Installing a New Gravel Driveway & Parking Lot + Backhoe/Bobcat Collision on the Jobsite! 

Another sweet project! You must have a really cool boss! 😉

Me run into other pieces of equipment and break something??? The character limit on RU-vid will not allow the stories I have 😂😂. Parking area turned out great!

Lot turned out great! Yes that stuff happens especially if you don’t work with the person day in and day out. Mrs. Elite was running the excavator digging out for a basement and I was in the loader picking up the spoils pile when I try to sneak in to get the last bit begins she swung back. I wasn’t fast enough and the the excavator bucket hit the loader arm. It was my fault but she felt terrible. So it happens for sure. Keep up the great work

editing and documentary master piece ! Greetings from Poland and Merry Christmas 2023 :)

A few years ago I ran over a roller with a 490 Komatsu excavator. I got lucky and stoped before I crushed the engine. I was running three pieces of equipment that day and lost focus. It can happen! Thanks again for showing it how it is Neil. 👍🏻

Steve and Neil two of the nicest guys you will ever meet....

I always enjoy your content when you are dealing with driveways and scraping topsoil.,.. any dirt work I love it!

As a relatively new backhoe owner, I'm quite impressed with your finesse on a backhoe using the front loader. It must take a lot of practice to get that smooth. I tend to just gouge or float...maybe some day.

I never ran into another machine but, I did fall into the tailgate of a dump truck once. The guy wanted me to load his truck facing down hill with an oversize bucket full of mud and I told him what was going to happen but, he insisted. When the skidsteer tipped forward into the tailgate he got mad. He turned the truck sideways and I loaded it the rest of the day facing up hill with no more incidents. When multiple machines are operating in the space incidents like yours are likely to happen. Nothing was broken and no one was hurt so chalk it up to a learning experience. Stay safe man.

What great videography! Your drone shots and camera work is excellent and the video is very entertaining. Thanks for posting.

Neil... I was a Logistics Manager at a Food Manufacturing company. It was in a very old building that had been added onto five or six times as the business grew. As a result, it was extremely crowded and the flow of materials was beyond insane. To show just how bad it was I drew a spaghetti diagram of their most popular product. That is, i would take each ingredient and draw a line, on a floor plan, from where it entered the building to where it is inspected. Then another to where it is stored. All the way to the production floor. All raw materials were red lines. The product was then partially produced. Due to equipment and space limitations it had to be temporarily stored and moved back to production later. We made those spaghetti lines yellow. Finished goods were marked in red lines. These went from production to storage, load staging and then to the truck. We could not ship direct from production because, it was food and required allergen and pathogen testing. I set it up in PowerPoint so that the floor plan would populate slowly, one line at a time. The management team watched with interest as the floor plan colored up through raw (red), WIP (yellow) and Finished (green) food movements. My reason for doing this was to show that getting another forklift wasn’t going to reduce labor costs or speed up material movements... and that doing so would only increase the likelihood of an accident. The proof... 1. All materials were moved by forklifts. 2. Materials moved over a mile within a 250k sqft building. 3. There were 21 points at which forklifts crossed paths. 4. The main hub was where production & warehouse exchanged raw materials, WIP, and finished goods. That area was the size of a one car garage and was basically a concrete ramp. There were 30 strings that converged in that area. That meant there were 30 forklift trips at one pallet per item. (However, every item was consumed in multiple pallet qtys. In 8 hours, Finished goods produced 60 pallets alone!). 5. That ramp was also where 100 employees walked into and out of production. 6. This was just one product and the plant produced three different SKU’s, at a time, on three different lines... all of which used the same ramp. At the point I showed this to the Mgt Team, warehouse employees were filling out a half dozen “Near-Miss Accident Reports” per week. My Dock Foreman spent as much time investigating and writing them as he did completing all his other paperwork... and, there hadn’t been a single Major or loss-time injury for two years. But, then it happened... about two months later... a new production employee thought he could out run a forklift going down the ramp. The driver was looking over his right shoulder to watch for oncoming traffic as he backed down the ramp. An employee walked by his left side and tried to cut across his path. The convex mirror at the bottom of the ramp did not show he was there until he emerged from beside the pallet and stepped into the path. The ramp was slightly wet from its daily cleaning... The employee lost his footing. The forklift driver hit the brakes and turned the wheel to avoid hitting him. In the end, the production employee had a few bruises and a sprained ankle. When the forklift skidded to a stop it was against a concrete wall to the right and the pallet on the front had toppled off onto the ramp. The warehouse employee was off work for three days while awaiting mandatory drug test results. And... management decided cut a new hole in the wall for an employee entrance away from the ramp. Because of allergen storage constraints, the physical layout of the facility and overcoming customs and habits... It took my team nearly a year to make significant changes to the congestion problem. We reduced trips through the bottleneck by 30%. We cut out 1/4 mile of material movement and went from 10 active forklifts to 8. Now back to your safety question.. we reduced the Near-Miss reports from 6 to 1, per week. My Dock Foreman changed his whole belief system. Instead of thinking that it was good enough to tell employees that they should pay attention and be careful... he knew and adopted the rule that if you design the job without obvious dangers, train employees on accident avoidance and apply safety rules every time; a job will be performed safely. I retired from that job two years later with zero injuries by my crew... and, for that I am very proud of what they accomplished! Neil... individuals paying attention only goes so far in avoiding accidents... as you so aptly pointed out... the folks have to work together within boundaries to keep each other safe. In your case, he appeared to be wearing an earpiece. It was unlikely that he would hear your horn inside his cab. His equipment severely blocks his side and rear views. You two hadn’t worked together enough to establish protocols like making eye contact before crossing paths... it was an accident waiting to happen. Fortunately, it was not so serious that it couldn’t be buffed out!!! Please pardon the soliloquy... I kind of get excited about working safely!!!

