Hi Sean, I found you on RUclips about four months ago and became an instant fan! I very rarely write comments but in this case I just wanted to tell you how delightful it is to see a tradesman with such honesty, compassion and integrity. My policy has always been to do it right the first time but as we can see from the video unforeseen things do happen. Dam good job!
Hey, Lavinia. Yes, Shawn is a great guy to follow. His quest to find efficient ways to move water away from structures, then out and down without damage to the homeowner's or neighbor's property, is admirable. Plus his follow-up visits in the rain, and his drone-view shots are also top-tier RUclips.
Yep. “I’m gonna be moving rocks for most of the day, so don’t feel like you guys have to be busy all day” (something like that, can’t remember the exact quote)
@@GCFD more managers should be like you. Most of the time, some bigwig sat in an office with no idea of the job that the staff do, dictates to management what they should do, which then gets passed on to the staff, but apparently the chain never works the other way, let alone management asking for feedback on how things can be improved and actually implementing it. Most companies are big on ‘customer is always number 1’ but it should be staff at number 1. If your staff are happy, they’ll take care of your customers.
Love the calm cool and collected approach! Can’t say how many times we have down that! Especially in apartments. Locators just can’t mark it all ! Super nice job !!! 😊 👍👍 Chuck
very nice! I love that you show it working at the end of the videos. This is what should have been built in my yard (along with a drainage easement) but the township and multi billion dollar company thought they could get away with flooding my property.
One thing I've learned from watching your videos is that there are a lot of contractors out there who don't understand simple gravity when it comes to moving water. I'm now paying attention to how water flows on property. When it comes time to buying a house, I'm going to be so well informed from your videos on what to look out for, both in buying property and also what to listen for from contractors. Thank you so much for doing these videos.
I work on large bridge jobs for the DOT. We had a 4 inch copper phone service. 100s of wires that ran under the bridge we were demoing to replace. Contractor had a hard time cutting it. It would tangle in the quickie saw and melt with a saw zaw or a torch. This line is 60 feet in the air over a very large river. He asked us of we had any ideas. My boss is a man of few words. His answer was "most contractors use a hoe bucket. Cuts like butter" the Contractor just lowered his and walked out in shame 😆.
i remember a job demo'ing a couple 110 storey buildings, only needed a couple of CGI jetplanes and they came down at near freefall speed mostly on their own footprint and one 47 storey building just needed one single post knocked out and it too came down in its own footprint at near freefall speed
Found the channel 2 days ago and i've been binging like it was netflix. My girlfriend looks at me weird wondering why i watch this. All i can say is riprap, french drain, 1/16th of a bubble baby!
As someone who works at an ISP (Suddenlink/AltoceUSA) be happy you hit Coax and Not Fiber. Coax is cheap and only hits from pole to house... Fiber is expensive. That being said: Sadly those Coax drops are often not added to charts like fiber conduit, so I don't blame you for hitting that line... It shouldn't have been running under the swail regardless... Bad planning by Spectrum. Edit: Awesome for sticking around to help the utility fix the issue. I cannot tell you how many construction teams hit a line and tell no one like they can get away with it... In those cases we charge.
Very good advise about keeping cool when hitting a utility. Saved me a huge bill recently with a main 200 pair phone line I dug up. I didn't loose my temper, try to redirect blame or make any excuses instead I was friendly and helpful with the workers. They let me dig the new trench myself to help keep down the cost. Don't be a ass hole and always call 811 before digging I got really lucky. Thanks or all the great content Sean keep it up.
The apartment complex should've had you replace that riprap channel with a culvert instead. Backfill with some dirt and call it a day. It looks a lot better too.
I agree, but you'd have to catch the water in that area as well with some sort of french drain or something. This was likely way more cost effective, although less attractive.
@@dbroder could still do the culvert with a catch basin for the pavement run-off and leave a subtle swale above the culvert pipe for any yard drainage... could easily get rid of the unsightly and troublesome rip-rap ditch and have a grassy, easy to maintain swale.
We were on a tight budget with this job, but a culvert would look a lot nicer. There are a bunch of these riprap channels around the complex already too.
The results clips at the end are so satisfying. And you always show the good the bad and never have had any ugly that I’ve seen. The proof is in the pudding.
