Hello Chris . My husband who is 44yr old operated equipment for 28 yr . But in 2018 he had a stroke and it caused brain damage and left him in a mental state. So he can't work anymore. I put your videos also other creators on for him to keep him entertained. He watches every one of your videos several times. Keeps him smiling . So thank you Chris for entertaining him. Blessings to you and your family
I've been fascinated by some of these videos and it's not just because I enjoy seeing work being done or dirt moved around. It's clear that the operator has learned to engage his mind to understand the three-dimensional forces affecting his work and the machine, sometimes solving pretty complex puzzles to do the work. So I suspect that you, in providing your husband with these videos, are not only keeping him entertained but also helping his brain into figuring out how to work around some of the damage caused by the stroke. Good for you!
Been there done that quite a few times. Mostly pickup trucks and a few tractors. Buried a Ford model 1920 halfway up the motor, had to hire someone with that one.
There are those that are stuck, and those that will be stuck in the future. Anyone that’s never been stuck has never been in that kind of material. Ponds and swamps are a whole different world.
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Fun to do, until you realise it's just going to get filthy again within a fortnight. Which is exactly what happened when I bought a pressure washer to take months of grime off my car. No point washing it until the rain stops and everything can drain away.
He knew who to call !! lolol... He said, "Chris is the Man" !! I agree you know those machines Chris !! Glad you got him out without any real problems.... Great as always Man !! Have a Great Evening....On too the Next....
Quick-clay is perhaps the most scary one. This one was filmed in Alta, Norway last summer where luckily no one was killed: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VWOsGjJo_oI.html&ab_channel=AroundNijkerk. There also was one this jan. 3rd at Gjerdrum where 10 people lost their lives when a quick-clay landslide took out a part of a village. It's stable until disturbed, then it just liquefies as this demo shows: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p12DHwA566Y.html&ab_channel=NVE.
@@martinusmagneson that first landslide had my jaw on the floor- imagine the entire fucking neighborhood where you grew up just casually sliding into the ocean.
I've been working dirt for 35 years for the last 15 years I know 🤔 when to let a site sit and set up. Economically it just isn't worth it. It completely takes the profit out of the job And make something that makes you happy and that you love Turn into a miserable experience
It’s always good to have someone like you Chris that will go help people like him that really don’t know much about equipment but another job well done brother and as always you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming man
Was using my E35 bobcat back in the fall cleaning around the pond. Looked pretty solid. Scraped a few saplings and such down and looked out the cab and couldn't see my tracks anymore. Never felt the machine sink, guess I sat there too long. I promptly backed out and decided "Nope...central VA is too far for Chris to drive to get this outta here." When I get brave again I'm cutting logs and taking with me...when it's very very dry.
I just realized that excavators can use their two treads combined with the arm and bucket to climb in a similar way that parrots use their feet combined with their neck and beak. That's why this talented operator will someday be able to climb a tree with his excavator, if he can ever find a tree big enough and with the kind of branches his beak... I mean bucket... can grab onto.
I finished watching the video and I go to give a thumbs up and noticed 4 thumbs down. Why? Never ceases to amaze me. If you don’t like that kind of content then go watch something else. I just don’t get it. Thank you for sharing Chris!
Chris just laughs all the way to the bank. Any click pays money. RU-vid counts a thumbs down the same as a thumbs up. They both get counted as interaction, and raises the value to get recommended more, so more eyeballs. If they really hate it, they would do nothing and move on. Thumbs down, thumbs up, comments good or bad all help Chris so keep on clicking and commenting folks.
A friend of mine showed me a picture of a supposedly he said was a Caterpillar D11 (This was him explaining what kind and the Construction Co. he was working with.) There was a Landslide in the area of the Construction one night and when they showed up the next morning all you could see were the exhaust and part of the Cab. Supposedly he said all the had to do was get the dirt away from it and pull it out that it wasn't damaged because how well it was designed.
