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"I really had no idea where the water line was..." weren't you dowsing/divining for those on another video?

I can't wait for this to go public to hear all the "Experts" tell you what you are doing wrong Cody LOL. Cheers from Tokyo!

Everybody including myself whos never ran equipment like your yanmar before, are watching you navigate that trench thinking "noo hes gonna sink in!" meanwhile codys like "calm down ladies, watch and learn" 😅

I always throw an extra conduit when trenching cheap reassurance if I ever need to run anything. For example if you ever had to run anything under the driveway you would not have to trench again. Maybe you don’t need it...

Interesting using conduit instead of direct bury wire....please explain why for us...just curious not picking apart....lot's of similar work getting ready to happen on our farm as we build our water systems for our cattle on the farm? Also why not POLY PIPE for your water instead of schedule 40? I'm just curious my friend...since we'll be doing very similar stuff soon here on the Stoney Ridge Farm

Volume is so low. Watched 3 or 4 vids before this, had to turn my volume from 12 to 54 to hear you. Also, you know we said yes to Trump on Rushmore because we like the taste of SJW tears and the sweet music of "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!".

A good operator always knows how to get themself into trouble and how to get themselves out 😎👍👍

Typical West Coast man: No driving skills🤦🏻‍♂️

I see you doing things and think, “I’d never would have thought to do that. Thanks for being a teacher by example!”

You should swap the hydraulic lines on the directional valve for cat controls. It's probably already on your list of 'yeah I'll get to it eventually.'

Don't use gravel to level out and first fill hoses. You are creating an underground channel. You want to use sand for this. Spending my whole live working in a gravel plant plus 15 years of experience from running a landscaping business make me suggest this. Getting water under control is about 60% of the labour of a landscaping business.

I bought a yanmar mini excavator this year for light excavation and residential landcpaing. It is very strong and digs great for its size. Only 4000 pounds and shrinks down to 37 inches to fit through gates and small areas. I was just trenching a new drain in today. 42 inches between the house and the fence... pretty tight but we got it done.

Cody, I must say that your new toupee looks really good.

So what happened to your divining rods? You should've known right where that water line was. Oh yeah, they don't work.

Hey Cody, Just letting ya know that your audio levels are off. Much quieter than your usual releases.

Can a fellow electrician from across the pond explain to me the system this pump runs on? I see 4 wires. I'm presuming black is L1 red is L2 and green is neutral, and yellow is ground? Or is it 3 mains and neutral and ground combined? I'm a bit confused because when we run high voltage (regular would be your 230V and high is 380V) we use L1 L2 L3 and then N and PE(ground). Also cody if you're reading this i'm not trying to be a smartass but a little pro tip; always leave your grounding wire a bit longer than the others so if something yanks on the cable you dont run the risk of not noticing that the thing is no longer grounded. Also a couple of wheelbarrows worth of gravel for $500 WHAT!? Better do it the o'l timey way and just dig it from a river bank or something.

Why aren't you using your rods to see if there is anything underground???

I noticed you were NOT standing in a puddle of water when employing the "all metal saw", I do like the fact that no insulating gloves were used though. In the future for good grounding, no shoes and a good wet soak in a puddle of water is really what you'd want... At least that's how we do it out East !!!

Never forget the day I came home from school and my dad had 15 yards of gravel in the backyard...told me to get busy spreading it into our driveway...by hand...ugh

Very deceptive comment sir. I was waiting for the error. Way to manipulate the human condition, and use the expectation of tragedy to drive viewership up.... "What have I done!" lol

The satellite dishes are thriving and multiplying.

Im sure you have already finished but you can always put a colored plastic ribbon about 10" down in your trench for future reference for safe digging.

Omg how could 40 percent want that. Better idea Cody make your own mini Rushmore so you can put his face on it than have jack smash it with a ax haha

Some possible variations are: Adding a spare conduit or install one larger than required in case I want to add another circuit. In the spare conduit one can leave a pull cord like a scrap piece of rope or wire. Shallow below the soil in the trench one can add several crushed aluminum cans every 10 ft to relocate the conduit in the future with a metal detector. Also having some photos of the trench with respect to the buildings and trees helps relocate the trench later. Adding a board on top of the conduit adds some robustness if later it has to be dug up. If the trench is not straight one can add a pull box at the bend/corner. Even in a commercial building I seem to install larger conduits that required then find a decade later have some idea to add another circuit thus like the future proofing.