Another case where you come in to fix a drain plan poorly executed. Very good seeing you, the roofing guys and the cable guys all working to get the work done, and the residents happy.
@@GCFD I think that it getting optimal flow for its position the poorly done drainage ditch would have kept up with the rest of the flow under normal moderately hard rain conditions. But I have been wrong before.
@@GCFD I would not be surprised if there was just a culvert there originally. Then they installed the ditch because the culvert grating was not at the low point. When they dug the ditch they may have found the cable you pulled the splice on so did not dig the trench to a constant fall. I would assume that the end of the culvert has been mostly blocked at times by that bank collapsing. The rip rap may help with that in future.
Great project! Utilities are a real pain and locating services are always dicey somehow. I appreciate your method of getting through that unplanned issue and working with the utility company in a partnership outlook instead of a conflict type approach.
Thanks for commenting Alan! It's so much easier to work together to solve a problem instead of dodging the problem. Whose fault was it? We hit the line, but it was unmarked, and perhaps shouldn't have been there in the first place... we focus on moving forward with getting things fixed. 👍
Good job. Doing drainage correctly takes skill to understand the right way to do water elevation drop. Needs fine tuned at the top where it meets pavement. A shallow collection box with a culvert would make passage in front of vehicles safer.
If the state were to classify that drainage area as a stream because a single crayfish exists then everyone's backyard in Louisiana is also designated as a stream under the same rules. If you've got a couple acres of backyard in Louisiana and you've got a couple hundred crayfish living there.
Hello . maybe it is an idea to buy a sorting bucket for the mini excavator or to make it yourself. with a sorting bucket you only dig up the stones or concrete and you sort all the soil and rubbish out of it. this way you can also clean the stones very easily : you dig a bucket full of stones, shake your bucket a bit , and like a sieve all the soil from and between the stones falls away through the bucket , so you are left with a bucket with "clean stones". Sincerely Hollandduck from the Netherlands
Yes I was thinking the exact same thing! I just don't know when I'll get another job like that but a sorting bucket would have been the ticket. Luckily where we were taking the dirt, the extra rip rap didn't hurt anything. That video is coming soon!
I am an I.T. Tech and back when I had cable, the tech would come out and I had already used my Tone Generator and toned out the lines and marked them for him. I also offered a drink for him and he took it. He was so happy I toned the lines out. :)
I know Archdale well! Parents and many relatives grew up there and some relatives still live there and surrounding areas. Dad worked at Archdale Soda Shop in the early 50’s.
Great work and videos as usual. I noticed at the end of the video it seems like the water is getting held up in the middle, looked like to many rocks were blocking water flow. i would guess you removed a rock or two so the water can flow easily and not be pooling a bit.
Yes! I plan to let this settle in a little bit more and revisit just to make sure. I gave a 1 year guarantee with this and the expectation that I would revisit and tweak as needed.
@@GCFD Expected nothing less but this sort of great customer service from you! Keep up the great work and post more videos , I hate waiting for them :P
Great job. I am sure the residents are very happy not to have a lake in the parking lot. Plus, your crew cleaning up the dirt gave them several clean useable parking spots. Outstanding. I know parking in many apartments are a premium.
I spoke to another resident when I was out there in the rain and he said it's been like that for the 13 years he's lived there. He was super appreciative.
22:35 If you look at the corner of the house there are is two issues there you can see the footer well the cement pad it’s starting to get washed out from the bottom and then the splash block for the downspout should be really flipped around because it looks like it’s installed backwards
Have you thought about investing in a tumbler for jobs like this? It's used to separated dirt from rock. It turns as you load rock and dirt in one end, it has a grate that allows dirt to pass through and the rock comes out the other end. They run on gas so no extension cords to run and is easily moved with one person. Could save a lot of time. Also works to separate roots and other debris from dirt.
I thought the same thing, but only because I have a need to organise and sort stuff. I would have ended up with piles of all different sized rocks and the soil all neatly piled up! But that's just me! I never used to build with Lego but I sorted it to colour, brick shape, then brick size! Don't judge me too harshly 🤭😊
Should have convinced the property management to just install a DI and run underground drainage to the out let of the creek instead of gave a big ass swale they will most likely need to have dug out again in the future. Not to mention how much more easily maintainable that becomes. #upsale
Here we have to outline all excavation work with white paint, basically the 4 corners. They locate inside the white lines, Then you take photos of the lines. But it happened helping them getting the cable back in does go a long way.