Chris made that look almost casual. Barely 8 minutes into the video, and he had the machine well on its way to being free. That is pure experience and knowledge of the machines in general. Good short video. Plus...continue with the good fortune and success of the channel. I’ll possibly be out of videos to watch after the snow we are supposed to get over the next 3 days in Maryland. Keep them coming Chris. 👍🏻
Chris, I came back to your sight to share something with you...if you havent already seen...little southern brothers...go watch some of the most recent videos. It will do your heart good. Their daddy is a logger but these boys are precious!
I ran off a public ditch about 6 feet on either side in my dads backhoe, called my uncle with about 40 years of driving behind him and he had it out in about 10 min. Up until then I was proud of my driving.
Very impressive. I like the way Chris treats the machines gently, it came out with no damage and with economical movements. I imagine if you keeping trying something that's not working, you could just get stuck in deeper.
Chris's mini pads for a mini excavator. Almost like it was choreographed. I love my outside faucet that comes out of the basement so I can mix the water to the temp I want.
Square bales are the best thing I’ve ever used getting stuck equipment out. Mud, sinkhole, anything as long as you can get the tracks up to shove bales under them or even pieces of bales and pack it in it will come right out
Okay I admit there was a moment I thought "Maybe this underpowered shovel will not come out without a bit of extra help" but then you just had to go prove me wrong again :P
Could a power winch, attached to the excavator, have helped get it out, like a 4X4 stuck in mud or on a boulder? Big excavators in Canada get stuck in peat bogs!
We sank an excavator about every third day in northern New York. 60’ big sticks. Clay was like Jello when you got into it. Mostly got them out right away but One we had to leave for six weeks. Had to mix cement into the muck to get it firm enough to scoop it out and then extract the excavator.
Did the exact same thing with my Komatsu at a mate’s farm. Turns out I’d tracked through an old filled in duckpond, and sunk to the tailpipe. Added a couple of bags of kitty litter to firm up the mud a bit and managed to see-saw up on cribbing, and tracked back out the way I went in.
Lucky it was a compact radius machine or that stump would’ve made the task a lot harder. Nice trick of powering the tracks whilst powering down on the boom to raise the machine. (You get the higher track circuit pressure 😉).
The only way he's getting that mini back out there without getting stuck again by tomorrow is if a LOT of gravel is first dumped into that mud pit... Either that, or pump 45-50 TONS of Liquid Nitrogen into the mud and freeze it solid...
I wasn't stuck until I was stuck...yep, that's the kind of muck, just enough clay to stick...you can be walking in a little mud, and next step, sink ankle deep, it will pull your shoe or even boot off trying pull it out balanced on one foot, pretty much always going to have to step down on your sock to keep from falling...if you are real unlucky the other foot has now also sunk...and it never looks that bad!
on top of what i've seen in the vid... if you grabbed the log with the bucket and used it as a fulcrum, you would have gotten out without a hitch. grab the log with the clam, and use it's surface area to lift you up, pull you out. i've had to fell a tree just to make that happen - but that is the best way to unstick yourself.
Both wrong. Hey one old guy was talking to another old guy and he asked him what type of underwear he prefers. Boxes or briefs. The other guy thought for a moment and then said. Depends. 😀
reminds me of pictures of them building the AlCan highway. Bury one dozer and build the road right over top of it. One man's panic is another man's dinner. Nice work Chris.
The sad part about all of these "stucks" is that they actually make amphibious excavators that work in these swampy conditions. such as the Waterking WK-20 and Wk-55.
I wasn't stuck until I got stuck .... WoW! I got stuck just like that! A funny guy for sure, Chris, you never cease to amaze, it is indeed a pleasure to watch you "Do the Voodoo.., that you do.., so well
frozen ground is deceiving isnt it. looks rock hard, feels rock hard. on the surface maybe 3 inches anyway. lulled Mark into false sense of stability and boom sucked that mini right in. Im still amazed that with few logs and hell alot of patience, you get these stuck SOB's out
LOL Look at that thing. I really wish people would leave the work to the professionals. That excavator should not even have tried to get in that mud until it got cold . That poor lil excavator. Chris to the rescue....Again
Shit happens can't be hard on the guy I'm sure he's embarrassed as hell already. That being said I would definitely buy him a toy excavator for Xmas lol
