If only Shawn would have listened to Shawn sooner. Shawn would not have both the financial headache an laborious task ahead. Its good that Shawn wanted to help fix it and make it right for Shawn. I'm sure Shawn was grateful that Shawn with his excavator and proper fall techniques will make this Driveway last for years. Thanking Shawn for the video and hopefully few years both Shawn's can look back and laugh when Shawn needed Shawn's help! ;)
We all have this type of friend around, who never listens and always ends up in the situation where he pays double the price just because he didn't listen in the first place
Hard lesson but sometimes gotta learn the hard way ($$$). Between the culvert advice and how to burn brush, hope your friend learns to take advice because living in the country is not the same as being a city slicker. Good narration, appreciate the time lapse…. Keep them coming.
A well known source taught me that the culvert should be buried at least half it's diameter under the surface :D Guess that first guy should watch more Post10 vids 😂 And start using some proper road building materials...
Sean sounds like the type of guy who will ask for help because you know what you're doing and he doesn't and then once you start he wants to tell you how to do it
Yeah, reality dose for a friend. "The cold cruel callous internet said it not me. I cannot totally disagree with them either." Letsdis18 also mentions the hallf diameter and proper road base rules too. just enough native earth to bed the pipe, low rock "native earth" fill to protect the pipe from being punctured by 3 inch minus road base, proper finishs gravel topped off by topsoil and grasseed and straw to prevent erosion. He builds dams all the time for ponds and knows technical details from many years of putting in, replacing and following engineered specs. Proper sloping is a minor detail to him but making it built to last and properly slicked up are also keys to the way he does things. That is why I like this channel similar knowledge and ethics. A couple other channels and fellow tradesmen have another saying "Buy once, cry once, and you usually save money over the long run."
Generally culverts should have 1/2 there diameter for cover or 9 inches for a 15 inch, it was good you packed it well and made sure no rocks again the pipe in backfill, gravel on the top after back fill is suggested and good. Good effort on this repair. Letsdig18 does great culvert work.
Hi 👋🏾 I’m commenting from South Georgia. I watched this video and your other culvert video from 2 years ago SEVERAL times. ❤ I have a culvert issue at the front of my new farm site. I would love to lay pipes and extend the 2 driveways instead of having this unattractive 350+ feet ditch at the frontage. I just want to be more knowledgeable before spending time and money on the project.
This is why I never do business with friends or family. They never listen. Andrew would have had Cody inspect the job at the first look. Your friend seems a bit timid and may be out of his depth.
It all seemed a bit half assed. Trying to save money doing it yourself with no experience likely ends up costing more in the long run. Get the right man for the right job.
I hope your friend listens to your advice now Shawn, It's good to see that you got it fixed for him, I hope the rest of his home build is problem free. That whole driveway needs proper gravel I think!
Free Advertisement for Schumacher did not know they were in N Carolina, I am about 25 NE of Cols Ohio, but my drive had fabric and about 6 in of gravel and the heaviest cement truck left about 6 in of ruts, and it did press into the pipe but still works.
@@GCFD How has the 6.0 been treating you? I really like the dark green color. Look up "Riff Raff Diesel" online if you haven't already. Buy yourself a "boot kit" and HD clamps. I also spray just a touch of my GF's hairspray onto each boot right before I install them. It was a tip I read on the forums to help keep the charge pipes, etc. "on" and has worked well for me.
Somewhere along the way, I picked up a rule of thumb that you should have a minimum of half the diameter of the pipe on top of the pipe - so 12" pipe, minimum 6" compactable dirt or rock. Does that sound right? And you mentioned the curves. There is a nursing home near me that has the main entrance around the back of the building. The curves in the driveway and the almost cul-de-sac area at the entrance were designed in consultation with the local fire department, taking the turning radius of the biggest fire trucks into consideration.
Nice, 10/10. A video idea: YT needs correcting on gravel/dirt road maintenance in the same way it needed proper education on corrugated pipe. Most YT just add gravel, add gravel, add gravel... when the State training rarely adds more gravel b/c with a proper 4% crown & proper drainage the road should only require a remixing of materials due to rain-washing. My rear-blade on a subcompact has no problem following State training guidelines if the road is used/compacted with proper moisture for mixing.
