Repairing Washed Out Gravel Driveway
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2023
- Here I repair and improve a severely washed out gravel driveway such that heavy rains will no longer damage it.
Equipment Used:
Excavator: 2022 Bobcat E50 R2-Series
Skidsteer/CTL: 2021 Bobcat T66
Excavator Tilt: Bobcat Power Tilt
Dump Trailer: 2020 BigTex 14LP
Camera: GoPro Hero 7
End video of rain performance and corrections were excellent. Not many people would actually go back to see how their work performs. A+
As a RUclips standard these videos are just for Entertainment value 9.6% are just someone that got a piece of equipment and telling you they are the best 😅but every once in a while you run into the 4% which you are. Know what you're doing I've been in construction over 40 years and I would say to you keep up the great work
86.4 won't see your error in decimal point. 96% 💪
Your math ain’t mathin
What are you talking about this guy did a mediocre job and probably killed those beautiful old trees in the process. He is the 96%. I'd like to see what it looks like now.
Great job. What is more valuable is a man who stands behind his work.
As someone that does this kind of work, I was very happy to see that you placed the stone under the asphalt for a base. It's all too often I see contractors just using fill dirt as a base and placing asphalt on top and knowing it will not last. Nice work!
??? English kidding ? But that’s exactly what he is doing.
I’ve got my driveway to repair, and obviously the way he is doing is extremely economical because he collects all gravel that have been washed out, but the problem isn’t no more pure gravel, it’s polluted with dirt and even worse : humus.
I don’t see how he can have the hope of cohesion for such a base.
I think he should find a place to dispose all that material at some place at the customer, maybe needs a truck or a dumper to move that, or pull it aside maybe ?
Then purchase expensive stone and gravel to build the crown after having cleaned the existing material from remaining dirt or humus
“Repairing” is an understatement. You built a whole new driveway. Great work!
Thanks!
Exactly! Digging the swale!
Nice
Your work is great, very detailed, for someone who works alone...well done
After watching you compact that driveway, I will never complain again about mowing my friend's 1-acre yard with my 42" riding mower. Nice job.
What an excellent outcome. It looks great and works as intended. Love the follow up during the rain to see how water actually flows in the swales. Excellent work and attention to detail.
I believe that'll be a lifetime driveway some people may think it's a little Overkill but they don't realize it will hold out for years and years to come with very little grading maintenance to the middle job well done 👍👏👏
This is the BEST driveway remake I have ever seen. The plan was flawless. The use of materials, excellent. The grading supurb. The finish beautiful. Thank you for giving us a peek into your mastery.
Pipe will be clogged in no time
Wow nothing like falling all over him with comments Do you have some other motive in mind😂
What the hell are you people smoking?
It is not easy to find such an ethical tradies nowadays. It is a pleasure to watch your video end to end.
Very interesting watching your video from start to finish ! So quality workmanship & attention to detail. Not many can do professional work like this. If I had any driveway work, you would be at the top of the list to hire !! 👍
Thank you very much!
That driveway had everything working against it! The finished product you delivered is a job well done for that homeowner! 👍
Simply amazing, like watching an artist/ surgeon.
The fact you went back to show driveway while raining speaks loudly of your work. Good job.
Nice job! I had a gravel driveway, on a similar hill, that I battled for thirty-five years. I finally had it asphalted fifteen years ago. The issue with asphalt is it requires sealing often and the edges are prone to crumble over time. Good job on those wood chips. I have a tree stump grinding business. I ALWAYS inform my customers that grass will not grow over wood chips. The best thing to do is haul them off.
Agreed, you can’t just throw seed on woodchips, but as long as you throw an inch or so of topsoil over the chips, grass will grow… it’ll just sink as the chips deteriorate.
great job. you're really good at running the machines.
I watched your channel for the first time and was most impressed by your work and the final result. You did a good job.
nice work...thanks for you tubing it for us!!
Looks like a fantastic job to me honestly. Water is quite the force to contend with no matter the circumstances and sometimes youve got to go back and correct a few spots. Thats just how it is
Damn, Those are some quality asphalt millings..
