Installing a large culvert pipe 

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Lmfao! Beware the delta P!!!

post10 gets it done.

I am sure he could

When its got ya, its got ya​@@Henry_Jones

I will verify in the future for sure. I still can't believe I made this mistake!

I was thinking even 2x 36's, which is just over 12% more area to carry water. But then again it's also 50% more corrugated surface area for the water to interact with and introduce inefficiencies.

I was like. That pipe is maxed out. You need two of those or. Go bigger.

needs to be lower too.

Thank you! I love the rain footage too but it's such a pain to get it sometimes. This was definitely worth it.

@@GCFD The rain footage is *so* satisfying at the end. I swear this is why your channel is blowing up.

Absolutely! One of the best features of Gate City's videos!!!!

That’s the best part of his videos is the awesome follow up! No one else bothers to go the extra mile for us viewers. Love this channel!!

According to him this type of flow occurs every 5-10 years.

Good thing you didn't go with the smaller pipe all the new fill would have been gone

It should have a dissipator pad to help with the erosion, smashing the concrete pipes there would have worked@@GCFD

Great video Shawn! My heart was in my mouth watching you trying to get those concrete culverts out without toppling over! Watching your videos over the last few years has had a huge impact on how I look to solve problems and approach new areas of interest with gusto! Keep em coming boss. We love them

​@@GCFDwell then apparently he thought it was worth rebuilding the road every 5 to 10 years I guess

I think that drone footage does such an amazing job of framing the situation and placing the viewer on site. 👍

hahah I hope so! 👍

When I first saw the thumbnail I thought it was a Post10 video in my subs list 🤣

Love that cat.

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I don’t know about that. He doesn’t like plastic pipe. 😂

We kind of did too. The homeowner was right there with parts to repair it in case we broke it.

I use to try and work around stuff. Now I just tell them it's in the quote to temporarily remove it out of the way and repair it afterward. I've wasted too much time and money trying to work around things.

@@nvrdwn3140 - Yep, too much to work around and in the end as we see, it got broken, break at the start and work more efficiently not worrying about it.

I wish we had just removed it from the start. It would have saved a ton of time and effort...

@@GCFD - I think it is called Hindsight. Lesson Learned - Fool me Once........

Very well said Chupka! Thank you for your positive comment! I'm always trying to learn and make things win-win with people. - Shawn

2 36in pipes has only 20% advantage over 1 48in, and is more likely to clog. That final flood would need 2 48in or 1 60in.

I may sound harsh in an earlier post but I think you were communicating well with the customer and the customer seem satisfied.

Yeah, 1981 ! That shocked me too. Why, he's just a kid, eh ? Then we do the arithmetic...scary.

I feel bloody ancient..... I was born in the 60's..... hahaha

1981 must have been a good year.

@@GCFD I was 21 in that year.

@@KaiHenningsen I was 26 🙂

Haha thank you!

Insects are incredible, the natural wonders of the world❤

Thanks for your excellent comment Cam. I will definitely be double checking these things in the future. Although a bit stressful, this one turned out very well.

I just couldn't believe how much water was there

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Yea, I was surprised to see GCFD take on such a large project, and even with hearing about his new machine, I assumed he would have someone he could call if it was too much. Thankfully he did (yay for friends!), and on the "how many of you noticed it was a 48 not 36", I noticed it (from watching plenty of Post10) didn't look right for a 36 but guessed it could have originally been a 48 that was sleeved, and further when you went inside and showed the work inside I thought that a validation of being a 48-sleeved-to-36 and trick of the camera FOV. I am glad GCFD you went and called for help/backup even if it ate into your margins more, those big pipes are no joke and just the safety risks vs hours, best to call a friend and rent his machine/time for a bit, take that as lesson learned and live on. Maybe you can do more culvert replacements, you did a fine job here in the end and now have some more experience under your belt. GCFD: it can be all to easy to misjudge sizes like this, and with the confidence it sounded like the owner had on it being 36, I am sure a decent number of us would have been caught out too. Contracts etc all have to have a bit of give-and-take and trust and "welp, something didn't go to plan, how do we wanna handle it?" As a then-new home owner, I had a contractor in to do some work and while I knew some things, I tried to inform that I was only guessing as a non-expert. Turns out there was a very expensive surprise, and we worked out a solution that while it cost me far more than I hoped also still solved the problem.