Great video - it’s terrible that the other contractor didn’t know what they were doing and would not fix his mistake. Finding a good contractor is so hard! I thought the output of a culvert pipe needs large rocks on the sides to hold it in place and support it.
Many culverts have rocks around the outlets. Shaun may want me to add some after things settle down. This was a quick repair job as huge trucks needed to get back there with concrete and building materials the following week.
Shaun questioned a bunch of things, like will the stumps burn in the fire, are the culverts all right with 2" of gravel over them. The other contractor convinced him everything was fine...
What a great and comprehensive video! Awesome to see this project coming along. Keen to see how it goes in the future. Surely there's some legal pathway your friend could take OR report to some authority about the dodgy work? Being done over like that really sucks.
It's been a year and hopefully things have held up. From what I've read of most DOT BMP guides, the trench bed should have all big rocks removed. Rake out native soil to the desired pitch. Put down filter fabric. Put down a few inches of 3/4 crushed and bed the round pipe into it. Hand compact (using a tamper) the haunches of the pipe making sure pitch is maintained (i.e. use a laser level). This step is critical. Put backfill (preferably 3/4 crushed) in 6" lifts max. Compact with vibratory.This is critical for long life. Cover top of pipe with at least 1/2 diameter of pipe material. (8" for your 15" pipe). Final grade. Depending on circumstance, the area above pipe may want to be raised to create a pseudo berm, or break, if the drive is sloped. In/out aprons should be used as well. There are many treatment approaches for the in/out depending on what the hydrology is.
He finished building the house at the end of 2021 and the pipe held all the truckloads of cinder block, shingles, and all other building materials. We bedded the pipe really well with native soil and it has worked out well. We have high clay soil around here. I also like using a sledghammer to pack the dirt in around the pipe before using the tamper or plate compactor. Compaction is key for stability. That large amount of road base gave us the ability to have a little less material above the pipe, because that angular stone spreads out the load onto the adjacent stones (same way a railroad bed works).
0736: "I haven't put in a lot of driveways but I've watched Andrew Camarata put in a lot of driveways". That's funny right there, I don't care who ya are.
@@GCFD true, it cant make one an expert. I subscribe to Post 10 also and now when ever I see a culvert, I hear both of your voices and I notice how "wrong" things are. Hahaha!!!!
Our county code said any drive way connected to a county road must have a 12 inch METAL culvert under it at the roadside. This was not enforced but I did it anyway. I also used tamped crushed limestone around the pipe . I would not use native soil in a roadway for fill , but I am not a contractor either. .
This happens, the next time he calls you to come by a job and you offer advice, on the second time I warn them. You called me last time and blew off my advice. I will give you advice this time and if there is an issue and my advice would have prevented the issue next time you call it will cost for my advice. If someone is calling you and don’t listen it’s time to charge. Maybe then when they have to pay it will mean more. Yes to family and friends. Good luck you a good man and love your videos. Sorry how can a construction budget not have funds for a road access to the site? That just make no sense. No access you can’t even build.
Great comment David! It was a mess for sure. It didn't help matters that I had told him this was going to fail. Things had been dry for awhile so he didn't care about my advice. Until the first rain came.
There are dirty nasty ultra cheap tricks loggers use when douing their trails that support logs trucks, but are very temporary. Corderoy where you lay logs lengthwise so it follows water flow. A set of logs 90 degrees off to give strength to the roadway, another flow-followinge layer of logs, Alternating layers to the height you need then finishing with slash on top with a couple feet of dirt. it lets the water flow through, but even a log skidder can build that bridge with throw away logs. I understand they did it on the AlCan highway in places since speed was necessary, but the came back and rebuilt the sections as time permitted.
Burning is 1000 times easier, faster, cheaper, so much safer than chipping. We burn when we can and only chip as a last resort. Around here you can get loads dumped from chipper trucks for free. Almost as much as you want.
Good going Shawn, I'll really like to see more land clearing videos, you may also need a bigger truck as time goes by but you'll get there. As always stay blessed and keep up the good work.
