in the coming week! 🙏🏻
Just to see you 'plodding' away, load after load, shows how dedicated you can be when it's such a worthwhile ending. Look forward to Sundays and catching up with you all. Jim Sw. ussex UK
Your resilience to every day hardships is impressive! Had to chuckle when Philippe told the chickens “aller”, they apparently understand French. 😂
I have worked full time as a mini excavator driver, just use a slegdehammer and tap the tensioner wheel inwards, no need to use a strap. It doesnt damage anything.
Do it without the track on and it works real easy.
A great advertisement for Bobcat and your Dumper... nothing easy is worthwhile and you are creating something very beautiful. The important thing is to have the vision... failing to plan means planning to fail... Well done! You are getting there. There should be some sort of cage over the top of the dumper?!? Perhaps it is easier to jump off without one!! Certaining your barn is enjoying the relief of less water penetration already.
Digging in the mud with water and sand - used to do this near the sea in Norfolk when I was very young, great fun😁. It’s a real faff for you - something you could do without. Didn’t realise it rained so much in your ‘neck of the woods!’
It’s all going well and a good end result, knowing you, will happen. Lovely shots of Odin and Mum. Regards, Phil 🇬🇧
My dream is also to live in a non commercial farm with nurturing the nature and paying back respect to this wonderful earth.....😊❤
Nice ODIN, you grow so fast.. Thanks for the new video ..
If you spread lime it would harden the ground. 5% to 10% lime is spread and tilled into the soil to “firm” up the ground. The lime reacts with the water in the soil to produce cementitious compounds making the soil firm and water resistant. Lime stabilization is an excellent choice when the soils contain a large amount of clay.
Absolutely love following your story. You're a bloody hard worker. Wish the weather would work with you ❤ Sending hugs from Wales 🏴
I love your determination Phillipe! It must be so frustrating to have the dam all nice and level then a couple of trips over with Fred, and it's all ruts again! I really hope you get a bit of this dry (during the day)weather we're getting in the UK so you can get the side of that barn cleared before the winter rains set in 🤞
Cute to see Odin helping gathering the walnuts! do you have any sweet chestnuts in the wood?
The chickens make me smile all the time 😂
Thank you for sharing your adventure. Each episode makes my day! (Please be careful when driving out onto the dam.)
make your dumper Tire grip to Try to Chain secure just like some off road trackter that will help .Good luck
I am very happy to follow your account since your beginnings🇸🇦
hi i think you need to make a 45 degree hill, you need to make a small channel so that water will go to the dam, also make a small channel by the springfor it to flow water , at the gate you can let the channel have a small ditch for cars to wash off their tires when entering or exiting the gate. The narrow channel will provide water for farm animals and place for ducks to swim, it would also looks nice and serve a purpose. Greetings from africa
Much progress
I’m so pleased your video is released at around 9 pm AEST as it allows me to watch earlier rather than tomorrow. That mud looks like it’s a pain however your tackling it the best you can, with the chicken fans & June running near you! 😊
As you now know, the track came off because it was loose ,I think that would be due to a new track stretching as it settles in on the sprockets, but now you have pumped it up with grease it should be fine, I changed mine before they were to worn, so I was able to get a lump of timber in under the track to push the tensioner back in and get the new track on. Your high bank, it will be a lot easier if you just slope it off at a natural angle of repose, if you go the terracing route you will have to build up each vertical rise with stone to prevent it slumping, and you do not appear to have a lot of stone laying around where you are, for each barrow full of terrain I dig out I end up with another barrow of stone! Building the barn wall close to the earth bank is really bad, but your plan of digging it away is excellent, the wall will soon dry out as I note the earth is quite dry where you are digging back. Stay safe! And enjoy ! Chris B.
