Hitachi uh043 excavator, Hough 30 loader and David brown 990 get a workout cleaning up the driveway after the Aug 22 Nelson flood.. My other channel (Angry Ram) - • What Happens when you ...
Sounds like what to expect from the idiots at Wake Kotahi. There was a time that in such a route it was perfectly okay to run such a repair site no matter how massive a task that a single lane with traffic control control systems i.e. either two stop & go sign holding workers or even a temp traffic light system but oh no they chose to run over the rites of landowners... unacceptable at any strength of imagination! It not like that road has 100s of 1000s of vehicles a day.! They did this last summer near me for the entire season, doing nothing at all for two months & kept my mate from accessing his Organic Farm for what became most of the year in the end, a huge loss on gate sales from the Public. Just incredible...
Exactly right mate, they could have left a lane open, this is my place of work and I have no other income.. they seem to have gone downhill since rebranding.
@Syncop8rNZ Maybe, but they could quite easily let me through the road block, I could walk to my property from the road block quicker than I could drive around the detour and I'd save $300 in fuel
@@noiseache7720 I think the Marty T. Navy would require it's own video. OTOH Marty may not be keen to show the missus how many toys (land or water based) he has tucked away.
So you want him to post an online catalogue of all the equipment he has ? Provide every machinery thief within 500k kms an easy on-line shopping list for them to take their pick ? Why not enhance it with a condition report on each machine ? Not very intelligent !
Agreed! I can imagine there are a lot of us who enjoy just hearing you share your knowledge and history with some of these vehicles! Even if it sounds like a dumb video idea or a boring one, it is really interesting to hear knowledgeable people talk about their items!
That loader looks very useful. In the UK we complaint about a 1/2 hr detour ( there is a road in Wiltshire at the moment where the road on a hillside keeps sliding downwards and has been doing so for at least 60 years) so hope the authorities stick to their 7 week timetable.
Hi Marty, many thanks for sharing your exploits. I find them to be inspirational, informative and enjoyable. Very sorry to hear of the storm and all the mayhem that it has caused You and your neighbours. I hope the financial & stress costs are bearable and wish you the best of luck. PS. Brilliant film work and editorial; too easy to take that for granted. Cornwall UK
Hey Marty. This must feel like a kick in the guts mate. But typical for you. You seem to take it in your stride. & just get back to work. I’m sure it’s not that simple. Anyway - keep positive. St Anaud is a great place to cool off on a long day. 👍👍
For now I figure the flood has cost you a couple thousand dollars just in fuel and time. Your machines are all running good and that's a plus. Thanks again for taking the time to make this video. Good luck with your future endeavors.
Prolly quite a big fee in fuel, these aren't efficient engines, unfortunately. But then again, he's not using them anywhere near as much as a job site does.
From a tricky start, with many unforeseen issues, that loader has really come good! Really pleased for you mate. Worth the risk and time, you put into it. Hope that 7 weeks doesn't run over...........................
It is so good seeing the old used (or abandoned) equipment that you have got for cheap and brought back to good working order put to use in this situation!! Can you imagine what it would have cost to hire a firm to do the needed work after that 100 year flood? I'm sure you are helping neighbors as well. Great job Marty, this is the right way to be! 👍
I wish you all the best with this weeks "One in a hundred year weather event," coming a month later. It's going through Hokitika at the moment. Most rain is in the hills at this point, but watch the wind. Take care up there... Cheers Pete'.
Great job Marty! Hopefully the road workers can get the repairs done in the 7 weeks they say….. All the best and hopefully the repairs made are more able to cope with the increasingly bad weather.
My girlfriend keeps telling me that she wants us to move to New Zealand and I think I will visit New Zealand in 23 or 24 and see a little bit of your beautiful country. What I would like about NZ compared to Germany (I think) is the much lower population density. I think I would really like the landscapes as well. But I have kept wondering what the climate will be like in NZ in decades to come. Then again: Germany was supposed to have a mild climate and just over the last few years, the city where I live had two floods because of extreme rainfalls and also droughts in 3 of the last 4 summers. So I guess we just don't know what the future will be like: But one thing is for sure: New Zealand has a lot of natural beauty!
Hey Gerolf, funny seeing you here. I guess likeminded people with similar interests and points of view on sustainable resource usage, right to repair, upcycling, etc. stumble across each other eventually on this platform. Always appreciate and enjoy your and Martys videos on these different topics. NZ is beautiful for sure, had similar thoughts about moving there aswell, but never had the courage to take the leap. I think price of living is even higher than here in germany, if I am not mistaken. By the way, if I remember correctly, you mentioned a while ago, that you were thinking about expanding your craft into a business with a couple of employes down the line possibly, which further catched my interest. Any developments there? Best regards from Dresden, Justus
Do it, it's a great place to visit. Buy a cheap vehicle and take your time. Number one mistake people make visiting here is not allowing enough time. It's a small place but there is a lot to see.
