You are a godsend to your neighbors. It's one thing to hire work done, but when you know the person, it makes all the difference. We had a leaking roof and our neighbor at the time was a roofer. He got some extra $$, we got our roof fixed and had peace of mind. When we finally had our roof redone, the company told us that was one of the best patching jobs they'd seen in a long time. Thanks for showing the cable repair. I wondered how they did it.
Don't sweat the cable line. I hit one the other day, it happens. They are just now realizing that cables like these should be protected and have started to install them in proper conduit. It just makes everyone's life so much easier. To replace, or to even find. Good job working through this spider web!
That cable repair brought back memories. I did that work for a long time. That might have been my favorite part of the job. LOL Another great job Chris.
I don't know what you charged him, but it wasn't enough!!!!!!! That was an awful lot of work digging around those wires!! Even though you knew where they were, it sure made things difficult!!! Nice job sir!!!
Watching you walk that mini up and down that little slope got me thinking of how I used to watch my dad years ago walk his dragline up and down the sides of mountains in Pa. - It was amazing! Good job again Chris - getting under three live lines at different depths was a trick of lots of experience and skill.
Small but tricky job Chris. I was able to watch a Vac Truck find some utility lines at my neighbour’s place, saves time & back breaking hand digging. Nice to see the little young fella super interested in what you were doing. Great skill mate😊 Take care & cheers🐨🦘🥰
Wouldnt it be swell to not only be the genius that invented it, but also held the patent for it. ( if thats a thing, i never looked it up ) Then selling the equipment....
Shallow trenching under multiple utilities (wires), on uneven ground with trees everywhere takes a lot of skill and patience. It's made worse by crappy root-filled material and no one on the ground to "eyeball" for you. Great job! Ditto to the friendly cable repair man.
Don’t feel to bad Chris I had one last month that in about as far as u had to dig we encountered 3 phone lines 2 cable lines 3 electrical lines and 2 water lines. It ranks as one of my worse digs to date. Oh yes and around the corner of the building there was a downspout line and 3 floor drain lines. The hand shovel got more hours on it than the mini 🤣
It is surely amazing with the new technology out there. How much it can save an operator like yourself in the completion of the job without costing extra expenses for the repairing of damaged hidden of the utilities lines.Excellent video on the replacement of a new overflow system without damaging the buried utility lines. Great Video again Chris.
After surveying a whole site using pro radar a site service map was printed . On moving a mobile chicken coup we began to dig through the rock when boom big blue flash . The surrounding area remained in darkness for 2 days until fixed creating mayhem . The technology is only as good as the operator , now I never take a site plan as being bona fide and always use a banksman on a dig .
This has to be one of your most tedious jobs yet. Those lines looked difficult to dig under while trying to keep grade. Good job. Your abilities are very impressive Chris. Great video on how a Skilled operator gets the job done….lol.
@@bobkohl6779 ehhh I tend disagree yeah chris has finesse but lots of other people do. Aswell I work strictly in utility construction digging on top of all types of utilities everyday all day I see plenty skilled operators. Honestly the times I see the most issues are when the land clearing site work pond guys decide to start digging around utilities. That's when I get most of my calls to go repair damage cables.
You did the best you could, but between how firmly packed that was, all the roots, and even one of the lines not quite being where it was supposed to be, I think it was a miracle that you only broke one cable. At least it's something that can be fixed. Love all your stuff, but the pond episodes are my favorites
Hi from uk Chris👋👍 I can honestly say the years I have followed you I seen one favour branch out to guttering and 2 utility hits but thats still excellent considering in 2 weeks we had a lad fill in for me for 2 weeks off and he hit same power cable times withing 5M of both strikes 🤔 then proceeded to chase a water pipe to find junction where water pipe t junction was for hydrant and clipped the nipples of end of pipe flooding the job so so some operator he was I nearly list my job cos I had a holiday and my crew wont let it down and it happened before lockdown and I still hear them when we digging out muttering😂😂 lol so yes but great job as always chris and excellent job from neighbour (but we wouldn't of said anything and if he had no internet he would never of seen it was you👌😂) thanks for your time and be safe see you soon👍👋
Always really bugs me to dig around power lines. Went threw a double 20 amp service to my shed out back with a trencher.. Sparks everywhere. Almost needed to change my shorts. I had forgot about it.Got underground repair kit from Lowe's. Still working 17 years later.
Never knew what those hydro trucks did. Seen on roads but… you braver than me filling the pipe with cement b4 finishing new line 👍🏻👏🏻. I enjoy your videos🇺🇸👏🏻👍🏻
Why hand dig when this saves time and is so much safer!!! Luv this new procedure. As always, experienced operator finishes another professional project. God's blessings to u and stay safe Chris.
Well young man, I’d say you earned your money and then some on this project. That has to be tedious as all get out working around buried utilities. It sure came out nice, as usual. Thanks for the ride along.