Sloping angels is important to design dependent on the forces and type of soil that changes. With waterintrusion…
Make use of reinforcing gadgets and emergency outlet in the pond
Thanks for these videos guys. You're doing a great job 😊
Once you get the reservoir/pond built, then it will stop raining completely.
hi i am from tamil nadu ,india
love the way you do every work and also film it very nicely.
Keep going, waiting for the day when you post the video of completed work.
Allez, chickens! Please! 😂
Merci mes amis, bon vid!
You're addressing the root causes of the damp issues which is amazing! Big job, but it looks like it could become a nice snug corner too...
I can't wait to see it when you're done with it. It will be so beautiful and have such a nice pond. Great job.
Previous message before I saw the ‘de-tracking. As we say ‘It never rains but it pours!’🤨 good thing you are a resourceful guy!!😁 Phil🇬🇧
Great Job, well done! I love watsching your videos.
I really thought you were digging a swimming pool at first 😂😭😂😭
love watching here from Philippines 🇵🇭
Determined effort accomplishes much.
Anicia et Phillipe you are very deserving for working in so harsh conditions. Ah la gadoue, la gadoue......hope we have a couple of dry weeks for the remaining of October, as this 'gadoue' looks very dangerous.
When Philippe tensioned the second track the video was still on and it showed the digger falling sideways. I thought Philippe was still there, I nearly had a heart attack!!
Odin is so adorable.
I think you'll need to switch from boots to hip waders, or maybe just a rubber suit! You've certainly had more than your fair share of rain this year. Maybe Mother Nature will turn her attention somewhere else soon.
Can you widen the dam some so that you can drive the top more safely? Perhaps dump some of you payloads over the sides of the dam instead of driving out to the end?
I know learning a new skill is supposed to be positive, but at the rate you're going you'll have an advanced college degree in engineering!
I think you have enough soil behind the barn to raise the elevation of your entire property. At least you got some sunshine! I hope you get the week you wished for.
See you next week!
Hope you went through the storm we had this week okay ! Poor Philippe, who wanted the rain to stop and got the remnants of a hurricane instead...
Serious about of standing water. The priority is to keep the excavation site from having standing water. Make sure ur drains run some where to get rid of the water. I do this and if the wet weather continues just level the digging as it’s too hard on the machines. Leave it until the ground is frozen and hard. Muck destroys rubber tracks. They are really designed to work on roads
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I wouldn’t trust the landslide
House in uk fall off the sides of mountains no retaining wall you will always have the chance off a landslide especially with the trees roots pushing against the drop great work. Keep it up great content 👍
machine oplichten aan één kant , en met de schep de die band op zen plaats duwen , is zeer zwaar stuff!
I know the camera does not show the true story . But looking at the height of the dam walls ,they seem very high ? If that fills with water ,I would be uncomfortable about a wall collapsing . I also think that as you placed the soil on top of vegetation it could cause a leak when the vegetation rots away . other than that it's a propa boys project and I am loving it !
Hey Andy, this is not the finished dam. The actual pond walls will be a lot smaller as we can only have a depth of 2m maximum in the pond.
Quel émerveillement de voir ODIN heureux et courrir dans tous les sens , s'émerveiller de tout ce qu'il l'entoure . Vous êtes courageux car se sont d'important travaux , mais quand vous le pourrez ce serait bien d'offrir à ODIN une petite soeur 🤣🥰. Amicalement de PARIS 💐💮🌸🏵🌹🥀🌺🌻🌼🌷🍀.
I don't think another baby is a good idea for a couple of years as they have too much hard work for the next few years.
Jist a trick. Reverse. And drag the plow on the ground to smooth and compact the ground
Did you ever consider having a company come in and excavate this for you with their big diggers? Would probably take them less than a day to do it all. Probably worth the cost and would have saved you months of work.
A choice was made to do it ourself when we bought the digger. This is the biggest job it will have to do. The pond itself we will hire a big digger to create the pond dams.
