The behind-the-scenes look at this project is fascinating. It’s amazing to see the logistics and planning that goes into something of this scale. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for posting Chris. This kind of project perfectly demonstrates your talents with equipment and your desire to show up whenever Geoff calls. He is very fortunate that you show up and complete his required tasks so perfectly! I suspect you and Geoff have very similar work ethics.
Mr Geoff,"is this what we need to buy now " Answer is , no Geoff its what You need to buy ,Chris will just use it lol. I like the Wee thinking , wee together,wee working ,wee the team ,puddles not included
Chris. On the Bealy Good building Place.. The Plan 200 Tons Gravel inside the Mansion to fill. Building a Rampe and Drive the Dozer in the Mansion. Then fill You have Gravel with the Excavator in the Mansion, and grading with the little Dozer. You fill all Rooms. However the Perfect Work from You. The Video good
'Dingo' talk about confuse an Aussie! Old 220 has been busy. 'LetsDig18 waiting for Bealy Good' -LOL Going to be a beautiful home which will stand for many years.
With Geoff's money and your talent to operate those other guys are sitting in the cool watching. Those Dingo's replaced the old wheelbarrow to move rock, dirt and concrete. Keep up the fine work and with todays pay will cover the price of that fine BIG SHOVEL you just took delivery of.
Chris’s forbids his equipment to rust, however a little bit of patina is acceptable on the equipment he owns that was made in the previous century because rusty equipment means it hasn’t been earning its keep.😁 Have a great day and a better tomorrow
Great job moving that much stone, fun watching you get a new piece of equipment (dingo) and you make it look like it is a piece of equipment that you use everyday!
Nice job, one lot of gravel/stone, you handled that little Bobcat like a pro, wonder why🙄😉. Nice to see the progress, sure aren’t letting grass grow on the 220, nice to be busy, thanks for the update, enjoyed watching.
You and Jeff always have a great time working no matter what you are doing. Almost like brothers. You definitely have been teaching Jeff a lot about running equipment.
The amount of gravel used on this house and pool is ridiculous. And everyone leaving should not surprise you, very few like to work anymore, and raking gravel isn’t that hard. Great job.
So true!! I just finished moving about 10 ton of gravel by hand. It’s a my cabins so I just hung out with the dog and did it myself. Took about 2.5days but I wasn’t working too hard! 😂. It looks great and now we pour a rather large patio with an integral custom hexagonal fire pit being poured as well. Gonna generate a lot of heat the pad will retain for hours and loads of good conversations, snacks & meals. There will be a pole with a grill that slides up & down with stops every 1.5” all the way up the steel pole to about 24” above the coals. The grill can swing 360 degrees. It has a steel plate that goes in one of the sides that will mostly be left open. There will be two steel channels that hold the plate. It can be set to let air into the fire making it almost smokeless, and take the whole plate out and it’s really easy to shovel out the ashes, into the bucket of our loader & spread them in the pasture. Easy peasy, assuming the engineer’s calculations in his head (aka my head) are correct!! 😂😂.
@@half-breed - if Chris is using a rake and there’s no one else around,,,, they were needed. You move it by machine, but there still lots of raking to do filling the corners, cleaning off the ledges and footings, finding high & low spots. You can’t finish the job without those guys and they left. AT NO TIME should Cris be wasting his time with a rake when there’s a crew to do it!! They are standing around doing little to nothing while he was dumping the rock, then when they are needed, yes needed, they disappear. That was a mistake and it ultimately falls to Geoff or a supervisor he may have appointed. You gotta go by what Chris says here. He is the expert and aware of the entire job to be done.
And, Poof !! He Gone !! lolol... Ain't that it Chris, start working , and all the help runs off and hides !! lolol... That freaking house is gonna be stout, for sure !! lolol... Guess, you guys have to, or can hurricane proof your homes when building them, if ya choose ?? But, Great as always Man !! Have a great Evening, And, On too the next !!
You know Chris one day you'll have machines like the dingo only with two robotic arms and autonomous trucks so you can a crew that never gets tired hot or hungry and does it the way you want it with out having to baby set your workers 😊
On my basement, we used pea gravel (which is plentiful in my area) in a mixer truck plus a chemical that made it very workable. I’m sure much cheaper but not available in all areas. This was more entertaining as I wasn’t the one manning the shovels & rakes.
That was funny Mr Bealy Good. That is the problem with some humans when hard work starts everyone scatters. :) I also notice the last person to be working is the older person. Thank you and have an awesome day.
Chris here were i live we have slingner trucks that will sling that crush Stone in the bassement and even spread it around almost to perfection.....there amazing to see.
Why do you say that? He is building his dream house. Everything he wanted and more that's great for him, I hope he and his wife are happy. You sound a little jealous, or you have sour grapes
Yeahhhhh,,, you sure you’re qualified to call this a money pit? The construction like this is about 30% more than regular stick build and the bigger the home, the smaller that percentage gets. Come sale time, especially in the higher end markets, you can get up to 50% more than a similar stick built home. The utilities are much less so you recover costs there, there’s no dealing with cracks in the drywall a year later due to shrinkage in the lumber, they are QUIET homes! This isn’t Geoff’s first, second, or 3rd home. It’s what he is doing in his free time, basically. He is building, has built, homes for other clients, he is building, has built, spec homes as well. Something tells me that when all is said & done, he won’t be too far over budget,,, as long as the “might as wells” don’t take over,,, GEOFF!! 😂😂😂. It’s going much slower than is typical as he isn’t working on this build full time.
That looks like more than a house, I seems like it could double as a bunker as well, steel and reinforced concrete is not the normal home construction materials.
