Death in the family. I asked my father in law to move move in with us so we could care for him as he was not doing well. While living here he started watching this RU-vid channel with me. I would sit down and he would say, "hey let's watch that pond guy". He really enjoyed watching you Chris. He loved the pond videos as much as I do. Sadly this past Friday he passed away. Gotta say thanks to you Chris for providing something we could share in together. It will be something I remember, him calling you "The Pond Guy". It kinda reminded me of that old show I watched as a kid, The Fall Guy. LOL..... Anyway, thanks buddy for giving him something to enjoy before the Lord called him home. Take care and keep on keeping on. Your a great example to the upcoming generation. Good old fashioned work ethics. 💪 Shane from Elberta, AL.
Our condolences to you and your family. I’m glad he enjoyed the videos. I know my late Aunt loved RU-vid. It let her see into so many people’s lives as her’s was ending. She found it quite entertaining as her mobility was severely limited.
My condolences to you and your family. Hugs to you! Glad you guys were able to enjoy the vids together! Ill be watching til i go home to the Lord, whenever that might be!
I'm a Forestry graduate from the University of Georgia, and I learned more about water diversion in a 70 minute video than I did in a whole semester of Harvesting and Roads. Well done, sir.
Theory and Practice work together, can not do without each other. But both are as important! And skills you learn by practicing, never from a book or a professor's teachings.
A teacher, a doer, skilled as an expert but kind and funny. Love you Chris you are a pal in the cab you come across like we are sitting right behind you in the cab in a jump seat! Thanks for every journey you are a treasure to YT and all of us your devoted fans!
That's an artist at work. Fascinating to watch. Funny isn't it, how all us kids of all ages love playing with mud and water or at least watching someone else do it?
You know it’s a wet,sloppy mess when you are swinging right and left and the whole machine is sliding right to left. Can’t wait to see the finished product after you work your “magic “
That's why I like watching videos from Post10. Never thought watching some guy unclogging storm drains and culverts would be entertaining but it's satisfying to see the water start moving again.
@@Phordless_Cone Probably the same first one I watched lol. I know I was watching beaver dam busting videos when I found this channel several years ago.
What I find amazing about the folks who operate these machines is how they can move the buckets with kid gloves & surgical precision. In November I had to hire a backhoe operator to sadly bury one of our ponies. First his respect & sensitivity of our feelings at having to put down a pony we had had for 20 years. He asked if we (my husband & I) wanted to be there or come back when he was finished. We chose to stay with our pony to the end. Secondly how quickly he was able dig the hole, it turned out it was sand, not even a stone, down around 6-7 feet. Third how gently he placed & positioned the pony in the freshly dug hole and then finish the fill-in. He was amazing, we really appreciated how he handled the whole process. The time from start to finish was maybe 20 minutes. From the time we called him to him arriving was no more than 30 minutes. This was not scheduled ahead of time, he responded immediately, on a Friday afternoon. He only charged us $100.00! He made the whole process so much easier, in a situation that was so hard, but necessary, to go through. (The pony was 27, had had a back injury 3 years ago, with spinal bruising & was starting to show neurological deficits. We did all we could, he was losing weight & in pain, it was time, but the final decision was not made until the vet came & evaluated the new changes we were seeing & with those changes he never would have survived the winter here in western NY.) So a special thank you to Jason & all those who operate this equipment and help those of us in need of your service at a very difficult time. Thank you & God bless!
When I was a kid, and still do to this day, dig little ditches with a hand hoe, to run water off. Even if I am out walking on someone else’s property or public property, I use the toe of my boot to drain water off! I just love doing it. Is the there a support group for people like me? Maybe I am in the wrong line of work helping out folks with disabilities. Maybe I am meant to do site work!
Support group? Why yes there is. It is right here. I remember us kids just loved to clean gutters after a summer rain. UNTIL a bus driver said that he was going to call Boys Town. We scampered out of there like scalded rabbits.
He works wonders...parting the waters, stopping leaks here, draining swamps there, building fences to keep the rifraf out, imagine what the kid could do in Washington!
