What amazes me about all of this is how vivid your imagination must be in order to see how the project will unfold. All too often, I see you stirring around some mud that somehow becomes an amazing pond and the water levels hit you mark as described. Simply amazing.
Absolutely, I would have a clue what would need to be done. It seems he can look at a big, screwed up mess, "I'll just cut some out here, lay some of that back, waste some back here....." next thing you know there is a pond.
I love all the advice you get for a job you've been doing your whole adult life. In conditions that are unique to your area. I've ate some mud loading off roads on a hill. Keep up the good work 👍
ye I have been trying to think of other ways to do it, but everything I can come up with has other drawbacks and would involve some serious money for specialist single purpose equipment.
@@ecclesmilligan8712 the only thing I can think of that would be even close to feasible is a conveyor set up. It would have be some what flexible and on floats or enough mats to support it. Only feasible on big jobs and have to come apart for transportation.
@@garymurt9112 Ha! I’ve been mulling over the conveyor idea as well. Problem would be to get a large awkward machine into the area for one. Second, a smooth belt conveyor could quite likely just slide under that mud, so it would have to be one with vertical plates on the belt. Every solution brings a raft of new problems. We’ll just leave it to the expert to get’er’done!
Now that’s a lot of goop. Great idea using the mat like a skimmer, that’s when it looks like you’re getting somewhere. Big job mate. Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰
Chris. You do amazzing work floating around out in the pond on those mats. I keep showing the church camp folks you working on pond spill ways and dredging out silt filled ponds. Please Take Care of your self, Plus Be Very Care Full around all Equipment.🥔🍋
@@williamd6967 incorrect. This is his uncles 220. Easy way to tell the difference between the 220 and 250 is on the 220 you can see the edge of the tint on the window to the right. His uncle has a 160, 220, and 250.
Another great video Chris man you coming right on along with it about another two or three days you oughta have it done so anyway brother you and John stay safe and keep the videos coming
Awesome work Chris, slow an steady wins, fast makes a mess, you really do got that down pat using mud matt's an not getting compromised by the mud, the years show that you can pretty much tackle any pond an turn it into a masterpiece! Thanks for sharing, look forward to seeing the next video 💪🇺🇸
Sure is a process. I enjoy more than anything watching you work your plan in process and the efficiency on how you get the most you can while in an area with a machine. For me it’s not about how well you operate a machine, that’s self evident, but how you make every move count, no wasted motion. Thanks for the ride along.
Again I believe you accomplished what you had set out to do this day.still ways to go,but already making a difference.y’all just do what you gotta do and carry on.good video 👍👍👍😎😎😎
About the only way you get mats to last any longer, would to take the apart after every use and pressure wash each individual plock of wood and alow it to dry before reassemble them. Not worth the time. What is happening is the mud in between the wood is staying wet and promoting growth of the bacteria that is eating the wood causing what everyone refers to as rot. Best thing to do is store your mats with a 4x4 in between each one and out in the sun rotate them weekly so each side gets sun. But I know time is money.
Brave soul going out into that kind of mud. I worked on a job excavating a hog barn that was that wet under the concrete. I like how gentle you are dragging the bucket across the mud, and dumping the bucket with it in the dirt so not to splash. Hate it when operators dont care any effort to try keep machines clean.
Chris , can you put a baffle across the inside of the dump bed ? Weld two pieces of angle iron vertically on each side of the bed , and drop 2 X 12s into place leaving a ten inch gap at the bottom . Place this about half to 2)3s of the way back to help stop the wave action while driving . Good luck !
500 more trucks loads?? You'll have mud pie videos for another 6 weeks! yaaa! Amazing progress so far! Don't forget to fill the windshield fluid bottle! Jim
Chris, you need to carry a variation on snow shoes (perhaps clown shoes) to allow you to walk out across the muck if you need an escape route. Stay safe out there. Peace brother
This looks like a job for a stinky hot day in middle of summer where the mud dries out faster, say 35C that would be 95f. Long tedious and steady gets it done you guys are veterans at this. Thanks
It would be so nice and easy to follow when you ad a project and episode number in the title. Thanks for the great content, greetings from the Netherlands
Wow, Chris, I just can't believe how much more work you get done and completed than DP, Nice...J O B . p.s. Thanks for the videos. That mud seems like a never ending battle.