That trench wasn't deep enough you should have made it 42.73 inches, 🙃 and bla bla bla,

Interesting. First time I've seen someone perform a leak test, after they have already buried the pipe. Very interesting...

Clicked on this because the thumbnail and headline made it appear like the tractor was stuck and/or damaged. Trickery.

hey, found you's over at copperhead roads New subscriber/friend. we live right now right in one of ontario's ground zero's.. 2nd shipment of off shore Canadians being housed quarantined.. one since has come down with the virus. we currently live 5 min's from the base where they are. in the process of buying/selling to get the blazes away from town and back to our homesteading lifestyle we never should have left years back.. Do come share our news with us and watch us ol folk get back to it lol

Witching sticks welding rod coat hangers I'm sure you've seen them work very well. You know you've been to a couple right angles we can hang onto it with your hands and then hold and parallel. They will find water lines that are PVC any power lines phone lines very well sewer lines even though they're plastic it will find them. You have to do a Criss-Cross pattern because if you have a water line going the same direction as your ditch and it kind of can come in your ditch and out if you're walking straight across the direction you're going you won't detect it. I keep them in my backhoe all the time escavator whatever depends on who's running them but they got to be 95% or better accuracy. Work very well to find culverts. Always dig parallel two lines that you're trying to find like a culvert never dig acrost parallel and next to.

As a retired excavating contractor I ran Cat controls on my excavator. I would think that you would switch your controls to Cat mode if that is what you are most comfortable with. Just have to move a few hydraulic hoses around.

That doesn't look like 2' pipe depth; looks like about 18", from my armchair observation that is.

I'm glad I've learned to wait until the end of the video to ask questions :)

Is this video unusually quiet, or is it just me? Had to use earphones to hear it. Great content as always good sir. Reminds me of being a kid and watching contractors work on my parents home.

I’m not complaining or saying you’re wrong, but wouldn’t jerking the bucket and slamming into that pile cause unnecessary wear and tear on your machine?

when going into a pile with a loader. if you pick the arms up and curl as you go in youll get a larger scoop. not sure if you knew or not.

And they said that the FIobee was a thing of the past...:-) I bet your head is cold, isn't it? "Well" done on the project, Sir.. pun absolutley intended. Keep on keeping on!

I'm not sure what's going on with gravel guys these days. I had 17 ton delivered and it was $490. I almost had a fit when they told me.

Hey Cody, thank you for the great content...keep it up...its a good time to post dayli for us selfquarantined folks...entertainmant for us ...some extra cash for you...seems fair...Thank you, God bless.

pfft, what does this "expert" know! The pipe is the wrong way round the sun is in the wrong part of the sky everyone knows you dont dig a trench, you just push the pipe into the ground dont you even get me STARTED on how he gets free help from his neighbour! IM going to the youtube police! (your backhoe sounds a little squeaky though)

Oh man east coast machine op would of done would of done better job in half the time.😉

I've figured it out! Your RU-vid is about work, and therefore IS work, so you're job is doing work on RU-vid, as work... Couldn't make it much more complicated, but I tried.

I think you can swap the pipes round on the valve block. By doing this you can change what the functions of the leavers do.

good stuff

6:16 Red Hot Loctite!

East coast guy would have cut his hand with that razor

13:36 Nice toupee.....lol! Thanks for the videos Cody!

I love how you dress in button up shirts and slacks for dirty work, reminds me of like the old image of lumberjacks

Love your channel, I'm a jack of all trades master of none type a guy myself and just starting out on youtube. Do you have any good advice you could share with me that may help me along the this journey. Thanks in advance josh

Good points on the fill over the pipe. Only criticism is I would have used bell end pipe. Those couplers are weak.

No, Trump should not be on Mount Rushmore... not that you will care but I have unsubscribed because of your support of the most unqualified president ever

As far as the controls on your backhoe attachment, just change a couple hoses around and it becomes a cat control. I have bought a few machines over the years, and just convert to the style you are used to. I can not run a cat control, I always have run John deere style. I even have 2 machines that have a toggle switch to switch on the fly.

Didn't fool me, hydraulics are a powerful thing. That backhoe could spin the tractor "right-round baby, like a wrecker, baby." Oh oh, my 80's is showin'.

I like using Poly-drop tubing opposed to PVC because its a little more supple and less likely to crack if there is heaving or we finally get that big shaker that the PNW has been waiting for. At least you're bedding the pipe correctly but a flexible coupler right at that 90 would have been a nice addition. I got a 300 foot roll of the poly drop and it was enough to put in the submersible pump and run to my well house. It was much much cheaper than using the SCH80 drop pipe

I was curious how well a cabbed tractor could shimmy over a trench. The backhoe on my little 1025R has no issue balancing the backend but I wasn't sure how well a heavier framed tractor with cab would fair. I'm getting real close to trading the 1025R in for a YT2 or YT3.

