Lmao. Ole lady passed through the den and asked. “Where’s all the damn backup alarms!!” She’s too cool. Another great video. Oh,, when you put the camera towards the road,,, going backwards it reminded me of the sound a roller coaster I used to ride back in the late 60s early 70s called the shooting star at Lakeside amusement park in Salem Virginia. Damn I’m old. Lol. Thanks! God bless and peace from Virginia. 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜
Nice to see the grater getting some use again. You're equipment skills are exquisite as always! Keep up the great work. Thanks to Timmy as well. He seems to be getting more comfortable having a personality on camera (not just being a tripod). Lol
I like Fiat allis today, New Holland, I worked for years with an FG140, at the time an excellent machine. This FG65 of you is beautiful, congratulations on your zeal! strong hug 🤝👍
Enjoyed this video. You don't get to see a grader in action very often compared to excavators and skid steers. The design of the grader looks like it hasn't changed much in decades. What an interesting machine...
Having changed many a grader tire its nice to see your front tire rotation is going the correct way lol, a hundred years ago when I was in my twenties it took the operator a half hour to convince me to put them on the wrong way. He was also the guy who made sure I could operate equipment enough to load them or drive it back to the shop for repairs. All road construction mechanics should have to be taught the basic of operating a vehicle by a old driver that can show them how and WHY things do what they do and take him to the bar on friday, but that never happen and I am sticking to that story.
You could teach the Dirt road maintainers up here in Michigan a lot- they leave the shoulders higher than the roadbed on both sides, then barely scrape the top of the washboard into the bottoms.. and never roll it...
I am always amazed at how many skills you have and how many things you do by eye. Also how many things you know how to do...lol.. I have several thousand hours in skid loaders and 10k lb and less excavators but I always walk away with something from your vids or wish I had half your knowledge.
I like your attention to details Chris. It's the kind of detail that is lacking in some shires (we call them shires over here in Oz, you call them county's) over here and the dirt roads are sometimes a mess in the winter due to lack of crown runoff angle.
Good job and video Christopher, but l think your camera is on it's way out. Remember the movie Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger how the bad guy would change to a cleat shadowy type scene that's how your camera was making you look about 75% through the video, every time you walked your predator like shadow was left behind. Spooky l say!!!
Thanks for the great ,is that a private road and the home owners all pay for maintaining it ,or is it a county road and the county subcontract you to do it ,cheers from down under.
In the little town I live in we have some deep ditches and the water runs down the roads. If they would grade the grass and dirt build up off so the water can get to the ditch
it was a little hard to tell in the video, but when you were by that mail box where you cut that little channel for the water to come down the hill... it kinda looked like you still had a secondary ditch by the mail box.. looked like a small one, but that is all it takes to keep the water on the edge of the road and not into the ditch... but like I said the camera shot didn't show to clearly... I work for a township and we still contract the grading out, and we are constantly tell the operators about those secondary ditches and to get rid of them..
I’m impressed with how much traction this machine has. From my inexperienced eye it seems to be very light on the front end but still does a great job at grading. What am I missing?
I may be wrong, but it seems to me the grader may be one of the more difficult pieces of heavy machinery to learn to use effectively. Many different adjustments you need to make to the blade as you go along to ensure you get proper drainage and the correct crowns on the roads. Especially since you're doing finish work with one.
Did u know if u would drop those rippers in front and take out those pot wholes they won’t come back as fast? But just filling them up they will b back next week
I know what you said was true about the water on the road. But sometimes you had that blade So Full around the 17:50 to 20:00 Time I wa thinking, aw🤭😲. 💩💩. 👷♂️... 😱😅😂 But ya done good👍✅
Hi, I have a lot of experience in working on backhoe loaders in Russia, please tell me how much competition you have in this profession. Will it be hard for me to find a job with little knowledge of English, but with good skills in landscaping ?? Thank you, and a great channel, recently subscribed! Good luck to you!!
Those little graders are nice. Alot of paving companies use them to grade for parking lots. The scarifier would come in handy if you needed to rip some hard ground. I noticed the Yanmar in the background. I'm not gonna ask about it because I'm guessing it is a future video.
I have a 1500 ft driveway should I have someone use one of these instead of a dozer? I am either going to have it or concrete not sure. It's going up hill to a ridge....
@@letsdig18 I grew up on a gravel road. I would drop whatever I was doing and would always be standing at mailbox. So I could wave and watch Francis the grader man!
I know nobody likes public criticism but this is only out of respect. Keep your front tires off the berm. Pick a side. Inside or outside and then articulate the rear to compensate..... you'll fight it less and have a better finished product
They work when you want to recover the material, if you're not bringing in stone just reusing whats already there. So it's rare they get used. Rear rippers can actually do some work...
@@TheSoloAsylum that's about the only time I ever used them was to recover a road. You just have to remove every other shank for harder packed materials, if the scarfiers are mid or front mount. I always prefer rear mounted scarfiers. More power is applied pulling them than pushing them, and you have more weight to the rear of the machine.
They really aren’t designed to grade or back blade backwards not saying it can’t be done just not really designed for it, the reason being is when you back blade you could catch a huge rock hidden in the gravel and snap the mold board ( I’ve done it... lol...) but anyways from what I was taught when I first learned how to operate one was that the blade and cylinders can’t take the pressure as when going forward... I hope that helps.
Yes the rippers will dig under a pot hole. Think of a pot hole as a bowl, if the rippers just scratched the surface and material was put over it the pot hole would return with traffic traveling over it blowing whatever material was in there but dig the rippers under the pot hole the bowl goes away making a flat surface.... Hope that helps.
The rippers on the front can be used for several things, they can scratch the surface of the road so the material bonds better and they can be used to get under a pot hole to remove it completely. Think of a pot hole as a bowl if you only scratch it then put material over it guaranteed you will have it return but dig under it and traffic can’t blow out the material in there.... Hope that helped....