Another day of good progress! There will still be enough work ahead to have enough fun to make up for some of these dredges that have been missing a lot in recent times
Love ur vids Chris especially the new equipment, walk round all your equipment and the repairs and new purchases especially the track loader and haul truck in a year or so I'll be building a 1/20 scale Rc Hemtt version with real hydraulics
If you can , white oak is your best bet on mats,.. It's closed pore. Air tight and water tight,,..whiskey barrells are white oak for that reason. Drying and soakimg is hard on wood. White takes a long time to dry out. I really think it would be best in your application..red oak splits when it drys,
You need a slurry pump of some kind on this job Chris. Your pond jobs are getting bigger and more challenging. The other option of course is a big old drag-line.
hi from uk chris and ucle john 👋👍 has it been 2 to 3 years sice you got those mats🤔? My lord it sems like 6 month since I watched you unload them with yellow yanmar 😱😲 nice to see haul truck making good progress so far and yup slow and steady on this one cos if you break thru top layer everything dissolves under you and machine until your on firm ground but still I wouldnt trust it as high as I could stack it 🤔😂 thanks for your time and be safe see you soon guys👍👋
Been watching your channel for over a year. At first I wondered why you didn't have a drag line to use on ponds. After seeing where a lot of these ponds are, you would have to clear acres of forest to get one to them. As they say on Larson Farm's channel. "Destined to ride the struggle bus again" . Keep digging, I'll keep watching.
Chris... if you could get mats made from thick UHMW, maybe those would last significantly longer. (.. but may be cost prohibitive, depending on the job bid.)
Maybe attach the very busted MATT to the top of the tailgate, so the SLOP won't slop out, shouldn't be in way when raising the tail gate...just a thought
I’d think a long dipper unit would start to pay off if Chris does many more pond jobs. Just the extended reach itself would be a big asset and a time saver. Auction time again?
The first time I watched one of your videos was where you were digging an excavator out that was stuck in the mud pretty bad . Been hooked on your videos ever since . As I watch you move all that slop I was wondering how long that job would take using an EC95OF with the largest bucket . Of course to go along with that maybe the A60H ?
We showed up to work Friday.. and we had 3 deer stuck in the dump site… so the throwing mud for us was delayed… we were able to get them out !!! At the end of we were all exhausted including the deer.
Maybe bring to truck down nose first & load OVER the cab, then back up to the turn spot, since the SLOP is coming out going up the hill...this from a truck driver...
That doesn't look 👀 Like a pond...looks like a small lake ! Would be an excellent spot for a monster mud truck race event ! They seem to like it like that...the more mud the better ! 🤣👍✌
On the last pond he said his favorite is taking a mess and making a nice pond out of it. He is a master with that articulated bucket smearing muck around.
Is that like gray fine clay I play with. I always move it too much and turn it into flow able material. I like your mat technique for moving mud without mixing mud. Good on ya.
Well that sure is time consumer sometimes we are drop some lime in it and try to stiffen it or even some Portland seeing that would work just something to help burn some of the water out of the muck so that way you can increase your load and fries quicker you get to the other end good job keep it up
If the land owner has already determined that he wants that soil as "fill", or "growth medium" the use of "quicklime" is definitely "off the table"! It ["quicklime"] will provide stiffening, but will also reduce the fertility of the soil, probably by a significant amount.
@@K7DFA I have a feeling Chris said that this was a big farm operation. The big reason they wanted the dam widened was because it will become the main thoroughfare to get machinery from one side of the farm to the other. Soil fertility would be important to them for sure.
To bad someone hasn't invented a giant industrial mud sucking vacuum machine yet. That pulls through tank trucks connected to suction hoses from the pond. 🤔👍They have muck cleaners, but that intel's a small operation with divers, hoses and giant muck filter bags.
It's called a vacuum dredge, and there's three problems on this operation: 1) No vacuum dredge large/fast enough. 2) No vacuum dredge that can handle 8 inch (20.32 cm), diameter logs. 3) No vacuum dredge in Chris', or John's equipment "stable" (yet).
Has to make a long day Chris but only way you can do it my friend, the ending results will be worth it , I know this pond is going to be beautiful again and the customer is going to be satisfied ! You always do some amazing work and it’ll show in the end! 👌🏻✌🏻,✌🏻 Looks like hog slop my friend, I imagine it smells kinda like it too! lol 😂
With all the mud jobs you do you should have some wider twin tires for your Volvo ADT. There is some in Denmark with 1 meter wide tires, but that might be a bit too extreme for ya'll, but you get my point ;)
@volvo418. : @ up to almost $7,000 per tyre?!?! Is the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, or some other mythical creature "footing the bill"?!?! 🤣 It sure would draw some attention being hauled between job sites though! 🙂
I've done my fair share of work in slops like that and I definitely do not envy you, Lol. Excellent work, Chris. I have to ask if you've ever thought about a Morooka for jobs like that?
