HOW TO READ GRADE STAKES || How to read grade stakes for roads - Grade stakes cut and fill 

Coming from a retired 30 year public works inspector very well said young man. It took me years to learn what you explained in 15 minutes.

We had a rule for truck drivers on the jobsite, if you run over a grade stake, you buy the operator a steak dinner! "Break a stake, buy a steak!"

I have been in concrete construction for 36 years, I have been a superintendent for the last 16 , this is a very good video and I will direct my employees to this.

I'm a civil engineer learning English... That's 24k gold info man... Thanks

Having spent close to 45 years in the heavy Civil engineering construction industry, individuals after visiting and listening to your explanations on grade staking,should have a better understanding of the grade stakes and their importance on all projects. Keep up the great work, looking forward to future videos

Probably the most important video I’ve seen you make.

I've been in the pipe business since 1987 and you do good videos. In a world where no one wants to work or get dirty anymore, you warm my heart.

I am a new crew leader for a city public works crew. This video is very helpful on my crash course on reading plans and survey markings.

I will probably never use this info but it answered a lot of questions I had about these stakes I always saw on job site that no one ever explained to the workers. Good communicate help make job workers more valuable.

I've been in the underground/directional drilling game for 4 years now... if I would have been taught this info at the beginning of my career I could have saved countless hours of trying locate/pothole utilities and figure out what depths we needed to shoot at to be 3' under finish grade. This video is awesome and I can already tell the next time I'm in a construction site I'm going to be looking at every grade stake.

I wish that there was stuff like this when I was starting out in construction. I only had a few foreman that could communicate with any degree of clarity, most of them really didn’t fully understand the whole process and so they were often extremely difficult to work with. I was an operator and grade setter for 34 years and I had to learn the hard way. Most people have no idea just how many factors are at play in a construction site. So many things coming together to create a building or road. I’m disabled now due to many health problems, there weren’t as many safety regulations and it was very easy to get hurt. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and I’ll sign off with the way i was taught by my foreman screaming at me “ god damn boy! Grab a gear in that machine, or I’ll find someone that can!” 🤣🤣🤣 it’s funny now, not so much back then!! 😳🤬🤬😫😫 be safe and look out for blind truckers!! 😂😂😂🙌🤟🤙

As a Surveyor, I approve this message. Great video

Fantastic videos. You explain things is a very clear and understandable way. Great job!

Like how humble you are , good work man

Great job and thank you, that was very helpful. I just saved all your other videos to my watch later folder and I will be watching this one again also.

Thank you bro! This is the best grade stake reading video I have ever seen. Your explanation made it super easy to follow. Keep this up man!

Very good video and well explained for pros and laymen alike. Thank you.

Awesome video man !!!!!! 25 years of doing dirt work from laborer to grade man ( before GPS) to operating now your insight is dead on 👍🏼 I am gonna pass this video to guys I work with in hopes that it breaks it down to the basics for them. Keep up the good work and thank you for spreading your knowledge to the next generation in a way they will understand 👍🏼

Great job man! I really like the way you explained everything & don’t over complicate it. Keep up the great work.

Great video, keep them coming.

Your videos are awesome, thanks so much for sharing your experience and educating your viewers

Good job explaining grade stakes, this helps me alot, thanks Brother.

Been operating for 8 years (excavator) strictly steel structure demo, and derailment cleanup. Just started a new job doing this type of dirt work. Fuck, man! This shit might as well be in mandarin. I’m so lost. I’ve never felt so inadequate for something in my life. I know there’s a learning curve… but DAMN! Thank hod I found your Channel. 🙏🏽

I just came a cross ur video and u explain everything so well make me want to continue watching ur videos to learn more thank you Sr.

Keep up the work, it helps the industry big time 🤙🏾

Absolutely Outstanding video man. Thank you!

Almost 63,000 views on this one! You're doing a great job growing your channel and this is an informative video! Thank you for helping the next generation learn this stuff!

First time on your channel Bud. Great explanation of grade stakes. Very informative. I will be back!

Great video!! I am a year into dirt work and you just summed up in 15 min what some have not been able to adequately help me understand in a year.

Amazing video, definitely subscribing and tuning in for more

Outstanding presentation. Sure could have used this many years ago.

Here in Utah I'm like the only excavator still using stakes. Everyone is GPS. I've seen graders using GPS for curb gutter and curb machines with no strings full GPS. A friend of mine was grading storage units, he parked his 140H hired a 140M with gps. Guy graded pads in about 5 passes then lined up on edge made one pass cut thickened edge, turned came up other side. Took him about 45 minutes per 200 ft x 35ft pad. Concrete crew set 2x10 around perimeter it was right on. I'm barely able to compete now and will have to convert or go back to digging basements and small jobs. Good video it may be a lost art in few years.

Love it! I'm a landscape design student - today's chapter in landscape construction was staking - so glad I found this video to bolster what I'm learning. Your specific examples bring the material to life! And you're funny ; so that's a bouns. Thanks.

Thank you. The clearing crew I used to work on, our stakes were CL for clearing limit but being that was. Usually all that would be wrote on them they would write it out instead of putting cl. I was usually on the dozer so I would just barely rake or backdrag past them so when I got it clean I could put 3 to 4 trackwidths walked in in line and coming back into the job so the silt fence crew had a good straight clean level line and work area, it made it look really good when finished

Man, really great video with very interesting information, I’m a small concrete company and getting in to excavation also, thanks very much for that valuable information. About this videos you never know who you going to bless.

That was great!, a little confuse but really helpful. Thank you so much.

Loved this video, excellent explanation!!

