Fixing a Gravel Driveway with Standing Water 

shout out to the snake around 36:05

As long as the home owner is happy. That's all you could ask. Good job buddy. and on to the next one.

Your drainage seems to be working well, you can`t ask for much else, it looks great, well done.

You've come a long way. I just finished watching a video from three years ago where you rented an e45 excavator to remove a tree stump, because the Kubota backhoe w/ ripper couldn't hack it. great job man.

You had very little to work with based on his elevation of his garage doors. You did about as good as anyone could do. I think the key is the owner has to realize that this driveway will need to be managed yearly after the winter season and plowing. Super job on your part.

Watched, Liked, Subscribed, Shared, Commented... love the video and the excavator work! So smooth and clean!

The excavator is so quiet and smooth! Great job!

Great Job! It's nice how you went back to ensure everything was working the way it should. Only some contractors will take that extra step.

I agree, many angles are hard to deal with unless they do a paved driveway. You do good work. I’m getting better on my E35 but so far I stay away from driveway repairs until I get more skilled.

Just saw this channel. Gotta say you have a lot of pride in your work, great job man! A top coat of 3/4' Clean Limestone would make this perfect, wouldn't be muddy during wet weather. Did same to my driveway and it made world of difference.

Great job. Thinking of looking at excavators instead of a new tractor. That 26 seems to be big enough to get er done.

Something that some of the logging companies around here do to help with the swale situation at the intersection is they will bury a 4” wide 1/4” wall C channel and lay a grate over it so it a solid swale that directs the water rather then having to try and build up gravel and having a bump and subsequent “ditch” in the driveway

Always love your after sales service. Must give your customers a greater degree of confidence. Mike 🇦🇺

Nicely done. Someone should teach that dump truck driver how to tailgate spread 😆

This would stress me out with the summer we’ve had 😂

A little sediment pond in front of the culvert might help the problem. Nice video!

Great content, great video, love the skid steer work 😊

Great job🎉

Looking good. Great video.

Nice work! Looks like minimal slope closer to the house where the swale is coming off the driveway. It looks like you are working the best with what you have.

That zip level sure is nice. I use mine a lot.

That has to be the quietest excavavtor ever!

Great video and content. Liked and subscribed!

Good job!

Anyone notice the snake at 36:10? Love the videos thanks for all the tips!

Nice job !

Awesome content! I just picked up a new Bobcat E26. What do you think your most used attachments/buckets are? I plan on renting it out with my dump trailer business.

great video how much does something like that cost ?

Ballpark for an estimate for a project like this?

Greqt video!

I used to plow both of those driveways, and yes it’s always a pond about 20 feet out from the garage, which when frozen it was almost impossible to plow because of no traction. What company do you use to haul fill and gravel when needed?

Why didn't you remove the old pipe after you found it good job tho

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You should get a mini roller to compact all the earth etc.

Man I would love to know how you bid jobs. That’s my biggest issue right now.

I dont understand why you dont have tiltrotor on your excavator in Usa, in Europe almost everyone have it, for a jobb like this it would have helpt you a lot and saving time. But you did Great 👏

I would love to know what you charged for this job?…

How much would you charge for a job like this?

What’s the quote on a job this size?

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low or no compaction created th ponding if graded and compacted would be like concrete plus sofdt spot vneeds to be dug out with 5 to one then compacted. possible ditch , over all better vthan most, 1000s of projects in 5 states , i am the guy they call lol 40 years .... lots more steps to prevent ponding, .. take vcare seem like great contractor

Bunny spotting 42:01

I was not pleased to see that driver dump so much in one spot and why was he not instructed to spread it out way more as it spilled way to much onto the sides onto the lawn

а старую трубу надо было достать. а так ощущение халтуры осталось.