A while back I seen a huge auger standing in a ditch. And I wondered. How did that get in there and why. Today I saw it working. It drives from 1 culvert to the next. Say 3/4 of a mile. And it continuesly take sloppy mess up, and it dropped semi dry dirt on the field. All the water just dripped/splattered back in the ditch. In the 4 hours between my trip past it the auger went down a few feet. there was a pretty decent pile of mud/dirt on the field. I tried to understand how the soil/water in the ditch became sloppy.... I geuss they just stirred it up by driving the augur thought it several times. The culvert on the highside was blocked with a damsheet. And the other culvert was now totally exposed. Young lad was putting rocks around the bottom part. I watched it for a while. But where I live it is sand. Very low clay content. So I geuss he was protecting it from underdigging.
When my grandfather and I were digging out his pond. He thought it would be funny to cover me and my digger in mud so that me and him were constantly covering each other in mud.
I don't care *_WHAT_* bad/frustrating things Chris has to say about mud, I think we know he enjoys every single moment he's in the middle of it!👍
No mud no job.
@@dukejohn2898 In a previously life he was a hippo.
I think he likes the challenge of trying to not sink out of sight
Chris is just as much a Double Dare Fan as I am, if not more so. Take the Physical Challenge!
What amazes me about all of this is how vivid your imagination must be in order to see how the project will unfold. All too often, I see you stirring around some mud that somehow becomes an amazing pond and the water levels hit you mark as described. Simply amazing.
Absolutely, I would have a clue what would need to be done. It seems he can look at a big, screwed up mess, "I'll just cut some out here, lay some of that back, waste some back here....." next thing you know there is a pond.
This job looks like a proper pain, but you still manage to do an excellent job (both the work and videoing it for us all to see). Thanks.
Chris, Some people just don’t know that they don’t know. Great work.
To know what you know & to know what you don’t know is to know
I love all the advice you get for a job you've been doing your whole adult life. In conditions that are unique to your area. I've ate some mud loading off roads on a hill. Keep up the good work 👍
Everyone's a expert until they have to do it themselves lol
ye I have been trying to think of other ways to do it, but everything I can come up with has other drawbacks and would involve some serious money for specialist single purpose equipment.
@@letsdig18 Free advice is worth what ya paid for it.
@@ecclesmilligan8712 the only thing I can think of that would be even close to feasible is a conveyor set up. It would have be some what flexible and on floats or enough mats to support it. Only feasible on big jobs and have to come apart for transportation.
@@garymurt9112 Ha! I’ve been mulling over the conveyor idea as well. Problem would be to get a large awkward machine into the area for one. Second, a smooth belt conveyor could quite likely just slide under that mud, so it would have to be one with vertical plates on the belt.
Every solution brings a raft of new problems. We’ll just leave it to the expert to get’er’done!
Oh yes! We get to see use those "Mud Management" skills at work on this project! I never miss a video, and thanks for sharing.
Now that’s a lot of goop. Great idea using the mat like a skimmer, that’s when it looks like you’re getting somewhere. Big job mate. Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰
Slowly but surely you always complete your goal. AWESOME....
Digging good ground is fun, it's instant gratification, this job must feel like emptying a pool with a coffee mug.
Chris.
You do amazzing work floating around out in the pond on those mats. I keep showing the
church camp folks you working on pond spill ways and dredging out silt filled ponds. Please Take Care of your self, Plus Be Very Care Full around all Equipment.🥔🍋
I liked it when he used a mat to grade the mud. Such a smart man.
Chris and the 220 in their natural environment!, have a great weekend folks! 👍🏻
This is part of his uncle Johns fleet.one160 and one 250
@@williamd6967 incorrect. This is his uncles 220. Easy way to tell the difference between the 220 and 250 is on the 220 you can see the edge of the tint on the window to the right. His uncle has a 160, 220, and 250.
Another great video Chris man you coming right on along with it about another two or three days you oughta have it done so anyway brother you and John stay safe and keep the videos coming
Awesome work Chris, slow an steady wins, fast makes a mess, you really do got that down pat using mud matt's an not getting compromised by the mud, the years show that you can pretty much tackle any pond an turn it into a masterpiece! Thanks for sharing, look forward to seeing the next video 💪🇺🇸
Sure is a process. I enjoy more than anything watching you work your plan in process and the efficiency on how you get the most you can while in an area with a machine. For me it’s not about how well you operate a machine, that’s self evident, but how you make every move count, no wasted motion. Thanks for the ride along.