They do ask if the area has been pre-marked in white, but it's not required here. Every time I've hit lines I've always helped out and never been charged.
haha 811 stories .... I am a ham, I placed ground rods all the way around the house every 10 feet and bonded them together. Every time they mark the house they either a) get it wrong and dont mark it all or b) go around the corner see they are headed away from the box and cuss. The last guy I had to yell at no the phone is over there see the tower .. that ground ties into the whole system if you follow it you will end up back near the start .. no no its the phone .. no it isnt I dug that ground wire myself ... look over there beyond the power lines ...
So what your saying is you shut of my MTV. "I want my MTV." Not bad. If you ever need parts for that Ford go to u-haul! Real nice you cleaned the muck in the lot.
what out cable company does around here, I mean they subcontract out the work of the burying of the line. but alot of the subcontractors if it goes under a drainage ditch. after the pipe is laid down, they will power a few bags of cement over it just the bag. they wont even wet it. I talked to one of them before. They said after it rains, the cement will harden but it allows the cement to shift and move while it rains so it does create a hump in the drainage ditch. but will keep the pipe in place, and if the ditch needs to be dug up again, next workers will hit the cement instead of the pipe with the cable. Saving the cable line in side from breakage.
I just wanted to suggest you something. Please use a microphone because we don't hear the words very good while you are working. Keep up the amazing work.
It was nice that the cable guys didn't charge for the repair. But those cables across the riff raff is nuts. I mean do you ask anyone where the cables are before you dig ? Because that just totally blows.
Wow the lack of permit from the city to ensure no lines are hit is pathetic. Really shows how shit we are at doing things the right way. I’d consider that second live 120v a huge near miss.
We call it Forest Gump Digging. You never know what you're gonna hit. Hitting a power line is not a huge deal...it either pops the breaker or cuts the line. We've hit plenty of unmarked lines and repaired them.
ask fire dept to use their hose truck clean off the rock, good practice for the fire dept crew, yahoooo lol another fantastic success thru many obstacles
It would be best to build a little footbridge just over the part where the outdoor lighting cable runs and then just make good and secure the lighting conduit underneath it.
Great idea Phil. 👍 I think now I know why the swale was completed in such a method originally. Possibly they knew about the cables? Great job Shawn. Simple ideas making big differences.
Ur lucky the cable was that deep. Around here cable has been known to be just below grade even tho they're suppose to be feet below esp on state r.o.w.. The good thing is that when they don't follow rules All co$t$ fall on them.
Too bad they just couldn't put a nice concrete drain through there, just like the last parking lot where you re-poured it. Then they could have had a nice level grassy area between the buildings. 🤑🤑
Rip-rap slows the water down to prevet erosion, it looks like you had a silt trap set up with the rip rap was stacked high enough to ruin the grade. Years of "not a problem yet" caused this probably.
@@GCFD so it’s like a live stream for pre recorded videos, so 30 minutes before the video it gives all your subscribers with notifications on a notification saying it’s showcasing in 30 minutes. And when it’s ready for it to show people can comment on the video like a live stream. Therefore during the premier people can ask questions and you can reply. When the video is finished it just get put to your channel. I hope this helped Shawn 👍😀
Can't believe they didn't just want a storm water box and a pipe installed and level the dirt on top of it for a nice even yard , A lot less unsightly an more effective . Couple of things , why didn't you line the ditch with plastic to prevent erosion ? Surprised they didn't have to install a storm water retention pond of some type , Usually you are not allowed to dump storm water directly into a receiving body of water .
Here all storm water drains to surface waters (creeks and ponds). The stormwater basins all say Drains to Creeks, don't dump with a picture of a fish. There shouldn't be any erosion in a bed of riprap so fabric was not needed. Rip rap is erosion control because it interrrupts the flow and slows the water down.
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Love that you go back out in the rain and see your work working!
Same, it's my favorite part!
Hi Sean, I found you on RUclips about four months ago and became an instant fan! I very rarely write comments but in this case I just wanted to tell you how delightful it is to see a tradesman with such honesty, compassion and integrity. My policy has always been to do it right the first time but as we can see from the video unforeseen things do happen. Dam good job!
