John Deere 1025R 260B Backhoe: Getting Diggy With It 

The one nice thing about you sharing, is that I can learn from your 'should haves' . Thanks

Good video with humor thrown in - liked the tape reference

I have a backhoe on my 3025e. Absolutely love using that thing. There’s always something to dig up if you own some land/wood lot. It’s not cheap but you’ll have it for quite a while. Nice video.

Nice job and you look like your getting better on the backhoe now

Agreed great job! Thanks for sharing!

I just got through replacing 140ft of corrugated pipe with my Kubota 23S. The corrugated pipe was crushed and stopped up with shingle rock. The only problem I had (that you didn’t seem to have) was running into rock on a 30ft section. After the third trench, I finally got the proper depth. I have the last section to go and trying to figure out how to position the opening as I don’t have the luxury of a creek. I have two downspouts tied into this with 10ft section of thick walled 4” where I would been running over with a vehicle a on very limited

You can always put a pole in with a posted sign of the direction of the drain line. Great job though, love the video.

Love the “tape” references!😂

I like this concept for a small tractor. A metalized warning or a metal wire so some one could find them if they were looking. Draw a map on the Y and know which building is the direct route main run - and that might help clear them some day. Doing a good job on the pipe and trench.

Nice little project. It will be nice to have a place for the water to go.

The reason it was suggested to use landscape fabric and gravel is because otherwise you may need to do this job, again, in a very few years. The landscape fabric prevents your pipe from being filled solid with silt. The gravel simply makes it easier for water to filter out of the soil and into your pipe to be carried away to the creek. (Again, you'd want to use landscape fabric to prevent the gravel from becoming clogged with silt.) Maybe your soils don't 'silt', making the use of landscape fabric unnecessary. That's possible, I guess. I've never seen nor heard of such soil conditions. Point being, you installed these drains as a precaution to prevent water from being wicked up by the concrete slab in your pole barn. If that precaution was necessary, the use landscape fabric (and gravel, depending on soil conditions) was almost certainly necessary, too.

Maybe put a couple screws in the end cap so the fast water doesn't take it off. Looks good!

You probably could’ve put down some hazard tape above the pipe to warn someone if they are digging

Have you ever thought of using caution tape above the pipe......great video as always. Thanks

I loved your hazard tape comments!! Nice work, Tom.It looks really dry there, but there is some water in the creek. I hope it works as you expect it to. Oh yeah, did you think about putting some hazard tape above your pipe? Cheers!

If you need to do this again, you can use Cotton string to cut PVC pipe. Plumbing for 30 years works great.

You probably needed to put down some caution tape to warn someone lol 😂

I'm curious why you didn't try and harvest any rainwater. Thanks for sharing.

Do you plan to put any rip rap where the pipe comes out for erosion control? Very nice work !

What is the bxpanded logo on the bracket above the backhoe bucket. What is the actual bracket for?

I see you still haven't put the 2x4 braces in the roof trusses... You can still put the caution tape down & then put 2" of topsoil on top.

Some clean out heads would have been good

You and your tape, keep it up and you wife will have to take the tractor keys from you. 😝🤭

Should of, could of are after the facts. Let it go. The job is done.