I was an operator for 28 years and it's a joy to watch a true operator in the machine, like we always say,everyone can run a machine but not many can operate one
When I was a kid, the playground at my elementary school had a bunch of these concrete pipes painted bright colors that we could climb on and hide in. We called them "tunnels." They all had the holes in the top, just like these. After all these decades, I just learned today what those holes are for. Neat.
While watching some of these videos i sometimes see how post 10 would emerge from the woods and do the full run down of the bad installation of these culvert pipes. Lolz!!
Dude I know nothing of digging, I am not interested in digging but this guy is so fricking relaxing to watch dig haha! I watched a video yesterday of him digging out a digger and that was about the most relaxing thing not to mention interesting as hell - I couldn't stop watching until the job was done... =D Well done.
It’s amazing to me that someone could screw up a simple pipe run like that. So strait forward, I hope they were able to comeback on whoever installed it.
I resemble that remark. I named all my hand tools. I used to own a Triumph Student lathe called Grant. Student Grant. Then there was Cheery - it was always drill-pressed.
I started with a company laying drain pipe right out of high school in 1976. My job was to go through the pipes as they were laid and wipe each joint with tar so what happened here would not happen. After 10 years I became a machine operator just like you are now. I'm 60 years old and I love running a Track-hoe best job ever.
Chris your operating skills are amazing, John doesn’t miss a beat, I was waiting for him to grab the bar and straighten it out over his knee. Thanks for sharing. Kevin
So soothing to watch some one use there machine instead of tearing it up. You have the eye for what you are doing. I am retired and disabled now and dad is dead and gone . I remember so fondly working with him and our heavy equipment biz we had for 35 years together. Your videos actually lower my blood pressure. I lived for the adrenaline every day we worked in our hard rock shale pit we drilled and blasted about 5k a year. Use to build lots of driveways out in the mountains to people's home sites and private logging roads to remove the timber. We had a D8 loaders .truck and transfer ,road grader roller and a 40 acre shale pita few sized excavators and a couple hoes clear down to the b20 backhoe I put 9 thousand hours in the seat on the b20 alone. We had a 4 bay shop wit 3 drive through bays. Actually use to rebuild stuff in the slow times the fourth bay was a full machine shop. Had several other old guys that just sat around the shop every day to work on there retirement projects they all shaped in and helped every time they could . Sure learned alot from them guys .
I love your job, great operator, I spent 35yrs on heavy equipment. I operated excavator a few years but looking at you operate and being retired, I enjoy watching you operate. My only machine left that I play with is a skidsteer.
Great video (even with all the math) that I didn't even think about with the bins and how much was in there. Now that you got our curiosity up, don't forget to tell us what all the fire department was doing!! Take care and thanks for sharing!!
So why do I operate the same excavator all day then come home and watch someone else do it? Sitting here giving Chris my thoughts as if he can hear me. Lol. Nice work mate! I like the the 220 as well. Very smooth and precise machine when lifting.
I stumbled across your videos one day. I live in the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York state. I'm a cosmetologist so I have never done any construction. But as a perfectionist I can really appreciate your accuracy & skills. I was quite the tom boy growing up & have a fascination with how things are made & built. I used to love Bringing my sons to watch excavating jobs. I think I was more interested than they were. Thanks for the videos. I enjoy them immensely.
I enjoy watching this so much. You don't know how much I wish I had the skill to do this. I can cut and suture people fine, with 46 years of medical practice.... but I truly envy you your skill. .I love to watch your hands and fingers work. Artistry.
Safe !! I just started watching your videos last night, it was the one where the rental was buried in pond. A cubic yard of dirt can weigh over 3000 pounds. If you don’t know about soil safety, please don’t rent one of these and get yourself or your helper seriously injured from a trench collapse. He’s digging in class C soil, it’s been previously disturbed. You need competent person training before ever using any kind of excavator, or digging with a shovel if more than 4 feet deep.
