Everyone needs relatives like you Neil! I've begun looking forward to starting my Sunday's watching your hard work. Thanks for all the great videos you post.
I never thought I'd find grading a driveway so fascinating! You really are an engaging presenter and I look forward to each new video. Many thanks from England
OMG! Your videos keep getting better! You always make me feel like I am in the passenger seat going with you! First, I love the loader usage and the gravel pick up... Then you brought out the box blade and final graded the driveway, the king is on the throne. Final product, video and content was awesome! Absolutely loved it!
Agree, he does a great job. That's called continuity, and Neal knows it. That's one of the reasons Andrew Camerata (he got intoRU-vid early) has had such a successful channel from the beginning. But it takes lots of editing (AKA work).
What continues to amaze me is how you get so much done while filming, not only from several angles but also from the air as you’re driving around! I can only imagine you must have a copilot 😂
Yes, sometimes I have a copilot but not always. You can see me holding the drone remote when I get out of the skid loader but when at the quarry I had my nephew flying the drone.
Sundays have become my favourite day! It's Neil's video day!! Thanks for all the great content!! Closing sequence is the best. I wish I had kept all the visitor badges from my kid's school. I was there all the time!! You're a good Dad Neil!!
Neil- You are truly an amazing husband, father and neighbor! I truly look forward to your Sunday morning videos. I always learn something and they put a smile on my face. You're just plain "good people"! God bless!
There is nothing better then starting a task just to get by and then the right help comes along and totally gets it done in a much more than "get by" fashion! It helped that you were able to pull 10 tons of gravel out of the driveway before even touching the 20 he bought to finish it so nice!
Neil, your camera work and video production skills are top notch. I love watching your videos because of the quality and the content. Watching DigDriveDIY always makes my day! Thank you for all the hard work you put into making these videos.
So much to say about this video and the first use of your new track loader, BUT what stood out to me the most were your awesome drone shots! They really added to the story and the "aerial tour" of the quarry. Great job Neil!!!
Neil, the wholesomeness of your videos are much appreciated. In a crazy world it’s refreshing to know there are still sensible people all over America. Thank you.
Our parallel lives continue on! You’ve got me looking forward to tearing out my asphalt drive put down in 1978. I’ll be widening it two feet and having my college friend, Gregg Ness from Hunington Asphalt lay down a double thickness of binder (6”) and a double thickness of topcoat. Very nice work with the track loader in your cousins drive. Love seeing things getting cleaned up and made right like that. I found float mode to be awesome when I regraded the yard back in 2019. Great stuff! See ya next week on the channel, Neil!
Neil. Theres a stone quarry on the side of the Hudson river in NY that the quarry is also on the other side of railroad tracks. They load barges in the river. So the stone is mined and crushed on one side, then sorted across the tracks on the river side..then loaded on barges.
Neil you are a True Gift to your Family, Friends and Community. The Skid Steer is the right tool for that job and you make the results shine. You’ve built in a Big Coming Home Smile Factor that will be reflected on for a while, well done. 😊👍👍👍
Now I get the obsession with having so much limestone everywhere, its interesting to se how materials that are in abundance in some areas you see it used everywhere around that area
I enjoy your videos each week! I grew up in Huntington, Indiana and your videos remind me of that area. I am a middle school principal in central Indiana and I love that you visit your children in their school. Many parents stop this at middle school. Please keep visiting when they go to middle school. Students often tell their parents to stay away but I always see big smiles when their parents show up for lunch.
Neil thank you for keeping me connected to home. I am now retired in Arizona but grew up in the Fort and lived in Columbia City also. My grandchildren went to school at Harlan and Woodburn. I spent many hours at the park in Harlan watching ball games. Today’s video brought back memories from way back. My dad’s good friend worked at the Woodburn pit and the giant shovel that was used there was named after him. “Big Lew” Thanks for the memories and I enjoy the videos from my old stomping grounds.
Hi Neil. It looked like you knew what you were doing on the skid loader. You probably already watch him, but in case you don't, Andrew Camarata is a wizard with laying down stone like you were doing. I've never seen Andrew go around in circles like you do though. That leaves a nice finish. Kind of like a fly cutter on a milling machine!
Love your trophy wall of lunch dates with your girls. Best investment of your time that will pay a lifetime of dividends. But the skid steer was a pretty good investment too. Love the channel. Greg
What a wonderful job! And the drive looks great. Nice lines along the edges. Loved the ride along in the dump truck and the road conditions along the way. Excellent video.
I lived across the street from a stone quarry... the blasting was obnoxious and cracked my foundation, walls, ceilings 😢😢😢... The company had to call before they would blast... would come to inspect the house often for damages... ugh... My mother and her siblings had lots of stories about swimming there... what was in it (cars, bicycles and who knows what else 🙄🙄🙄)... Awwww... more softball!!! Do both girls play??? What positions??? That water must've been soooo cold!!! I'm super envious of all of your toys!!! You do such a great job!!! Your cousins driveway looks awesome!!! What was his reaction when he saw it??? Lol... I know... I ask too many questions!!!😂😂😂
Nice job Neil. You look like a pro using the skid loader for the first time. It will become easier as you use it more and you will wonder why it took so long to buy one. I still think it’s close to one of the best thing I’ve ever bought for my property and my electrical buisness.