Nice video, love the rain check at the end, it’s always surprising what actually happens when the rain picks up. We have a 400ft steep driveway in the mountains and it’s a forever project. Not found anywhere yet that can deliver asphalt filings so struggling for options to seal it off in a diy fashion. It’s mainly base that compacts well, but if extremely dry summers turns to dust and gravel
As an artist such as this man, Id make each layer 5 feet think. The homeowner could use the lawn as the driveway and admire my work from afar.
Good job !! I'm glad you waited until it rained and took some more video to show how things were really working.
Really good driveway rebuild, it looks great! With all that rain, it held up really well, looks like it passed the test.
The driveway looks really good, I’m sure the owners are happy.
You sir are an artist ! I’ve spent many a happy hour on a skid steer as an adult ( old man) and many a day on a dozer as a youngster
Never as an occupation , I never reached the level of a great operator but I get by , nothing like the rush you get from running a good piece of equipment! Great content ! Thank you !
I saw a driveway with some washout and after passing the same driveway a few months later I noticed the home owner had installed some guardrails every 40 feet at an angle to divert the water to the sides where he also had some 3/4 stone installed. A year later when I passed by there was some damage but not like it was before it did the work. Thanks for the video
Love seeing updates at the end of the video to see how the drainage is working to learn a little myself.
Lovely finish. Great video. So pleased you showed us the rain at the end 👍👏👌☺️
Awesome job...Looks great....Thank you for the footage during the rain so we could see it working well and holding up just fine.....
Thanks 👍
STILL love this video... so much to watch and enjoy about this project!
I don't know about functionality, but I do know that it's beautiful.
Great job. Bravo sir!!!
Excellent video and great job. Thanks for showing the performance at the end. Learned some things that I may do on my driveway.
Nice. A quality fix and upgrade. Good to go for decades.
It nice to see an operator work. More often then not all you see is lever pullers and a mess. Had to clean up a few in my time
You even took the time to show us your handiwork and what you changed while it was raining. Great video
Super terrific workmanship. Great satisfying video. Educational too.
Fantastic work! Your video has helped with ideas for the downhill sloped rural road that passes in front of our property.
french drains where you can are a great help.
Thank you ! It was great watching you working.
omg yayyy i had to resort to going back & watching my fave old vids from your channel.
Subscribed. I was most impressed with the sandy loam swell on back of curve and the fact that you didn’t bury the root crowns of those trees.
oh heck yeah, I want one of those machines. that thing moves so fast work gets done real quick
Exceptional driveway job Brian!Also, your video editing skills are second to none.. Excellent work. The whole job came out great..
Really enjoyed watching you work, this driveway held up very good for the amount of rain fall you had. Man you know your way around a skid steer and excavator. 👍👍
So many little details in this video that I love! Best video ever!
Nice work, this is what I need to do on my own driveway, and because it's steeper than this one, I may put in a few water bars to channel water off to the side and into swales that are cut on-contour, perpendicular to the slope of the hill in order to soak the runoff into the landscape. Swales are always cut on contour, perpendicular to slope -- they don't direct water downhill. So for the excavations that are on either side and parallel to the driveway, I think you mean a drainage -- and those may even end up eroding quite a bit in heavy rainstorms, so you might think about moving the water sideways rather than downhill. This property in particular has plenty of room for swales on either side of the driveway.
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You did a whole drive way build. that was massive. Great job.
I guess you missed him undermining the whole build with the addition of top soil and tree roots lol
Wow what a remarkable difference‼️😎 Fantastic Job‼️😃
Very nice work. That customer should be very pleased.
You are doing good work for a man working alone, good Job there 👌
that was cool to watch. I enjoyed working with this type of equipment when I was younger. Good job.
Rewatched! Love this video and the transformation!
nice work showing the aftermath with the heavy rain! Was hoping for that
Never put topsoil in a road regardless of how much stone you add because it stays mushy,
especially when wet.
Always save topsoil and spread it out on in the grass where it needed it.
This is why no one listens to contractors that know what they are doing. They see shit like this and think its ok. Did anyone see the ruts in there after the dump truck dropped off the first 3 loads of gravel. The driveway is unstable and will continue to stay wet and shift. The culvert too, omg.
Road base is not used for a standalone road topping, as the name Implies it is base for something else.... asphalt, concrete, at a bare minimum 1” & 3/4” crushed rock And if you want pretty top that one and three-quarter inch with a little pea gravel it’ll be RUclips pretty
I wondered about this. Why didn’t he place his equipment on the grass and while he was digging the swale, pull all that dirt onto the grass instead of on top of the rock on the driveway?
