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Your drainage videos are the best. I like how you develop a plan, execute the plan with the right equipment, and show final rain results. Hats off to you and your crew .
I was just thinking about how helpful it probably is for you to have customer provided pictures/videos so you can see exactly where the water is traveling and solve the problem on the first try
Many of my customers have such extreme problems that they do take video of it. I've gotten in the habit of asking, and since most find me here, they offer to send them "for the video." 👍
I love these drainage videos. It's incredible how simply thinking about the physics and working with the nature of water determines the project needs and as it should. Well done!
fantastic work! I love how you use logic to solve problems individually instead of just throwing out generic "solutions". Rip-rap is erosion control...not drainage.
Yep! I see awful rip rap solutions all the time. I'm going to be digging out some this week on a bank on the side of an apartment building that someone obviously spent a lot of money to install.
I’ve learned so much from your videos. Different systems and materials and why/when you should use them vs. when not to. Makes me want to do this for a living.
@@jezalb2710 "Easily" LOL. I just got done digging a 20 foot long 2 foot deep and 8 inch wide trench which is extraordinarily less earth to move than this job and it was very difficult and taxing and time consuming by hand with many different shovels and a post hole digger. I was digging almost pure clay as well which made it 5x harder than normal and this job is STILL significantly larger. Phew. Took multiple long hard work days.
@@damianbridge9514 Jeremy was backing the concrete buggy backwards off the dump trailer after emptying a load of dirt. Shawn got him to step off the back of the buggy and operate it from the side instead. Safer that way as the buggy can't tip backwards on top of the operator if it decides flip over backwards.
@@damianbridge9514 Another idea would have been to turn around and go down forwards. That way, you can see where you are going, and you'd tip onto instead of off the buggy.
Great video. This is a good example of working with Mother Nature, and not against her. It is also heartening to see neighbors cooperating for the common good. Water is going to obey the laws of physics every time. There is no malevolent intent, it just flows. Sometimes it need some nudging out of our way.
Fantastic channel. I enjoy the authenticity and down to earth attitude you have. REALLY like seeing your systems in action with the return visits in the rain. Keep it up!
I really like it how you keep things simple and always investigate how the drainage was designed. This is a good example of lack of maintenance. Excellent job of bringing back the ditches. My HOA changed the free flow gutters to closed pvc linked to the street culvert system. guess what. The ground floor neighbors got water pouring through their ceilings when our roof terraces overflowed in a heavy downpour.
About 1 hour from my house and I noticed you uploaded. I pulled over had a coffee and watched your video. LOL. great video as always. That was a ton of water, man wow.
I bet if one of the owners wanted to change the color of one their sheds the HOA would be knocking on their doors with the “Rule” book !! Great job !!👊👍
Another fantastic drainage system! Your drainage videos are the best on RU-vid! You don't pressure clients into unnecessary costs just so you can increase labor/materials.
Subscribed a few weeks ago and very impressed with your work.I especially liked the vlog where you were watching the outcome on video and noticed you had not tied in his gutter run off pipe to your own and came back and dug up a bit of ground and rectified that omission.That is good customer care.Well done.
Great job on this drainage project. Such a rarity that two homeowners will work together to solve a problem, let alone 3. Now it's just a matter of the first two homeowners working together to keep the drainage ditch between their properties clear of debris and weed whack it once in a while.
the homeowner that has the creek where the swail goes across their yard, it will slowly carve out a ditch blocking off that area. would be a good opportunity for the homeowner to put in a small fancy bridge over it to like an outdoor patio/firepit.
Awesome job as always. I've spent all my spare time in the last week working on cars, encountering (or causing) problems, figuring out how to fix them, watching car-related videos for advice as needed. Finished up the last problem this afternoon, so can finally give all the car videos a rest... and boom, a new GCFD video drops. Perfect timing!
This project would greatly benefitted from the use of a "V" bucket like how Andrew camarata had made in his videos or an adjustable side to side angle mini excavator bucket. But regardless it turned out very well. Great job.
Still mostly does the same thing, probably handles more water if you make it deep enough. Plus he can use one of those really narrow and long bucket to make a canal same as a v bucket.
I agree Kai and Plain, I like the idea of a V bucket in areas with light flow. Here, the homeowner didn't care what the ditch looked like he just wanted it to work. So the square bucket dug a deep, wide trench for me. I think the water will wear it in well. I'll be back to check on things after a while.
