Cleaning out an overgrown drainage ditch and replacing a rotten culvert pipe 

Sam, I am retired now but during my working times I always looked for people who would work hard and do what ever it took to get the job done. You definitely are one of those that will take on anything and do it the best they can. Would have hired you in a heart beat. Great job and video! Merry Christmas!

GREAT VIDEOGRAPHY. Love the opening sequence and music. Samantha you are producing terrific videos.

This is the kind of video that makes glad I subscribed. Thanks for sharing. You set a great example for others your age.

I truly enjoyed this video. It was slow and easy going. When a pre-teen the city installed culverts under a road leading into our homes development. I remember the crew excavating across the road, then laying clay and I think sand as a base followed by some grade of gravel. The culvert was set in place with gravel dumped on both sides and across the top. I then got to see a piece of equipment new to me. It was a vibrating compactor. It dropped the fill level down a few inches with more fill added. A dump truck brought in big rocks for each end of the culvert. Very entertaining for neighborhood kids looking for something to do during the summer. Your video brought those memories back.

Holy crap! You are no stranger to hard work and with that drive and motivation, the sky’s the limit!! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

You are a hard worker and never afraid to take on a challenge. The culvert turned out great. Hope you and your family has a very merry Christmas.

Great work everyone . Only can do what you can do in the time you had . Sorry you were sick and poison ivy .

Only 7 minutes in just as it’s going dark on the Friday , That’s one Hell of a job you did there SAM , very impressive. Can’t wait to see the finished job.

"because my mom is like organic mom..." 😄 This funny line brightened my day, thanks!

Sam you are one hard worker ,That culvert must have worked great with the Bottom rotted away , Finished job well done thanks for showing the end results months later

You are a hard working young lady it’s awesome to see Merry Christmas to you and your family!!

Good job on the culvert, Sam. Now you'll need to "next Spring" the rest of the drainage. Many thanks for the content, well done.

Be proud of what you’ve achieved Samantha, you kept the guys honest. I’ve only seen one other work like you and I married her 44 years ago. Thanks for posting, merry Christmas, and thank you for posting All the best to your family!! Cheers from downunder

Lots of rain here in Halifax,NS into December too. Great job on the culvert pipe and brush clearing. Your ambition and hard work ethic is awesome, Sam. Glad to see you making more videos ! Merry Christmas & Happy 2024 also.👍👍👍❤🎅🏻

Good job especially after the flooding rain, looks good.......

Thanks Sam for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you girl, good work 👍😁 I thought you were better on the digger.

Jewelweed sap will neutralize the urushiol that is in the poison ivy. It is very abundant in late summer. You can make a tincture from the ground-up jewel weed stems in a crock pot. It can be preserved it in either in isopropyl alcohol or vodka and it will last for a couple of years. I put it in a spray bottle and use it before showering. You can also use it if you already have a reaction and it will reduce the time to heal the skin rash. Also using a hair dryer or heat gun on the affected area will stop the itch.

Its good to see you so happy Sam, love the videos and stay safe.

Nice job on the new pipe! I like the pensive piano with the shots at dusk at the end.

Nice camerawork and video Samantha! You have a knack for making a good content. You and your family have a nice Christmas and hope you do many more videos next year..

As soon as i saw you with a weed eater and said you were allergic to poison ivy you would be wrapped up in it, i rarely break out and i reach into it with bare hands and pull that mess out of all kinds of things but if i hit it with a weed eater and sweating…..it gets everywhere lol. Glad you got over it and all is well, take care

Couple things. One, when you have a machine with a thumb available to rip out brush, let it. No need to cut it down 1st, the part above ground helps the machine get a better grip and adds leverage. And two, when you need to build a stone wall, build 2. Build them apart from each other at the base, and lean them together as you go up. Somewhere around halfway up start connecting them together with bridge stones. Merge the 2 wide wall into a 1 wide wall as you near the top. Super stable!

I could see that your dad has had it with falcon's sarcasm by the end of the day. He couldn't even get a lunch order from him without stupid comments lolol 😂

I'm in northern VT and I also have a serious poison ivy problem. I've had it so bad once that I thought I was going to have to go to the emergency room. But I struggled through. Urchial oil is no joke one of the worst things on the planet! It's so bad, the military experimented with it as a weapon of war. The problem was, it took too long to activate. Great vid, Sam.