@@Hankie56 🤣 do you get the American joke? We say that DC is a swamp infested with people who want to destroy our country. That's what he was referencing 🤣
That's skeeter breeding ground! Only need about 72 more hours of these temperatures to bring them to life! Gotta drain it alright. Nice to see LD18 eagle back in the air!
I appreciate how you explain everything that you’re doing, I can imagine that little ditch that goes around the property in pretty full by now with what you’ve done so far! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
You Chris are the smoothest operator I have ever seen, when you sit in that seat you become part of your machine I can tell you really like your work the damns you have built are amazing. I really like your pictures, I feel like I M sitting with you
Got recommended your videos recently and it's so fascinating to watch you take on these projects in a calm, focused and casual way. I keep thinking how even minor parts of your work would easily take 8 men a whole day of hard labor with shovels, AND they'd be absolutely spent from the work. Meanwhile you can do many times that amount of work effortlessly, as one man with the digger. The power of technology
You are a master of your craft if I have ever seen one. Most people would look at land like that and think it’s a lost cause. But you know exactly what you need to do to drain it and make it usable. I can’t wait to see the finished product because like every other project you do it’s going to be great. Also this job will give your dozer and root rake a workout! Can’t wait to see it in action.
47:50 that's actually on one side a good thing to see that there is sufficient rain and no drought. In Europe we have, "The series of severe droughts and heatwaves in Europe since 2014 is the most extreme for more than 2,000 years, research suggests. The study analyzed tree rings dating as far back as the Roman empire to create the longest such record to date."
Mr. Donnie and his million mile Kenworth still haulin the mail... You have become one of his best customers with all the equipment your having to move around now.
Dr. Dirt Digger has performed another successful operation. The patient is recuperating. Prognosis is positive. Just a pick-and-shovel guy, starting about 1970, I appreciate how you skillfully, precisely excavate each site, creating the underpinnings for a variety of high-quality projects with nary a wasted move! Thanks for the videos.
He's gotten so good with the excavator that he doesn't have to actually think about what he's doing with his hands. He thinks it, the machine does it. Like it's an extension of his mind. God level unlocked, achievement obtained.
That was some exceptional trenching work Chris!!!! You did a beautiful job digging that trench and smoothing around them! The dozing footage at the end was super satisfying! Great job!! This is one of the greatest YT channels!
It's really not been too dry here in NC. We had three days with no rain then it rained again for two days. It's clear today and supposed to be for two or three days into the coming week then rain some more toward the end of the week and next weekend. Haven't had enough time for anything to dry out any between rainy days. Wettest winter as far as rain I've seen in quite a few years.
I have to say, I'm really impressed by your dexterity & eye - hand coordination. You are born to do the work you do. It's good that you like it so much. I was amazed by your skills on all your construction equipment but now I see you even have skills flying drones. Well done. Thank you for all your videos, I enjoy them emencely.
I watched one of his videos from 2 years ago when they were clearing brush from just as wet an area. Just catching up on what I missed. He dropped a stump 1/2 the size of a VW beetle and there were globs of mud running down the windshield!! He was glad it was down that day!! He laughed at himself as well. Good sport. I think it was called “The Camera Caught it!” Or something like that. I was thinking about that video from the time he opens the window in this video until the end of the video,,,,,,, hahaha.
A trick that was done in my back property was to take a log - a good sized one - sawed on both ends and grip it in bucket and thumb and sweep the back yard from limbs and stirred up dirt. Made it nice and smooth.
Me half way through the episode: "It's crazy how much can get done in just a single day of work." Chris: "Lunch time!" Amazing how much a powerful machine can do with paired with a capable operator. Awesome vid Chris.
its amazing how slippery that crap is when its wet. Watching the machine slide around as you slew shows just how much mass it has and how mucky that dirt is. It was very satisfying to watch all of that water drain away.
Every guy in the rural areas of the northern midwest knows how this job goes, but it usually involves a good shovel, gravel driveway and spring runoff.