I came from the same video, fun to watch people using these machines so efficiently. I only have access to a small digger some work takes a long time 😂
When you were using those bucket teeth to gently push the pipe apart reminds me of how elephants use the very sensitive end part of their trunks to gently manipulate very tiny objects. Very skilful. Thanks for the video.
That rock bar sure is earning its money tens times over! 😂👍👍 Those things will bend and flex like crazy! Straightened mine out plenty of times and never broke it.
It is so cool to see you work. I really liked this episode where you and your uncle? went down to the pipes so we could really see the dimensions. We have been sitting behind you in your cab, so it is easy to forget the size of things. So if you can, it would be much appreciated if you do what you did here and show your size compared to what you are doing. I mean, some of the trees you are taking down are massive! Anyways, thanks from Norway!
"I got a lil carried away diggin" I relate to this sooo strongly, I almost wish I was there doing this. I am lying in bed, however, which is dreadfully comfy...
He does do some work on his own. The machine with the LD18 branded bucket and thumb is his own personal machine, and if he's doing a job with that its more'n likely its not for his uncle. That animal hospital clearing lot in Raleigh was a good example of that (the one that had stone everywhere and needed blasting), as well as pretty much every dam repair except the one that overflowed and they had to do it twice.
Up in alberta here my 48" pipe weigh 3.67 tons and are required lifting clutches, same with flared end. Work at a pipe plant we carry all the way up to 120"
Easy !! easy..... She's a little heavy There Son !! lololol.....That's one of those "Here's ya Sign", moments to who ever put those in backwards....lolol... You guys will have that licked in no time , looking Great so far Chris ! Have a Great Evening an Weekend Man !! I would say, "On to the Next" But, I believe you'll be back with part #2 on this one....lolol....Have a Good One...
Thought you were going over into the hole when you started lifting the flair on the upstream end of the culvert with the way you were teetering there for a second @ 32:00. Also, my first thought when you went into the culvert to slide the bar in to lift the pipe was... "Well, must be no snakes in there. Chris didn't run out of the culvert like he was shot out of a cannon." Lol.
Great video! I really like the alternate views where you set the camera on a tripod, and we can watch you out moving around, like when you put the bar through the chain. All good.
my thumbs up is for the "Tonka memories"! I think that same thought every time I watch one of these.. Things I did with my toys and imagination. The good old days ;)
Why not...swap out the first bell, remove one section of pipe the create some room. Then dig the next section, spin it, and set it in place. No need to remove multiple sections or re-grade the bottom.
My decrepit old back enjoyed the revenge factor as you destroyed that "idiot stick" (digging bar). Used one of those to dig post holes in the rocky areas I grew up in.
Enjoy watching. My father in law owned a backhoe / grading company and was known in these parts as the best operator around. I miss that dude. RIP Papa Joe Lee Ledbetter. Travelers Rest, SC.
Thumbs up! Why did you move all the pipes? I if they were in backwards, just pick them up and rotate them 180 and put them back down on the same bed, and then you only have to move the end pieces. Glad that guy on the low slope trusts that chain not to give you he'd be a Pizza. Still another nice job, though. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
I have watched about twenty of your videos this past month in my pajamas in my comfy lounge-chair on my fancy widescreen Android phone. I am 57 year old male unemployed with poor health and few job skills I often have no earthly idea what you are doing, It is like watching a gymnast on the uneven-bars. It would be nice if you would tell more about the details of everything I plan to go back and watch more of your videos and other RUclipsrs about machinery. I live in an inner-city ghetto apartment, so there are no "ponds" around here, unless that is a slang code-word for bongs or brothels.
I was terrible at it. Bellydumps and scrapers scared the hell out of me! When they offered to let me pull cable for a 25 yard bucket shovel I jumped at the chance.
I'm in awe of our bucket control. Really gentle. Reminds me of our marmalute dog taking a biscuit off me. Massive jaws but really careful (cus he knows he won't get another if he snatches!
I believe I watched this video earlier today and it’s December 30 2020 oops it’s December 31 2020 now it’s 1:00 a.m. in the morning here. Happy New Year Chris and I hope you have a great new year in 2021 God Bless
Kind of nice and relaxing, without having to dig in the city, around unmarked utilities, and unexpected surprises, trying to spot ditch lines, after everything is supposedly marked.
