Hey Stan sending a well deserved thank you from just south of Boston! I been watching you for awhile now, I remember when you were just starting out and how you were so hungry and eager you would sleep in your dump truck. Much respect to you you're an inspiration, a great Boss, an excellent family man, and an asset to the landscape/hardscape community! thanks again!
Working men like you are The real deal in the industry. I’d hire and listen you 10:1 over some sharp dressed salesman who’s never gripped a shovel in his life. The world needs more people like you Stan!
I think the entire world just needs more men willing to step up and put a hards day work in. This world is geting to soft- Well America is. it seems- Except for our Military, and Police. Those guys are awesome! and our doctors and nurses! Also awesome!
@@Dirtmonkey i agree, I see guys in bright yellow shirts digging a hole and by the time there done digging the hole they concentrated more on keeping the bright yellow shirt clean then digging the actual hole, their shirt is spotless but it took them 2 hours to dig a 2 ft deep hole. (Its one major reason why I wear black pants and maroon shirt during summer - neither shows the high level of dirt that appears when a guy is actually working - bonus the shirt and work pants appear to be in ok contdion still to the point can go and do a active estimate with a customer in person and not appear to be as if you just crawled out of the trenches.
Stan thank you for bringing us along in the cab. I haven’t ran a skid steer since the early 90’s. I am always amazed at how much they have changed. I worked for a landscaper that specialized in Unilock brick work. We had a Bobcat 7753.
Guessing they have some sort of regulation on where the silt fence needed to be, and how far dirt can be spread from the excavation. We run in to that a lot. Usually its property lines that mess with us the most
Thats what I wanted to do but the silt fence was the boundary of the property. On the other side of that was someone elses land and we couldn't cross it. By the way- Im a big fan of your videos. Your one of my favorite youtubers so thank you for the content and please keep putting it out there. Your videos have helped me improve mine. Thank you! if you want to do a collaboration I'd be honored.
Hey guy's I just want you to know I'm a plumber in the Chicagoland area and I love this Channel you guys do some really cool work and it is very enjoyable. Thanks for the videos
In my neck of the woods, I hit cable TV Cables, Irrigation pipes and the occasional Direct Bury Cable. All suck to have to repair. Cable Company is the wurst. They only scratch out the dirt with a shovel to bury their cables.
Hope Blaine recovers soon. Back problems are no fun and as you age every injury you’ve ever had comes back to haunt you. We have exactly what you described, about 6’ of clay over the native soil on a slope. We don’t get much rain here but when we do mud slides are a common occurrence.
Never mind your unlucky day...we all have them, but we try to look ahead to much brighter ones! And I’m sure you know that, it’s what separates you from those who just give up. You seem to manage your crews impeccably, so just Keep up the great work and videos!
So now I know what the black fabric is round where you are working is ''silt fence'', I see it in all the videos in the States (Im in the UK) and couldn't figure out if it was so building compliance marker or something but now Stanley said what its called I could google it lol. Hey Stanley you have some other high profile viewers ''Andrew Camarata'' watching your videos. I love watch and you guys in there machines and even at 55 years old im still learning new tricks and I have to say Stanley you are pretty easy one the eye too.
Love the videos Stan. Great job grading. you make it look so easy. I bought a caterpillar skid steer last year. havent used it much due to not having confidence. Watching your videos is def helping though. Thank you for the great quality footage. I know its gotta be hard filming these videos with the time that it takes to setup and the rest of it. Especially when you need to get the work done. For you to still take the time for us is greatly appreciated. God bless you , your guys, and your family. Happy Thanksgiving to you All.
This comment may not mean much to ya champ, but I just wanted to give you the idea of a 4 in 1 bucket. ( Aussie style) I dont think youd understand how much of an asset itd be. For shaving you can open the bucket 2 inches max and reverse and any humps get shaved off in small increments. They are great for being able to bite into a pile from the top. Its hard to explain what they can be used for but anyone that has one would never look back to a solid bucket. Just thought id throw that idea too ya. Have a great day mate, your vids are absolutely awesome.
Love watching your videos stan. It always reminds me of what I've always wanted to do. Run equipment. Landscaping is my passion and I'm on the right track doing handy work for property maintence. Sometimes I forget my goals and it's nice to see someone passionate about the work they do but also everytime you get a new piece you seem like a kid during Christmas... Freaking awesome content, Stan the money man🦍
The other day, when clearing for a driveway. When I went over a curb with the bucket to high up. I had a machine with an open cab. & dirt completely filled the cab up to my knees almost. It was funny. Until it took me 10min to dig it all out. 🤣
Pretty much anywhere above areas with frost consideration issues all underground items are supposed to be buried 6 to 10 inches below that with identifing tape above it under the dirt. Red for gas. Yellow electric. Blue cable.
One thing I notice is you often run too fast in the ASV. One of my best teachers said "slow it down, you'll do less damage". I start slow and run at reasonable speeds. That thing is a beast and I'm going to buy one, largely because of your videos. Thank you.
Good point u made as to pushing Ur skill levels. We may be doing things are whole life but it's always fun to keep pushing the skill sets! Always learning and evolving, keeps us fresh for life. (Unless you go a wreck something, 🥴)
I was planting trees the other day at my house which I bought 6 years ago and I was using my new mini X and I took up 8 main lines to my house and garage all at once. They only buried it 12 inches deep which is crazy to me. I would rather have it 3-6 feet deep but I also cant justify re pulling the line from the pole to the house for 3000-4000 just so the line is deeper. It was a cold long night and an expensive repair.
