Neat way to establish quick cut & fill. I would suggest attaching a second folding tape to the post with 7" at the FG mark. Then you can use the sight level on the first tape without having to bend over. Say if you hold the level consistently at 60" and read 56" on the mark you need 4" of fill. Read 65" and a 5" cut. It will definitely save the back from not having to bend over.
I just leveled an area for our new shed. My 12 year old son didn't understand the "backwards" number reading while using a transit until I had him stand on the porch steps. It was easier for him to visualize it and now he gets it.
still not getting notifications on all channels i subscribe too ... i have my son tonight to help me figure this out thanks... check out 5th post down "Larney Moke" i think this guy has found the reason WHY NO EMAILS...... i sent to my son so he can see his post..
I have been watching you for around a month now. I have been u able to find a bell. Enjoy the videos and how you explain things you are doing. Even though I am 75years young. The best looking equipment you have is your lovely bride.
I used those hand levels for my career in highway const. Hard to admit it took a while to learn the crude ways after all the schooling in college. As a state highway guy we used those for minor things like approaches, approach pipes, and offsets to construction stakes.
Have the same notification issues as mentioned below. It is not just OWTM channel issue. It's on all my subscribed channels. I clicked the bell again. We'll see how it works. Enjoying your pad build and learning some new stuff. Thanks!
Richard Holtz been a subscriber when you got the RK Tractors , but about 2 weeks ago i stopped getting the videos. Never had a problem before this, keep up the good work, really in joy it.
Mike, I’ve been a Surveyor since 1978. I’ve used a hand level like yours to set many of mile of slope stakes for ditch grade. I worked 16 years for Peabody Coal in strip mines in Southern IL coalfields. Still surveying today but no more hand leveling. I really enjoy you channel.
Good morning Morgan's!! Time to enjoy another great video, while drinkin' BRCC coffee with Mike N' Melissa, the daughters & Hunter, on this foggy morning. I'm getting the notifications!!
I have been going back and watching some of the older videos and man, things sure are changing fast around camp morgan. Yall are a hard working family and deserve the growth. Stay well, stay safe and yall HAVE A DAY 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I didn't get a pre notification of your livestream yesterday. All other channels that I'm subscribed to, that do livestreams, give out a pre notification 30 minutes before. God bless you all!
I have been using a hand sight level for over 40 years. It is a handy little tool for sure! Between that and my sight prism I could “rough” in my building locations.
That hand level brings back memories from my early career. I'm a civil engineer and the technology has come a long way, especially in the last ten years. My surveyor recently started using a drone for his survey work. His topographic map came with a high resolution image. That sure makes design easier. The image is so clear I can see the cracks in the asphalt!
G’day Mike I get all of your notifications about 10:30 at night 👍🇦🇺 I do try to stay up and watch them if I don’t it gives me something to look forward to the next day when I come home from work 💙
That gps on the dozer is good and bad, some guys are lost without it. Dad poured concrete for a side job so I spent many summers on the dumb end of a transit. Thumbs up
It is nice to start the day with one of your videos. Thank you for making family friendly content. Learning a lot and cannot wait for next week when I finally have 7 Acres in TX to put some of what I have learned into practice.
I love your videos Mike. I’m 18 years older than you but I can relate to so much of what you do. I worked highway construction summers in college. Worked with the blasters, used the sight level putting in culverts and pipe, and then after college worked for a couple years in a rock quarry. We shot a 90’ wall about every 4 months. I’d love to sit down and talk with you. We have a lot in common. I’m still slitting firewood too... on my Wolfe Ridge splitter!
I get my notifications just fine. Really like my mini lesson on foundation prep. I now have more of an appreciation for big equipment operators.....and little ones, too. Nice, Mile.
Melissa, I think the point is in some families both parents work and they may not be able to afford a computer for their student.... But I do agree that kids these days learn stuff fast.
Good morning all, Phil from Kansas City here. Hoping to head back to Stover today to continue to clear cedars and mow fields so I can disk up some food plots. Have a day and watch out for chiggers they are bad around hear this year.
I was notified Mike. Great job explaining how to shoot grades. You better take some time off and take advantage of the great weather. Nice seeing you and Melissa moving dirt together.
Within the last week I have not received notifications of your videos. I have been looking on RU-vid and find them. I had to find this one. From NW Arkansas.
Hi from Allen Park, MI I've been Subscribed for over a year and the 🔔is on. I get4notifications everyday. You throw me off when you don't post until afternoon or evening. Keep up the great videos. 👍🏻😊🤗
Thanks Mike took me back in time that's how I determined all my finished ground levels related to natural groundlevel. If you don't use the old methods you don't loose the know how as on computers. If you don't us you loose it
Howdy Morgans, Mike great explanation of finding grade. Funny story I was using a laser level at my house for a concrete pad I was pouring. I have an Invisible Fence around the yard and at the time I had a German Shepherd that stayed by my side....that is until I reached grade and the laser level went beep beep then solid tone at grade. Apparently she thought a correction was coming and immediately retreated away from the level.... Have A Day! ;~)
Ah yes, I thought your pad was a lot further along in the live stream last night, and isn’t that the walnut we see when Melissa is blading? Makes sense - all this was done yesterday before the live stream. Anyway, that fill packed and leveled up really nicely! No wonder you were doing the Tim the Toolman “Yeah” when you pull the bucket up with good stuff! Thanks for the explanation of how you did the rough grade determination. Nice and much handier tools. I’ve only used a level and transit on the farm - Dad had one so that was what we used. In our research, we used total stations and real-time survey-grade gps, but I didn’t do any setup on those. It’s fun watching your projects. About notifications... I stopped getting emails about uploads on the 13th, which appears to be a RU-vid action. However, I still get emails if someone replies to or likes a comment I have made. I also get the usual notifications on my phone about all things, including uploads. I hope that’s clear to you because I’m not sure it’s clear to me. 🤔
Hello Mike my name is Ateet sen from India. I am big fan of you and your work I wish one day i my coming to meet you And see how you do your work...and glad to teach something from you..