Enjoyed the video.
Again I believe you accomplished what you had set out to do this day.still ways to go,but already making a difference.y’all just do what you gotta do and carry on.good video 👍👍👍😎😎😎
Looks like you moved a lot of mud today. That’s gonna be a beautiful place when you get your magic done. Thanks for sharing.
You have exceptional patience my friend. Thank you for posting. 🙂
Truck is earning its keep on this job. Good that you have that for this job.
Pretty cool @ 2:00 to see you and your uncle slinging mud together. I enjoy working with family and miss running machinery with my grandfather.
Man, moving the gooey mud is like bailing out a boat with a sippy cup!
About the only way you get mats to last any longer, would to take the apart after every use and pressure wash each individual plock of wood and alow it to dry before reassemble them. Not worth the time. What is happening is the mud in between the wood is staying wet and promoting growth of the bacteria that is eating the wood causing what everyone refers to as rot.
Best thing to do is store your mats with a 4x4 in between each one and out in the sun rotate them weekly so each side gets sun. But I know time is money.
Brave soul going out into that kind of mud. I worked on a job excavating a hog barn that was that wet under the concrete. I like how gentle you are dragging the bucket across the mud, and dumping the bucket with it in the dirt so not to splash. Hate it when operators dont care any effort to try keep machines clean.
It always gets worse before it gets better, thanks for sharing Chris! Good job brother! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mud, mud, and more mud! U can design anything!! Exciting to watch!!! Stay safe and may God bless u!!!
Chris , can you put a baffle across the inside of the dump bed ? Weld two pieces of angle iron vertically on each side of the bed , and drop 2 X 12s into place leaving a ten inch gap at the bottom . Place this about half to 2)3s of the way back to help stop the wave action while driving . Good luck !
Scoop dump repeat, t-shirt saying. Learning each time I watch, thanks.
It’s Amazing to me that you’re able to Bid out these Enormous Jobs when so much Ground is being Moved. 🤔👍
it's only 8000 yds, hardly an enormous job. like 3 weeks
500 more trucks loads?? You'll have mud pie videos for another 6 weeks! yaaa! Amazing progress so far! Don't forget to fill the windshield fluid bottle! Jim
Chris, you need to carry a variation on snow shoes (perhaps clown shoes) to allow you to walk out across the muck if you need an escape route. Stay safe out there. Peace brother
lol...
U always take a dirty and unrecognizable canvas and turn it into a Masterpiece !!! :)
All one need is 3 machines, 2 highly skilled ppl and a perfect plan of attack.
Happy day more mud 👍
This looks like a job for a stinky hot day in middle of summer where the mud dries out faster, say 35C that would be 95f. Long tedious and steady gets it done you guys are veterans at this. Thanks
I'm excited to see what that tailgate will do with raw mud on that articulated truck
It would be so nice and easy to follow when you ad a project and episode number in the title. Thanks for the great content, greetings from the Netherlands
Is a longreach is not an alternative for you?
Your uncle JOHN seems like a good guy. Good to see family working together. Best of luck
Wow, Chris, I just can't believe how much more work you get done and completed than DP, Nice...J O B . p.s. Thanks for the videos. That mud seems like a never ending battle.
Hope.you.got.plenty
Of.paper.towels.for
For.the.windshield
You need a suction pump to transfer the mud into the dumper or up the hill to loadout in the area that makes it easier for you.
How would that work on 8" logs? There's more than a few buried in that muck.
What a monumental task!
Another day of good progress! There will still be enough work ahead to have enough fun to make up for some of these dredges that have been missing a lot in recent times
Back home we call that kind of mud “CP” ( cow plop). No easy way around it.
Love ur vids Chris especially the new equipment, walk round all your equipment and the repairs and new purchases especially the track loader and haul truck in a year or so I'll be building a 1/20 scale Rc Hemtt version with real hydraulics
Sure it's hard to not get discouraged with a seemingly never ending mud pit. Good on ya.
Love your channel Chris. Your and inspiring individual.
Excellent video, love the mud videos and being able to see how you deal with it.
Two Volvos sitting in a swamp. K. I. S. S. I. N. G. First comes dredging then comes hauling. Then comes Chris with his 220 🎶🕺🏻
That is a lot of mud. :) Thank you and have a great day.
Dawns here ☀️
skillfull great job..
If you can , white oak is your best bet on mats,..