Wow, great job, glad ur ok aftr ivy, glad u got some experience drvng the excavator, glad ur family was able to help too. I went on a hike and in the woods I saw concrete that allowd watr drain, it was intrstng since it was created a long time ago

I haven't seen an excavator with that many levers in a long time! Brings back bad memories

Great video, Samantha. Many thanks for a year of interesting, varied, and enjoyable videos. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Austin

Nice ending with the music, I would like to see it during the day. Merry Christmas.

Love following along Sam, great video, you looked good operating. Jay from Pa.

Ok Sam here is my impatience I don't believe we've ever seen you operate a excavator. I know it takes talent

Found that washing really well with Dawn Powerwash every couple of hours when working around poison ivy very helpful for not getting the rash or just a small case. Yes ... I am highly allergic to it!

Sam, I think that young man had more on his mind than that colvert, I think he was into you, great video keep[ them coming

Amazing job! That was hard work! Thank you for sharing, friend and family. MERRY CHRISTMAS SAMANTHA AND SAFE NEW YEAR! 😊

Sam moved as many Rocks as the excavator, what a great work ethic this Lady has to get a job DONE. She even took on the poison Ivy. Salute.😃

Omg Sam you made me spit my coffee out as I was listening to you when you said your wet but not in a good way my wife ask if o was ok I said yes almost choked on my coffee lmao 😂

Love the content Sam. Keep em coming. And hope you and family have a merry xmas

Sam you did an awsome job lacing in the head wall of that pipe.

Mr. Weber the ford looks really good!

That rain was incredible. My sump pump didn't stop until late Monday night.

Your the hardest working young lady I’ve ever seen

Nice job, Sam. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Good video and editing Sam. Gets better quality every time! Merry Christmas

You don't know how much I'd like to be helping you youngins, it looks like fun more than work, nice work also, Merry Christmas

0) Thank you for sharing. :-) 1) Me too, I admire your efforts. I "met" you on Andrew Camarata's channel, but you're great in your own right. [matter of opinion] ;-) 2) That big bug early-on, it could have been a water bug of prey. I (1956) remember catching one here in the Netherlands (1966?), taking it home, and unaware that it could fly. - Yours didn't look like dying to [ignorant] me, but rather suffering from a broken wing. Not too much lease of life, then...

Sam you do more work manually than the guy running the excavator

Wish I was there where you're at Samantha & help you out

One thing you never do is put crushed dranage stone around a pipe.. water runs though the stone eating away at the ground around the pipe until you end up with a sink hole on both side of the pipe ending in a total wash out. You want clay or good hard packing soil around the pipe so all the water go though the pipe not around it. You will be redoing it before long. Also if you have to hand dig the trench what good is the machine? The operator should be able to dig on grade and a clean button or fire them. Over the years I am fed up with contractors. I rent what I need an do it my self. It the only way a job gets done proper these days. So many think they buy a machine an make money but they have no clue what there doing and it never done right or the click the hours away just to make more and still can't see grade or operate. You should need to be moving rocks by hand and surely not hand stacking rocks at the end of the pipe. The machine operator should be able to place them all in know time with the machine. You would have been farther a head to dig that out with the backhoe on your tractor and do all that hand work then to pay that Inexperienced operator

Wow, those cars must be hitting 200 miles an hour going by at the end of you road! LOL

Thank you for sharing Sam. Awesome job ❤

We got hit with the same rainstorm up here in Northern VT as well! Flooded roads and more!

A very good improvement! Oh the joys of property ownership..........Someone needs to give you a mini excavator for Christmas!

I wish Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family. Greetings from Germany.

Hi Sam nice job.your not afraid to get dirty.no daout you clean up good.

What was the point of having that excavator? You seam to be moving more than he does! 😂

Thank you for sharing, I learn a lot , have a nice holiday's 👍👍👍👍

That's a real friend "I don't think I can do it" "Then I'll teach you!"

That rain was crazy germantown area got flooded out pretty good. Kind of thought there would be more snow out here.