I was an operator for 28 years and it's a joy to watch a true operator in the machine, like we always say,everyone can run a machine but not many can operate one
When I was a kid, the playground at my elementary school had a bunch of these concrete pipes painted bright colors that we could climb on and hide in. We called them "tunnels." They all had the holes in the top, just like these. After all these decades, I just learned today what those holes are for. Neat.
That are overflow holes.
Just kidding. :)
I keep getting visions of Post 10 emerging from the pipe with a full run down on the original wrong installation
lol .. was thinking .. post10 would have a lot to say about this !!
@@sharonolsen6579 Not enough spiders.
While watching some of these videos i sometimes see how post 10 would emerge from the woods and do the full run down of the bad installation of these culvert pipes. Lolz!!
The finesse Chris has with the excavator is mesmerising.
I hope that crew doesn't lay roof shingles on the side.
They start at the ridge and work down to the eave. 😁
totally LOL!
That's exactly right. They'd lay em on the side, not the roof...
Gotta watch when they lay sod, too. Keep yelling “green side up”.
Buy a roof, get a free indoor swimming pool.
They put the pond on the wrong end of the pipe
You mean they put the pipe on the wrong end of the pond, 😆
@@grannygear1001 I am certain that is meant what he said and he said what he meant.
Hahaha
@@ChrisCiber “An Elephant’s faithful one hundred percent”. Ok boys, free beer tomorrow for the first to know where this quote came from!
@@tomrogers9467 Horton meant what he said!
People talk about how good of an operator he is, but the patience he has to keep changing the camera angle and he always has things to say.
Your finesse with that large machine is wonderful to watch, you're truly a very skilled operator.
I love this guy, cool, calm, and very talented.
Yup, makes it all look easy and I suspect it's harder than it looks.
Dude I know nothing of digging, I am not interested in digging but this guy is so fricking relaxing to watch dig haha! I watched a video yesterday of him digging out a digger and that was about the most relaxing thing not to mention interesting as hell - I couldn't stop watching until the job was done... =D Well done.
Eff it: If I win the lottery I'm buying a piece of land and an escavator. They look like so much fun.
@Viktor Sligo I used a smaller one of these. It's dizzying
@@hikerJohn smaller ones are harder to use apparently, I see they arent as stable to use
Not 'if', 'WHEN' you win the lottery. Think positive, brother, you never know.
It is.
@@vFLAWLEZZ You’re correct. The small ones like to jump and buck; hard not to jerk the sticks when that happens. Big heavies are much more stable.
It’s amazing to me that someone could screw up a simple pipe run like that. So strait forward, I hope they were able to comeback on whoever installed it.
When a man talks to the objects he is working with, you know there is passion involved 👍🏼
I resemble that remark. I named all my hand tools. I used to own a Triumph Student lathe called Grant. Student Grant. Then there was Cheery - it was always drill-pressed.
That digging bar has a real nice bow in it. Cant wait to see the next episode
Came for the algorithm, stayed for the digging. Great stuff!
This is the best channel I've found in Fekkin AGES!!! LOVE IT!!!
And this is why you will never run out of work. Keep it up. Thx for the vid
I started with a company laying drain pipe right out of high school in 1976. My job was to go through the pipes as they were laid and wipe each joint with tar so what happened here would not happen. After 10 years I became a machine operator just like you are now. I'm 60 years old and I love running a Track-hoe best job ever.
Chris your operating skills are amazing, John doesn’t miss a beat, I was waiting for him to grab the bar and straighten it out over his knee. Thanks for sharing. Kevin
One has to wonder if they even realized they screwed up, or when they did it was "too late" to fix it.
The transformation of that rod throughout the video was amazing
I reckon he run over it with the Cat.