Thanks for another awesome Video I drive dump truck on a daily basis and always enjoy seeing a new rock quarry and I love seeing you redo drives you do a fantastic job making a old drive look like a new one keep up that great work
Good morning, Neil. It's amazing what those machines can do. I may have mentioned this previously but back in Florida we had a concrete driveway removed and replaced with 57s. What I thought was going to be a daunting task turned out to be about four hours of work. The operator was a master with that machine. It was so perfect when he finished, I just sat on my JD 318 (at the time) along with my box blade attached with nothing to do but admire it. As for the stickers at the end? I know exactly what you're saying. I did the same thing (again) with our granddaughters. You may want to save room on that door for them. I'm not saying grandchildren are guaranteed but if you're lucky enough you can have the experience all over again. Just last Monday our granddaughter's school held its annual Grandparents Day. One is now 15 and the other 13. I spent the day with the older and grandma spent her day with the younger. The feeling grandpa (me) had with her holding my hand as we toured the campus was an experience I wish everybody could have. Who knows? God willing maybe around 2040 or so, we'll be watching it on your Sunday videos. Well, that's not too likely for me. :)
The end with the visitor badges, Neil . . . I know I’m not far behind you but *pow* right in the feels. Great work and great video. Hope I can be like you when I (finally) grow up. 👍
Bonjour Neil. Très beau travail comme d’habitude. Je me retrouve un peu à travers vous: les valeurs de famille et de travail, des projets en permanence, le souhait de bien faire les choses. Vous avez un parc de jouets pour grand garçon qui est maintenant bien rempli. Encore bravo pour la qualité de vos vidéos qui m’étonnent à chaque fois. Amicalement. Emmanuel
Very nice Neil! There are so many things you can do with one of those machines. I'm sure you'll get plenty of use out of it. Especially with all the attachments available. It might even be your solution to save from renting the firewood processor!
Awesome job on the driveway. If I didn't know better, I would say that painting Bruno yellow makes it do a better job. But I guess the grader box had a little to do with it too.
They could dig the next quarry at your family member's driveway! A lot of decades of gravel have settled in that driveway. I'm glad you were able to use the new machine to utilize some of the sunken treasure. The new driveway looks great! Do they load railcars at the quarry, or do the tracks just go past it??
Drive past that quarry twice a day everyday, cool to see the inside of it. I go to work everyday from Old 24 down state line road to Edgerton and take Dawkins into New Haven. It's weird seeing it on You Tube.
My youngest graduates from college next week but I still have my visitation stickers from elementary school stuck to the back of my sun visor in my truck guess I’m not the only dad that saves stuff like that
Enjoyed the placing of the visitor badge on the inside of the cabinet door... End of an era? :) Could do with an update on the the garage door annotations in a future video :)
Thanks. Yes truly an end and new beginning. They need to keep the garage door going though until their kids take their place. I will buy more doors if need be! They will make the next addition to the door on Father's Day so expect an update around then.
I watch a lot of tractor and skid steer videos. Nothing is as easy as it looks when somebody else is doing it on RU-vid. I believe most tasks are done easier on a skid steer due to being able to see the bucket better and being able to steer while applying down pressure to the bucket. I look forward to you answering these questions in the weeks and months to come….
Pretty nice job for a first timer… much better than my outcome! I like limestone driveways. The way they look, the way the stones knit and how they sound when you drive over them is just comfortable… to me. My daughter had a home in Virginia. The old driveway had turned into a wagon trail. Grass had grown up everywhere but the two tire tracks. We rented a compact tractor with a box blade and loader. It was fairly dry but the soil was sandy. So I was able to scratch grass and stone off and pile it in a wash behind their yard. The next day, the quarry brought a load of stone. It was crushed granite. Although it spread nicely. It didn’t pack quite as well as limestone. It looked real nice but the stone ‘moved’ more than I was used to. Soon, the tracks reappeared. And, unlike limestone, the shattered edges of the granite were razor sharp even after being driven over for months. My take on it was that granite was more durable and produced less dust. But, that wearing away of the limestone actually makes it a more practical alternative. Just my opinion… The girls are growing up fast! Savor every moment. They’ll soon be young ladies!!!
I just love how real and honest you are in how this stuff goes. "I dont know how to use this" etc. We all do that and get better each time. Thank you so much.
Great machine, a bit different to the pull grader. April been a washout here too, and cold. 1st warm day today, and heard the Cuckoo, spring has arrived!
4:26 - As I predicted weeks ago, I rarely detect anything you say as grammatically incorrect, this one did though :) "Here comes the tracks." With a plural subject, "come" would be correct. Enjoyed the video! Cheers, Sev
Great video! The ariel view of the quarry is great to see. Have driven by that my whole life but never saw it from the air! Nice job on the driveway and it was so nice to see you having lunch with the twins. On to Woodlan, my alma mater. Hope they like it. Until next time.
Thanks Lisa! Yeah, it's hard to imagine that gigantic hole back there. It is 100 feet deep and they are starting a new section going down to 120. The drone shots don't do the depth justice but it is still cool to see.
Best part was the visitors passes! Great stuff as always. How much is a load of stone up there? I paid $800+ for a tri-axle load delivered here in North Alabama a few months ago. The quarry is about 20-25 dump truck minutes away.
Awesome drone footage I hauled out of Dawkins road quarry for years and always wondered what the pit looked like. I was actually headed there on 9/11 was just south of woodburn when heard about the towers being hit.
Great job for a first time Neil. I remember my first job in mini track loader. Like you said the power is amazing after years trying to do the job with a tractor using the loader bucket. Best wishes to you and your new machine… John
My edicts of the day😅1.Track& field, impressive 2. You should embrace that trac loader green color. Its same as your logo green after all, anticipating attachments 🍿. 3. That's crazy how you got all those shots delivering the gravel🤯. 4.The dogs enjoyed watching driveway process.
Beautiful job sir. Your fields looked rather damp from all the rain. How do you manage to drive and control the drone simultaneously? Your videos are terrific. From the closing views from last week I expected the green would have been repainted yellow. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather. Peace brother
The skidsteer is going to make your life so much easier, you're going to ask yourself why you didn't get one sooner. (Money, the answer is money). Lol. Thanks for sharing.