Make sure to keep broadleaf spray and brush kill always on hand. I spray the road ditches with 24D to get rid of the weeds and poison ivy and poison oak then when I cut a tree off I paint the stump with brush kill. Better living through chemicals.😂

Ну девушка просто огонь. За все хватается. И выполняет любую мужскую работу. МОЛОДЕЦ, зачёт девчонке.👏👏👍🇷🇺

See what a lot of family work even though I knew it was miscommunication and miscommunication and frustration that water wouldn't write down your driveway, merry christmas

😂🤣 that scream. I feel you. Good job getting the excavator off that trench 💪🏽

Nice to met you Samantha. The old riders or the best. Nice to see you having your own RU-vid channel. Yeap keep the videos and share them up here. From the great white north. Take care .

When building stone walls, remember one above two and two above one.

Hi Sam. Thanks for another great video! I like watching them. Merry Christmas!

That was awesome, I wish u ve a big excavator to run it like ur drone, Like a art.

Hope ur OK after the ivy problem nice job on that pipe it's working well hope to see u on the next one 👍

Entertaining vid. You work fast!

Absolutely amazing energy!!!

Very good job 👍

Thank you for another lovely video Samantha.

You sure work hard Samantha!

Merhaba Sam✋🏼keep moving, good luck. 🤜🏼🤛🏼

Great work Kiddo......... Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

Fair play to girl. But if that was anderw he would have done that on his own in a half an hour. But good luck with what ever you are doing. You are a good hard worker. And I wish you all the best.

I tuned in Samantha hoping to see you had bought an excavator. I think you would work your own equipment well

Merry Xmas, both of you. That’s not work, that’s having fun. Thanks for the high quality video, Sam. No nasty problems with the poison ivy, I hope. I wrote this before I saw the end…obviously.

That. Bug. Very powerful.

I would have used the backhoe to clear the ivy and brush but anyway Sam is a wonderful hard worker.

Awesome job!... Congrats! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Defo a thumbs up from me, Well done Sam

Luved how that fella didn't allow you to not have a good go at unstraddling the ditch and nobody can say you don't work hard and is almost fearless

Sam, i forgot to wish you a Merry Christmas 27:16 and a happy new year. May this coming year be a great year for you and we love seeing you work your ass off. Ha ha, sweet dreams.

😉This girl can't be intimidated by difficulties👍

I got poison ivy, the same way with a string trimmer. Great video

Happy New Year Samantha, hope to see more new videos from you soon

Young lady you were doing good, great project

Nice video Sam...

You need to get your own excavator. Truck n trailer. You would be a great operator.

That "bug" could have been a cicadia also known as a "jar fly" in some places. These have a life cycle where they only emerge over a rather long period of time (about once every decade). Good video....enjoyed wathing.

motivation is easy for Samantha, even with hundred miles per hour motorcycles whizzing by

Samantha Weber, Hydrologist? Well, you seem to be headin' in that direction anyway.

@Team: nice work; an improvement. @Sam: you should buy one of those cheapy mini-ex's and get to work; also, what were you using to cut the brush stems? tar paper knife?

Very Nice work Samantha Great video

Sam you need more big rocks shouldering the culvert pipe at each end. Watch the swirling around the outlet. This will erode and undermine the pipe.

Love the content! Greetings from South Dakota

Love your content. I have a suggestion for a video. I know you get lots, I'm sure. If you ever plan on doing a fence out of logs, that would be awesome. Thanks, Merry Christmas 🎅

Can you do a video about what went on on the mountain that you don't want to talk about please. LOL

Happy x mas to you and your family. a big wave from Ireland. love your content. try to get some time on the digger you will love it. I run an old Hanix N220 here in Ireland indestructible machines.

Just remember if you get any on you you've done, so there's original dawn soap and it kills the oils from the plait's just the only way to do it. If you get it real quick, it'll kill the pool. I used to carry a bottle with me and if I touched the point I put a little bit on so I'm going to let you go but if you have to handle it. Put dancer on you for just leave it on, you don't draw it, wipe it off. Don't drive off and you won't get poison ivy. As long as you've got don soap on you the dishwasher salt

You should NEVER weed whack poison ivy…...