So soothing to watch some one use there machine instead of tearing it up. You have the eye for what you are doing. I am retired and disabled now and dad is dead and gone . I remember so fondly working with him and our heavy equipment biz we had for 35 years together. Your videos actually lower my blood pressure. I lived for the adrenaline every day we worked in our hard rock shale pit we drilled and blasted about 5k a year. Use to build lots of driveways out in the mountains to people's home sites and private logging roads to remove the timber. We had a D8 loaders .truck and transfer ,road grader roller and a 40 acre shale pita few sized excavators and a couple hoes clear down to the b20 backhoe I put 9 thousand hours in the seat on the b20 alone. We had a 4 bay shop wit 3 drive through bays. Actually use to rebuild stuff in the slow times the fourth bay was a full machine shop. Had several other old guys that just sat around the shop every day to work on there retirement projects they all shaped in and helped every time they could . Sure learned alot from them guys .
Thanks, Chris. I find your videos very relaxing! Keep up the good work.
MAN, you have a delicate touch! You could pretty near change a diaper with that 220...
I love your job, great operator, I spent 35yrs on heavy equipment. I operated excavator a few years but looking at you operate and being retired, I enjoy watching you operate. My only machine left that I play with is a skidsteer.
Amazing the soft touch you have with your big machines.
He got his wife pregnant with an excavator.
You could just transport the inlet/outlet to the opposite side, the rest of the sections just flip 180degrees
That is some exacting work separating those pipes!
31:58... balls of steel. I almost died, just watching
Great video (even with all the math) that I didn't even think about with the bins and how much was in there. Now that you got our curiosity up, don't forget to tell us what all the fire department was doing!! Take care and thanks for sharing!!
I enjoy watching your channel you are amazing with your machinery on the things you can do with them keep up the videos
So why do I operate the same excavator all day then come home and watch someone else do it? Sitting here giving Chris my thoughts as if he can hear me. Lol. Nice work mate! I like the the 220 as well. Very smooth and precise machine when lifting.
I stumbled across your videos one day. I live in the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York state. I'm a cosmetologist so I have never done any construction. But as a perfectionist I can really appreciate your accuracy & skills. I was quite the tom boy growing up & have a fascination with how things are made & built. I used to love Bringing my sons to watch excavating jobs. I think I was more interested than they were. Thanks for the videos. I enjoy them immensely.
🔥🔥🔥 FANTASTIC PROJECT SEÑOR DIG!!! You get to work on some fun projects on your end of NC. I always learn something new from videos like yours
Watching you swing all that weight around with such a delicate touch is why I call you a " smooth operator." Great work! Catch you on the next video.
Haha love it .... limits of disturbance to a minimum. ..... that needs to go on a shirt
Keep up the great videos
I enjoy watching this so much. You don't know how much I wish I had the skill to do this. I can cut and suture people fine, with 46 years of medical practice.... but I truly envy you your skill. .I love to watch your hands and fingers work. Artistry.
I was taught that the male end always points in the direction of flow.
these days the Left don't like you assuming the gender of a pipe...
except for a few days each month
That is a good analogy. If a fella forgets he can just take a pee to help him remember.
Pac Remodel, that does make sense. It's what my dad told me when laying a drain field.
That's what she said.
Safe !! I just started watching your videos last night, it was the one where the rental was buried in pond. A cubic yard of dirt can weigh over 3000 pounds. If you don’t know about soil safety, please don’t rent one of these and get yourself or your helper seriously injured from a trench collapse. He’s digging in class C soil, it’s been previously disturbed. You need competent person training before ever using any kind of excavator, or digging with a shovel if more than 4 feet deep.
I came from the same video, fun to watch people using these machines so efficiently. I only have access to a small digger some work takes a long time 😂
Same place I came from. I'm looking for another one dug out. That was just fascinating.
You impress me. Your so gentle. Very good at your work. I'm binge watching you. THANKYOU for the videos.
If you had a Nickel for Every Project you stepped in to Correct, you would be Retired already. 😬👍
When you were using those bucket teeth to gently push the pipe apart reminds me of how elephants use the very sensitive end part of their trunks to gently manipulate very tiny objects. Very skilful. Thanks for the video.