I was very surprised to see him to add this topsoil on the driveway. Seems to me that’s a kind of guarantee to have it unstable
Thought the same exact thing. Also cringed when I saw him scraping all the tree roots. Hope the trees don’t die cause that’s proof
Finished job looks very nice! Good work!
OUTSTANDING!!! Loved the video, you do great work!!
I can not stopp watching this video.... it has so many things to look at!
@@martinr1834 this relaxes me.... lol
Beautiful job, well done!
Always wanted to see a hard rainfall on a finished driveway of the caliper
Looks Beautiful, great job!
Excellent work. The whole job came out great.
Thank you!
Just remember you ever just fill a hole or wash out it has to be cut out first so material will blend or same wash out will occur again down the. All ruts have to be cut if not underneeth what you can't see has not changed. You drive down a highway and see wash outs on slopes these cant just be filled because the edges of the wash out are tight thats why they stayed and did not wash out which is why the must be cut so material can be blended then graded. 74 yr old retired union operator lol Just saying.
You have introduced me to a whole new dimension of landscaping. Wow! My days of watching guys mow, edge, blow and go may be coming to an end. I'm on board! Txs for sharing.
Haha thanks! Watching mowing and sidewalk edging is quite cathartic as well.
Very good operator! Fun to watch.
Bravo! More like rescued and great aesthetics. Fine job sir
That's solid work for a one-man crew!😊
-like you said there's more than one way to do something and when we are not privy to how much money the customer wants to spend the only criticism I kind of have is the size of the pipe but that could be due to the customer not paying for the correct materials but I believe that pipe will be filled up in a relatively short period of time. Hopefully it makes it past the 2-year mark because unless you have the customer sign something your responsible even though you may not have wanted to put that pipe down due to the customer not wanting the correct materials who knows but let's just hope it last two years.
And for my own knowledge would be awesome if you did a follow-up video to yours from now to see if that pipe is holding up. 👍
All in all good work!
Excellent operating skills!
wow that road is picture perfect !
Looks really good. Nice job
Nice. Tail-gating material can be a time saver.
Fantastic job you done there 👍
Fantastic job, that client should be very happy with that.
Very nice work! Always great working for folks who want a job done the right way!
Sam
Nice job! Very impressive!
Impressive. Looks great
Simply put....nice work.
Great job and you are very articulate.
This is STILL a favorite of mine to watch all 1 hour worth of footage. Great video!
I watch alot of content like this, and first time seeing something from your channel. Excellent!!
Thanks!
What a brilliant job buddy. I like the idea of the stones down both sides of the driveway. It's the first time seeing your chanll.
The water channel on the side of the driveway should have been dug deeper, at least 36 inches or more, and run a 12” pipe under the drive way to release the water to the lower side. When looking down the drive way, the left side will spill over
Wow. Great job. Learned a lot. Thanks!
You definitely got the technique down on how you totally fixed the drive like it should be done in that area where the drive is located. Sure wish you were living in my area ( TN) ! Difficult to find good quality knowledgeable workmanship !! 👌
Thanks 👍
Liked and Subscribed.... Love the content and the driveway project! Please share more!
This was a fun video to watch. The rain at the end was excellent
That was a great video you do good work. Glad to be on board
Thanks for your intro., Explaining the 'how to' and 'why'.
Exceptional driveway job Brian!
Also, your video editing skills are second to none.
wow, and i thought only gate city foundation drainage revisited his work, good job.
Let's go already..looks like a good project
Great work mister! 👍🏼
I like the timelapse! Great video
Thanks for showing the rain storm
wow what a job! looks great
Looks good. Just my opinion I would have went a bigger culvert pipe. Minimum of 10” and I would have went deeper to help from it being crushed. Also I have saw some people add sealer to the top of it to make it more solid. I think I’m going to try it. Also I have seen people heat it up before to help melt some of the asphalt together. But it looks great!
Looks Great Well Done
Great job
I was taking notes during the whole video.
Very cool 😎. Good job 👌. Looks awesome
It's very important to make a swale like you did. Most people will dig down to make a road and fill it with gravel but end up making a river for the water to flow.
Great job ! Looks A+