Thank you for your videos. They are therapy for me. I’m disabled now but this site work you do makes me feel like I’m there working with y’all. It’s what I’ve done most my life. I’ve drove dump trucks run dozer, loaders drove paddle wheel earth movers etc. thank you.
The funniest moment in all the Letsdig18 videos I've seen to date. Knowing how Chris likes to keep his machines nice and clean, you have to give him credit for not cursing. [EDIT] I have to keep revisiting that moment. So is the other operator Chris' uncle?
I'm doing the same thing right now in Gainesville, TX. Good thing about it though is the owner said we don't have to burn it, just move it away from the house, put it down by the creek, and let nature have it's way with it. Kinda glad because it's gonna be 100 degrees here in Texas this week and I ain't trying to sit around a fire. I usually always have my window open so I would've been muddy as hell. Love the intro!!
Yep DIRT don't burn!!!! You wouldn't believe how hard it is to get people to understand that.... that's why I prefer to do it myself!!! I hate tearing a burn pile apart and redoing it...
We had two main ways to burn , or process roots. The kids “liked “ roots since, unlike stones you only have to pick them once. We had to pick stones each Spring as the frost forced new stones to the surface each year. Roots were either burned in winnrows using an airplane prop on a stationary vehicle engine mounted on a trailer. The other way was to “rotobreak” using a 3406 Cat engine mounted on a flail drum and essentially grind the roots and small limbs. We then planted a legume crop for 2 years to get the right PH for the soil with the wood in it. We broke fields to Proof them up for purchase a quarter section at a time. In a good year we could do 320 acres ( half section ) from trees to ready to plant including a breaking plot , initially one 24 inch bottom and in later years 3 bottom breaking plows. Things have sure changed in the last 50 years since I started breaking land and farming.
Glad to see you kept that house smash as an intro. 👍 I wish we had some of that moisture up here. We are almost in a drought. @ 5:00... CLEAN UP ON ISLE 6! At least your windshield wasn't opened.
I use a 9' wide stacking rake, from a 5 yard size wheel loader. I retrofitted it. So my excavator can pin grab it. It's a minimum 10 times faster. So I try not to use it on hourly jobs. Get a pump up garden sprayer, and a squeegee for the windows. Nice video!
I always had trouble with burn piles especially since I never had a thumb much less a track hoe. I use my leaf blower and make a turbo torch. It goes up like an inferno!
Now I loved this video!!!!!!!!! Your 4.56 event was a lot of fun. Had that happen to me while setting an excavator and 'slapped' a hole full of muddy water with the bottom of the bucket curled at angle toward me....at 8.30 in the morning....AND my window was open for the 20+ gallons of water in my face/body....and a super huge soaking! Per all employees (and there were 3 eye witnesses), I was the joker of the week...and later I had to admit seeing the humor in it. If you've operated an excavator for a few years it's very likely it's happened to you or IT WILL HAPPEN. Thanks for restoring one of my humorous memories. ….13
That was funny with the stump, at least you took it well. And yes, definitely an art to building a good fire to get it to burn as fast and efficiently as possible. One thing I'd like to share with you and all the viewers. I recently had a friend who was doing some burning. He poured on an accelerant, not exactly sure what, but then walked away for a while. When he did return to light the fire, there were fumes and he got burnt pretty badly. Luckily, he had a pond close by, he jumped into and was ultimately airlifted to a burn facility. He was pretty lucky, it could have been so much worse. Just a word of caution to all. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
stick a car window washer on there , but mod it, use a 1/4 pipe with about 16 off 1 mm holes facing the window, downwards, so when this mud splash happen,,, no fuss just spray it down,like the vids, watching it from south africa, keep going Chris, Johan
Ppl that never piled debris don't know how dirt acts like insulation between fire and the wood when your trying to burn. It's very important to remove all the dirt first or you'll be reburning those piles 2-3 more times and really wasting your operating capital. Great job Chris!
love it! "hindsight is 20 20" Glad the glare was not bad for your camera like in other videos where you raise the windshield for the video quality! Ok, that is a half-truth. After all I am an equipment operator and commercial truck driver. To quote a wise man " I don't care who you are that there is funny"! lol. As always great video Chris.
Chris, you really don't need to see what your doing. Now for the next accessory, mud washers! I must confess, I did get a laugh, just as well the windscreen was closed.
My machine does not have a front windshield and I have blasted my self a couple of times. Also I start a fire with diesel fuel in a tire. Not before you say pollution, you must know that I also use a leaf blower with a metal tube extension to super heat the tire fire. It burns so hot that there is no more pollution than a car exhaust without a catalytic converter. No smoke at all, just like industrial plants which use ground up tire pellets for fuel for burning.
What was built on that property? Type of houses, how many? Can you make a update video about it? Does it happen that they want the bruch stumps chipped instead of burned To use as ingredients for soil mix, for the project or something else.
Hiiii Chris !!!at night when you are asleep, do you keep on talking ......? Poor wife ....As long as it is talking !!!! lucky (is she) if the hands are staying still !!!! best regards friend !
Do you guys use the 2 week rule? That's what they do down here in AR. 14 days from when it's cut, light it on fire and it will burn. Sooner, no-way, later, nope.
Thanks. Yea ive wondered that because a couple un foreseen snags can throw your job off by days or even a week. That's a big deal. Telling the customer an hourly rate and maybe an estimate of where they should be when its done would be the safest way id guess.
A long piece of 2 in. Pipe connected to a leaf blower and slid into the pile at the bottom, will turn the wettest pile into a raging inferno in minutes.
Hi Chris as always i enjoy your videos. You should do a video on how to operate the excavator the controls and what they do. It will help others to learn some of your skills.
Whats betting when that 290 goes you will get inundated with large dirt moving jobs. You know the phone is going to ring wanting a huge pond digging as soon as your mass excavator goes.
Would love to see you use a tub grinder sometime??? I'm a firebug too so I understand... but I've seen so many of your videos where a grinder would have saved a lot of time.
Wouldn't it be nice if it was dry enough to get one of those grinder machines in there and just make chips of all that crap instead of trying to find a dry spot to burn it.