Looks fandamtastic as usual! I really enjoy these videos. Shoot I’ve got the ole lady hooked on them now too. She sat one evening and watched till she figured out which control did what on the excavator. Thanks for sharing and congrats on the 250k subs! 🙏✌🏻from Va. 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜. Oh cool 1st again. Lol.
Duane Carter now that she has that figured out, she ought to get a kick out of the video of him using the rented Kobelco long reach with the backwards pattern trying to pull grass out of the channel 😂
Thank you for view from bottom of grader. I always was wondering about difference between grader and skidsteer. And after such view it is obvious. Please make more views from grader. That helps to understand it purpose.
Chris your precision touch on the mini is amazing! When the ditch is rocked in and the land is leveled and seeded it's going to look amazing from the road! Great video!
Great job, my 10yr old son and I watch all your video before he goes to bed every night. I’ve learn some great stuff from you, I have a landscape construction company in Connecticut. The RU-vid is under my wife’s name, my name is Alan Richman
When doing biz with the GOV'T, city to Fed level. Always ask how & when you'll get paid! Govt is notorious for being quick to offer big jobs and very slow to pay! Even as long as 6 months
Great angle on the Grader blade on the driveway, think I now finally understand how you use it to grade surfaces :=) Great videos, always interesting and informative, even have my wife watching them now :=) who needs terrestrial TV!!
That's a LOT of ditch. And that's a LOT of driveway. Did I mention that that's a lot of ditch, and driveway? I like the motor grader blade cam. Thanks.
Already looks 1000 percent better past few months I’ve watched your videos every day when I get home from work I’m not complaining I work for an Autobody shop 4days a week doing all the suspension and mechanical work then 3 days a week and evenings I work building pre 72 Hotrods everything but paint and upholstery kinda crazy how much enjoyment I get out of watching your videos because at 54 my passion has always been heavy equipment just never had the opening to do it did work for a company in my 20s that built parking structures so had some experience on rubber tire loaders and backhoe at the bosses property wish I lived closer just to maybe have a chance to meet you in person you just seem like a solid guy
When I was a young Firefighter we had a structure fire down a driveway like that we ended up pumping out of a pond plus relay pumping to the fire. 1200 feet of 5inch LDH layed down flowing 2000 gallons a minute for a barn fire. It wasn't actually a barn this found out later it was a storage building for a pools and spa contractors. A unregistered business with 2000 lbs of chlorine. We stopped pumping out of the pond when we found this out. 26 firefighters when to the Hospital for chlorine gas exposure.
Final trim grader operators are usually old fellas because it usually takes about 100 years to get really good at it..Final trim grader operators are very sort after in freeway construction, and maintaining haul roads in open cut mines....
Man, that's a huge lot ! Will this be a single home property or kind of a multi-home private community ?? An aerial view would be nice, Chris !! Awesome lot ! As I said before, that Yanmar mini-digger is awesome. Incredible lil' machine. So versatile !
Good job, but if you ever do a job like this in Nash Co., call me first (DOT). What you did looks good, but should have moved the ditch back some to 22’ off center of road.
only 4 ft for the shoulder hmmm what happens if get a flat or car/truck/suv dies,, nowhere to pull over rear in be in road someone flys around that corner & h my not a purty site
mean joe green you oughta see the ditches in East TN! If you cant find a shoulder, it may be 20 feet down! Except for Chapman Highway- it may be 30 ft down! Thats a nice road they have there in NC!
Depending in your state laws, you are opening yourself or construction company to lawsuits if that's a public road. You don't have traffic control setup. Yes even if you are working on nonpaved areas inside a public row you need traffic control. Also missing reflectorized delineators to warn public of ditch. If no warning someone could drive off road to fix flat tire or other issue and drive into the ditch. This potential could scare them and over correct flipping their vehicle. Also missing storm water pollution prevention devices. Private roads usually don't have pavement marketing.
