Funny to hear you pissin and moanin. I am an old lady in Vermont with no previous interest in excavators and now I am hooked. It is calming and satisfying to watch your progress, to hear you explain what others did wrong before you were called in, to survey the job with you before bringing machines in, to hear your southern accent, to see your consummate skill with the bucket/claw/biting thing, you make it an extension of you. You don't waste any motion. You get jobs done quickly. I watch before I go to sleep at night. Great job!
lol yup he better not come up to vermont our roads in winter are like driving on the, i told friends one time i was down south and they had a dusting of snow that we dont call it a storm until we measure in feet..... and about the same as driving on wet clay.... looks like someone owns swamp land lol
You explained my sudden interest in a bloody great movey pickyup thingy extremely well old girl. Now retired and realised I missed the bus to the best job ever.
In all my years moving heavy equipment, your one of the the first I've seen clean the equipment before transporting it. Thumbs up to you and your crew sir.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
All the dip stick geniuses love to comment whenever I get a machine stuck in high-rain, all clay, hill country, (Most of which have probably never lived in a similar area) so I'm glad that you share the fact that the great letsdig18 even gets stuck every now and then! LOL, thanks man, I appreciate you keeping it real! Love your channel man.
Must admit Chris, when I saw the video other day of both the 220 & 290 demolishing the house, it was pretty obvious how much better & more useful the 220 is for your type of work, in the meantime of the 290 trying to move & not get bogged down, the 220 had already done 75% of the work, it just goes to show that bigger isn't always better in all cases. Hope your new toy is more suited to your type of work & you can put it to work more to earn it's keep, they're not earning when they're parked up, great videos as always 👍
Thank you for making my day brighter. I thought my day was ruined because I too am stuck in muck. Thanks to you im not stuck in nothing but at home. At least I am at home where I have plenty of food and water and a warm bed. Thank you Jesus for getting me stuck in my driveway .Love your videos
Should of mixed some of the oil from the tractor oil change. Should have plenty lol, adds a little heat. Get you some A/T tires for service truck and more skinny pedal to clean the the treads. And if all else fails hold it to the wood driver!
I remember a quote I read when I was researching whether to get a 2WD or 4WD pickup truck some years back . (I'm north of the 49th) "A 4WD lets you get further off the main road before you need to call for a tow truck".
I chatted with a tow truck driver once when my starter failed on me, and it was just after a major snowstorm, and he broke down the tows he was called out to into main 3 categories: 1 - people driving European cars with almost no tread on the tires, and they end up in the ditch 2 - people driving 4X4 SUV's with mega horsepower, ABS and all the bells and whistles, who think they are invincible because they can launch the vehicle in any condition, and end up driving too fast, and end up in the ditch 3 - regular people who end up in the ditch
4WD is great as you can get yourself out but it only works if you have selectable 4WD and/or diff locks and save the use of them for when you get stuck, not to make progress.
Can definitely relate to the chippers being 💰💰💰 but boy, are they fast!! The school project had a chipper on the job for 2 days, and they hauled off the chips.
What a sloppy wet mess. Gotta love that red clay mix with a whole lot of rain. You definitely need some decent A/T tires for the service truck so you don't get stuck on wet grass again..lol. We are having the same water issue here in FL....whole lotta rain over the past few weeks, and it's finally beginning to break up a touch.
just found your site gee your a funny guy & one good driver how anyone can watch your videos must be crazy driving a digger around all day well im crazy now just love em keep it up
Hey, if you get yourself a battery powered leaf blower you could knock those burn piles out pretty fast. Once you get a pile started, lay into it with the leaf blower (a few minutes? Depends how wet the pile is) and it will get the fire torching hot. The hotter you get the pile, the less it will smoke. Love your channel, been watching it for a couple years now.
ever thought about a burner .... we had one we'd set up blowin into a trench filled with brush at several sites I worked at helps alot with the smoke and a faster burn.
Chris if you push the traction control button for a few seconds it’ll turn off traction control and advanced track and let you hammer down till its setting on the diff. The new trucks are a pain in the butt off road anymore
Come on down to south Alabama and Florida trying to push fire lanes constantly getting my D5 and D6 stuck. Once you hit the belly pan you ain't moving. Than you gotta track the 320 in to get them out. The best part of the day is lunch eating a sandwich and taking a nap before hitting it hard again. Thank God for enclosed cab with a/c and a heater to avoid getting swamped by yellow jackets.
Chris for the wet piles of wood like that you need a tiger tourch and bbg sized propane tank. See the looging guy in norther Canada use them of wet piles like what you have there. Light the torch stick it into the bottom of the pile and stand back for 10 mins and you have a nice hot spot.