I'm sorry, but this is yet another driveway drainage disaster! See my comment(s) on video...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LGjuO0YkRvk.html and you will learn a lot. On this one, at 0:50:00, you show the problem. You have a public roadway going uphill (left to right) in frame. If you pause the video, you will see the berm of the aggregate driveway is higher than the actual aggregate driveway leading to your customer's driveway. That right there is funneling surface and storm water down to your customer's driveway and causing severe erosion and drainage problems. This is easily correctable. You should have inquired with the owner of the main drive, if you could have cut and graded that berm to allow surface water to transverse across the drive and down into the woods to the left. Next, standing at the head of the customer's driveway looking out, right and left, examine the existing grades. To the left, looking at the public road way, you have a slope elevation going up hill from left to right, and a downward slope elevation from the public road to the customer's driveway with a cross section slope falling right to left. Now looking right, to the neighbor's you again have and show a contour of elevation falling back towards the customer's drivway, with an existing 8 inch culvert conduit tranversing right to left across the customer's driveway. Silt and sediment has prevviously clogged and buried this counduit. Heading into the customer's customer's drive, you have a slight downhill elevation towards the customer's garage and with it falling off to the left of the garage. So how do you fix this without creating a financial nightmare for the customer? As I pointed out in your video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LGjuO0YkRvk.html) I am seeing more and more RU-vid excavating contractors with fancy new or newer equipment but no one wants to get off their lazy asses (out of the cab) and check grade with a laser level and a grade rod. When I point this out, the excuses come rolling in with comments like, I did that off camera! I have grade controls on my equipment! The list goes on and on! *BULLSHIT!!!* One of the worst influencers is Chris - Letsdig18. Now I like Chris and his work. He is an exceptional operator. But he mainly does land clearing, pond and mass excavating where you can hog dirt. You don't see him out of the cab in the S.C. heat doing much handwork or checking grades. Don't fall into that trap! Let's start with the existing 8 inch culvert pipe. Noticing the divit with the wet silt and sediment near the customer's head of the drivway and on the left facing into the driveway was adn is a prime indication an existing culvert conduit was there, that you failed to check when assessing the job. Once discovered and digging along side it once found, you instead abandoned it which is bad! You should have dug it up and laid the new culvert in the same place and outleted it to day light in the wood to the right. Oversizing a culvert will help with preventing it from plugging or clogging. While you did good to bump it up to a 12 in., even a 15 in., or 18 in. would have been better. State DOTs if we abandon a culvert conduit, we plug both the inlet and outlet and pump it full of concert grout to prevert collaspe, sink holes, erosion etc., in the future. Groundhogs and other animals love to burrow along side culverts or make abandoned culverts a home. Trust me I inspect culverts for a State DOT and give them a federal rating. Second, I cannot stress this enough and see RU-vid excavation contractors (yes like Chris - Letsdig18) just toss in culverts and back fill with existing material. I will post this again here... assets.adspipe.com/m/3c4e41e5a3e27510/original/TN-2-01-Minimum-Maximum-Cover-Heights-for-HDPE-per-AASHTO.pdf Each conduit manufacturer has specification and standards for installing conduit whether it be ADS storm culvert, ductile iron water lines, or PVC sewer and sanitation pipe. Yet more and more RU-vid excavation contractors evidence just digging a ditch, haphazardly throwing the culvert conduit in the ditch with no bedding or control contolled lifts of 6-12 inch lifts. As the above ADS link shows, you need at least 1 foot of cover on the pipe and 5 feet before using somethin like a hoe-pack. But it is too labor intense to add a foot and use a plate compactor in this case to bring it back up to subgrade. No, you all backfill to the top and track it in with your hoe or skid steers. WOW! A much bettet option would have been to to cut the berm from the existing public road down to the customer's driveway. From there, a swale cut down along the right side of the driveway... from the head of the drive to a point where you showed daylighting the new culvert pipe. On the left side, the culvert inlet should only collect what surface water cannot transver across the drive. This would reduce the silt and sediment coming from the neighbor's drive. Building the aggregate berm across the head of the customer's drive is a longterm financial nightmare! When it comes to winter, a snow plow is going to hit it and begin peeling it up and where is it going to end up? In the low collection point culver inlet area. Even with rip rap there this will quickly silt up and end up plugging and clogging the new culvert conduit you poorly installed. There will likely be a bump and washouts at the head of the driveway. In my state what you guys call "Crusher Run" or ABC, we call 304 or 411 Limestone. 411 just has more fines in it. If you want to make a rock hard base, take a truck load of 304 or 411, add a few hunded pounds of hydrated lime and/or cement and you''' have a hell of a time grading once graded and compacted. This could have been done in the wet area near the customer's house. When you first graded the area in front of the shed and garage area, I knew you would have water laying there before you showed coming back during the rain. A promblem they will have is that turn around. With an agregate drive, when you turn the wheels and move, you are consistently loosening and "rolling the stones" and that is why they had a soft spot there. My goal here is NOT to BASH YOU! Rather it is to provide useful and positive information to help you, other followers (both new contractors and property owners) so that it is a win / win for you and your customers. Trust me, I get it, everyone in the comments is an expert and most have never done what you or I have. I done it 34 yrears and now play consultant and inspector for a State DOT. One thing I will say is also don't fall into the trap of... I'm not in your state and we do things different! That is only a half truth and federal standards. For example, about 8-10 States use the the same "Collector" app and that includes townships, counties, municipalities for their culvert assets inventory. In order to get federal funding, the major of their culvert assests must meet or excced a "5" rating or above. Materials, standards, specification, applications can vary a little place to place, but the concepts are the same. AASHTO and ASTM standards are used world wide. We all gotta start somewhere and learn. But hopefull you will use this info to better yourself down the road when it comes to driveway installation, grading, repairs, etc.