Swears by the 2 copper rods you can find pipe underground,,,, doesnt use it. Makes fun of original lines coming out of house,,,, digs a not straight trench with first bend all jacked up and stacked.... Cmon man.

Nice work, and nice setting in the gravel. I owned a hotel and realised I had an underground water leak. When I dug up a 100 yards of pipe, I found a half ton boulder edge down on the pipe a cubic yard void. The water board charged my £8,000 in lost water as it was a metered supply. Can someone confirm if you can see my posts please?

It looked like you were laying gravel on top of the pipe. When my house was built I did all the trenching and installed all the pipe and wire. I made sure to put a good 4 inches of sand above anything I put in the ground so that if I ever had to dig where the trenches were I would hit the sand first and this would let me know that pipes or wires or conduit were close. This has served me very well over the years. South Whidbey Island is all glacial till so you find all sorts of different soil types. But never plain grey colored sand. When our house was finished all the reputable septic installers were at least a 6 month wait so I bought a 1970 something Case 580CK backhoe, even though I had never even sat on one, and installed my own septic. It was a good learning experience and I still have the machine. But given my inexperience with a backhoe, even though I have a few hundred hours easy on the machine, it is a good thing I left markers underground to tell me when to stop digging. That Case I bought 15 years ago was the best 5 grand I ever spent. Loads of fun too.

Wrangler Star be pounding that loader bucket in that pile. My experience is that using momentum to fill loader buckets is just hard on the equipment and breaks things. Finesse is key...let some fill the bucket then lightly lift n scoop to put more pressure on front tires w gentle forward creep. Its like "blowing glass" ....finesse!

That's impressive tractor work. It always amazes me how much torque those hydraulic attachments have.

I didn't read through all the posts below but, could the "jerkiness" of tha backhoe attachment be trapped air bubbles in the hydraulic lines? If there are quick connects there could be air bubbles getting in there during connection. Just a thought. I'm sure you thought of that already though... could also be too much "springiness" in the mechanical system joints.

Replace mount rushmore with 4 great Americans......Chiefs Joseph, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Osceola

Slick work getting out of the trench! And I thought you were going to be stuck in the whole! Quite impressive moving all those tracker parts around to balance it out Wranglerstar! Hopefully the people who moved out before you moved into your log cabin aren’t subscribers to your channel or they would hear a mouthful of comments Cody 👍

A lot of my friends also prefer Cat (excavator) controls too but I myself prefer John Deere (backhoe) controls. Mostly to me having the bucket and stick controls on one and the swing and boom controls on the other just feels more natural to me. Great video Cody and nice job using the hoe to swing and position your way out of the trench!

Backhoes are never smooth its just the way they are, I think it would be easy enough to swap lines around to give you Cat controls the valve bank is easily assessable. I can't run Deere John controls then again I know guys that can't run Cat controls. Getting gravel delivered where I live isn't cheap its 2 to 2.5 hour round trip from site to pit and back.

Question for you Mr.Cody. Why did you use pcv pipe instead of a one piece Pex or black plastic? Seems with all the joints you are leaving more opportunity for leaks.

I am a huge Trump supporter, but if Reagan is not getting added to Mount Rushmore, Trump shouldn't. I think There are enough Presidents already carved into that mountain, but if it ever were to be enlarged, Trump should be there with Reagan.

Cody, I don't like that 90 on your supply line right off the well. PVC 90's are very very restrictive, a sweep would work much better but you all ready covered it up just put that in your hat for other projects.

12:18...HERO ACTION MOMENT! and wouldn't you want to pressure check the pipe before covering it in gravel to see for leaks?

Good looking hair cut, make sure your subscribers support their small business service workers. ie. Massage therapists, barbers, restaurants, the expected downturn in the economy will effect certain neighbors more than others. Let me know if their a bible verses to study in these times of doubt and worry. Thank you for your content

As an operator with over twenty years experience watching you dig that trench is very fun ! Don't know why people buy or hire there own excavators when an experienced operator always works out half the price. It would literally take an experienced operator 30 minutes to dig and backfill that trench. 🙄

WOW...That gravel was an obvious product placement. This guy has no shame. He says $500 but it's $505 on Amazon. What the heck!?