Thank you! I feel like we try to get it right the first time, but if we miss, we usually get it the second time! Thanks for watching!
Hey, Lavinia. Yes, Shawn is a great guy to follow.
His quest to find efficient ways to move water away from structures, then out and down without damage to the homeowner's or neighbor's property, is admirable. Plus his follow-up visits in the rain, and his drone-view shots are also top-tier RUclips.
I came for the digging but stayed for the rain! Soooo satisfying to see the end result! Thx!
Thank you!
Showing a lot of good leadership and business skills on this channel.
Yep. “I’m gonna be moving rocks for most of the day, so don’t feel like you guys have to be busy all day” (something like that, can’t remember the exact quote)
Thank you! I think a boss should be a good leader. I ask the guys what they needed after every job and make sure to get it before the next job.
@@GCFD more managers should be like you.
Most of the time, some bigwig sat in an office with no idea of the job that the staff do, dictates to management what they should do, which then gets passed on to the staff, but apparently the chain never works the other way, let alone management asking for feedback on how things can be improved and actually implementing it.
Most companies are big on ‘customer is always number 1’ but it should be staff at number 1. If your staff are happy, they’ll take care of your customers.
Being a cable maintenance tech myself brings me joy that you helped out how you did. That’s awesome man. 🙏🏽
It wasn't too bad and saved the cable guys a huge, painful dig. 👍
Love the calm cool and collected approach! Can’t say how many times we have down that! Especially in apartments. Locators just can’t mark it all ! Super nice job !!! 😊
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Chuck
Thank you Chuck! It's always exciting to see you comment on my videos! - Shawn
very nice! I love that you show it working at the end of the videos. This is what should have been built in my yard (along with a drainage easement) but the township and multi billion dollar company thought they could get away with flooding my property.
Hey Shawn I lived in Winston-Salem for 14 years. The high quality of your work inspires me to go the extra mile in my projects. Stay awesome
Thank you! You won't regret doing quality work but might regret skipping corners.
One thing I've learned from watching your videos is that there are a lot of contractors out there who don't understand simple gravity when it comes to moving water. I'm now paying attention to how water flows on property. When it comes time to buying a house, I'm going to be so well informed from your videos on what to look out for, both in buying property and also what to listen for from contractors. Thank you so much for doing these videos.
I work on large bridge jobs for the DOT. We had a 4 inch copper phone service. 100s of wires that ran under the bridge we were demoing to replace. Contractor had a hard time cutting it. It would tangle in the quickie saw and melt with a saw zaw or a torch. This line is 60 feet in the air over a very large river. He asked us of we had any ideas. My boss is a man of few words. His answer was "most contractors use a hoe bucket. Cuts like butter" the Contractor just lowered his and walked out in shame 😆.
Haha Great story!
i remember a job demo'ing a couple 110 storey buildings, only needed a couple of CGI jetplanes and they came down at near freefall speed mostly on their own footprint and one 47 storey building just needed one single post knocked out and it too came down in its own footprint at near freefall speed
Shawn offering and using your equipment to aid in repair of cable breaks was the mark of professionalism!
Thank you! They were thrilled we dug it for them.
Found the channel 2 days ago and i've been binging like it was netflix. My girlfriend looks at me weird wondering why i watch this. All i can say is riprap, french drain, 1/16th of a bubble baby!
Haha. Nice! Thank you for watching!
Welcome to the family ;)
What a great outcome. It's always good to see the water flowing in the right direction in the end 😊
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As someone who works at an ISP (Suddenlink/AltoceUSA) be happy you hit Coax and Not Fiber.
Coax is cheap and only hits from pole to house... Fiber is expensive.
That being said: Sadly those Coax drops are often not added to charts like fiber conduit, so I don't blame you for hitting that line... It shouldn't have been running under the swail regardless... Bad planning by Spectrum.
Edit:
Awesome for sticking around to help the utility fix the issue.
I cannot tell you how many construction teams hit a line and tell no one like they can get away with it... In those cases we charge.
They said it had been there since 1987! Those guys were super nice, perhaps because they weren't going to have to dig the trench!