Really love the videos I'm just getting into construction I love it

Great video! Very well explained! Kudos. Subscribed!

Awesome info sir thank you for not making it complicated.

This is very important information in construction. Keep on posting these informative and educational videos 👌

Thank you so very muchh for these videos, instantly subscribed and liked. i have been looking for information explained easy like this because i am studying to take a few NCCER’s of equipment.

Amazing video thank you so much. Regards from colorado.

Thank you sir for all the info, I worked as a labourer I know all of it, but when I started I remember bobcat operators did not know what the writing on the stakes meant. So I learnt the hard way. Thank you!

Hey man, been watching your vids for a while, i am a norwegian who is about to get started on my "real"(higher) education, i have been looking at heavy equipment opperating for a while, and thank you for helping me decide

Great video. Never seen a ditch stake like that before in the 12 years ive operated. Just started a grader class and that was the first thing that got thrown at me. Helps alot getting more comfortable reading and answering questions.

Great video, thanks for passing on your knowledge. I'm a civil engineer and while I learned to design roadways in school and have performed material inspections on construction sites, reading stakes on site isn't something I've received training for. This video just taught me pretty much all I need to know about the stakes I encounter while on the job. Really appreciate it!

As a Civil Engineer this video is insanely informative! Great job man

Brother, your videos are excellent!

I don't know how this ended up in my recommendations but I'm glad it did. I've always wondered how equipment operators know what to do and I've seen those piles of dirt with stakes in them. I'm so glad I watched this video! Now I know a little bit.

For someone like me wanting learn and gain knowledge you've explained it very well to understand keep up the great work

Great Video! Very helpful!!

An enligjtening and humbling look into the discipline and artisinal expertise that is required to make sure that our roads and buildings get build on solid ground. :-) Many thanks.

Great refresher for contractors test

Thanks for the information, this will help me do what I have to do on my block once I learn how to use the excavator I just bought.................Heard Stake so many times, now I'm thinking Steak and feeling hungry.

Nice video man! I’m sorry I didn’t realize you had a channel. Great video great information 👍🏻

Thanks for the info, very helpful 👌

Great video. Made it make sense….. one thing at a time

Thx. Excellent video and content. Watch this video and just subscribed.

Would love to see a video on why you chose this profession and how you got into it. Thank you for the information and tips, and I look forward to more of you’re videos

Great explanation and thank you

Great video. Very often people don't know how to read the layout steaks surveyors put in the ground but it's very simple! Alot of our cut/fills on lay out insist of an offset and we usually measure our fills/cuts off the top of the wooden steaks (Like you said though everywhere has some differences). Thank you for telling people to leave the pickets in the ground until the end of the grading proccess... If you want to piss off a surveyor pull or run over their layout pickets lol. Keep up the great vids!

Great information!! Thank you

Just started a job yesterday becoming a pipe layer and this helped out a lot 🙏🏾 thank you brotha !! Very helpful information on reading stakes ! I can come in to work with a bit more confidence and show boss man what I’m capable of 🙏🏾

I’ve been a operator for 2 years now. But this week I started a company but they only have huge jobsites so it’s all new to me. I’m used to working at schools. And you’re channel has really helped me out a ton! Thank you very much!

Just started learning ..thanks for the info

I found this fascinating and I know nothing about the "dirt world" You're a good teacher. I always wondered what those stakes mean.

I need to spend a week with you on a job site really really badly. Great video brother. I appreciate it

Couldn't have been better explained (most likely a lot worse) by a construction management professor. Keep it up! Subscribed.

Great video, ive been in earthworks as a dump truck operator for a number of years and have moved across to loaders and now GPS dozers. I will be having a crack at deciphering the stakes now thank you

Good stuff man! Thanks 😎

Great informative video not in field love the knowledge.

I still remember benching in on a negative BM , messed me up working below sea level Stockton ca ! But I learned to read all stakes ,was very versatile,from sidewalk cutting ,to flow lines of sewer ,storm ,manholes ! 👍

Thank you for making this video

Helpful af!

I HAVE no need for this but you were so good I just had to keep watching 🤣

Keep doing your thing buddy help me out a ton thanks a lot 😎

That is a great job. I knew nothing about grade stakes before watching this video. Now I am confident that I could go to job site and understand this complex system that you have simplified in 17 minutes. We should had you aa a high school teacher, I could have taken years off.. Thank you thank you, thank you GREAT GREAT JOB..

Excellent explanations sir. From a former surveyors, you explained very well

Well said. Great video!

Great information on this video you did veryyyyy good

Very interesting to see how survey layout is drastically different regionally.

I like your channel, it’s currently based on info I’m looking for in my career. Thanks for putting this together, looking forward to future material!

Great video, thank you much man.

Awesome video!!

Great job video is very helpful

Great video! I would love to see you do another video referencing different parts of this video then showing the working part to accomplish the info on the stake….👍

Yer awsome sir... as a newbie.... I think I could actually figure out the job with a little communication with the foreman... great confidence building video...

Great video.. thank you..

Thanks from Vancouver Canada

Thank GOD for this video! Preciate you for the knowledge bro GOD BLESS!

love the video...thumbs up !!

Great information!

See this is what people need to see I don’t want to now you can dig so fast and load 10 10 in 20 min this is what needs to be done there is a big difference then a guy running a machine or an operator that can read a dam grade stick good video 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Love the video you got a new subscriber

great vid. Thanks!

I’m a 2nd year going to 3rd year as an electrician and I’m about to watch this to add more knowledge to me for the future when I run jobs!!! 💯

Great video!

Great job- thank you.

“Google” hahaha great video bro. Means a lot for the time you put in this!