I'm not in the digging business at all, never been, I retired 2 years ago from 35 years in managing advertising campaigns, Yes a overstressed computer & phone slave. Watching you break that slab in big pieces and breaking 'hem is so relaxing and soothing. Total control. A real pro. I guess you could pick a penny with your awesome machine. Thanks for your videos.
Extra thick concrete and 2 layers of rebar on my dads 100 ft driveway. Its 40yrs old and not a crack in it !!! I spent weeks tying it all together.. I pity the guy who wants t tear it out!!!!!!
That's how my foundation walls and floor are and on 12" centers, all tied. I know the steel is in the center of the walls. I even used a level! lol The concrete guy laughed but I built an earth contact home and was scared in 1991. My foundation drain is all hard and glued with Ts and 90s with 3 clean outs and 3 feet of clean rock that all tie into 3 places and empty 200 ft in front of my house. Gutters are tied in too 10/12 roof. 30 years later when I get a lot of rain it looks like a water main break in my front yard, but I am dry...
I've been running equipment for the better part of 20 years and I still love watching these types of videos. You are definitely a top notch operator. One of the best i've seen and I've been around it for lots of years. Great videos!!!!!
Jeff Gray you must have an action packed life, sitting on you tube pulling people over a typo? Meanwhile the guy with fat fingers is pleasuring your girl
I do roads and hwys plus ditch cleaning also pads it never seems to get old because every job is so different. Chris your like me in one way leaven your work clean like if you were doing it in front of your home. Great job you do and Tim are Timmy lol
Hey there Chris , I didn’t see any reobar or mesh in the concrete that sure makes it easier to break up and load out. Stay safe out there,Cheers and beers from Aus
Chris, Do you ever notice when you take up or break up concrete the peices resemble the shape of south Carolina on the map?? Just saying, the things that goes through ones mind when running an excavator. Dabo
Ever dig into something unexpected? Do not mean pipe lines or wire. Here in Ohio can dig into old mine shafts. Some not to deep. There is not much documentation on very old ones.
Many of the old cisterns are full of old glass bottles. People just discarded their garbage in them. I’ve actually had people pay me to dig through them after bottles.
The poor grading under that concrete made me think of Charlie's millimeter GPS grader, and how negotiated with the client on how much concrete he could save them. I was thinking that it would have been difficult to estimate how much concrete to order for the garage pour, but I suspect that this was not a professionally laid slab, and that the home owner and his I-know-how-to-do-concrete mate mixed this up on site, and had to go back to Home Depot for more bags of cement after discovering the slab was eating concrete way faster than they estimated.
I used to build bucket for Cat for several years. On the excavator buckets as long as you're hitting on the wear bars the bucket should be fine. Not sure what carbon content or if hardox is used by Volvo or not. But I'm sure the bucket will take the abuse. As for cutting with the teeth. I wouldn't one of those thing pops off it will make racing stripes in your britches. The cutting edge to the cutter bars is usually a full pin 25mm+ weld but still that's slot of force and torque when trying to score rock or concrete. Keep up the good work
That thumb never ceases to amaze me. As a construction inspector I remember watching guys try to move mud mats with the bucket only and was amazed they could do it. The thumb must increase our productivity by a considerable amount. What is the carrying capacity of the bucket and thumb?
I wouldn’t have thought it would reduce the lifting Capacity much less than the weight of the extra ram and thumb? If you think about it all you are really doing is clamping/trapping the material(s) between it and the bucket?
Man i wish our operators would put concrete in my truck as gently as you do.... I have to replace the passenger flare on my bed now when they dropped a 2 ton block down the side of it. Reliance beds are not cheap to get parts for and have to come out of Washington.
8:11 "I almost said a bad word." This ain't no christian channel. :P Really loved the concrete ripping, and smart using one piece of concrete to get all the others where you want.
Looks like they used that self leveling concrete since they couldn’t grade 😂 I usually just drop the concrete my little excavator has a hard time breaking it like the 160!
Kind of a dumb question from a guy who's never run a track hoe a day in his life, but why did you start breaking up the driveway before the truck got there, instead of just loading it directly into the truck without having to move the same material a couple times? I'm sure there's a reason for it, I'm just curious what it is.
Hey Chris you got any tips for being able to be an owner operator and also estimate and procure new work simultaneously? Doesn’t the estimating and accounting and cost management take away from your time in the field?
I demoed a house once that had a monolithic slab and the footings were 4’x4’. Yes, the footing was 4’ wide and 4’ deep. That Cat 320CL had all it wanted working with some of those pieces. Once I got them in pieces small enough to pick up, I would drop them on each other to break them into smaller pieces.
Helped some family members demo a 15ft concrete block chimney that was next to my sisters house when she bought it. Previous owners had a wood burner in the basement and she didn't want it/insurance wouldn't cover the house with it there. The chimney itself took about 45 minuets to take down. But the footing they had poured under it was a different story 4x5ft square and 2.5ft deep block of concrete One rental of a commercial air jackhammer and 4 hours later it was out, complete with various steel re-enforcement that included the following; -1 section of wrought iron porch railing -4 or 5 various sized/lengths and shaped pieces of actual rebar -2 or 3 pieces of short angle iron -1 bmx bike frame Would have left it in there, but their was a 4ft crack in the foundation down from the vent and clean out hole that was obviously leaking water every time it rained so the concrete had to go to waterproof the exterior of the foundation.
There's an 80 year old man that checks all the loads coming in at my local recycle plant. He's so anal about dirt and roots he would've turned this truck away.
I could have done a better jobof grading with a long piece of string, tape measure, and turning a garden hose into a level by attaching clear hose on the ends water and food dye.
Is there a specific reason for breaking the concrete into small pieces, other than it would be easier loading into a dump truck. As to the concretes poured uneven thickness, more than likely was due as you said, to poor operator grading. But there again, the layout could have been done by manual labor using shovels and sighting the level by eye alone.
Lol my dad wanted an old dragline to dig a pond.. they’re cool but throwing all those big levers all day is a lot more work than two sticks in an excavator. They still have their place for sure but I’m glad he went with an excavator.
Man some of that was 6+ and some less than 3" thick. Must have been a Friday grade job lol. Bad grade jobs like that can and will throw cracks where you dont want em just as bad as un compacted fill can.
In the 1920's and 1930's, cars and trucks both weighed less than cars and trucks from the 70's and 80's.....concrete really didn't need to be a 4 inch or a 6 inch pour. I say this because that drive appears to be from the 1920's or 30's...….
Many small time contractors and homeowners will skip any re-enforcing, because depending on your climate it might not crack for 3-4 years even without any re-enforcing. Even today its not a requirement outside of government maintained roads to have any re-enforcing in concrete far as I know. Though it should be noted that their are company's that have developed fiber additives that are mixed into the concrete that provide the same benefits without the extra time/money of laying metal mesh or rebar.
Chris I'm a retired home builder PM with single family, multi family to 12 story experiance, all vetrical What are long reach sticks used for when grading and can you send me a link and for an matriculated bucket?
Way more costly to have a truck siting there while you break up the concrete. Had there been rebar, would have been a right mess. He did it the most cost-efficient way.
Antoine Roy - and to top it all off, you criticize someone who is criticizing someone else who is criticizing Chris! Did I get enough criticizingses in there? Hahaha. Ahhh Nuts! Forgot me criticizing you for,,,, well, you know,,,,, Play safe, Eh!