Don Braden That will be up to your contractor, it all depends on how they work. (And what your soil type is.) That digging is like butter, where I am, its all rock, the ditches here take a lot longer. The main thing is, find a contractor that you can trust, get referrals, and check them out. Go and look at their work in the rain.
Over here the motto on any construction job seems to be "Never leave without leaving work for the next crew".... :/ Particularly the structural builders. Earthmoving and landscaping companies work a lot better than that. But why change, it works well for the crews. haha
On your mini do you manually select between your thumb and tilt coupler? It appears they come from a single set of supply lines and there is some sort of diverter. I currently have a thumb and am interested in added a tilt coupler but wasn’t sure how I would do it with a single set of aux lines.
They still us archaic pin on buckets on the full size hoes, quick connect buckets have been standard issue out in the pacific northwest and western Canada for a couple decades or more.
@@williamuskoski1385 Where I'm in Western Canada you switch from a digging bucket to a clean up bucket to a rock hammer all on one job. Quick connect buckets are a must along with a hydraulic thumb. BTW this applies to 1 ton to 40 ton excavators.
Tapon Espantapajaritos Well, its a question that can only be answered by a Realtor, its like me asking you how much for 747 landing gear. I have no idea, it depends on who is selling it. That land could be $150k or 20k if its not buildable, it could be $500k if its in an expensive area. It could be $1.2mm if its got a lake on it. Its not that our answer is unhelpful, its that you are asking the wrong people. If you want to price out land, you need to talk to someone thats actually selling land.
Chris a question for you sir. I live in Oklahoma in an older neighborhood, I have a bar ditch in front of my house. What I would like to do is have the ditch excavated and a concrete or corrugated pipe put in for the drainage. The ditch is about sixty feet in length with concrete pipes on either end that go under the driveways. The concrete pipes are about 12" diameter. This will make my front yard much usable and easier to mow. What I am wondering is what you think a little project like that should cost?
Call at least 4 contractors and see if any get back to you, if any do, get a price and go from there. Most contractors need to see the job in question but maybe Chris will give his expert opinion on your situation.
Because if I knew the customer called 10 others I wouldnt waste my time, because id already know they are only looking for the cheapest price and dont care about quailty
@@whobee8868, 10 is a little much and like Chris said, they're just looking for the cheapest price, not quality. I said at least 4, only because he might get 2 too call him back.
It depends on what kind of road you're facing. A freeway owns like 100 feet of land, a highway/state route (like this one) can own about 20 feet, a residential can own around 10. The drainage is owned by the county and maintained by the state DOT
@@mrs.eliteearthworks .. DC won't be too long before he makes an appearance. ☺ I'm going to leave you with it because it's getting late here and I'm up pretty early tomorrow. So it's goodnight and I'll catch you all soon. ✋ 🇬🇧
here you dont dare play on the road right away like that unless you have deep pockets, or you have a permit ti install a new drive way enterence, weather it is a secondary road or just a back country road, it is public oad right awat 66 feet from center of road out to both sides, the town ship looks after all the ditchs, the MTO LOOKES AFTER ALL HYW AND SECONDARY ROADS, INCLUDING REPLACING YOUR DRIVE WAY CALVETS AFTER YOU GOT A PERMIT AND INSTALLED A NEW PIPE ops caps.. once it rot out, its up to the MTO or town ship to replace after that
good eye on the states blunder ! haha You do some nice work with everything that you do, well at least what you post, maybe you hold back the videos where you didnt bring it full send ! LOL
When I lived in South then North Carolina, used to hear accidents where someone ran off the road turned over and killed themselves. The amount of roads with no shoulder and shear drop offs is downright stupid. I guess when you live cloistered without any outside input you tend to just do things from rote. That ditch with or without rip rap will kill someone in due course.
He never mentioned trees. He was talking about just ditches with drop offs. The problem is drunk driving and phone usage. So steep ditches or trees make no matter. If drivers would just pay attention while driving and call an Uber when drunk and put the damn phone down. Problem solved