I’m not sure how I found your videos but the best part is the end when it rains 😂
I'm glad you're enjoying my stuff Deere! Thanks for watching, Shawn
Very good advise about keeping cool when hitting a utility. Saved me a huge bill recently with a main 200 pair phone line I dug up. I didn't loose my temper, try to redirect blame or make any excuses instead I was friendly and helpful with the workers. They let me dig the new trench myself to help keep down the cost. Don't be a ass hole and always call 811 before digging I got really lucky. Thanks or all the great content Sean keep it up.
Great story! Thanks for sharing and commenting!
2 videos in under 24 hours!! Must have rained pretty good last weekend.
👍 I went to two other jobs and just missed the rain!
Would you have done this differently if given the first opportunity to design the drainage here? Thanks and more please
It’s currently raining hard here in Raeford so I know they got it too. More video material.
@@cliffpalermo Yeah, he would have had the culvert grate be the low point of the parking lot! :D
Good Wednesday morning to you sir and your family
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The apartment complex should've had you replace that riprap channel with a culvert instead. Backfill with some dirt and call it a day. It looks a lot better too.
Agreed. That swale takes up a lot of space, both visually and practically.
I agree, but you'd have to catch the water in that area as well with some sort of french drain or something. This was likely way more cost effective, although less attractive.
@@dbroder could still do the culvert with a catch basin for the pavement run-off and leave a subtle swale above the culvert pipe for any yard drainage... could easily get rid of the unsightly and troublesome rip-rap ditch and have a grassy, easy to maintain swale.
We were on a tight budget with this job, but a culvert would look a lot nicer. There are a bunch of these riprap channels around the complex already too.
@@GCFD true, true... it's all what the customer wants and is willing (or able) to pay for.
The results clips at the end are so satisfying.
And you always show the good the bad and never have had any ugly that I’ve seen.
The proof is in the pudding.
Another case where you come in to fix a drain plan poorly executed. Very good seeing you, the roofing guys and the cable guys all working to get the work done, and the residents happy.
This was a pretty interesting job for sure. I'm glad we got it flowing!
Love this channel it’s probably my new favorite
Thank you Matt!
That area was a perfect spot to use some "Concrete Canvas"
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I love going out to see my designs in action with the water flowing. Its a great feeling helping out.
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I suspect that just fixing the flow of the concrete culvert would have stopped the lake from forming but it is nice to see the job done right.
The grate feeding the culvert was too high and should have been at the low point.
@@GCFD
I think that it getting optimal flow for its position the poorly done drainage ditch would have kept up with the rest of the flow under normal moderately hard rain conditions. But I have been wrong before.
@@GCFD I would not be surprised if there was just a culvert there originally. Then they installed the ditch because the culvert grating was not at the low point. When they dug the ditch they may have found the cable you pulled the splice on so did not dig the trench to a constant fall. I would assume that the end of the culvert has been mostly blocked at times by that bank collapsing. The rip rap may help with that in future.
I can imagine in an apartment complex how much fun it is for kids to play in that ditch!
Haha I'm sure. And now they don't have a puddle to play in!
Great project! Utilities are a real pain and locating services are always dicey somehow. I appreciate your method of getting through that unplanned issue and working with the utility company in a partnership outlook instead of a conflict type approach.
Thanks for commenting Alan! It's so much easier to work together to solve a problem instead of dodging the problem. Whose fault was it? We hit the line, but it was unmarked, and perhaps shouldn't have been there in the first place... we focus on moving forward with getting things fixed. 👍
@@GCFD exactly- I opt for progress and wrapping up the issue with as many friends as possible.
You do great and honest work. The world needs more contractors like this!
Subscribed!
Thank you Timothy!
Good job. Doing drainage correctly takes skill to understand the right way to do water elevation drop. Needs fine tuned at the top where it meets pavement. A shallow collection box with a culvert would make passage in front of vehicles safer.
That might be an add on later!
Awesome job. Great to see the work in action.
Thank you!
As always, it is nice to see the results of your work!
I hope it's worth the wait!
Just been rocking the videos lately. Thanks for the great content Shawn.
Thank you Chris! I have so many more that are waiting for rain, or not drainage related. I am trying to keep up 👍
If the state were to classify that drainage area as a stream because a single crayfish exists then everyone's backyard in Louisiana is also designated as a stream under the same rules. If you've got a couple acres of backyard in Louisiana and you've got a couple hundred crayfish living there.
Hahah exactly!
