Digger clears blocked culvert to save road during 100 year Nelson Flood 

I agree with you . I used to in my early years operate these and other machinery before swivel sticks . It is an art that today some would be baffled , but we did it to put food on the table . Touche' sir for your professionalism !

@@reuben9213 So true. The first excavator I ever operated was a 418 P&H, four levers two foot pedals and had a straight pipe 6V 53 series Detroit in it. Honestly, when I had that machine throttled to max you could almost hear it running in the next county😂! No heat, no air conditioning, no stereo, ridged seat and couldn’t hear yourself think inside of it, but truly appreciated that old machine! I know exactly what you’re saying when you and I could confuse a lot of operators today. You and I built the roads that get the modern day operators to work on time👍😅

​@seventeen912 damn, you were poor af. Kids toys are more complicated than these. Any 9 year old with a drone could operate this no problem.

@@pvt.reefer6163 Poor? How do you associate being poor with what was the latest and greatest machinery at the time? I would guess you’ve never set in the seat of one much less posses the ability to comment on the complexities of how to build with it. Reckon you and the kids of today couldn’t start and operate an 1874 Ruston steam shovel? Or would y’all be confused looking for the key over the sun visor? Yeah, real men operated the equipment of yesteryear, you and the kids go fly drones.

@seventeen912 I guess it was great at the time. We had one of these in the back yard just for us kids to dick around with. We were building trails with it at 11 years old. Kids today for sure could operate the machinery of yesteryear. You equipment was operated by people too dumb to get an education. Since you had no education and could only operate rudimentary machines for money, you were probably poor.

That's what I was thinking, It could go at any point.

It's called a (slippery back.)

I believe that is what's called soil liquefaction? Practical engineering has a few interesting videos on the subject.

That was the feeling that I got too when I saw that water coming out of the side…..

you"re right. anyone that sees that anywhere in California is probably seeing their last sight of anything.

😂

He wouldn’t be an “idiot with an excavator”. “Look at the damage!!!!”

😂😂😂

But he don‘t like people whit excavator🤣

But he would love the whirlpool. Not to mention the exit of the culvert.

@@howardsen666 Actually, I think it's incompetent operators he hates 😆

@@michiganengineer8621 that‘s right „an idiot with an excavator“ 😅

Definitely wasn't a beaver making this clog!

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Saw the flooding on the news here in Australia and thought of you in Nelson. Glad all are safe 👍

Thanks mate, yes sounds like Nelson is a real mess. A house slid down the hill and parked in the middle of the road in Rai Valley .

@@MartyT 😳 scary stuff man

But wait... there's more.

@@aserta 😱

I second that!

Same spot no?

@@OboteOjok Yes sir

"hundred year" floods every few months...

You guys get the same system that pass over Marty Just a few weeks later

@@ionracer24 If you are in some of the valleys here along the Andes you will see that much rain. We are way way in the south in the Los Lagos Region and this area is a Temperate Rain Forest. It is cool and wet year round. 85 F would be a really hot day. We have seen 100F but that was only once or twice in 9 years. Snow only once in 9 years. Jim

@@fowletm1992 Yes weather travels from West to East. I guess the other way to look at it is that Marty gets the same rain we get a few weeks later. We actually live in a Micro Climate here in the micro. So because of the Humboldt Current and the Andes we see our area as a mixing climate where the warm moist air from the north and the cold dry air from the south pole mix. The Humboldt current moderates the climate so we do not see really hot and really cold and the Andes Mountain Range blocks the heavy moist air from moving east. So for instance in Argentina, directly east of me 50 to 60 miles, they are an arid area that sees very little rain. They rely on the snow melt from the Andes and not much rain. So we have a unique weather pattern but yes all weather travels west to east as the planet spins. Sorry to get so deep on this but my training in the U.S. Navy was weather related and I was an official weather observer for NOAH in the former USA. Also I had to continue my weather education as a Commercial pilot after my Submarine Service in the Navy. So I had to live and breath Weather for a good part of my life. Thanks. Jim

"average 12 feet (3.65 m)of rain a year." Holy cow ! 😱 Do you get as much as damages??

The turbine stopped at one stage with a partially blocked intake so I put on a smaller jet, running sweet now

Better than searching piles of driftwood for the remains of your powerplant , for sure .

@@robertcolinshepherd electric.

@@robertcolinshepherd Marty turned an old washing machine and number 8 fencing wire into a hydro-electric power plant that allows him to be off grid.

I’m glad you asked this because I was wondering the same thing.

Newzealand and australia are suffering though a la Nina weather pattern, so we are getting a deluge of wet weather, where as the northern hemisphere is in drought

Climate change sucks :(

Scientists been telling us for a looong time this is (more extreme weather) coming, here it is. Funny all the dumb pricks who are surprised by it, people who listen to politicians with an opinion over an expert. Anyway droughts suck more than floods I reckon so all the best

@@squidiz496 This has all happened before.

@@ferrumignis Exactly

Did you see the video of where he got the excavator?

@@KayAteChef yes I did, and it makes me think y isn't a lot more heavy equipment rescued like that? Not to mention how impressive he is.

give it six months ;-)

The "100 year flood" or "XX year flood" title given to these types of events is actually a bit of a misnomer. I believe the XX Years actually refers to a certain pre-decided flood-height. It's not actually that the statistical probability has been calculated and determined that X level of flooding will happen once every 100 years, its just saying that a flood that reaches X height/level is called an XX year flood.

Your heat wave is just a hot summer in Gisborne. We get 40 degrees usually 1 or 2 days a summer

@@mattyallen3396 Nice. We’ve never had 40 ever before in the UK until recently

Yeah but Gisborne is at latitude 38 London is at latitude 52. That’s like having 40 Celsius on Campbell Island!

@@crookedpaths6612 I’m in the far north of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@@ewanstewart8011 If Scotland was in the Southern Ocean it'd be surrounded in winter sea ice right down to northern England! South Sandwich Islands is the closest place in terms of latitude comparable you'll get, i think.

I have lost count of the number and rapidity of 100 year weather events we have had in the UK in the past few years!!

Because there aren’t any? Next

There are buckets that come with drain holes but they're not common

Thats all true, but the wildfires in Portugal we had worse and they are not weather related, they are corruption related!!! Since the airplanes and helicopters for fire fighting become private instead of the Air Force we started to have way more fires.... There had been some people caught in arson!! The weather does not help but people dont too

@@organiccold That's such a shame, my condoences to your country suffering the stupidity of individuals.

it's finally raining in my area, thanks Marty! 😁