@@GCFD Good idea, but if the water stays to one side of the ditch instead of the center, it will end up slowly edging over more and more, if it has lots of fast moving water.. Only time will tell.. You are the expert on this.. That being said, even a V bottom will in time fill with suit..
Wow what an improvement! It works out well when the neighbors work together. If the area between the fences showed up on the plat as open space the HOA should have paid for it! Great work as always! 👍
@@GCFD they actually got better results from you than they would have if they had sued the HOA, who then would have gotten someone who would have installed riprap.
Another great job GCFD!!! I believe a job like that, involving 3 fairly good sized properties, deserves another action video after.... Say... 6 months? 🤞👍
That 3rd property owner missed a good opportunity to put in a pond that always gets fresh water, but wow the project looks so good regardless! Props to ya!
Nice job, keeping it simple is usually the best for most things. Interesting how many HOA's will jump on homeowners for the smallest thing, but inturn fail to take care of what is clearly their responsibility.
Unbelievable content and project Shawn and crew! You guys absolutely nailed it. I didnt think you were going to be able to fit that mini ex in but you proved me wrong!
I'm loving the new uniforms and your use of your logo on the equipment and in the videos. If you were closer I would hire you for my complicated drainage problem
Good morning Shawn, that’s another excellent job very well done 👍 and those customer provided pictures at the end of your video proves that sometimes the simplest solution works best and until next TaRa for a bit.
I had to smile, I watched a post by one of your competitors and he was explaining why ribbed French drains was the way to go, sometimes stacking 3 pipes together to assist water flow. I did leave a comment...😂
For less than the cost of the rip rap ... I enjoy watching your informative videos and am amazed by your honesty and keeping it simple. Thank you, I would also love to see a follow up video in a few months to a year, after some vegetation grows back?
Great video guys....Thanks for sharing your customer problems with the solutions. The kubota kx18 is a great machine I had one for a year or so. But I had the space problem that you're having on this project. So I ended up getting the kubota u17 with a zero tail swing. And last month I got a jack hammer on it. Your past video on the apartment drainage basin that was small size. Was a opportunity that I could take advantage of. Using the u-17 with the jack hammer to break out the concrete. And I have the kubota kx057-4 together on a job site. I'm able to bring both machine together. I have you and your videos to Thank for that. As well as having a good network of other contractors that would help. Once again thanks for the experience of your years in the trade...
I always wonder about some of those shots... this was a fairly boring dig so I tried to spice things up with some different shots. I'm glad you made it through!
I highly recommend that you have a special bucket made that creates the angle of the ditch as you go. Build something with a shallow V shape. Get some large cardboard and make the shape and size of the bucket that you want out of cardboard. Then find a good welding shop (you) and have it made. It will save you a small fortune over the years ahead. Good luck. The benefit of the 'V' is to initially force the water to follow the 'V' until it erodes the path that "you chose". Please take a picture of this patn a year later to see how the water eroded the flat path.
Shawn, WTG great job 👍 Shawn maybe you need to make your small excavator an adjustable bracket so you can tilt your bucket in places like this. I have seen some of the dump buckets like yours now that will spin the bucket only and unload in almost any direction as well.
Hello from the Netherlands . the bucket you used is not a ditch bucket but a grading bucket. a real ditch bucket is also called a V-bucket here because it has a V shape to make the ditch sides. I'd love to see you make a V-bucket like that Shawn. Andrew Camarata also made one and a video of it on his channel. you can also make a bucket like that I'm sure. order or make the right excavator ears. I hope to see a video from you. Sincerely Hollandduck from the Netherlands
Yellow trailer is working great, That was a tight squeeze digging out that whole long run like that but it came out good 👍 no pvc was used on this video 😀👍 Full bubble boss!
Excellent solution to a simple problem - well done and thanks for sharing. It was great to see the after-job video from the homeowner. I live Down Under and all our water flows downhill too, it's not rocket science . . .
Certainly enjoy watching your videos. You know your stuff, well. And the results always show that. Nice looking soil where you are, lucky. I live in an area that was originally all swamp, (1930’s). Then they filled the entire area in with the clay when digging out all the freeways. Not pleasant working, especially for home waterproofers. Keep up the great work!