Your video was a welcomed breath of fresh air! Over the politics, thank you for this! As much as I patrol the rural roads of Allen county I have yet to see your trucks out there, I’ve been watching.

Yellow paint! I knew once that is sprayed it on the ground the attention to detail goes up another level!

I smiled when you made the comment about Levi, that dog saw it all. Im a long time fan of Andrew, hes a fantastic youtuber.

Your videos I enjoy so much! Very informative, entertaining and interesting to watch!

Nice steady video with minimal machinery and one happy guy getting his turning area done lol.

Great job

Nice project, my only mishap was while plowing snow, backed into a light pole mounted on a concrete structure. Rung my bell pretty good.

Such a beautiful state you live in.

Don’t worry it will buff out lol. Things happen no one got hurt 🤕 great job though. Don’t forget Andrews new dog Cody

S#@^ does happen. Backed my tractor with box blade into the rear of my dump truck. Box blade hit the hitch area, I was not going that fast but was surprised and hurt my ego. I forgot where truck was b/c was so engrossed in job using front loader. It was a tight area but just the same a rookie mistake (?). I really enjoy your videos, thanks much!

I like curves but that end result looks pretty good.

nice job

It happens to everybody, lol that works 😳

I worked in a feed store where house and we would bump counterweights on the forklifts frequently 😂. It happens

I plow at Grand Rapids airport during the winter. Specifically out on the FedEx ramp. We also take care of the parking and cargo lots. One of our guys was in a bobcat pulling out all the parking spaces and another was in our big loader taking the piles out and over the curb. The idiot in the loader stopped right behind the bobcat and just sat there. I honked my horn in the tractor and waved for him to back up but he just sat there and stared at me. Idiot just watched the guy in the bobcat just back right into him. Luckily there wasn’t any damage but I was pissed. Needless to say that loader operator got let go. Can’t have those kind of mistakes at an airport. Can’t imagine how expensive that kind of mistake would’ve been out on the ramp with the planes

RIP Levi

The trucker halting the rock should have used his spreader chains , that would have cut down considerably on the tractor work

Stuff happens, FOR SURE! at least to me and it seems to always be when backing up.

Nice work! Was wondering if you could talk about stone size and pricing sometime

Neil, look on the bright side.......at least it wasn't a mirror.........since you have a lot of the same subscribers, just ask Captain......you would never live it down!!!!😜😜

He'll look before he will back up again. Could have been someone

I’m surprised Greg didn’t back into you eight times

I think that Bobcat is totaled. I will buy it for scrap value. lol

Having stuff like that happen really stinks , puts a damper on everything

Do you still have the f350 dump?

Had dump truck driver run into my Gradall excavator operators cab was blowing my horn but windows were up AC going and radio. Did damages to both my cab and back of my dump. I raised hood took my knife out and cut belt to AC compressor. Said you can go rest of summer in Florida with your windows down. I also put train air horn on my machine. After couple blasts of that never had to have him move again. On ditches machine moves a lot. So having to wait for truck to back up gets old. Few blasts of horn he started watching in mirror. Well he's got his ac back and been with me 25 years now. But everyone does stupid stuff it's what you learn from it

Nope! You Sir are the very first one in the entire history of motorized vehicles to ever have a fender bender. Little known fact, among insurance actuaries, a very common term is being involved in a "Neil." It's now a standard term used on accident reports world wide. Exception being Finland, there it's called Neilin.

I swere I pay the fly tiket from puerto rico to your region to help you out with any job and you pay me to fly for free I go but i have to be in your vid imagin the story . This guy fly from P.R to here just to be in my vid ahahahah im oper o got the same backhoe 310se and im a structural welder to im almost like you man but in diferent cuntry

you need a good dumptruck operator. i could have saved all that machine time and truck spread all that rock.

so a backhoe makes chopping fire wood better?😂 yes everyone knows that😅. thansk for that. that really made me laugh. great video