Shop Dirt Perfect www.dirtperfect1.com/shop Forming and pouring footers using form-a-drain. Then use John Deere 120 and gmc c8500 to haul dirt to build up new driveway. #dirtperfect #driveway #footers #Concrete
Sir, I love your explanations. My daily grind couldn't be farther from your profession and I have no idea about building. The way you explain it is straightforward and highly informative, I find myself watching more and more so I see something outside my office stuff. Cheers!
Fantastic video Mike! Great to see the drain system go together, and nice recovery of your drone in the tree. Your guys certainly work hard and know what they're doing. Truck driver spreading skills are impressive too. Enjoy your weekend, work safe. Doug@ the "ranch"
Nice job. Those are some of the sharpest walls on a basement hole I've seen in a long time. Most people around here dig basements with a track loader and they dont look near that good. I like how neat and organized the job site is, it makes working on the site a lot easier when its organized. Well done sir.
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That's a good looking( clean and organized ) job site . That turned out to be a great looking driveway . I love that footer drain form stuff, I have never seen it before, neat and efficient setup for building footers . This is a great informative video, so thanks Mike . I will be looking for the next videos to go with this one . 🤗👍💖💫
Hell of a video Mike. Never heard of those forms before very interesting. My hats off to you man, keeping them boys working, your other crews going, keeping your self work, civic duties you do, family life and friends, and to top it off you tape it now and share with the world.
I've never seen a drain system like that. All that open space and you fly the drone into a tree. That's just too funny. Now I know we're related. Lol. Have a blessed weekend.
since i was a kid 😂 I'd always wanted to know how those road contractors do their job 👍 and now i found your channel 😁 you giving me the opportunity to know how the work done....... it's educational really 👍 thanks
Mikey you have some talented operators there. As you kept saying " perfect "! Guess Dirt " Perfect " trained them ! Thanks for vid buddy. You all do great work.
That looks so much faster and better than the old footers we always had to build by hand. Great video Mike and thanks again for sharing this all with us. Great job on making the driveway look wonderful. Every place I have lived in seems to always have narrow entrances and pull trailers and I've so many times almost lost them in the ditches. Now if I build a driveway I make them much wider now but most people dont do that. They think oh a car make this but never consider trucks with trailers or stuff like that. I wonder some times if the people dont think about that or what.
Mike. I'm impressed with you and your crew as usual. Never seen that drain before, but havent done a basement in a while. I put radiant floor in my shop 60 x 66 and used the2" egg crate looking tongue and groove sheets for the pipes. I loved it.
I liked, I'm leaving a comment and subscribed! Love it when a plan comes together. Be nice for the weather in this video all the time. Good job. Looks great from here. Sonny (CT)
Good driver her spread that rock like a pro. The foundation looked great and really like the form/drain and the icf what a great start to an energy efficient and strong home.
Good work Mike.. I tip my hat to ya sir! I sure love the sound of that truck well both of your trucks actually.. I seen the video when you were talking about the exhaust very unique but that lil red dump truck screams it's loud and proud in this video lol.. Keep up the great work Mr. Dirt Perfect. I can't wait to see the finished project...
U knocked them piles of dirt down very nice ..good job. And yes I do know what u r talking about some think they know all about driveways but don’t know about ditches and just haul more rock will fix it
So glad to see someone that understands draining outside to a drainage instead of into a sump pit as is common even when fall is available some idiots don't,have never understood it either they are lazy or cheap. A bad deal for a homeowner if they don't be it crawl or basement put a drain to the natural outside sumps fail during storms because of power failure,a sump connected to natural drainage now that's a plus!
@@DirtPerfect - Then you & your loved ones are entitled to a double vacation! :) Like I said, you really are a work horse. Hopefully you'll find time to rest & recharge. Don't do what I did, I worked double shifts non-stop for 4-5 yrs at a time, then crashed. It takes equal time to recover. People would warn me but I wouldn't listen. So please heed my message about finding time to rest & recharge. You'll be better served if you do that.
