No wonder no one wants to watch television anymore. Most shows on television are complete garbage, and they have a staff of producers, directors, crew, etc. This is one guy, doing his own filming and editing, and running his own company.
You gotta be crazy. This video would be so much better with perfectly coiffed breast muffins droning on and on about what he does, tying it in somehow with social causes and saving the earth. We don't watch TV for the content, we watch it for the highly-paid Soros commentators. Yep.
Straight to the point. See? People are interested in what it actually is, that is, if the content is what it actually is, and is interesting. lmao. Nevermind.
Those who agree with this comment can come see my channel(s) then. While true, some of my videos are like this video, lengthy, but gets to the point, unlike some of those family guy videos where there's filler in the video to extend the video past what the intended clip is meant to be. Don't get me wrong, I myself do enjoy some of the videos of family guy, I think there was only about one video that was short and got to the point of what the title was. I have this channel that I'm commenting with, morgan russmans gaming channel, morgan russmans cooking channel, and morgan russmans conspiracy theroy channel, I don't have anything currently (6/2019) have anything on the conspiracy theory channel yet, but keep an eye out for my conspiracy theory channel, I do plan on eventually uploading something to the conspiracy theory channel. Edit: I though this was my main channel. This is my conspiracy theory channel, morgan russman is the main channel name.
Still don’t know how I stumbled upon this but I have watched it often. One of the most satisfying videos on RU-vid. Not sure why, I gues just seeing honest effort and progress. I hope to own a piece of land off the beaten path one day and have a guy like this come in and help me run a driveway in. This guys job is so much more satisfying than so many of us office dwellers.
at 27:00 if he wouldve just put the bed down on the dump truck he wouldve had less weight over the rear tires and wouldve got out no problem. instead he dug ruts
I just wanted to believe that he did it on purpose to add more interesting wrk😂he ain't havin it that easy way. This guy can wrk until his tools start screaming for help.
Lmao same here just seen a thumbnail of it and it started playing so I just clicked it and watched the whole thing. Waste of my time but was interesting.
An excellent job - as usual - Andrew. Once again I have to say I never cease to be amazed at the inherent power of your skid-sliders! Imagine towing a massive truck filled with 4" gravel - and all you need is a steell chain. Just wow!
Very good work, specially using the escalator, when putting stone over fabric, the first load of stone can help you make a tracking pad for your dump truck and spread the load going forward not backwards, you know... safety first. Other than that, excellent video
You know this pretty much routine for you and some of these videos are 2/3 years old but for someone that has never seen it done is just so fascinating to watch. Great video!
It was pretty awesome. He should think about installing a big ass winch on the front of each of his trucks so he doesn't have to risk it in the future.
@@nedkarjanen6251 It stops the road base material from just sinking into the mud. Saving a lot of material cost. The only downside is the ground underneath never really firms up so heavier trucks will sink into the driveway more.
@@legohead6 actually with one foot of gravel over fabric, I have supported 85,000 lb. loaded trucks repeatedly for weeks. The fabric also creates a bridging effect which in essence creates a footprint equal to the wheelbase. I built a log truck loading site on ground that barely supported people walking. By the end of the 4 week job (two truck loads in and out per day) the skidder was seat deep in water, pushing floating logs up to the truck but, the trucks never sank in even a little bit.
Andrew it is incredable what you do with your machinery!!! You always go the extra mile to make sure everything looks great. There needs to be alot more people out there like you!!!!
Andrew does a lot of explanations as he is repairing or doing his regular work. I’ve never heard him swear! And I’m a retired Marine, so I’ve gotten quite the experience of cussing sailors and marines, that’s why I let my 2 and 5 year old grandkids watch this shows. They love watching his RU-vid videos.
Outstanding! Great earth moving work, videography, drone and music. Loved the before, during and after process. Very skilled work and I hope to see more videos soon. Thank you.
Great videography and editing. Even greater equipment operation. A real pro. Very cool working alone and then even setting the excavator to push the truck out. You are great at solving problems so efficiently. I'd hire you in a second.
A hundred guys with rakes, shovels, etc. could not have done a better job. The precision and skill of use of the machinery is unparalleled. Man, this is one satisfying video.
Andrew, that was one of the best RU-vid videos I have watched in a very long time. I know nothing about construction but just bought some farm land for my retirement home. There is no access and I had no idea of how to go about doing this. This video was a treasuretrove of good information. Thank you !!
Super impressive the way you and that machine are one! The skill and dexterity using the machine as an extension of yourself is nothing short of awesomeness 👏 😀 👍
@@TheTacticalBarrage no no no no no no no no. What if he did do what you said, but then the truck turned sideways and still had no traction. Then what? That's why he did what he did so he could steer the truck then pull if forward get out of the truck then turn the machine off.