What a kidder you are Shawn, every job is a big job ...
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Great work Sean! So refreshing to see a contractor taking pride in their work.
Hello .
maybe it is an idea to buy a sorting bucket for the mini excavator or to make it yourself.
with a sorting bucket you only dig up the stones or concrete and you sort all the soil and rubbish out of it.
this way you can also clean the stones very easily :
you dig a bucket full of stones,
shake your bucket a bit ,
and like a sieve all the soil from and between the stones falls away through the bucket ,
so you are left with a bucket with "clean stones".
Sincerely Hollandduck from the Netherlands
Yes I was thinking the exact same thing! I just don't know when I'll get another job like that but a sorting bucket would have been the ticket. Luckily where we were taking the dirt, the extra rip rap didn't hurt anything. That video is coming soon!
@@GCFD
maybe a nice downtime/winter DIY project ?
I am an I.T. Tech and back when I had cable, the tech would come out and I had already used my Tone Generator and toned out the lines and marked them for him. I also offered a drink for him and he took it. He was so happy I toned the lines out. :)
I know Archdale well! Parents and many relatives grew up there and some relatives still live there and surrounding areas. Dad worked at Archdale Soda Shop in the early 50’s.
Awesome Jim! They are really upgrading that apt complex. New everything!
I know Archdale as the mid point on my drive from Kannapolis to RTP. ;)
I love how you do the job and explain. Subed now and enjoying in my condo without yard.😂
Thank you for watching! - Shawn
Hi Shawn looking forward to seeing part two of this five part series of works and what I have seen so far is the it will be a cracking great 👍 job.
Jack Part 2 is coming today. I’m headed to go ride my mtb right now while the file exports. Then it’s preview and upload to RUclips!
Great work with the mini-bobcat and the excavator!
Thank you Steve! More from this project coming soon.
Nice work - amazing how much water is held in the earth just looking for some fall.
We were starting to wonder if there was a broken pipe somewhere because there was so much water flowing out.
Great job Shawn. I know everyone is happy to not have a pond in the parking lot. Can't wait until the next video.
Coming soon Shane!
youre a rockstar shawn...i knew that already. love ur vids
Haha, thank you!
Great work and videos as usual. I noticed at the end of the video it seems like the water is getting held up in the middle, looked like to many rocks were blocking water flow. i would guess you removed a rock or two so the water can flow easily and not be pooling a bit.
Yes! I plan to let this settle in a little bit more and revisit just to make sure. I gave a 1 year guarantee with this and the expectation that I would revisit and tweak as needed.
@@GCFD Expected nothing less but this sort of great customer service from you! Keep up the great work and post more videos , I hate waiting for them :P
That guy is still working on his car 😂.
Great job. I am sure the residents are very happy not to have a lake in the parking lot. Plus, your crew cleaning up the dirt gave them several clean useable parking spots. Outstanding. I know parking in many apartments are a premium.
You did Spectrum Cable a big favor by trenching for that conduit and covering it back up.
I think so too! The supervisor was out there with us on a Friday and I'm sure he was happy to just put in a splice and be outta there.
Love watching these videos these guys do a great job well done guys.
Thank you Joel!
Good job Shawn. I bet they wish that they had called you sooner. Have a great day.
I spoke to another resident when I was out there in the rain and he said it's been like that for the 13 years he's lived there. He was super appreciative.
Great job Sean. I have too many comments to list. Message or call when you get a chance
Now I'm scared!
No need... Couple questions. I believe original parking lot contractors screwed up
Cutting the TV cable and interrupting some laddies soap opera can bring down the rathe of God.... LMAO
Luckily we got off pretty easy!
Best video yet... 👍
Thank you Nick!
go back in a year, bet that temp cable line is still in use...see it all the time..
Haha! As long as it's working I suppose.
Call Post10 for any culvert problems
I know! I even mentioned that in a video (upcoming)!
Should take a page from Ollie (Drain Addict) to flush the rest of that sludge out of that concrete culvert pipe
@@ryanwaltos2206 for sure!
How is it that hydrological infrastructure videos have been an addictive RUclips subgenre?
@@carlos_takeshi who knew!
The cat in the top right window was enjoying you guys working 13:45
Haha I noticed that too!