I just watched a 30 minute video of some dudes pouring concrete, crashing a drone and building a driveway. You fine gentlemen have earned a sub. Cool and very interesting and super informative
I never really thought operating heavy machinery would require much skills until I watched you swing that bucket over the truck at 07:28 in one consistent motion and just barely missing the dumper by like 6"
When you were ordering the concrete & you said "I'm gonna need the elephant trunk " I couldn't figure out what you were talking about till I saw it ,that's a pretty neat trick. I Never saw one of those before I don't think they have them around here ( in Jersey) great idea though it makes life a whole lot easier does all the concrete trucks have them ? Or do they switch from to truck ?
Thanks I very much enjoy your videos. I'm curious about the engine that is in the dump truck I love the sound of it it's got a small cat diesel or is it a gas I can't really tell thanks ldr
Mike I like the way your doing this job. It looks like a good quality work. I had never seen the form-a-drain product. I will look into that for some future work. I use the ground fabric a lot but not many of the other contractors around me do. I think it is worth the extra cost. The only thing I have a question about is using screenings/crusher run right on the cloth?? I usually us clean 3/4 -1 inch stone right against the cloth. I want to have the water drain from under the drive. I then finish with the crusher run rock on top.
We had the slightest wind when we laid the road fabric down on our driveway and it made it nearly impossible to keep in place before we got any stone on it!
While you have the hi-hoe there dig a pond on the lower end slope and connect the rain spouts to it at a later date. Just a little idea to do now instead of down-the-road later. I'm not talking anything large, simple flowing pondless kit or a 12 x16 three feet deep , think landscaping now , little bit of a pain with my older home. I'm building a 20 x 25 shop now and evesatroughing big O pipe to the backyard to my little pond beside the garden. Thinking ahead will help. Awesome digging job , hope your building inspector is as great as mine, to bad he's retiring this year. Nice views from that home love to see it when done!!
Do you use any kind of basin with that drain system (bucket with a pump in it) ? Where does the water go if you can not dig the crossover pipe to daylight... great video you guys do a good job
What does the c-8500 have for a motor I love your videos and honestly the ol lady jumps me all the time saying “all you watch is dirt perfect I don’t know why we even have cable” 😂😂
Very nice video! Question for you. I live in Texas and have a 150’ driveway up a hill, I have the geo textile fabric but am deciding on which stone to use. What driveway material do you prefer?
Have a ? What did you call the gravel under the footer and is it self compacting or just for fill? Is it for drainage? Over here in southern California inspectors want anything added to be compacted 90%. Thanks
Great videos. Keep them rolling with all the info on the icfs and form a drain. I want to build with them just nervous on all the steps. Need any help I'll take off work and help where I can and hopefully learn? Thanks
@@DirtPerfect I figure this is at least a basement and first floor how many pours will it take to complete? Also what type of attachments will you use for the floor joists? Thank you keep the videos coming learning a lot.
That tree pruner is a bit pricey for my budget... Hadn’t seen the form-a-drain system before. Pretty slick. Loved the rolling start on spreading the last load. (You do realize that if you were driving the truck would have stalled... tailgate hung... or camera burped.... don’t you?)
About how much does a 300’ asphalt driveway cost? I have a large lot I am going to build on soon in SE MI and the house will be set back about that far. Should the job and quote include adding dirt like you did to account for compaction of the earth? Never thought about the dirt portion....just assumed that was made up with stone... Nice video, interested in the form / drain system.
Putting your metal stakes on the inside of the fad allows you to get the rock around the outside and onthe floor. We use a telebelt to place the rock and concrete. Makes it alot easier and alot faster. Maybe a few ideas that could help you.
Hello, I am assuming the interior form a drain ends up under the floor slab? Not sure how you work that and have a screeding surface on the inner footing surface? I hadn't heard of them before. Might not be suitable for our particular soil and rock? Take care. Doug
I can't believe that green system didn't have some kind of a fabric to go over the holes to keep the silt in the fines from going down into it but what do I know
Great video! Is it better to do footers, ICF and then slab or pour monolithic footers and slab? I’m gonna build a basement soon but am afraid I’ll have to use a concrete pump.