It was very stupid of him to do that. You're running on wet dirt next to unmanned heavy equipment and you're driving a truck out into possible incoming traffic with no way of stopping. That's a good way of getting a one way ticket for the Darwin Awards of for Fail Army.
I was working construction as a heavy equipment operator. I came on at the end of the job so I didn't know how far the road was finished. After work I drove my sleeper van to find out. Then I hit a spot of sand and got stuck. I found a open cab Cat dozer with a chain to pull myself out but no one was there to help. it was a back road with no lights so no one would find me until morning. Well I had to put the dozer in first gear jump off run to the van climb in and steer myself out. Then jump out the van climb on the moving dozer to stop it. Worked but I don't wanna try that again.
LOVED the solo maneuver at 13:25 to drive both vehicles!! Reminded me of the scene in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy where the guy had to open and close the fence behind him while on a hill. >-D
This man really know how to operate all his heavy equipment with such precision! People don't realize how much work it takes when you're developing a property for a homeplace.
My 14 month old son LOVES this stuff! So cool to see all the hard work and the amazing machines that goes into making a driveway. Really awesome stuff.
Awesome job. And excellent footage, too. I don't even know how I stumbled across this video. But I just couldn't look away. It's really neat to see all of the work that goes into these types of projects.
Really enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting. A very long drive you have installed there. Just wondered how long it took? Will the driveway eventually harden over time?
I’m with you. Andrew always motivates me to go dig some stuff up!! I’m still trying to figure out how I can justify the excavator purchase to my wife when her priorities are calling for a bathroom remodel!!! :(
Hello Andrew! Great video, I learned a lot. I noticed you didn't remove the topsoil before putting the carpet down.... is the carpet so good that it eliminates the need to remove the topsoil?
I really liked this video back in the day and wished you would do more driveway videos. I'm not complaining about any other content, this is just my favorite.
My dad is 96 and asked me to send you this comment since he can’t do it himself. “I see you have been doing stone roads where you are at. Have you tried shoulder stone (shoulder stone is a product of screening and finings of crushed blue stone). Check with a dealer for more information. Rent or buy an over road grader and a ten ton three wheel road roller for compaction. This stuff compacts very well and is good for hard usage. I’ve never tried this before but have heard it is very good -Mix Portland cement in a lean mixture with shoulder stone. Mix dry and spread dry in hard usage areas. Allow light usage for one or two weeks. It will set.”
Your dad knows what he is talking about! Proper finish is with compaction and the use of the right materials to bind it if you don't want to get stuck!
Guys what was wrong with the first video, i saw it in my notifications and when i went to watch it it was gone, then it got re uploaded and the title changed 🤷🏻♂️
Travis Davis another dislike? Please state what his shoddy work was? You do understand this was a road to a construction site, not a permanent structure. I have seen these built in my area countless times, most not this nice. The perfect leveled compacted and rolled gravel comes after the big trucks and excavators have finished. Maybe even a paved surface! But please state why this is shoddy work? No hate.......
I'm impressed by the sheer effort, the native skills, the integrity of the project....but most of all, it was accomplished without a full crew of engineers, guys leaning on shovels, and a boss screaming out orders no one can either hear or understand...great job!!!
Man that looks great. You taught me alot I bought a mini x and a dump trailer and skidsteer. It's been tight trying get work and figure out the princing. But it's been fun I love watching these videos trying learn easier ways to do things.
Can’t get any better than this. Insane amount of work; both for the work done on the equipment and also properly recording it at the same time. You’re a one man army.
EXCELLENT!! Can anyone tell me what the underlaid cloth does for the gravel driveway? Is it to keep the -4” stone from sinking into the mud during the wet season?
I would have thought that using the logs on the edges would keep the gravel in side. Family suffered for years of refixing their driveway before taking logs from their 3 acres to line it. I like the lining under the gravel. Modern gardeners do this, also.
I give this Andrew guy alot of credit. He loads the materials very easy . I notice he doesnt just drop the rocks or stumps in his dump bodies like the average contractor or operator would do. His equipment will last very long... Well done. Buddy
Andrew. A Very good Job, Go the extra mile and it will always pay off, Keep up the good work and keep posting this is worth watching in lieu of Some other posts on You Tube. From a retired construction inspector. Thanks again.
Amei muito seu vídeo, esse foi o primeiro que vi, vou continuar te seguindo aqui do Brazil, porque adoraria fazer e viver o que está fazendo. O contêiner será uma casa? Ah isso é maravilhoso!!! Parabéns!!!