Yes Chris would have had fun w this one as well.. w More & More equipment was suprised to see this one tackled for the expereince of it, the 160 was the ticket for the 48" as mentioned by @ admalledd below

I would definitely tackle this project again but knowing I needed a bigger ex to pull the old stuff out. This was a fun project.

Dale - I thought the same thing from the camera angle. It also looked like I was standing UNDER that swinging black pipe, but I wasn't I should have mentioned it, but the camera made things look way worse than they were. I'm a very safe person and feel no job is worth someone's safety. I'm also 40 hour HAZWOPER certified, among others.

'hmm, I don't know, but I know who to ask' is valuable

Great point Henry!

Haha I'm glad you enjoyed it Doug 👍

Thank you WM. The rain footage is a huge pain to try and get it. This video shows that in the first rain visit was not too impressive, so I waited.

Thank you! It was crazy how much water was rolling through there..

@@GCFD it was insane. Makes me wonder how much of the riprap was left after all that.

Thank you! I really thought I had a better description of that species in one of my beetle books.

Totally agree. Keep the wildlife education coming!

Agreed, It certainly beats the record acum. total for sure, this will make the rest of the regular residential's look weak.

Same!

aint it sweet

Thank you!

Thank you Allan! I spent a few days on this video and I almost trashed those two clips of smoothing out the banks, thinking the video was getting too long. But I decided to keep them. thanks for noticing!

Haha double wall corrugated. this is good stuff for culvert pipe.

Great points as usual Bob! Thank you!

I know its easy to arm chair this thing but the chains were helpful on the first two sections even with smaller equipment. You should have picked up longer straps or chains and had them ready for when he got there with that larger machine. It would have taken a third of the time instead of fighting it and less of a chance of hitting that line. And brought a ladder on follow up trips.

Yes I like that thumb too. I asked the salesman if he wanted me to make a video about it and he said no that they didn't want any more interest in their products.

Thank you! It's a pleasure to be compared to Andrew Camarata. I just love how the drone shots can help to frame the overall landscape of the job so quickly. It helps to place the viewer on site.

Great comment. I'm a scientist by training so I always follow the best data and enjoy the freedom to change my view as new evidence comes to light. I've never worried about holding to my "word" if things change. I try to do the best I can.

It's funny but it looked way worse than it was. These gopro cameras get distances and slopes way off.

This whole job was hard to watch. Wreckless and feckless at every turn

Dave - I compacted a little with the bucket but I wanted to keep it fairly light since there was so much mud and water in the trench. I like to keep the soil uniform throughout - either dry and compacted or lightly compacted as in here. I don't like fully compacted fill over top of mud because the two soil "types" can settle unevenly and disrupt the pipe.

Thank you Richard! I could have edited this into a perfect job but I wanted to bring you all along for the ride. 👍

Thank you!

This was out in a rural area for sure. The further out you go the cheaper the land. It was a joy working in that setting for sure.

@@GCFDyeah I’m looking for 5 acres my wife works from home and I am disabled and when I did work it was remote data/business analyst

Haha books

I agree that we should have cut the water line out of the work area and gotten the job done. We wasted a ton of time and effort trying to work around it even though the homeowner was fine with us cutting it, but I didn't want to.

Everything is good!

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that would have been a huge capacity!

@@GCFD Yep. But the footage you showed in the storm had it almost overtopping which could cause some serious damage or even wash away the road.

I concur with 2x36" pipes side by side to handle more volume instead of only a 48" pipe since owner stated there were already issues every 5 to 10 years. Always enjoy your videos and your good work ethic

I'm a scientist first and foremost (biologist) and so it's natural for me to question my thought process and be interested to gather more data after the solution has been in place. This, of course, is my favorite part and provides a great chance to reflect on what went right or wrong. I can then use that information to move forward with that, or future projects in a more confident fashion.