@@andrewford80 yea man, cost of living is off the charts. From rent to insane house prices, food, fuel, everything. Hey, but we got great beaches. 😉 And summer is here.
That would be the tits! Marty and tpai coming up with some renewable energy solutions or just every day repairs, working on something together Greetings from Harburg
Dear Marty T. I guess that, after the flood, Covid, exploding transportation costs, inflation in general etc., there is also a shortage of culvert pipes. So please kindly allow me to suggest something: Please consider to fabricate your own concrete culvert pipes. For formwork you could of course use your own DIY sawn timber. I suggest a hexagonal or octagonal design (like bees do honeycombs). Usually it's easier to do formwork for those than it is for round ones. I guess that the only things you would have to buy are formwork oil, nails/screws, cement, clean gravel with sand and rebar mats. Instead of using a professional vibration tool (necessary to condense the concrete), a hammer drill can be used. Best regards, luck and health to all of you.
You can make them with spray painted cardboard any size you want. The trick is to use sand to reinforce the cardboard so it doesn't pour out. Wax or mold release will be required. As for vibration, all you need to do is hook a hacksaw to a piece of rebar from the rebar lattice inside. They'll do the work for you, and the last bit above the rebar you can pack in with a tamping hammer (large piece of wood you lift and drop). I wouldn't bother with hex shapes tho, because it's difficult to get the rebar bent in that kind of angle, having it rounded is easy, roller benders are cheap to make or buy.
I watched and said that is old machinery. I watched longer and said that old machinery is doing a good job, proof it didn't need to be scrapped. The road closure sucks. Thanks for sharing.
WOW! Do hope they stick to the 7 weeks and do a good job so that if there is another storm it won’t washout the road again. Thanks for the update was wondering how things were going. I forget that you’re going into road construction season, I mean summer, as we’re going into winter. I wish you and your family well especially through these trying times. Hopefully by your autumn 🍂 you’ll all be back home if not sooner. We’ll miss hearing from ya, but it’s got to be done.
Bro you always do a great job,jealous that I never put more effort into being the same.You do awesome in my books bro,bloody legend.Shout out to all the Kiwis doing it tough atm,one step at a time people,family and friends.Stay true.
Nice to have equipment to work with to get your roads back in shape. You have done a very nice job of repair and 7 weeks is along time to be detoured around and that is an awful lot of driving time to get any thing constructive accomplished. Wish you the best and thanks for the update sir,
Video idea: look out for a chopper for sale 🚁do it up and fly in for those 7 weeks. Good to see the Hough up to the task. Look forward to each episode.
The culvert shot in "previously" where you stand by a culvert 1 meter round, it is clear just how much water a 100-year flood wants to move. My goodness. Best of luck in keeping things passable, as usual!
That flood really did a lot of damage. You have your work repair to keep you busy for a long it seems. Thank you for sharing. Always looking forward to your next video.
Gotta be my favourite channel. A little bit devastating we won't get any more farm content for two months. Hope there will be a couple of other adventures to fill in the void. I get up to similar things on my farm but on a much smaller scale. I've also got blade envy. Man that's got heaps of adjustability.
Dear Marty T. 👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always (video and work). I'm really glad to see that the old front loader is doing so well after you gave it the typical great Marty TLC. Congrats for having all the big machinery/equipment and skills to help yourself. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all of you.
Hi Marty another great video. I can't believe the council wanted a new concent for changing culvert pipe . I would have just replaced it as the would probably never even noticed. And I hope the road repairs don't drag out longer. As I've seen already some of the roads in your area they may not get repair to how they were
Hi Marty, thank you for taking the time to record what you do and post it; honestly my favourite time of day to come home and watch another video of you bringing back some old machinery from the dead! Keep it up man!
I live in a concrete house built on bedrock on the seventh floor on a hill or a slope of a hill in Sweden with no floodings, no tsunamis, no volcanoes, no malaria or ebola, no poisonous spiders or snakes, no tornadoes or hurricanes and also a little west of center of the Eurasian tectonic plate. I do like James Brown used to do. I feel good! :D
I love seeing that old equipment be put to good use. Might not be efficient enough or resillient enough for full time construction work, but it's still good enough for peiodic tough jobs around your property, and the best part is they were all at a great price!
Thanks for the update. Must be heart breaking rebuilding after multiple floods and lanslides. Strong community spirit coupled with individual capabilities. Each time redesigning the drainage systems to be more resilient. Finding the weaknesses and shoring them up. Widening water ways, grading ditches and roadways, changing pipe diameters or material type, relocating storm pipes coupled widening pool areas. Really unfortunate about the damage and losses incurred. Thanks for the video and positive outlook. Will wait for future updates.