One sees whilst you are maintaining your equipment, your little oden sees this too, and learns that if he maintains said equipment it will last a long time ,saving a lot of money over that time, love how the chickens know where the food is follow the digger, wishing you and your family the best of luck in your endeavours,
Hard work indeed!
You deserve every square inch of your domaine sauvage !
Can't wait for your next video!
Dear Domaine Sauvage "digging boss". 😁 ;-)
I simply don't understand why you didn't dug away the dirt from the walls first. Respectively didn't free the barn walls from dirt first. Now winter season is almost there and the walls "feet" will still be wet from water coming from the hillside (despite all the massive amount of digging work you did).
As always: Thanks a lot for making explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and especially health to all of you (humans, animals and plants).
Gewoon even een tip van een agronoom . . . rijden in natte klei kan de structuur voor jaren slopen . . . m'n buik draait om als ik je zie rijden. Geen kritiek want ik geniet van jullie mooie video's . . .
Haha ‘don’t do this at home’ - so recognisable 😆
I hate you had to address dumb questions lol. My concern is to get this man a bigger excavator for crying out loud. It's taking forever. I'd been done in a week.
How about clearing a new driveway through the brambles so you can then drive down and dump at the end of the dam at a new spot..i.e. completely avoiding the stuff you have dumped before.
That is what i have been thinking as well, or dump in front of where the pond will be.
You are going to have to spend on stone. All construction sites use stone especially in clay or clay mix. For your paths on the dam and to the dam.
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phillip use your bucket arm thats what is for
Would it not be worth blading off the site and getting in some recycled hardcore in order to give you an area of hard standing?? 🤔👍
hellow,,,
salam kenal from indonesia🙏
I see you have found another use for your drill.
To save the tool please use a hammer 🔨 instead.
By the way have you found that *Homesick* Irishman. We love the rain.
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Haha, i try to avoid using the drill as a hammer but i was lazy and it was only very small plugs 😅
😂 Next time call a neighbor with a 4x4 tractor, they wil help you. Thats wat we do overhere.👍
this was a very muddy episode right???my goodness....😜🤔
30:21 wtf was that 😂😂😂😂😂
I have been watching your videos for a month or 2 now and I like them very much but sadly I have to tell you your dam will not hold water unless you key it period keying it is where you dig a trench in the groundand then and you clear the vegetation on both sides of the ditch and then you pile your dirt back on top of that then it will cold water Just piling dirt on top of the ground will not hold water maybe you already know that maybe someone else's told you that I don't know
My main concern with the dirt behind the barn is the large amount of dirt being left that's close to the barn. It seems if you have water from the ground and the run off from the roof you'd remove the dirt closest to the barn first and put in a drainage ditch or some type of drainage system below the level of the barns foundation to keep the water from going into the barn and away from the foundation.
He’s busy removing all the soil closest to the barns in these videos, and discussed the french drain plan in an earlier video. One back and one front of the parking area to capture water from the hill and water from the roof (that I guess escapes gutters…).
Mud,mud, glorious mud.... from here in the UK the famous song comes to mind - first recorded in 1959 just before I was born but still a wonderful today.ua-cam.com/video/4zpDF3Py7r8/v-deo.html. Like farmers let us all hope in the UK and France for a drier year next year. (2024 the year it rained and rained)
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Nice job with explaining the digging situation.
From 'our' point of view it really looked like you were taking away the soil on which the barn was built on.
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I think you need a vibratory plate compactor to compact the top of the damn and maybe a layer if gravel?
😂❤love from pakistan😂❤
you would be better off with a tracked dumper and a bigger digger
Hi, You are really doing great job, I am in Kenya if Incase if any help , we can chat and organize for me to come and do thevwork together
on ne peut plus voir une vidéo sans etre emmerdé par de la pub, c est chiant à la fin..
Why don,t you make regular(daily vlogs) videos for update .. atleast upload shorts❤❤
Podziwiam, że ta stara maszyna do wożenia ziemi jest taka silna i daję radę z tym błotem.