Well done you just answered my big question, where did the dirt go. I'm amazed that you manage to work both ends of this job. You deserve some kind of award for preserving the environment. Keep up the good work.
Nice so you get to load and level the same material! Brings new meaning to seeing a project from start to finish lol! Be safe with the hurricane coming in! Thanks for sharing
Good luck with the storm guys, We got 2" of rain here in Manitoba wednesday and that made a mess on this and a few other farms locally for harvest and any other outside work with equipment like you do. If you guys get what they say it'll be a right crap kicking plus the wind on top. I wouldn't want to be on that area you filled with any equipment for a month or more after this storm. Take care hopefully see ya when it's safe to come out again. I hope you got those hogs tied down good to, Pigs might be flying in this lot! My 1200 here are wishing them oink oink snort oink, which must mean good luck in pig language !.
Blade work is like Plant Therapy Except that is when your boss asks you to push the edges in on a borrow pit with 80 foot side walls in an old D8 in Bosnia. A sphincter retention exercise if ever there was 🤠
Hey Chris, if you need another dump site, I once saw a video about an auto wrecking yard in the woods, they got lots of space to take truckloads of dirt ... just stay 50 ft from the creek, ok?
I'm guessing getting all of the truckers insurance papers, addresses and keeping up with load count is nearly a daily nightmare....need good office help! ....13
That poor Komatsu dozer, its going to need another rebuild on the under carriage after spreading all that damn material.Chris you need a set of Cat D-8's on that farm!!
You are good on the dozer too. That's a sweet job. I hate to think what it costs to haul 2-300 truck loads of dirt for an hour but this project has cost someone an awful lot of money.
Wow- then that's a lot of money. This must be a multi million dollar job. Add on to this the guys doing all the excavation - fuel costs alone would run at a grand a day. All for a bit of washed in dirt. Sheeesh. I'm in the wrong business.
Renny 1953. What ever business your in. Dont get into site job estimation. Lol. Total job like that when done. Around $140,000. Or little more cuz didnt relize he had to go push off where its getting dumped. When all said and done. Owning a bussiness of about his size. You mighttttt. Make a salary of 75/100 grand a year. But it can be fun. Ive been doing it for 32 years. And probably have a little more equipment then chris does. He is a hell of an operator tho. And makes great videos of his work !
U do good work wish u live close to me all we have is people that don't do what they say they will do or I just have bad luck I have had dirt work done 3 different times and been done wrong every time I work out of town so I couldn't keep an eye on the work but from now on I guess I'm going to have to take vacation to make sure I get what I paid for I had a footer Doug for my back porch when I got home the guy building the porch was here and said that it wasn't deep enough it wasn't below the frost line so had to call someone else to come do it right because he said it was good the guy building it is my friend so I trust him
How does the tl12 compare to the dozer? I understand they completely different But with the 4in1 bucket on the tl12 does it almost meet the efficiency of the dozer?
I think it is mostly sand which would drain very quickly and some topsoil mixed in . I cant imagine the home owners association paying to have this done every 5-7 years .
I have a question, why do you drive back in reverse after each push? Does it not make more sense to turn around and also push dirt on the return drive!? 👍
they will get a bill from the drivers saying how many loads they hauled, and they know how much they are putting on each truck. Another way to do it is to have a counter that you click off how many buckets or loads that were hauled. On scrapers for example they have a counter they click off with every load. At the end dof the day the forman looks at the counter or asks the operator how many loads he hauled.
MANY (25+) Years ago when I did this kind of work, a truck was $75/hr, a dozer/high lift was $100/hr and a backhoe was $85/hr. So by now, probably triple those numbers.
Dont we wish it was triple. The equipment to buy is doubled and fuel is tripled. And labor and insurance double. But triaxle get at most 85 hour. 160 size excavator bout 135/140. And that size dozer bout. 95 hour. Thats up here in north east. And i cant imagine its any more down there. Cuz we have severe rock to dig up here so its a lot more brutal conditions. To work in
I believe to the east of Greensboro in Guildford Co but not sure. If you look at the job his uncle was at fixing a pond drain I think you can read the company's name and location of the truck door.
