Another very rocky pool excavation 

Dave, still not getting notification of your posts. YT doesn’t like you?

Got to say, after scraping off the dirt and finding all those rocks, i might be tempted to re-evaluate my need for a pool.

I get tired just thinking of all the man hours it would take by hand only. That digger might be little but, hydraulic power is so sweet. Nice job Dave.

I’m glad I’m not paying the bill for this operation. Lol. I thought you may have to crane in the little excavator. It does remarkably well for its size. Thanks for posting Dave I’ve missed you. Two in two days.

I'm from Canada. In my area, we would just rip the fence out, get a bigger machine in and build a new fence afterwards. Most fences are out of plum after a few winters, so most neighbors are just happy to get a new fence out of somebody else's pocket.

2 videos in 2 days, thank you. That home owner really, really wanted a pool, the sensible thing would have been to give up on the idea when the survey didn't match the first excavation but, then we wouldn't have had the fun of this video. 😁

Hiya Dave, Another fine video, thank you. My next-door neighbour had me in tears the other day, he was recounting how his four-year-old grandson was upset that 'Bang bang' wasn't wearing his 'Red romper suit' anymore!!! Stay safe, and don't freeze your assets, Steve...

It’s a miserable, cold and wet Sunday night at my place. I have the wood fire blazing, I am in my recliner watching this on my 75 inch flatty … I doesn’t get much better than this 👍👍👍

That looked like loads of fun. The teaspoon operator was quick on the controls to catch that rock . and it was a little chilly to boot . They must be millionaires to afford that job . I hope you made out ok on it.

You're my role model hero. That work ethic is one of legends. But Dave, the years are showing. Swinging that hammer you didn't look 30 anymore. Get a helper. Your making my back ache just watching.

I think a conversation with the neighbor about removing that weather beaten old fence, and building a new one after the job was done. Might’ve saved some money overall.

Amazing skill to get the Kubota down the side of the house like that and watching you use feather and wedges on those rocks is awesome Dave. Going through the back catalogue now! :)

Hi dave as again you have cracked it good watch on Sunday morning in blity with hot weather hopefully all well you aera

Thanks Dave . That expando is magic. I really like that little digger It punches above Its fighting weight.

Another cracking success for Dave

cheers again for sharing these wilth us Mr D two videos in two days marvelous - please stay safe and well sending regards x

12:12 I love how it pops just before your next hit.

Can't help thinking just how costly it'll be to make an in-ground pool when all the rock work needs done first! Nice results from the cracking goo. That mini Kabota is a real gem... pretty tedious though getting all the rock pieces freed up and removed. Good ol' plugs and feathers - the classic old-style approach, centuries old, even if a bit slow. Great to see the 'pop' as things release. Blasting did a nice job too. :)

Nice to see a helper with the nasty drilling !

There's no better feeling than watching the kid in the pool while you try to work out how to tell it you have to sell the house because of the new interest rate on the pool mortgage.......

You might be on to something, Dave, with that little crawler. It might tote a drill rig around, but the boom would have a lot of leverage - maybe just a bit wider and longer, to make a stable platform. It would go an awful lot of places that the bigger rig can't get into...

208👍's up demolition Dave the most explosive man on RU-vid

Another great video Dave .

Considering that you couldn’t get a bigger excavator in this back garden your mate did a great job , top video Dave . 👍👍🇬🇧

This job is a lot like digging in a cave. Drill, break, use some 1.4 or small 1.1 explosives, pry everything loose with rock bars, break it down, repeat. Nice work!

Backyard access for pools is a nightmare these days and more and more people want their own pool. Haven't yet had the need for a dumper thankfully. Soil tests are as good as the pilot holes, I had my block done and they said sandy soil with a hint of clay, turns out to be 50% rock from the excavation, somehow they missed all the rock there was a quarry 100m away since filled in.

I bet with all your HARD work, it will be a nice rocky pool.... 👍🏻🤣 Enjoyed the process Dave, thanks, shared with my Godson since he's in construction work. 😁

Great video and can not believe the tight spot you have here!!! Thanks for the fantastic videos

Tough little Kubota - a couple of clicks above Dave's average 'hydraulic teaspoon'!

What an involved job, for it being in such a small area. We've used those powered wheelbarrows working on hiking trails. Makes it a lot easier when importing crushed rock is required vs carrying in buckets, or having horses pack it in. Great stuff DD.

thanks Dave for showing us this tricky job.you dont know if you have got all the rocks till the last bucket comes out.the digger driver was very experienced in operating the little machine which helped a lot.

Damn, these guys need thumbs on those machines !!

The things people pay for... all to get a pool that will cost them a lot regularly in the future, too. Oh well. Hope it pays well for you! That "access" path is pretty nuts. "I know where to put this expensive radiator, in this there narrowest spot on the path!"

another great day for Dave and his bangers

It's good to see you Dave and a nice bit of work in difficult condition 👍 keep it up mate. I hope to see you again soon 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Yet another gnarly job. Great work on a tight site Dave. Well done and hoping you can score an easier job next time!

...lookin' good, makin; little rocks out of big 'uns...lol..keep safe...

Certainly a tight site ! Nice work from you and the excavator guy :) good to see different approaches to the problems encountered

Looks like you have the "easy" job. That access. Looks shocking. We're lucky to not have so much rock down in Sydney. Love watching them big rocks turn into smaller rocks top job.