Please Marty I beg you. Put in a couple of hours to repair the wobbly excavator bucket. It would make the digging so much better. I did it to mine and it's day and night difference. A bit of welding and grinding is all there is to it. Cheers mate and I love the videos. .
I'm sorry to hear that you happen all that flooding going on I appreciate you a lot watching you you learn a lot of stuff from you and I hope they fix that stupid road huh and God bless you and your family stay healthy and safe
During the coming weeks Marty, save your shekels and start a Give-A-Little link to buy yourself a tracked skid-steer; and while you're waiting to get back to your own property, maybe set about designing an ultra-low transport trailer to be towed behind the Hough, or David Brown, or your ute. Last item on the To Do list is to weld front towbars on to your various wheeled work vehicles. Great for tricky manoeuvring. All the best until Christmas.
We feel for you. I used to live in Moree NSW. This last big flood covered most of the town except for an area on one of the major roads with our old house right in the middle of it 🙂. Still glad we don't live there any more though. THEY RAN OUT OF BEER! Jim Bell (Australia)
It is so neat watching you dig up the side of the mountain, in order to fill up the washed out side cliffs leading up to your property.. I'm learning tons
Greetings Mate, nice job on the road. It sure was in bad condition. Sorry to hear your being locked out, do wish you the very best. Take care and be good 👍
Danged shame about the road. I never realized that the old loader had a bucket mounted on the forks and then seeing inside the bucket and there is mounts to use forks. That just struck me as funny! Thank you for the cool machinery video! Cheers Terry from South Carolina USA
Hi Marty! Too bad about the road closure. I should hope the crew at least completes on schedule. Watching the old loader in action was a pleasure watch indeed knowing that when you got it the thing was on life support. Cheers!
Nice to see neighbors helping each other out in a pinch 😀. It would be cool 😎 to see how many pieces of equipment you have, I bet you have quite a unique collection.
Hi Marty. Great channel thanks for all the excellent content. That was a very generous offer from Euroflow NZ, a plastic culvert pipe to help sort your blowout. It's a shame the local council couldn't be more generous in spirit, with their unneccesary need for consents and permits and fees etc. You'd think at times like these with large floods seemingly becoming more regular it would be far more advantageous to just let people get on and repair the damaged infrastructure without their need for vexatious bureaucratic bullshit. Euroflow NZ...'Hey Marty here's a pipe to help fix your problem.' Oh, bewdy thanks. Local council...'Hold on a minute mate, not so fast! That has to be frustrating I bet!
I hope you're receiving taxation credits for all the civic engineering self-help you've undertaken during this extraordinary flooding. It's always nice to see the old rusty beasts put to work again. Thanks for recording and sharing.
That is unfortunate Marty but you could get the gold pan out and get some guided tours of gold panning going, mate. Right on that washed-out bridge, I was thinking. Of course, this is the nature of the area you live in and you would hope they do the repairs more substantially to cover for the next time it floods.
Marty reminds me of the old “Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots” toy when he runs that excavator. And that loader is going to prove very useful over the years. I love mine.
Fixing Your Road after the Floods - that was so very Interesting indeed ! Brilliant Gate Opener - ha-ha ! 6-7 Weeks for the Government to fix the Main Road - wow - that's Heart Breaking ! Great Video and many Cheers from us in Australia !!!!
Great video!!! In reference to the blade on back of tractor. I hung a few old front end weights on mine to give it some downward weight. Also I cut v notches into an old cutter bar that I cab bolt on for breaking compacted ground rock.
Tough times. Sorry for you and your countrymen. The worst we have here ( MICHIGAN, U.S.A. ) are tornados and straightline winds. They're infrequent so not very worrisome in that respect. Keep yer' chin up.👍 🙂✌️❤ 🙏💪
Where you live is a perpetual battle against wildlife, flora, and weather...but what a beautiful place. At home, in France, we cry when there are three drops of rain, or two centimeters of snow...it paralyzes the country... What a lesson you are showing us by doing everything yourself!
Always enjoy your videos. Sorry to hear your being locked out for 7 weeks. WOW!! That's a bit of a tough one. I guess if you have another place to stay your pretty lucky at that!! Hopefully they'll have it done in that time period and not have any delays!!! Hope you enjoy (as much as possible) your new temporary location. Looking forward to seeing you back in action soon! 😀
Had forgotten about that second big blow to the region and how devastating that was ( especially after you'd worked so hard cleaning up and repairing the road after the first bout ) .
Hope your sheep are OK. Not so good that you get locked out for so long. Thanks for the video and your innovative and genius style of sorting things out.
That sure is a tough one having to travel so far for a detour!! It's too bad they can't put some kind of a temporary bridge in there, just to keep traffic going at least one way and maybe alternating! Great job on all those repairs good to see you're doing fine and hopefully you'll be able to still get diesel in the near future. All the best from Surrey BC Canada.