I have 50 Acres of bottom land hardwoods, so basically it's a seasonal swamp during the wet season. Completely raw land that we are trying to handle ourselves. I don't need it all drained, but it's basically 90% under 6 inches under water almost half the year. Thanks you for this video. We will have to rent some equipment and get this figured out. I'm thinking we need multiple ponds.
I always wonder on jobs like these where all the water might go. I live not to far from here and he's right its real flat, so chances are you wont flood out someone else, just divert the water till it finds somewhere it can drain through better soil. Ive heard flood stories on rivers where people diverted the flood away from their property just to flood the next people worse.
@@chefdan87 I know you can’t do anything about natural water flow but I think it’s illegal to dump water into someone else’s land unless it’s into a drainage ditch.
Post10 really managed to make something out of seemingly nothing......but it is always interesting watching water drain off to wherever and he is right on a lot of common sense things that could be done to stop flooding of the areas he goes to
Its obvious, from the mere 20hrs of video of your work I've watched, that this is your specialty. Very interesting video, now I have a more context on SO many more of your videos.. this is your thing.
@@jimybobjim he has no point. one of those people with no real friends who ur forced to work with on some jobs because he hasnt been fired for his pisspoor attitude yet.
In another month the bugs would be eating you alive. Drone sure helps getting the lay of the land. They better consider some serious drainage when they build this development.
You understand that shortly you will be contacted by representatives from the Worldwide Union of Mosquitoes (WWUM) with a formal complaint. As usual a great video.
Im almost done with my custom mini bike frame. I got the motor mocked up and sitting in it and the tires on. Working on the handle bars and gas tank tomorrow.
@@wendymorrison5803 Yes, maybe for bodies! ;D Otherwise it's working fine in our extrem rocky forest here in Sweden, using sturdy ones with 3 teeth or of course tiltrotators and ordinary buckets for bigger ditches.
Third time through the video. It is cool watching you drain the swamp. I know, no removing a forest or moving a mountain but your understanding of fall and mud management is awesome.
I think this was 1 of the 1st video that I watched of yours Now you’ve done 2-3 big dams got a new 220, a haul truck, a 330, a 6 & a 7 you did the vet office with all of the rocks. It’s been an interesting trip. Thank you Sir for bringing me along I’ve enjoyed the journey.
That was a goopy mess when you got a bucket full of dirt & mud & then dropped it, it sounded like a cow after she’s been on wheat pasture for 6-8 weeks plop, plop !!!
You know your making headway when brush is floating down the ditch you just finished digging. You sure put the fix on this piece property, night and day difference Chris nicely done.
North Texas has Black Gumbo and also White Gumbo that does that as well. I'm in East Texas and we have maybe 200 or so deep soil. Looks like some farmer's TILE placed into the ground would help drain this off once leveled and normal drainage. These are 4 and 8" pipes that drain to a creek or drain.
I think you're mistaken about the effect of the "fall". The fall doesn't affect the direction of the water flow, only the level of the far end of the outflow affects that. You could dig the entire thing with the fall backwards so that it was 10ft deep at the head end and the top 3ft of water would still flow out the outflow 3ft below ground level. The bottom 7ft would just not go anywhere. Maintaining a consistent fall is important to avoid damming up water but it won't cause the water to flow backwards. Only having an outflow below water level at the other end would do that.
Even as an adult I would love to throw on a pair of high boots. grab a shovel and walk around tinkering/playing with helping water flow into the trenches. As a kid i loved doing it to alter the water run off flow around. 🙂 Great kind of project. Watched this project along with so many others multiple times. Great work Chris. Hope every customer pays their bills on time. 🙂
Deep down Chris misses all the rocks now that he has all the feeling back in his arms and hands 🙌 from the Fred Flintstone job ha ha. Great job Chris keep up the great work. Stay healthy and safe from Alberta Canada 🇨🇦.
That is so neat watching a plan come together. Operating heavy equipment was something I considered after my 'dream job', but life got in the way. That and, if you don't 'have' experience, it's difficult to 'get' experience. Great video, thanks for posting it!