Wow that was a lot work Dave 👍👍

This pool turned into the proverbial money pit right from the start!

“The materials for your new pool are cheap. The crane you have to pay to rent to move everything in and out of the back garden is not.”

Hello Dave, Incredibly CRAZY! "soil test said no rock" ?? REALY! Who supplied the soil test? The second grader next door?!?! You & the excavator crew did an awesome job!! Stay safe in the cold weather! Jim

Interesting that with all kinds modern tech, things like drilled holes and pins and feathers are as effective as they were thousands of years ago.

I expect a person would be hard pressed to find a home, factory, highway, farm, or road in the bush that does not have the fingerprints of Demolition Dave on their site, or in their community, in southern Australia. This man has literally transformed the southern part of the continent through the fruits of his pleasure, high explosives used in solid rock reduction, to manageable size. Sounds a bit cheeky doesn`t it. Look forward to upcoming events in the pipeline and thank you for going to the extra trouble of making these great videos. Cheers.

It never fails, “I want the pool here” and it’s always where the most rock is! Do none of the mini-excavators not have hydraulic thumbs in Australia?

That mini certainly is impressive. Great machine

These laws that so many countries have about building up to one meter from the property boundary are a joke, it should be 1.5m minimum, personally I'd prefer it would be 3.3-3.5m, around a driveway wide. It would drastically reduce the chances of a house fire catching a neighbouring building at the least.

Good One Dave =)

0C? Suffer in your jocks... You'll have 8 months of weather to gloat over me soon enough! Haha

Its going tobe the most exspecive pool in pasco vale..Omg what a big job just to for a pool..

Thought i felt the earth move. ;)

Nice Job Dave with a very difficult site. If its rained in Pascoe Vale this weekend (12-13/08/2022) like it has at Wilson's Prom then that hole is likely full of water now.

at 17:00 you mention alex fraser. we first took an old car battery to his place (with a faked letter from mum) in 1967 when the place was just a brick shed about 4 metres wide in ingles street port melbourne near the railway line. we got a dollar which was a lot of money for us kids.

I am just catching up on some of the videos that I was not notified about, this is one of them. I think that you should take a lesson from the Egyptians and they used copper or bronze tools, to shape stones in the pyramid. LMAO, of course they did.

I think an above ground pool would have been a much better choice all things considered.

You'd _almost_ think you could use the boulders as fill in a concrete wall to form a halfway in-ground pool, rather than haul them off... 🤔

Great way to start a Sunday. Thanks Dave😀 What does it cost? $18,000 US? Must want that pool really bad. Thats a lot of work!

0C? In Australia? I didn't even know that was possible.

That was a tough job well done! I don't know if you've considered branching out but I reckon there must be a good market for above ground pools in your area.

Compact dumper!

Hi Dave. Question for you....how did they get that sewer pipe in there without a bunch of blasting?

The analog here in the U.S. is the president saying there is no inflation.

That access...

gees, might have been cheaper to try to build a new stone wall than truck all that rock out of there

Oh man ! ! !

Do you bid by the job or do you bill for actual time and materials? What does a project like this bill out for? I understand if you don't want to answer.

Any chance of suing the surveyor? We have a competition just up the road here every year at Egremont Crab Fair It's called "The World's Biggest Liar". He'd walk it.

Expensive hole!

Just queries. A yes or no answer will do. is it cheaper to expando than blast. I know you expando when you can not blast.???

an next comes the wheel barrow to haul them chunks out

Is there a cost difference between using Expando V's Explosives? Or do you just charge for 'Rock Removal' and use whatever method seems appropriate at the time? Given how effective Expando seems to be, I can't see it been a cheap product to buy.

What wedge and feathers are you using Dave? They look way better than the stuff I got on Amazon :P

have you done a time laps on that expando compound working?

Soil looks very reactive .

Looks like they should have said ALL Rock.

How often can people swim in their backyard with all those mums & pops working all day to pay the mortgage? Is it worth it?

Pools are nothing more than a pit to you toss money into.

What happened to the poo pipe? I'm guessing/hoping it wasn't functional (it sure as shit isn't functional now lol)

good grief! how do you get all the waste moved through that sideyard???!!! 😱😱😱😱😱 oh…ok…nevermind 🤣🤣🤣

MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼……………….. I just don’t understand why y’all don’t have thumbs on your excavators. The operator could have picked out all the rocks that the machine could have handled, stacked them out of the hole, and left the dirt to cover up your explosives. The only reason I can think of is that it’s a “ macho “ thing. “ I don’t need no bleedin’ thumb! Thumbs are for Sheila’s! “ ( read with an Australian accent, LOL!) My thing is work smarter, not harder.

what did you use vasalene KY or astroglide to get that digger through there? i still don;t see how people put up with lots that size if they tried that over here that'd be one empty development and developers looking to put politicians heads on pikes!!!

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Is that what you call decomposed granite? 😅

I took the fuse out of my track siren. Annoys the shit out of me in confined residential sites. Cat didn’t like my suggestion of a switch to disable the noise so the fuse fell out!

Wait. Is that ur boy?

You guys need to strike up a deal with Mexico to bring in some laborers for excavations like that. 10 Mexicans could have that hole cleared in about 10 hours. They are some serious diggers.

Where do you live? On planet Rock?