It's closed pore. Air tight and water tight,,..whiskey barrells are white oak for that reason. Drying and soakimg is hard on wood. White takes a long time to dry out. I really think it would be best in your application..red oak splits when it drys,
You need a slurry pump of some kind on this job Chris. Your pond jobs are getting bigger and more challenging. The other option of course is a big old drag-line.
One thing to realize. This isn't one of his jobs. This is John's job that he is working on.
Pretty sure slurry pumps won't pump logs.
@@azwrenchmaster5334 fair point made, I do think all that wet mud could be pumped.
My personal preference is volvo machines. Very comfortable for Operator reliable not to bad on fuel consumption plenty power when required 💪🏴👍
Yep, don't think you could help John.....deep mud! Spoke with Donnie today......fingers crossed!
hi from uk chris and ucle john 👋👍 has it been 2 to 3 years sice you got those mats🤔? My lord it sems like 6 month since I watched you unload them with yellow yanmar 😱😲 nice to see haul truck making good progress so far and yup slow and steady on this one cos if you break thru top layer everything dissolves under you and machine until your on firm ground but still I wouldnt trust it as high as I could stack it 🤔😂 thanks for your time and be safe see you soon guys👍👋
Been watching your channel for over a year. At first I wondered why you didn't have a drag line to use on ponds. After seeing where a lot of these ponds are, you would have to clear acres of forest to get one to them. As they say on Larson Farm's channel. "Destined to ride the struggle bus again" . Keep digging, I'll keep watching.
"The struggle bus was here, and it was full." Dougo
amazing progress one bucket a time!
Chris... if you could get mats made from thick UHMW, maybe those would last significantly longer. (.. but may be cost prohibitive, depending on the job bid.)
Great video 👍👍
Skimming & Scooping 👌🏻
Maybe attach the very busted MATT to the top of the tailgate, so the SLOP won't slop out, shouldn't be in way when raising the tail gate...just a thought
That mud reminds me of a giant cow patty….lol. Great video Chris!
Imagine if you had the pontoon tracks how efficient that would be lol, awesome job man
Yeah, he could really slide around in there then . . .
@@sharonmiller6436 🤣🤣
I’d think a long dipper unit would start to pay off if Chris does many more pond jobs. Just the extended reach itself would be a big asset and a time saver. Auction time again?
I would love to get into running equipment again
The first time I watched one of your videos was where you were digging an excavator out that was stuck in the mud pretty bad . Been hooked on your videos ever since . As I watch you move all that slop I was wondering how long that job would take using an EC95OF with the largest bucket . Of course to go along with that maybe the A60H ?
Same thing hooked me too!!
You're so neat in everything you do, I'm surprised that window washing fluid and a roll of paper towel isn't a standard supply in your excavator.
You assume they are not standard supply?
We showed up to work Friday.. and we had 3 deer stuck in the dump site… so the throwing mud for us was delayed… we were able to get them out !!! At the end of we were all exhausted including the deer.
Sounds like you passed up a nice freezer full of venison! Deer are just a damn nuisance and a hazard on the highways!
Mudding mess but you will get it a nice pond nice video
I like the helicopter idea you had yesterday. LOL
Great job.
Maybe bring to truck down nose first & load OVER the cab, then back up to the turn spot, since the SLOP is coming out going up the hill...this from a truck driver...
Nothing like working with mud the consistency of cow flop
That doesn't look 👀
Like a pond...looks like a small lake ! Would be an excellent spot for a monster mud truck race event ! They seem to like it like that...the more mud the better !
🤣👍✌
Chris what’s your favorite work clearing? Road building? Pond dams? Myself I prefer clearing house sites with my cat 316 and Takeuchi tl10
On the last pond he said his favorite is taking a mess and making a nice pond out of it. He is a master with that articulated bucket smearing muck around.
don't expect an answer, and if you ask a noob question the supporters will just run you down
sorry don't get me wrong, I do like to watch the channel but just don't ask questions
i think he likes fires the best
@@jacquesmuller4356 I’ve noticed ppl can be jerks when replying on this channel. Real snarky replies.
Good job, Tomorrow is another day of mud
I would imagine the cost for this job is pretty high considering conditions and everything you have to deal with
Is that like gray fine clay I play with. I always move it too much and turn it into flow able material. I like your mat technique for moving mud without mixing mud. Good on ya.
How about lining up 10 really big dozers, playing a cavalry charge on a bugle, and letting 'em rip?