Yep, I don't understand why this wasn't done

Great question! I compacted it with the bucket a little as I went. Since I was working with mud at the bottom, I wanted the whole thing to settle evenly instead of highly compacted fill on top of mud. That's also why I built it up a bit higher to allow for some natural and even settling.

And to prevent the sides from washing he should have put down geotextile and then clean compacted rip rap all the way to the top.

Thank you Thomas! I could have edited this video to make the job look perfect, but I like to bring you along for the job as is unfolds. This was a fun one. 👍

Thank you! I think this one turned out very well. 👍

We definitely should have cut the water line out of the way and gotten the job done.

I still can't believe I climbed in the pipe when I first looked at it and failed to realize it wasn't a 36"

@@GCFD Sometimes your preconceptions stop you from realizing the mistake you're making. It's all part of "live and learn", and helps you not make the same mistake twice.

Great comment! I didn't check any data but I'm sure they would show a large landscape draining to this bottleneck. The owner felt confident that putting back what was there would be just fine, as it had lasted 42 years up until that point.

We'll never know

The load gets distributed over the pipes by the soil, it's not like you are standing on just the plastic pipe.

Thank you! I never know how much detail is too much. I thought the loading and unloading was super interesting too.

Such a skilled careful process to get off the road without doing damage. Impressive operator@@GCFD

Thank you! 👍

Jeffrey I had just bought that KX121 and i thought it could handle anything! Oops!

@@GCFD All I know about excavators is what I see on Dirt Perfect, once you uncovered those tiles and they were cement. 😱

I think youere right!

Came here to post this.

Why do you say that David? You don't like the results?

Thank you Alexei! It was crazy seeing that pipe flowing

thank you Mike!

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When working in a water filled trench like this one I don't like fully compacting. The reason is you'll end up with two separate soil profiles, dry compacted fill over top of wet, muddy fill. I compacted a little with the bucket but not much. This allows the entire profile of soil to settle naturally and evenly and not disrupt the pipe.

This turned out very well and I'm very happy with everything. This homeowner was a pleasure to work with.

thank you Paul!

I think this job turned out extremely well Amy. The old pipe lasted 42 years and that's what we are going for again.

it really made a huge difference having Carson there. As soon as I figured out the pipe was wrong, and the 48" was 2x the price, and I couldn't move the old pipes, I was really overwhelmed on how to proceed. Carson quickly said, let's get him back out here and renegotiate. At the absolute worse case, I could have covered the pipe back up.

Thank you DM. I forgot to mention that we considered hammering the pipes but were very worried about all the rebar in them. We didn't want a wire mess of half hammered pipes.

Can you be more specific Mark? What in the end after the pipes had been installed for 8 months could have been done better or more professionally? I stand behind my demonstrable results. 👍

Donald I don't like compacting dry fill over wet fill in the trench. In that case I like the whole thing to settle naturally and evenly. Otherwise you have highly compacted fill that acts as a separate unit over the wet fill in the trench. What did you think of the results after 8 months?

I didn't do much compaction because we were working over wet mud in the trench. I would never compact dry fill over wet dirt because it creates two separate soil profiles that could settle separately and disrupt the pipe.

@@GCFD SOP to always wet the soil you are putting back so it will in fact compact. When you take "shots" for compaction you always measure moisture content as well. That 160 needs a thumb! Love your channel!

Thank you Beverly! I fussed over that pipe for awhile before I was happy to start covering it up. I think it makes a difference in the overall quality of the job.

man, I wish I had noticed as easily as you did! I still can't believe I did that...

Thank you Michael!

Thank you Stuart!

That's a great point and I'm usually all for buying equipment. The reason we didn't want to hammer it was the rebar in the pipe. There was so much that we thought it would make a wire mess.

Thank you JJ! Welcome to the channel! - Shawn

I think that's exactly what is happening Joe. It is working well so far. 👍

Thank you Taylor!

Thank you Tony! It's always a pleasure reading your comments! - Shawn