22:35 If you look at the corner of the house there are is two issues there you can see the footer well the cement pad it’s starting to get washed out from the bottom and then the splash block for the downspout should be really flipped around because it looks like it’s installed backwards
That's a classic desperate act, flipping the downspout guards around.
@@GCFD yessir
You’re on fire! 3 videos in 2 days? Nice work.
There are so many more in the works! 👍
3:41 had me at the edge of my seat!
You and me both!
Have you thought about investing in a tumbler for jobs like this? It's used to separated dirt from rock. It turns as you load rock and dirt in one end, it has a grate that allows dirt to pass through and the rock comes out the other end. They run on gas so no extension cords to run and is easily moved with one person. Could save a lot of time. Also works to separate roots and other debris from dirt.
I have thought about it. We could have used it on this job for sure. They also sell attachments that do the same thing for skids and excavators.
I thought the same thing, but only because I have a need to organise and sort stuff. I would have ended up with piles of all different sized rocks and the soil all neatly piled up! But that's just me! I never used to build with Lego but I sorted it to colour, brick shape, then brick size! Don't judge me too harshly 🤭😊
23:15 don't be a d... a jerk. Nice save, Sean lol
LOL yep! It was a close one
😂. I came to post the same thing. I was wondering if anyone else caught that too!!!
That’s my favorite color of equipment
Been enjoying the videos lately!
Thank you Ben! I have hundreds of clips that need to be edited.... More on the way soon.
Should have convinced the property management to just install a DI and run underground drainage to the out let of the creek instead of gave a big ass swale they will most likely need to have dug out again in the future. Not to mention how much more easily maintainable that becomes. #upsale
Great idea! They have several more of these drainage ditches on the property so maybe if we service one of those, I could suggest it.
Damn decent of you, cleaning the carpark.
Here we have to outline all excavation work with white paint, basically the 4 corners. They locate inside the white lines, Then you take photos of the lines. But it happened helping them getting the cable back in does go a long way.
They do ask if the area has been pre-marked in white, but it's not required here. Every time I've hit lines I've always helped out and never been charged.
Everytime I hear u say “I brought the big excavator to the job site today” I hear Andrew C say “hold my welder” 😂
Yep! His ex100 is 24,000 lbs. My "big" excavator is 7500 lbs! I'd like to get a big steel tracked one but need a CDL and truck and trailer first.
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Why wouldn't installing a king sized french drain be a more robust solution? You already have the rock on top. Love your channel
The FD would still need fall and at this area we were dealing with point water sources for the post part. 👍
haha 811 stories .... I am a ham, I placed ground rods all the way around the house every 10 feet and bonded them together. Every time they mark the house they either a) get it wrong and dont mark it all or b) go around the corner see they are headed away from the box and cuss. The last guy I had to yell at no the phone is over there see the tower .. that ground ties into the whole system if you follow it you will end up back near the start .. no no its the phone .. no it isnt I dug that ground wire myself ... look over there beyond the power lines ...
That's a heck of a big Crayfish...
He was relocated into the creek. 👍
Here in Alabama, we call them crawdads.
like your video thanks!
Thank you!
That's the best water Park
So what your saying is you shut of my MTV. "I want my MTV." Not bad. If you ever need parts for that Ford go to u-haul! Real nice you cleaned the muck in the lot.
That's a swell swale now! But where will the truck owner go to play in the rain?
Haha Thank you! I think the truck owner is happy he doesn't have to ford the parking lot to get to his truck now. 👍
Next step would be to pour a concrete swell. That would probably be the best thing for it and to totally get rid of the rock.
That would be good for sure!
Finding that cable kind of explains why they didn’t dig the channel deep enough in the first place.
Very well could be!
Nice rg11 temp, and permanent swale crossing
what out cable company does around here, I mean they subcontract out the work of the burying of the line. but alot of the subcontractors if it goes under a drainage ditch. after the pipe is laid down, they will power a few bags of cement over it just the bag. they wont even wet it. I talked to one of them before. They said after it rains, the cement will harden but it allows the cement to shift and move while it rains so it does create a hump in the drainage ditch. but will keep the pipe in place, and if the ditch needs to be dug up again, next workers will hit the cement instead of the pipe with the cable. Saving the cable line in side from breakage.