You demonstrate the true meaning of a smooth operator. Awesome video, must've missed this one when it originally came out.
You handle that pipe like a new mom handles a little baby. You are one heck of an operator.
On the bright side you now have a digging bar to work around corners
You are a great operator of all equipment and a great person. Keep up the good work and don’t change
You know him personally?
Why would you carry them to the other end?
You make the original installers look like geniuses. 🤣
Every job goes much better when someone who's got the skills is in at the Helm , well done Chris !
That rock bar sure is earning its money tens times over! 😂👍👍 Those things will bend and flex like crazy! Straightened mine out plenty of times and never broke it.
It is so cool to see you work. I really liked this episode where you and your uncle? went down to the pipes so we could really see the dimensions. We have been sitting behind you in your cab, so it is easy to forget the size of things. So if you can, it would be much appreciated if you do what you did here and show your size compared to what you are doing. I mean, some of the trees you are taking down are massive! Anyways, thanks from Norway!
Cool video. Enjoy these where you get to use all the tools. Can’t wait to see the next video.
We misseda fair bit of North Carolina cursing during the root canals.
Nice work Mr.
You could do a series on fixing screwups.. “ cluster f**ks with Chris”
He would always have job security
That's half of his channel anyway, isn't it?
Where is this business located?
@@nashvillecop1 North Carolina
I want to see that Channel come to life!!!! LOL
If you can make me watch what I do for a living on my days off, you're nice!!. 😂👏🏾
"I got a lil carried away diggin" I relate to this sooo strongly, I almost wish I was there doing this. I am lying in bed, however, which is dreadfully comfy...
Uncle John is a thorn in your side. I love the way he relays to you (HEY HEY).
Ever think about going out on your own.
He does do some work on his own. The machine with the LD18 branded bucket and thumb is his own personal machine, and if he's doing a job with that its more'n likely its not for his uncle. That animal hospital clearing lot in Raleigh was a good example of that (the one that had stone everywhere and needed blasting), as well as pretty much every dam repair except the one that overflowed and they had to do it twice.
Up in alberta here my 48" pipe weigh 3.67 tons and are required lifting clutches, same with flared end. Work at a pipe plant we carry all the way up to 120"
My company has a set of those mats , they’re amazing, I doubt they’ll hold the 220 up but you’re mini is gonna float on the mud on those 👍
Easy !! easy..... She's a little heavy There Son !! lololol.....That's one of those "Here's ya Sign", moments to who ever put those in backwards....lolol... You guys will have that licked in no time , looking Great so far Chris ! Have a Great Evening an Weekend Man !! I would say, "On to the Next" But, I believe you'll be back with part #2 on this one....lolol....Have a Good One...
Excellent video bro. Makes ya wonder how some people can gat away with it but on the plus side you get money in your pocket for fixing their screw up.
I just love how youtube subtitles the sounds of the machine as music. :) spot on!
I enjoyed watching your videos. Your explanation as you do the work is very informative.
Excellent use of the second camera. Both sides of the work. Possibly, both sides of the pucker factor one day. Awesome work.
Thought you were going over into the hole when you started lifting the flair on the upstream end of the culvert with the way you were teetering there for a second @ 32:00.
Also, my first thought when you went into the culvert to slide the bar in to lift the pipe was... "Well, must be no snakes in there. Chris didn't run out of the culvert like he was shot out of a cannon." Lol.
Lol. All I could think of was snakes, too!
Great video! I really like the alternate views where you set the camera on a tripod, and we can watch you out moving around, like when you put the bar through the chain. All good.
Feather-touch, send me one o' them teeth! Thas way so much fun represented!!!
The crunching noises you hear when he was swinging the flair up the hill was just Chris putting a few new wrinkles in the Ol 220's seat.
There goes that surgeon with this diesel scalpel again! Kind of like a health exam.
Hopefully it is not a prostate exam, boy would that hurt.
👍wow, will the original contractors have to pay for the rework
New title: "The excavator gets a new set of Dentures"
Love as time goes on the breaker bar keeps getting more and more bent! 👍😲
What he isn't telling us is he's using this project to make a gift for his wife for Valentine's Day 2021 - a steel heart...