I've never given a piece of equipment a bath like that. We used to hold a track off the ground with the bucket and spin the track. Unfortunately I still had to shovel anyway.
@@aterack833 apparently, humans have some mad grey stuff stuck in their heads that has the ability to store and recall vast amounts of information and stuff...and as if by magic, some humans have developed some equipment capable of also storing large quantities of information, I believe the technology is called "pen and paper".
Back when I broke into the pipeline biz before the EPA got there nose into things we used brush burners it was a air boat Motor and fan with diesel sprayer attached
Having been born and raised in the desert, all this water seems like make-believe. Even in our monsoon season we dont have stuff like this. We may fill up a retention basin for a day but you could drive though it as soon as the water disappeared. This swamp you live in is just crazy!
To turn off traction control completely, you have to press and hold the traction control button for like 10 seconds or until you hear the beap and the light flashes and it only works until you exceed 35mph
For burning brush piles I bought a propane torch, turned it on with a hot fire out the end....laid it in the pile and went about doing other things, but I always would light them on 'high fire risk days'....lol. All joking aside, a torch is your go to tool for burning piles of brush. Just imagine a big splash of water like he throwed coming through an open front window, not fun, especially in early February....I was the ass that did it! ….13
Ive got a dually crew cab long bed on factory rims I have cheap, but aggressive mud tires. They last a little over 3 years mostly highway but I got them if I need them.
My dad taught me to have a light foot when stuck and always asked why drive down the same wet, slippery muddy path when it looks like next to that fence was higher and dryer ground. That was some 60 years ago and in snow and mud. Of course when the tire tread is full, you ain't going nowhere with mud on mud. One of the NY snow belt gives good practice, actually they all do.
I was curious why you sold the 290, but at the end of the video you said "you'll see the new toy in 3 more weeks" so now I understand. I'm excited now, can't wait to see what you got.
@@yorkshirepud3030 If your work is moving dirt and being offroad almost all the time you buy 4x4 vehicles and put AT or mud tires on them. That looked like a 2 wheel drive 1 ton with road tires on it. The fact that he even has 2 wheel drive work vehicles or any of his trucks with street tires on them absolutely blows my mind. His business is literally moving dirt and mud. My stock 19 year old 1/2 ton 4x4 with all terrain tires would have blown through that without thinking twice, I drive through worse than that regularly and it's hardly noticeable. Driving that truck through that is like cooking bacon in the nude, it just doesn't make any sense and was bound to be a bad time from the start.
Go to Harbor Freight and get one of those propane torches and once you get it going take your Stihl leaf blower and put the air to it! It’s like a turbo in your truck more air, bigger fire. Leave the diesel fuel for the motor.
What about covering up the burn piles with plastic tarps? Just stake them down so the wind doesn't blow them off. Then after it rains you can uncover the piles and you got dry material to ignite.
Traction Control is a pain on the Fords, Press and hold the traction control button (approx 5-10 seconds) to fully disengage the traction control, the first setting will still derate the motor. When you press and hold button its full blow donut settings.
Chris, coming from someone who runs a horizontal grinder on clearing jobs, i wish i could just light everything on fire like you do. Seems like some people dont get how much time and money is involved to chip or grind. Plus the logistics of getting the chips out. And they aren't even worth much around here.
Haha well Im flattered! I wish i would have had a chance to get pictures of getting this fricken grinder into this job im finishing at now. 80,000 pound machine and had to drag it across a wet corn field with a Cat 963C. Thing is just a nightmare. Noisy, Dusty, and costs almost $20 a MINUTE to run. Plus the van trailers were getting stuck and had to get pulled to the road with the skidder. I could go on and on with this rant. Point is i really like the way you guys do everything. The Keyboard warriors need to stop telling you that "you need this, and you need that"
@@2001yz250rider1 Yeah, but "we need to stop burning fossil fuel and start burning renewables, like biomass chips" The thing these liberal idiots don't get is IT COSTS MORE IN DIESEL THAN IT'S WORTH !
Oh yeah take u a garden bug sprayer, and put your diesel in it and pump it up and spray that hole pile ,! Just to help ya it works to keep from being so close to that flame when it’s so wet,!!
lol you knew better than drive on 'thin ice' and weeeeeell..... This is why we bought a cheap 4wheeler and small cart off of craigslist. Put ag tires on it and ever since then we dont have any major problems like that getting through our field even after the spring thaw and heavy rains
The way you offset a lack of traction is MOMENTUM! Lol. Turned those duals into a set of slicks. Also, you are technically only stuck when you can't get yourself out. Based on that rational, you used your own excavator to pull yourself out, so I wouldn't consider you stuck. 😉