Just wanted to let you know that we have a 3 year old son, and you're basically his hero. XD We don't let him watch television, or really much stuff on screens...but his reward is to watch "Andrew Camarata" when he behaves well. Love the videos and knowledge, and super happy my 3 year old could point out the CULVERT PIPE!! as we drove down the road. Keep up the great videos! PS He now thinks anyone with a chainsaw or excavator might be you...lol
I did the similar thing at my backyard with my mini excavator, I scratched skins off of several trees even I was already very careful. I blamed myself and said to myself that Andrew will not do that... but when I watched his video 3rd time, I noticed he had done the same thing...now I felt much better and get encouraged again.
That’s nothing, not only did I just helped put in a driveway in the woods, and set an shipping container in place. I helped clear some property of some old tires, then helped on some drainage work on a mountain road. That’s just in the last couple of hours, I’ll probably get at least two more jobs done before bedtime. Great videos, keep ‘em coming!
It feels a bit silly but it's so satisfying to watch. I get so inspired to take my digger (Åkerman H11 (predecessor to Volvo) from 1968, and go out in my own forest and improve some roads. Lots to do and so many other obligations... thanks for making these videos. Im learning alot!
I watched this video years ago when you first uploaded, I still come back once in a while to watch it again it is so satisfying. The beginning to end of a project.
@@joedirte716 loving your job is awesome. Some days I don't wanna go to work, but that money tells me to get my ass to work. I like my job, I get bored sometimes though.
Fantastic job! I would love to know where you’re located. And what a job like this would cost, and finally, how this this combo of the fabric underlayment and the rocks hold up over time. We have similar conditions that we need to address at our ranch in the mountains of Southern California. I was surprised when you used a combination of small and large rocks. But it seems genius now. The dirt snd fabric alone didn’t stop the rock truck from sinking into the dirt on the first load right next to the road, but once you spread the rocks out, the truck didn’t sink at all for the subsequent loads! What fabric did you use? What do you call the mix of stones you used? Would that same combination of fabric and stone work on hills? Thank you so much for sharing your skills snd knowledge with us! That road is just beautiful! Great job!
The fabric is typically called 'geofabric' / 'geotextile'. There are several different brands. One can search around. The type here used for a driveway is relatively thick/strong, made to last decades. It's main purpose is to stop the rocks/road material from getting mixed/sinking into the soft/wet ground soil below over time. There must be a certain minimum thickness of rock/gravel on top of the geotextile in order to speard the load from vehicles out over a wider area. In this way a road can so to say float on top of relative wet/muddy ground. One save time and money by not having to dig deep down in the ground removing lots of soil, replacing it with rocks. Can also work on hills, need to put sufficent thick layer of rock and gravel on top. Hope this is to any help, good luck
Was the customer just looking for something fast & cheap? Why no Sheepsfoot roller/vibrating compactor??? That would have been my next step right after stump removal & leveling. Compact the hell out of the natural ground adding fill & more leveling where needed. Then you have a good base for your fabric & gravel followed by a smooth roller compacter. A good solid base is everything when it comes to building pretty much anything...
For those wondering why the re-upload, I suspect it was editing "issues." The first video didn't have Andrew "ghost riding" the excavator to push the truck and trailer out of the mud and it also contained a quite uninteresting clip of Andrew finishing up the strap down of the lumber before walking over to the camera and turning it off. That clip is now gone and replaced with a time lapse of the actual strap down. The quality of the video is determined by how soon you watch it after it's uploaded. RU-vid converts it to 360p first and then higher resolutions and for a long video this takes some time. I know for sure that I watched the original video in 1080p.
The fabric is expensive like he mentioned, but so so so worth it. Always use fabric to retain rocks. Only thing I would do different is compact the soil before laying fabric so heavy trucks don’t sink. Compaction also reduces settling which inevitably requires more rocks.
Agreed, here in Scotland we always compact. Cost effective as use less stone in the long term. Less maintenance too. Nothing worse than materials delivery getting stuck and chewing the driveway.
I live and Germany and no way a one man business could pull the things off he can. It's not just regulations and laws, I mean the entire work ethics and vocational education system is like that these kind jobs are just done by a team of people, there's simply no company that would teach you to do this all by yourself.
@@guffaw1711 sad huh? As a Canadian with an education from a few years back and going through ‘experimental’ teaching..our tech program did not allow you to take just one shop, you had six to report to. Auto, drafting, woodworks/building construction, electrical, machine shop and welding. I am so thankful I went where and when I did...you could say it’s very costly to have my toolbox but there isn’t too much I won’t tackle and overcome and I’ve seen some real winners of jobs. Luckily dad had access to machines (from work) and that’s where I started my heavy machine operations. It has a special place in my heart today. All the best to ya.
Just want you to know that I really admire the work you do. I own and operate a construction business is oklahoma, and the attention you have toward the work you do is very rare. Props to you for your hustle in running a small business and doing so in a very respectable manner. Atta boy!
It was a real pleasure to watch such a talented Plant Operator perform. The machine was simply an extension of his hands & feet ! It was like watching Sir Malcome Sargeant conducting !