Bet you'd get rid of all that goop real fast. ;-)
Well that sure is time consumer sometimes we are drop some lime in it and try to stiffen it or even some Portland seeing that would work just something to help burn some of the water out of the muck so that way you can increase your load and fries quicker you get to the other end good job keep it up
I wouldn't think it would be much use for growing stuff with those additives . . ?
If the land owner has already determined that he wants that soil as "fill", or "growth medium" the use of "quicklime" is definitely "off the table"! It ["quicklime"] will provide stiffening, but will also reduce the fertility of the soil, probably by a significant amount.
@@K7DFA I have a feeling Chris said that this was a big farm operation. The big reason they wanted the dam widened was because it will become the main thoroughfare to get machinery from one side of the farm to the other. Soil fertility would be important to them for sure.
This clip should have the song by Paul Simon - Slip Slidin; Away*, playing in the background!
Song: ruclips.net/video/iUODdPpnxcA/видео.html
Maybe the Easter Bunny will bring the pond Doctor some new Matt's for Easter!😀
To bad someone hasn't invented a giant industrial mud sucking vacuum machine yet. That pulls through tank trucks connected to suction hoses from the pond. 🤔👍They have muck cleaners, but that intel's a small operation with divers, hoses and giant muck filter bags.
It's called a vacuum dredge, and there's three problems on this operation:
1) No vacuum dredge large/fast enough.
2) No vacuum dredge that can handle 8 inch (20.32 cm), diameter logs.
3) No vacuum dredge in Chris', or John's equipment "stable" (yet).
What about making a special mud bucket little smaller than the width of the truck, to pick up twice the load . Speed up mud ponds
That pile of mud never gets any smaller, kind of like whatever food I didn't want to eat when I was a kid.
Keep them (the mats) soaked and they might last longer.
The cycling wet-dry-wet-dry is what destroys wood.
Has to make a long day Chris but only way you can do it my friend, the ending results will be worth it , I know this pond is going to be beautiful again and the customer is going to be satisfied ! You always do some amazing work and it’ll show in the end! 👌🏻✌🏻,✌🏻 Looks like hog slop my friend, I imagine it smells kinda like it too! lol 😂
He never seems to mention what the smell of that much must be. It must stink like an old swamp.
I think he said last time that it really didn't smell much, but that was at the 10-acre pond.
better than sitting at a desk all day indoors..🍻
@@leeharris3061 oh yeah, definitely! 👌🏻
@@leeharris3061 For sure!
That's going to be a long one, but someone has to do it, take care stay safe and God bless.
I wondered if two excavators would be required, to keep from having to move only one machine and mats to load out the mud.
Hope you had a FUEL SURCHARGE clause on this contract, Chris!
I've come to the conclusion there IS a thing as TOO MUCH MUD. 😳
With all the mud jobs you do you should have some wider twin tires for your Volvo ADT. There is some in Denmark with 1 meter wide tires, but that might be a bit too extreme for ya'll, but you get my point ;)
@volvo418. :
@ up to almost $7,000 per tyre?!?!
Is the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, or some other mythical creature "footing the bill"?!?!
🤣
It sure would draw some attention being hauled between job sites though!
🙂
@@K7DFA Ofcourse he's gonna have to save the old ones and switch when he's trailing 😁😜
@@Swedish_Earthmoving :
And haul the "oversized" tyres in the bed of the Volvo!
🙂
I've done my fair share of work in slops like that and I definitely do not envy you, Lol. Excellent work, Chris. I have to ask if you've ever thought about a Morooka for jobs like that?
Have to agree with your comment on dig, dump and repeat. Going to be a lot of that on this one!
A while back I seen a huge auger standing in a ditch. And I wondered. How did that get in there and why. Today I saw it working. It drives from 1 culvert to the next. Say 3/4 of a mile. And it continuesly take sloppy mess up, and it dropped semi dry dirt on the field. All the water just dripped/splattered back in the ditch. In the 4 hours between my trip past it the auger went down a few feet. there was a pretty decent pile of mud/dirt on the field. I tried to understand how the soil/water in the ditch became sloppy.... I geuss they just stirred it up by driving the augur thought it several times. The culvert on the highside was blocked with a damsheet. And the other culvert was now totally exposed. Young lad was putting rocks around the bottom part. I watched it for a while. But where I live it is sand. Very low clay content. So I geuss he was protecting it from underdigging.
When my grandfather and I were digging out his pond. He thought it would be funny to cover me and my digger in mud so that me and him were constantly covering each other in mud.
What a tedious job! Kudos to you!
Another upload oh yes 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