Hope recent rains didn’t setback construction schedule too much. That’s a lot of kindling siting next to the new house. Let’s see what type of water control system is put in.
Watch the letsdig18 channel and see how a pro does it. If it is a three or four part series...you will normally find the burning of trees and brush in the last part. His entire build will be a disaster unless there is someone to guide him thru the many land mines along the way. The homeowner needs at least one skilled person to avoid all the landmines he will encounter along the way to his new home. Unskilled people end up costing you more...not less!!!!
The closer the friend is, the more you want to give him A "Dinozo back-of-the-head slap*" ! ☺ Well put together video! Your dump-truck driver should practice 'laying-out' the rock/load. Would save you some skidloader work! Came out good! [Of course, it would've been better - and cheaper! - if he had just listened to from the start!] And think about this- Morons in Calif. can burn MILLIONS of acres with a cigarette butt!, but your timid friend had trouble burning a relatively small pile with (what looked like a TORCH !!????) GOOD VID! And Kudos to you for helping a friend work out of a jam! [ * Dinozo head slap : Reference to EARLY 'NCIS" episodes. Gibbs & Dinizo-not a hurtful or abusive hit, but it got the point across!]
Seams like Shaun doesn't trust your judgment. I'm saying this because in the beginning he didn't call and he questioned your better judgment after you got there. I know the feeling. My uncle and myself run a two separate property management companies and all my "new" methods are wrong and a waste of time and money. Well he always calls when he gets into a time/money crunch or needs to borrow my equipment. Great job
That whole drive needs to have surge put down and then your gravel other wise he is going to have a wrecker on hand to pull out trucks some people learn the hard way Good Luck🤔
That's exactly right Marty! He doesn't have the money to do that right now so we are kinda hoping for the best. Check out my latest video for the update. Things are holding up so far.
its amazing how when people who are perfectly sensible do construction they always neglect the road to the site! i get that people want to spend money on other stuff to move a project ahead but if you dont make sure you have solid road to begin with,it will kill you later in costs anf time
LetsDig18 is the one you should have watched. He is east of Raleigh does alot of driveways with both our clay soil and the sandy soils in eastern NC. Andrew is in upstate NY. His terrain is very mountainous and nothing like what we have in the triad.
@@GCFD hmmm well now I think he knows he should listen to you! Perhaps there's an opportunity to get him and his new community set up for success with drainage systems done upfront and done right!
I'm sorry but 'friend' or customer, if they ask or hire for your 'help', specifically: expertise, they need to be told to step back in a nice way. Or just refuse the job. Anything I hate worse is a know-it-more-than-you that doesn't yet wants to tell you how to do the thing they have no idea how to accomplish. You've got a lot more patience than I, sir!
Hello. Why did the owner allow the brush to be left beside the new road while it was being cleared? It should have been removed, but now it is an eyesore! Andrew
@@GCFD It's cool. Just sharing some thoughts on the format, the other way is just more immersive and less echoy. I saw later that you did some overview stuff in the clips too. still great stuff :)
I think you could do quite well in land clearing, but a bigger excavator would be a good idea for those jobs. I also watch Andrew Camarata's channel and he definitely is quite the handyman.
Shawn, I am sorry to say but he will have the same problem with both pipes that you put in because it still does not have enough material before, on top and after the pipes to evenly spread the weight from the down pressure from the weight of heavy vehicles, i would not put this on you because his budget is limited, at lease you tried with the limited funds. Randy watching from BARBADOS.
Hey Randy - check out the video I posted today for an update. The brick trucks, truss trucks, and concrete trucks have all gone over my pipes with no problems. 👍
You are so right about the driveway - your friend was misled on what could be achieved with a low budget vs. technical realities. It was obviously not going to be correct, not even stabilising geotextile material had been installed which could have helped a bit. You mentioned Andrew Camarata's method of gravel road construction which would be an answer for the future if financially possible.
For burning big brush piles like that you want to use gas or diesel (gas is better) as the fire will stay burning. But… Is using gas or diesel safe? No. Does it work? Yes Is it effective? Yes Is it time saving? Yes Will someone die? Probably not. (As long as you’re not dumb. But I know you’re not lol) (Also the excavator picking up the whole dang trees)