You may not hearing a lot but I really appreciate the scriptures you put it at the end of your videos. It’s not like you’re cramming it down somebody’s throat and being annoying with it but a lot of times they sort of speak to me and remind me and help me stay centered on them otherwise distracted.
It might be a good idea to grab a few of the Orange Safety Cones to put out when you are working close to roadway. You want to avoid an insurance liability issue where there was dirt on the roadway.
Yup I would have parked one of the other guys vehicles up road or in the driveway there with the flashers on, sideways at least if someone’s gonna hit yah would hit it first🤷♂️
We put cones and signs up , people still hit them , had a road opened up and sewer exposed, lady drove through a yard to get through instead of just going down one street over ! People are unreal
Great video. One suggestion:On my backhoe I welded a chain hook onto the bucket so that I can easily pick up a load like you did and the backhoe becomes a good lifting device. No worries about dropping a load or keeping it centered.Thanks for all you do. Tom
Love seeing what you can do with this little tractor. I was impressed enough that I just bought 2032 vintage 2013 with 150 hours garage kept. It will be a great addition to my 91 HP utility tractor.
we need to get Mrs. T a orange/yellow construction vest. and some of those driver were not being kind, may need to keep some orange cones on the trailer. lol, "old guys construction" you young folk are just good fun.
Amateur Hour or Cheeseburger Dreaming is what I think. Play safe along the roadside, the traffic will not slow down if not deterred in some way. Avery nice day to be out working with Johnny II.
Once upon a time, the intake end of culverts were cut at a 45 and screened over. Then, any debris washed down, would be diverted off to the sides and not pile up against a flat end. The out feed doesn’t matter of course, but the intake does.
Tim, a 3 or 4 foot stick kept at your left side works great to reach back and hit the hydro pedal when you need to move forward a little while you dig. Our backhoe did not have a range selector nor an option for neutral so ours was always ready to move.
I agree with you Tim that is really hard on the loader hydraulic’s perhaps as you said the backhoe would have been a better option. Nice work…I’ll be doing the same to my tarred driveway entrance this summer!!
Love it. Good work, may I offer advice that next time turn around and tie the old culvert to the front loader using your hooks and lift it easily onto the trailer.
@@TractorTimewithTim Actually just picking at you. This was a fine job and showed the versatility of a compact tractor. The mini ex could have straddled the pipe path and dug from both ends . Makes leveling and clean up a bit easier but all in all you guys were great and everything worked out well. It all sure beat shovels and picks!!
Nice project start to finish! For a second there I was sweating that one of your coworkers was about to step back into traffic, but happily disaster avertedl!👍🙂 Happy Holidays!! 🌟🎄☃️🎅
Tim you might know this, or someone has already stated, but a general rule of thumb is ⅓ of the overall diameter of the pipe is what you want for coverage over a culvert pipe. So a 12" pipe would have a minimum of 4" cover...
@@wingwhacker7500 so does that mean is should be 1 ft plus 4" on a 12" pipe? Or 12" minumum... if you get into bigger pipes (like 4ft) then the ⅓ rule comes into play?
I believe it is 12 inches for the rating, but I would check the ASTM standard as it may have changed or have caveats; Larger pipes may be different like you said Adam. But, small culverts, like this one, are rated based on a certain amount of fill. It doesn't mean what they did will not work. They may need to think about it whenever they bring a heavy wheeled vehicle like a cement truck into the place especially during soft soil conditions. The rating is so you can compare different size vehicles of course. Also, I believe you can figure out what the rating of the culvert as installed is by a chart for the culvert based on fill above the pipe depth.
I have a 30’ steel culvert I have 2” of fill on. Sometimes you can see it and I have to cover it back up. 😂You could drive a cement truck over it though. How deep your fill is will depend on how deep the ditch is and how big the county tells you the diameter of the culvert has to be. For me that was 16” and with the ditch that left me 2”s of fill. So you sometimes get stuck with what you have to work with.
Tim as others have already mentioned, you’re hanging out a country mile and endangering yourselves by not have adequate warning signs in advance of the work zone. At the very least, park a car with flashers ahead of the work area to worn others of something happening. And since you were within the city right of way, you should have gotten a permit in advance. Look at the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, MUTCD, to see how it should have worked. Lots of lawyers make a very good living on incidents occurring in work zones. Bullet dodged, but lesson learned.
Another great video! Nice to see how much you can do with just a loader bucket. I have a suggestion topic for another video...I love to see a quick coupler review for the backhoe buckets. I know Mudd's and BXpanded both have them, but I'm concerned about clearance issues with the boom and loss of digging force.
Mark, I have the BXpanded quick coupler on my 260B. I put it on before I ever dug with it so I'm not sure how much it affects the digging force but I can tell you this, it still has had more than enough power to dig anything I've tried with it. My only complaint with the 1025R/260B combo is that there's not enough flow rate so it's slow and sorta hard to feather the controls to do 2 functions at once. The BXpanded adds maybe just a couple of inches to the "length" of the hoe. I highly recommend it!