Mike when you put the electricity in for the woodworking shop area be sure to put a 200 amp service panel in there that feeds the shop exclusively. That way at the end of the day you can flip one switch, and protect all of your equipment from a direct lightning spike. I wish I did that in my shop because I go around unplugging individual pieces of gear. I could elaborate, but I know you are busy. Get in touch with me if you want to talk more about it. You also want a line or two going to a light, or lights in the shop so you don't have to flip a breaker for a light every time you walk into the shop.
I took your advise and did the bell and reset all notifications so we'll see what happens with the next video. Really enjoyed seeing someone use the old sight glass and folding ruler. It has been years since I saw anyone use one of them. I have seen many gas well pads shot in with one of those. BTW! Greeting to all from the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas.
Site starting to look good! And Melissa is really getting the hang of running the BX! I just heard that there is no ammo in certain calibers, like no 38, no 9mm and some other calibers. The story is some organization (don't know who) is buying it all up directly from the factory. If it isn't one thing it's something else. Thanks goodness for the Morgan's👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻 Stay safe🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I watch on a Roku device. I don't have a notification bell option. Your top ten subscriptions just show up in the suggested category. Since you post every single day your channel stays in the top 3. I never miss an episode.
That was a good explanation of how a "pop" level is used although what I have found as the easiest way to explain and think about it is to just remember "the bigger the number the deeper the hole".
It would be so cool if you could do a split screen with one screen on the machine, and one screen on you running the controls on the excavator, just so we can watch how the thing works. You'll be returning the excavator, so you'll have to git er done soon. My bell icon was at "personalized" instead of "all" . I never changed it, so I put it back to "all". Thanks!
Nice educational session, Mike & Melissa. We had an old pea shooter back on the farm - Berger, I think. We were constantly having to rake the back 40 after the winter rains flooded the sloughs. Beavers never made it easier. That shale has got to be loaded with goodies in it. Too bad you don’t have time to dig through it a bit.
Great video! Very simple explanation. Setting grade intimidates some people. As a surveyor it is one of my favorite jobs. I love watching it come together. There are only a few contractors in our area that are using the machine control so I still see a few of the old school operators hop out with their hand level and use my cut stakes to figure their grade (i.e. 2:1, 3:1 etc.) They get out measure from my stake and drop a rock and then sight to one of my grade lines and figure how much more to dig. Awesome video!
Oddly enough, I am prepping a site to build a Timber-frame garage behind our cabin up in Maine. The grade prep insights are priceless! That excavator rental has more than paid for itself in the work that you are doing. BRAVO!
I must say after using a water level to reset my manufactured home to level I became a fan.. a 2 gallon bucket with a 1/4" fitting threaded in the bottom and 100ft of tygon tube, fill with water and food colouring. The thing is deadly accurate, dirt cheap, albeit not as convenient as the sight level.
I was a contractor for 33 years and I had a cheap $10 sight level, but what I had was a old broke tape taped to a scrap 1x1. that way you could have your bench mark higher and didn't have to bend over or have the tape at the bench mark and you are thepole and yo just move from p;ace to placeand sight through the sight level.. In other words where ever you stand that is the measurment diferant to the beanch mark when the buble is level. After being retired for 10 years I still have my rotating levels for finch grade.
My notifications, bell icon, got turned off about 2 months ago. Mysterious. I just turned it back on, and so far so good. Love your enthusiasm while digging! I do the same thing when I'm tilling my field.
Actually has been used for centuries and very likely thousands of years. I have seen claims that the water level was used to build the pyrimids in Egypt. Some claim that is the first documented use of them, but I could not find a source for that. When I did a lot of suspended ceilings in commercial buildings, I had two pieces of clear plastic tubing about two foot long with one having a male garden hose fitting and the other a female hose fitting. Then I could just screw them onto both ends of a normal garden hose of any length anywhere and have a level to fit the job. Strap one end to the mark I wanted to hit, then raise or lower the other end to get the water to move up or down until it was exact. Since both ends are even due to gravity once the reference mark was correct with the bead of water in the tube the other end was ready to mark on the wall. The advantage of the site level Mike is using is that you only need one person. Water level can be done solo but works best with two people.
I’ve had one for about 40 years and as recently as two weeks ago used it to level a ceiling... I put blue windshield washer fluid in it so I can use it in freezing weather and the blue is easier to see regardless of the temperature.
I stopped gertting notifications for ALL my subscribed channels. So I did what you suggested and hit the bell icon again, then hit ALL again. We'll see if that helps any. Great videos, keep em coming. Thanks from Central Arkansas. partly cloudy, temp around 80. BEAUTIFUL day here as well.
Enjoyed watching and your explanation of surveying. I have over 14 years experience from underground mining to boundary and property surveying and GPS surveying lol. And yes the new GPS is a lot easier, but always keep a Transit and field book. Because anything electronic can and will crash on you..lol