Another really fun in-n-out project that turned out great! You did your absolute utmost to protect those utilities but doggone if the cable didn’t just jump right onto your bucket tooth, arg…hate when that happens😕
That was a lot of lines to run in a pond damn. I’d say that pond has been there for a while. That was a pretty nice little bobcat tractor he had. I love a white machine when they’re clean.
Chris, is that yellow box behind the base of split tree your transit storage box? Maybe it's the box that holds one of your tripods? I was just waiting for that box to roll down the hill and into the lake. I'm glad you moved it, whatever it was for. Love the Hydro Digger. I saw it several months ago when you were working along that road and had to find another buried powerline? Great tool! There is nothing like having a neighbor that works for the cable company except when you have a neighbor that is retired from Duke Energy after 40 years of service. Funny thing, so far, our power outages never seem to last too long. 😁 Neighbors worth their weight in gold!!
It appeared like the “ole boy” have done some cable splicing in his time…, probably “outta” keep his number close at hand…, hahaha. Nice work Chris…, as always. Thank you sir.
Your man was not kidding when he said the dam ground would be hard. The spade was barely making a dent in it, We had a forty metre fence put in last year and the auger bought up a lot of rocks from the post holes. I started boxing it up and taking it to the river - which is about two miles from me - and after three very hard loads, I'd enough and was _veryy_ happy to pay a man with a mini and small dump truck. I hope the young lad on the bike got to see himself on RU-vid. I mean it's not like he could watch his favourite cartoon on Cable that night. 😉
Chris. Looks great. That job was kind of tricky to get by those cable's and sewing that over flow pipe in place then close plus gra tde. Please Take Care plus be carful around all equipment.
Chris, Thanks for being so honest and showing the cable break, that something I would have done. As I was watching you dig I couldn't believe you were getting away with it, I thought I know he's good but this crazy good! Your still damn good but thank god your human! I really enjoy your videos, hope you keep 'em coming. Bruce
We had a job to where we had to dig out tree stumps I looked at your videos how you do it and guess what it worked customer was happy we had to put the solar panel rack where the trees were
Was the little dredging job for the neighbour in exchange for cable repairs? We had a plaster working on our house who's next job was to go and do free skim for a plumber who came out and repaired a central heating pipe he drove a screw through. Handy contacts to have in your book of ''F'ed it!''
Love showing up to a job and it looks like the paint truck tipped over there haha, and you have to go below it all and still manage to save everything.. then go out in the middle of nowhere and rip out a phone line or something stupid haha
1) Craftsmanship, despite breaking that one power line! 2) You and your bucket-building partner might think of a "bucket add-on" for the thumb. It would create a basic grapple, and it would be productive (I think) in tasks like this "covering the pipe from below". I'm thinking of a simply to click-on bucket. However, you (Chris or that partner) might get inspired, and design a quick-coupler thumb that could accept an adjusted thumb (obviously) and other add-ons. Maybe a hydraulic winch (if there should be hydraulic lines to spare) as an optional upgrade to the hook on the back of the normal bucket. (I suggested other bucket matters to DirtPerfect, in relation to the machine guidance of "his" Hyundai 210.)
Got yourself a grey hair finally! I had nice hair like yours until I started utility excavating, and it didn’t take but a couple years and my whole cabazza was grey! It’s stressful work digging around 10,000 volt electric and 2” high pressure gas lines, waterlines, cable wires, old terracotta sewer mains, storm drains with engineers and town inspector’s watching every move you make, but you just go slow and easy on the levers, and if you don’t like the grey hair…go get some Grecian formula!
i was gonna say you can't be a RR backhoe op if you can't dig like he does. well you can, but you're gonna have some po'd ground guys(alot of hand diggin). but nell ho, i aint diggin by no 10kv. call the bore crew lol. let them call the vacuum to spot. great video i was thinking every thought looking at it from his pov. good dam job. no body is perfect, just trying to be, every day. we callem good backhoe driver lol
The first trick is finding a locator that is any good. I have had some out to jobs that were worthless and others that could tell you the depth to within a couple inches. If you can not find a hydro excavator on a job where water is available you can use a gas powered trash pump to hydraulic the trench yourself till you find what is buried.
Cable and phone splicing tools and supplies are fairly cheap (fiber is a bit more challenging) but it isn't too difficult of a job to fix cable and phone lines permanently for direct burial with the right supplies and sealing compounds. A few RU-vid videos will show you how to do it. I've done quite a bit of fiber termination and splices so I recommend calling in the pros for that, but phone and cable is relatively straightforward. Would save you money and get the customers back up without needing to make phone calls and waiting for techs to come out.
In Australia electrical cables must be buried 600mm (2 ft) below the surface and then covered with warning tape to alert diggers as to the presence of the cable. Telecom cables are 400mm deep.