I could watch these videos all day! regards from Ireland, Sir!
Armchair commenter with fond Tonka memories: Would it have been possible to lift and spin each segment, after making some room?
That's what I thought too 🤷
After watching they had to dig it down and ect. So they had to be out of the way.
no
my thumbs up is for the "Tonka memories"!
I think that same thought every time I watch one of these..
Things I did with my toys and imagination.
The good old days ;)
I love your description of yourself. 😀
A friend had the same problem after he replaced a couple of down spouts on his house lol. Doh!
Why not...swap out the first bell, remove one section of pipe the create some room. Then dig the next section, spin it, and set it in place. No need to remove multiple sections or re-grade the bottom.
My decrepit old back enjoyed the revenge factor as you destroyed that "idiot stick" (digging bar). Used one of those to dig post holes in the rocky areas I grew up in.
Enjoy watching. My father in law owned a backhoe / grading company and was known in these parts as the best operator around. I miss that dude. RIP Papa Joe Lee Ledbetter. Travelers Rest, SC.
I always thought that was the way the pipe was supposed to run. But you are right. That's differently backwards. Thank you
"Yes, the pipe goes this way. Trust me I'm a professional"
"The dirt will hold it in place" they said. "It'll be fine" they said.
Good Job ,,Tight, Control, well said !!Cheers!!;-)!
Thumbs up! Why did you move all the pipes? I if they were in backwards, just pick them up and rotate them 180 and put them back down on the same bed, and then you only have to move the end pieces. Glad that guy on the low slope trusts that chain not to give you he'd be a Pizza. Still another nice job, though. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
Never appreciated how huge the bucket is on that 220 until I saw Chris standing next to it.
Looking good brother!
I have watched about twenty of your videos this past month in my pajamas in my comfy lounge-chair on my fancy widescreen Android phone.
I am 57 year old male unemployed with poor health and few job skills
I often have no earthly idea what you are doing,
It is like watching a gymnast on the uneven-bars.
It would be nice if you would tell more about the details of everything
I plan to go back and watch more of your videos and other RUclipsrs about machinery.
I live in an inner-city ghetto apartment, so there are no "ponds" around here, unless that is a slang code-word for bongs or brothels.
I miss running heavy equipment. I was NEVER this good at it.
I was terrible at it. Bellydumps and scrapers scared the hell out of me!
When they offered to let me pull cable for a 25 yard bucket shovel I jumped at the chance.
darn near bent the old pry bar into a giant fencing staple shape, lol. Oh well, cut it up into 2 shorter bars and buy a new long one.
Skilled work, thanks for sharing
That prybar is getting a workout!!
I'm in awe of our bucket control. Really gentle. Reminds me of our marmalute dog taking a biscuit off me. Massive jaws but really careful (cus he knows he won't get another if he snatches!
WTF is a marmalute dog?
Awesome video Chris keep it up
I believe I watched this video earlier today and it’s December 30 2020 oops it’s December 31 2020 now it’s 1:00 a.m. in the morning here. Happy New Year Chris and I hope you have a great new year in 2021 God Bless
It's handy how people screw up jobs like this, it gives you more work. This looks like a fun little job.
Kind of nice and relaxing, without having to dig in the city, around unmarked utilities, and unexpected surprises, trying to spot ditch lines, after everything is supposedly marked.
With those new teeth on, Cris can now open his beers from the cab! And I bet he could, too!
Have you ever seen the contests? I randomly found one a few months ago, and they were stacking martini glasses. 😵
Its amazing how some people can mess crap up so much ...... some security for you right lol ..... great video you do amazing work ....
Man you actually sound like your having fun at work. Good times.
November has been a great month for the youTubers lots of new toys to play with
You certainly got your exercise today😅😅
I was beginning to worry a little about how much that bar was bending. A really interesting video.
Hey Chris
Do they unload them off stepdeck trailers with a couple old tires? Seen a crew do it that way once.🤔
Great videos!