Thank you krisity and Tim for the entertainment. Tim this is maybe a stupid question , if so I'm sorry. But it seems the 1025 maybe easier to see the loader. It something i have noticed before but today it shown more. Not that either machine bad. But the 1025 seems you can see the loader better for finish loader stuff. 2038 is a very very nice machine too.
I have a question Tim, about thumbs. You did some great lifting and carrying using just the bucket and the boom of your backhoe. Do you find rear thumbs on backhoe buckets of a benefit that justifies the cost? I’m considering a thumb…I’m thinking a fixed thumb to save the cost between that and a mechanical thumb. Any advice on thumbs and, is a mechanical any more of a benefit to justify the extra costs?
Fun job to do with the JD. A mechanical thumb on the backhoe would have been ideal to help grab the culvert or that big rock. The nice thing is that you can leave it on all the time while digging
I did this for my neighbor 2 years ago as her old 12" culvert, plastic, got smashed up on the ends and wasn't buried deep enough when they put it in and hardly any rock over it. So she got a 3/8 steel 12" pipe about 12' long and I put it in for her, no charge, she was happy!
@@TractorTimewithTim I was just messing with you Tim Out from all your comments on this video I did not see nobody say 811 on it.. Keep the good videos rollin Be safe and God-bless Y'all
My guess is a plastic pipe with that shallow a layer above it might collapse. Might need to pour a layer of cement over it if it does. Otherwise great video.
@@TractorTimewithTim With what rated coverage over the top? Usually the pipe itself can't handle that big of a load without gravel/soil on top to spread out the load.
40,000# with an inch or two of cover, I don't think so . The first time a heavy truck crosses it after a rain, say your local Garbage truck , you'll be redoing it.
Tim, FYI, and I am sure you hear this outcome often. I have a new neighbor. His wife told me he bought a new tractor. I asked him what he bought; he said a 1025. Why? because TTWT. Just in case Deere was wondering if their support has paid off.
I spent a year or so living in an apartment not far from that church 21 years ago. The tallest thing for many miles west of that apartment was the Walmart, which made for some interesting times when inclement weather would come through. It was the only first floor apartment I've ever lived in that I felt sway with the wind :)
Haven’t operated them, so can’t comment on smoothness of controls. …but bigger is better, right? I think the 475 doesn’t fit the cab model, so if you wanted to upgrade to cab 3046r later, the 475 would not fit it…at least I think this is the case.
Tim. . . . .ya should have brought your forks & set them to the widest width, then ya could've visually centered up on the pipe while on the tractor to load on your trailer.
Ok Tim, l know ya know this but you could have used a couple if 6' straps and a couple of kens hooks and lifted that culvert very easily and much more safety on to your trailer.😁
I purchased a tool awhile back called a culvert hoe it collapse when pushed and drops back down when pulled I have some neighbors uphill that thinks everything supposed to go in the ditch. It does pretty good on cleaning culvert out just some back breaking work. Maybe something to look into for maintaining the new culvert.
just let u know i am getting the holders for my kubota 60 inch mower from Mudds Custom. he is makeing it i sent him some mearsurement, got my discount from useing tractor with tim. thanks
@@TractorTimewithTim at least your aware... mr tractor you have a nice little tractor I'm a deere guy myself havin grown up on a farm with deere then switched to Kubota which is much more efficient and more powerful machine that comes from operating every major brand from bolens Ford Massey deere and so on.. Have a nice day sir
Get some tall cones, glue a metal strip on top and attach a flashing red and white stobe light to them. One guy (Tim Pratt) has a towing business and this is what he uses to keep himself, his crew, and his equipment safe. Even so, he has had issues with blind drivers.
What rotary are you using? I’m in the market for one and would like some feedback on what you have and why you like it if you wouldn’t mind. I appreciate your videos!
This one is Topcon. Specific model at amazon.com/shop/tractortimewithtim It is simple and rock solid. We also use one from CANAMEK. It supports 2 dimensional slope. Get a 5% discount with code ttwt. CANAMEK.com
Tim I think the one guy from your church could use a session of how to use a laser level cause at min 14:05 the side of the pipe that Christie is standing at is pitched up and not down cause the laser level rod wasn't being held perfectly straight up and down he had it angled so it wasn't giving the proper readings
Yeah, I cringed when you bumped the pipe after it was set, " oh no!!" I would have thought that once you got the old pipe clear you would have just grabbed a chain and hung it from the front loader and drove it over to the trailer. But I'm fully aware of being committed to a less than ideal way of doing something with equipment once you start
20 + years of trial & ERROR LOL Digging with loader can cause catastrophic damage to any part or all of loader system, when bendable metal meets unforeseen immovable object.. Remember the key word here, front end loader not digger. I came to use hoe only for digging... use loader to pick up old pipe with one chain carry over & place on trailer.. Yes you know have an armchair old tractor operator watching you. and I do enjoy. Thank you.
Did you read the rest of the comments on this episode? Lots of ‘armchair operators’ on this one. Seems I did everything wrong! I can tell you that all of these critical comments definitely take the fun out of it. Especially when I KNOW that I operated the machine safely in this project.
@@TractorTimewithTim I do understand your feelings, please know this, I have watched many dozens of your vids without a comment & they were all awesome cool and fun and teaching the right way.. I love your videos keep up the good job. Thanks.