For situations with bad dirt you wanna back drag with blade to break it up also it’s good to have a bucket with teeth makes light work with heavy stuck material
Great work and looking good and we all have them days where you have your mind in a different place. Keep up the hard work and thanks for the awesome content stay safe and take care Edited hope you have/had a nice day/night
Yes- keep learning. study business,- thats where you'll make the most money in landscaping. You can pick up the installation of projects but business knowledge will make those projects profitable and you coming back for more.
Never take anything as its free from a customer, prime example a stone to a customer is a eyesore, in your mind as a business man its worth 500.00 per ton (depending on what type of stone), never throw that type of stuff away if you have space to store it, also never let the customer that you are getting the items from that you have plans to resell it because then they want you to pay them for item as well, even a plant that you remove can be easily transplanted into a temporary pot and resold at somewhat of fair market value as long as its a healthy plant, some of these various techniques is how I built my huge one man operation.
Where I am we have to bury gasline much deeper than that was if that's what it was but they want both water and gas and sewage all 3ft or more to get under the permafrost and be safe in case the home owner decides to stab a shovel in the ground without calling 811 but we also have to bury a wire with residential lines to easily find them :)
Thats like most of the soil out here in Phoenix... all rocky clay... when you talk about Black Dirt, that is a foreign substance, we don't have that! lol.
Think you could benefit from a RT-120 ;) it has the piss burner(def) on it but she will grunt and work. One of my favorite types of videos today. Good stuff. Love the sound of that cummins.
@@Dirtmonkey yeahhh that's the kicker. Haha. 120hp will open up a lot more opportunities and jobs for me to do, at least that's how I see it. Get one of those, mulcher head, and a few other attachments to start with and just grind out the work from there. Otherwise there is the RT75HD as well.
Main power feeding a building should be 3-4 feet below grade. The telephone line should be about the same. The main gas line feeding a structure should be 3-4 feet below grade. Any water or sewer lines should below the frost line. The main Cable line feeding a house will be anywhere between 6-24 inches below grade.
@@Dirtmonkey I could be a sprinkler line for an in ground sprinkler system. Could be conduit running between the primary structure and the shed. Which is still unlikely because if it was done correctly should be between 18-36 inches below grade. Remember when you call diggers hotline to do a utility survey/marking they only do the main utility lines. As you may already be aware they dont do any auxiliary runs done by the property owner. Also sprinkler systems wont be marked by them either.
@@Dirtmonkey I’m not kidding when I say moon dust. Just imagine brown flour. So nasty and it doesn’t hold moisture at all. You spray it with water and it will crust on top but under its dry as a popcorn fart.
When your looking at your "plane or levelness" and you mentioned about having a lazer on-site, i never have those fancy tools, and 25 years later my jobs always turn out exactly as expected without any issues - without the use of fancy tools such as lazer levels.
@@Dirtmonkey your welcome, I got to shoes for my work shoes and they last me awhile but then again I work in fast food, not sure how they would hold up in your line of work.
At about the 9 minute mark, you mentioned putting your toe under the track, I read a thing somewhere that tracked skid steers only put something like 10psi onto the ground. I don’t know whether or not that is true, but that’s what I read.
Stan, what is the smallest detail that was changed that you don't actively notice about the ASV75 that makes the biggest difference in every task regardless of the conditions outside of the tracks?
Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek thanks because my father and uncle just bought a GMC for snowplowing and I told them to get a Ford but they didn’t listen
NO- ASV and CAT are the 2 best. Cat's controls are BUTTTTTERY smooth. The ASV Sticks to slopes like a spider. So which one do you choose?? Try each- One will grab you by the cahooanes and make you take her home.
so the most important question i have from this video is what was the pipe that you ran over? it looked like 3/4 or 1" copper to me which is either a water or a gas line. from the video, it looked like it was flattened out from you running over it and it appears you just covered it up. did anyone come out and inspect or identify that pipe? was the flat section cut out and repaired? i think if you have an "incident" like that in your video it would be a good idea to explain what happened.
Love your videos! Can’t wait for the day I get my own skid steer next year. Any ideas on how to finance one? Like the best companies that will finance a used one. I have a $25,000 budget.
Hate to call you out but that sure looks like about a 3:1 slope to me.😬 Really want to operate one of those ASV 75’s some day in the near future though!‼️
Lol it wasn’t play-dough. And you did the funnies because they were the only part of the paper with color, besides the front page and adds anyway. It wasn’t that long ago Stan, you better get on some ol’timer memory vitamins buddy. Gonna end up a full blown CRS if y’a don’t do something soon. 👊
What do you think of that guy on the west coast? He could do that with a wheel loader no problem. I think he could go across water on it lol. You should takes notes from him and get a hydraulic hammer. Dropping that boulder on that pool demo was ridiculous.
@@Dirtmonkey what do you think of the west coast guy? He could do that with a wheel loader no problem. You should follow him and get a hydraulic hammer. Dropping that boulder on the pool demo was ridiculous.
Sir don’t laugh at me but great video of clogged soil and great skill , but can I just say that is a beautiful building that you are working around 👍 Tam. l
yep- the camera doesn't really catch this angle very well. I calculate a 1 to 1 by looking at the total height and measuring from the top crest to the toe. This grade heioght differential was approx 12-14 feet and the run was 18 ish except on the steep side it was much shorter.
