How much damage did the stone do to the tracks between the idlers and do you factor the wear and tear into the bid? Great skills on the track loader by the way.
Chris the man operating the skid steer is a very talented man I must say and I hope your pay him well. there are not many out there that can see the whole area and work it.
i was telling the owner of gravely grading of western north carolina about u yesterday while delivering to him,as i was leaving i noticed he had a volvo 210 excavator and a takeuchi skid steer as well
When the bucket is flat on the ground and you are moving forward or backward spreading stone, are you floating the bucket? Amazing job and great videos....thanks!
anytime the ground is spongy dig the muck out first then put some ballast rock down and then recycled rock on top fabric on bottom have seen hundred ton cranes walk on water beds
I'm not sure what your doing but I think I have an idea. You drive the skid steer back and forth, the the bucket of the Volvo loader goes back and forth. Do you have a license to place crowds into hypnotic trances. Thats not right but I keep coming back. Is the problem you or us? Thanks for sharing.
400 tons is a lot of weight. Aren't you concerned that by putting so much weight in one spot of the planet - where it obviously wasn't before - and by removing it from another area of the planet, you could shift earth's weight across it's rotational axis and increase global warmi .............. sorry, I had too much coffee today.
400 tons is nothing as that can fall in a light rain. 1 foot of water over 1 acre is 1,359 tons so a pond would have a much larger effect on the earth then spreading a little stone around.
Amen! I had the same issue! Doctor said it was “micro trauma” everyday from loader work and I paid for it years later. Be careful out there guys! Great videos always!
@@letsdig18 oh ok do you have a reason? Lol you dont have to answer if you dont want to. I'm more of a Volvo and Cat Fanatic. But when it comes to Skid steers I'd have to go with Cat. I like Volvo for their Excavators.
Good day boys Tim I know your truck can spread rock so why don’t you do the more often it seams like it would be a lot faster and easier on your equipment Thanks
Todd Roberts : You're either joking or plum crazy. I just watched the video of Chris laying in that driveway with parking area before I came to this one. Chris is smooth as hell and doesn't waste movement. Watching Tim in this video drove me bat shit crazy. Especially when he kept turning into the pile and getting all those fucking rocks in the sprocket and idler. I ended up having to fire one of my guys cause he wouldn't stop doing this even after I warned him 3 times. I gave him the option to switch to flat-work (scrubbing concrete) but his ego was too far out there so he said no. No sweat off my balls in the end. Nobody is going to tear the shit out of my expensive equipment. I can totally understand why Chris won't let ANYBODY drive his 220.
I definitely recommend you try their line of mini excavators as well they have an insane amount of cab room and function just as well as their skid steers
I think you should sit in the truck and put the window down every now and then just to yell at Tim. Do some pointing and put the window back up...Tim's got it to easy around there.
From a person who doesn't know much about your trade, why didn't you use your nice orange grader you have at home? Either way you do some excellent work sir.
I am not in this trade too, but my guess is that the orange grader is simply too big for this job. Graders like long straight or slightly curved roads, but they are not very useful on tight turns, narrow roads or in areas like the relatively small parking lot that borders on fences, trees and other landscape that would get torn up by the graders 'overhang'. Remember, the grader's blade is in the center of the vehicle and in order to grade to the edge of the parking lot, the front or rear end would extend several feet outside the parking lot, but there are fences and trees there. Besides, the skidsteer can turn on a dime and move a bucket of gravel to another location in seconds, but trying to turn the grader on this lot to go another direction would be super tight and very time consuming.
Trucks would definitely not be able to make it look that good. Ends up being high and low in spots where you would end up making a mess going over it a second time. Makes more sense to just do it with the skid. Once.
Tell us CHRIS your the one of the only Americans that uses a 4in1 bucket but you don’t use it where it would work the best? Tearing a pile apart and short spread is where you can move some dirt ( gravel )
I would ask a stupid question or make a stupid comment like some but I can think of anything any more dumb than some of the comments I have already read so I will just say. “Slick job Driver”
Hey Chris, really enjoy your video's. I was just wondering if you have to ask permission to film from the property owner? Keep up the good work, I look forward to the new ones Everytime they come up. Thanks
Yes but,..why didn't you use your Grader, maybe too costly to move to this site? Seriously, I'm just asking, because I thought this job would be perfect for a Grader.