That sounds like a cheap protectant solution.
nice! I see that dude didn't end up fixing that white car
I just wanted to suggest you something. Please use a microphone because we don't hear the words very good while you are working. Keep up the amazing work.
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Some kind of drain, french drain would be more visually appealing, don't know about cost
Or a under ground culvert
I should have mentioned it was a tight budget on this job.
It was nice that the cable guys didn't charge for the repair. But those cables across the riff raff is nuts. I mean do you ask anyone where the cables are before you dig ? Because that just totally blows.
Yes we call in 811 utility locating. Often the cable people don't mark their lines and they just repair them for free.
Wow the lack of permit from the city to ensure no lines are hit is pathetic. Really shows how shit we are at doing things the right way. I’d consider that second live 120v a huge near miss.
We call it Forest Gump Digging. You never know what you're gonna hit. Hitting a power line is not a huge deal...it either pops the breaker or cuts the line. We've hit plenty of unmarked lines and repaired them.
ask fire dept to use their hose truck clean off the rock, good practice for the fire dept crew, yahoooo lol another fantastic success thru many obstacles
Thank you!
Water only flows uphill if there is enough money at the top.
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Poor dump truck needs some power steering fluid!
That truck got a PS pump not too long ago. It's an amazing truck. And it fits into places like on this job.
@@GCFD gotcha, sounds really bad tho! Sounded like my truck until I found out there was a busted line and no fluid lol
It would be best to build a little footbridge just over the part where the outdoor lighting cable runs and then just make good and secure the lighting conduit underneath it.
Great idea!
Great idea Phil. 👍 I think now I know why the swale was completed in such a method originally. Possibly they knew about the cables? Great job Shawn. Simple ideas making big differences.
Ur lucky the cable was that deep.
Around here cable has been known to be just below grade even tho they're suppose to be feet below esp on state r.o.w..
The good thing is that when they don't follow rules All co$t$ fall on them.
That happens here a lot with the cables just under the ground.
Right hat, Wrong machine.
Well it's May 2022 . Spectrum still has not finished the repair, right ?
Too bad they just couldn't put a nice concrete drain through there, just like the last parking lot where you re-poured it. Then they could have had a nice level grassy area between the buildings. 🤑🤑
There were several more of those rip rap channels throughout the complex so this aligned with them.
Rip-rap slows the water down to prevet erosion, it looks like you had a silt trap set up with the rip rap was stacked high enough to ruin the grade. Years of "not a problem yet" caused this probably.
Yes, I see it all the time where people bury areas with riprap and call it a solution.
2 hours late. Shawn you need to doing Premiere notifications! I would have jumped off my conference call early.
That is an option when I am making videos public....Instant Premier, but I don't know what it does. What's the deal?
@@GCFD so it’s like a live stream for pre recorded videos, so 30 minutes before the video it gives all your subscribers with notifications on a notification saying it’s showcasing in 30 minutes. And when it’s ready for it to show people can comment on the video like a live stream. Therefore during the premier people can ask questions and you can reply. When the video is finished it just get put to your channel. I hope this helped Shawn 👍😀
@@ednaemode5762 thanks for the info. Should I do that?
@@GCFD Sure! If you want to
Love these videos, I just had to sub today! Please, can you tell me why the rocks are called 'riff raff'? Am I saying that right? Thank you!
:D “Rip Rap”
Like Scott said, Rip rap rock. It's different than river rock you might hear.
Please mention the state. You mention the city but never the state. It would be a kind and considerate to do. Thank you
Greensboro,NC
We're in NC, Triad area of Greensboro.
Waiting for the update on the crayfish.
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Can't believe they didn't just want a storm water box and a pipe installed and level the dirt on top of it for a nice even yard , A lot less unsightly an more effective . Couple of things , why didn't you line the ditch with plastic to prevent erosion ? Surprised they didn't have to install a storm water retention pond of some type , Usually you are not allowed to dump storm water directly into a receiving body of water .
Here all storm water drains to surface waters (creeks and ponds). The stormwater basins all say Drains to Creeks, don't dump with a picture of a fish. There shouldn't be any erosion in a bed of riprap so fabric was not needed. Rip rap is erosion control because it interrrupts the flow and slows the water down.
My question is, what utility runs a cable through a drainage area?
That was in the 80s so who knows!
You sure that water doesn't flow uphill in Australia, toilets flow backwards?
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