Why do Americans use a shovel without a handle? It's so uncomfortable and unergonomic.

I'd suggest getting a pocket reamer for future plumbing adventures. cheap sometimes free tool that makes a world of difference in quality of work and longevity of your projects.

Those 2.5 inch Irwin PVC racheting pipe cutters at Lowe's are life changing for 30 bucks. It's a must have for any type of pipe work.

We have a remote home too, and have found ourselves in need of gravel that's prohibitively expensive to have delivered. Consider what we did: Look into a dump trailer. A four yard capacity trailer that you can pull behind a pickup truck will pay for itself in short order.

A C-condulet is not a box. I doubt the code norms are different where you are, mainly because the manufacture has not designed it for that use. I realise that may not be clear for non tradesmen. The C-condulet is used as a pull box, not to make unions/joints.

What ever happened to the free chain sharpener? I haven't seen anything from your channel, unless I just missed it. I hope you at least let us know if it happened. You don't have to give names of winners but, at the very least let us know if it was carried through.

Hey Cody, I know you don't read these comments anyway, but I believe you can either move a valve control lever underneath, sometimes in the cab, or change two hoses to convert your controls to CAT Controls. FYI

I think Mt. Rushmore should just be left alone. No Trump, no Elvis, No Mother Teresa........ just what is there.

When a friend had their house built I took pictures of all pipes and service lines before they were buried so if anything is questioned as to where to or not to dig that can be helpful.

I had to chuckle at your frost line at only 2 feet down from the surface. You West Coast guys have it easy. Here in New England...double that to four feet. I wish I had it as easy as you. ; ) Keep up the good work.

You can't change the Deere to Cat controls? Have you thought about building some raised flower beds around the house to put flowers right at the window height? That they double as bullet catches is a side effect to putting fresh flowers/herbs right outside the windows.

Interesting. I put gas line in for a living and the gas company requires us to use sand under and over the pipe. If we put gravel under and over it would almost certainly crush the pipe. Sand forms a perfect layer around the pipe like a mold and once compacted is hard as a rock but still very easy on the pipe so it’s as protected as possible. That being said you have said you have tons of construction experience so I’m sure there’s a very good reason in this case why you used gravel

PVC is cheap. I would suggest that you set in a couple of more runs in the trench for future use, or to replace a defective run. You may never need them if you have them, but probably will if you don't.

Just an idea, but maybe you could explain to people about frost lines and the effects of compaction. Meaning that frost will be deeper in high traffic areas and where the ground is cleared off, such as a driveway.

It’s happened, Kate Brown has governed us all on the coronavirus, no school for the kids for two weeks. What happens to everybody that have to work and now they have kids home?

Just so you know, if that glue your using is christys red hot, it will not bond correctly with the primer. That glue is made for electrical conduit non water tight. You water pipe joints are weakened

OMG You never put wire in conduit until the pipe is ran. The PVC cement can ruin your wires and also adhere them to the PVC making them impossible to remove.

Cody, you should of put a wedge block in the corners for added strength and stability of the pipe from random pressure spikes. Check out practical engineering here on you tube.

🤔You let your wife drive? Start drinking again? Or maybe your muddy foot just slipped off the pedal...😉

Please put sand down , with a wire , please , I have been doing for many years , I help a Contractor , that put 68 homes , Myrtle Creek , OR .

Nice video. Back in the day i did the same thing and my boss had to walk it out with the bucket. I was young around 16 long long time ago and it was my first time on a backhoe. I thought he was going to fire me for screwing up but instead showed me how to walk it out.

Do u guys have poly pipe in rolls?, Here we roll out whatever length then tie a fishing line to a ball of cotton then use a air compressor to blow to drag line to other end. We then drag cable thru. Poly is less brittle than p.v.c conduit.www.rxplastics.co.nz/products/pe-pipe

If that is clean stone with not many fines in it then it's basically self settling. Great choice for bedding and a bit of backfill. What's everyone so worked up for?

My job has nothing to do with trench digging but I am here to tell you did everything absolutely wrong. Just kidding Cody. Great video.

I just finished putting in 300’ of water main for a friend. Any time you do tractor work, be prepared to also do shovel work!

Only something a sloppy west coast excavator would do smh.

You're luck in regards to your frost line. In central Canada its 4 feet and that said, a couple of years ago we had a lengthy cold spell and a few older houses had frozen pipes because their lines weren't deep enough.

Man if you decide to move one day the people who get that house will be very lucky. To have all that care taken place for the pipes and everything goes miles and makes em very lucky to have these precautions taking place.