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
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.
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
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.
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.
I wish grading with the front bucket like this was just as easy with a tractor as it is with a skid steer. I feel like every time i try and push material forward with my tractor bucket I end up just digging down into the ground. You make it look so easy!
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 !! 👍
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.
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
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.
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 !
Awesome video showing the step by step...cool ow you got the downpour to be able to add that portion to the video! Shows you did and excellent job Sir.😊
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
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. 👍👍
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
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 !! 👌
This is not a halfway poor workmanship job. 100% quality, considering that materials that were used and discussed with the customer, it couldn't have been any better. Even put grass seed down with straw to protect it. Great job. Spend the money to do it right this way.
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. .
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
I bet a road trip with Jimmy is a real hoot! Your dirt moving capability will definitely increase with that baby. Maybe Jimmy won't get stuck as much too.
I just found your channel. I am just getting into the same business here in Alaska. I also have an e50 but I don't have the tilt bucket. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to seeing more of your videos.
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!
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.
Very nice work, but the finish needed a really heavy vibrator roller to compact it properly. The small gravel compacter is not enough, as will be borne out over time. Also the addition of several strategically placed yews, dwarf pines and other shrubs or placement of intermittent hedges on the open grounds and lawn would be a major defense against future erosion. But all in all, a job well done considering the wide open area, the slope of the land, and the reconstruction you had to do to rebuild the swales and berms. Congrats.
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?
This was an entire driveway rebuild. Looks like good work! I know this video was more for entertainment value but I would have loved to hear why you used the different stone you used and why you put it down in the order you did. I use a Ventrac with a power rake to do some driveway repair (fixing potholes and crown), but so don’t do anything like this. I leave these total driveway overhauls to the big boy toys. Also a price break down on a job like this would be nice. I bet this repair was close to at least 20k.
Great video keep up the good work. Just one thought as a person who has worked in construction and transportation. I would for your own safety consider setting up orange cones around your rig on narrow two lane roads like that. Gives people a visual que to be aware of equipment and people working. Just my 2 cents.
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.
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End video of rain performance and corrections were excellent. Not many people would actually go back to see how their work performs. A+
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
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.
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.
“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
He didn't say repair.
He said restoration.
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.
Infantry should be able to walk
50 miles per day.
@@jakebredthauer5100 Probably the North Korea infantry.
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?
I wish grading with the front bucket like this was just as easy with a tractor as it is with a skid steer. I feel like every time i try and push material forward with my tractor bucket I end up just digging down into the ground. You make it look so easy!
That driveway had everything working against it! The finished product you delivered is a job well done for that homeowner! 👍
Nothing greater than watching a man who mastered his craft, whatever it may be. Dudes a master of the mini machines.
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.
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!
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.
I thought I was good on a bobcat until I watched you. Great job, love watching. I'm retired now, miss those days.
I watched your channel for the first time and was most impressed by your work and the final result. You did a good job.
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
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.
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 !
It is not easy to find such an ethical tradies nowadays. It is a pleasure to watch your video end to end.
The driveway looks really good, I’m sure the owners are happy.
Those millings are beautiful, extra fine and screened perfectly. Great job!
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.
It really doesn't get any better than this! Excellent work ethic.
Damn, Those are some quality asphalt millings..
Awesome video showing the step by step...cool ow you got the downpour to be able to add that portion to the video! Shows you did and excellent job Sir.😊
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.
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
great job. you're really good at running the machines.
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
Nice. Tail-gating material can be a time saver.
You are doing good work for a man working alone, good Job there 👌
You even took the time to show us your handiwork and what you changed while it was raining. Great video
I don't know about functionality, but I do know that it's beautiful.
Great job. Bravo sir!!!
glad that you went back when it rained to show us the end result :) great video
Very nice work. That customer should be very pleased.
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. 👍👍
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
Simply amazing, like watching an artist/ surgeon.
that was cool to watch. I enjoyed working with this type of equipment when I was younger. Good job.
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 👍
This is not a halfway poor workmanship job. 100% quality, considering that materials that were used and discussed with the customer, it couldn't have been any better. Even put grass seed down with straw to protect it. Great job.
Spend the money to do it right this way.
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
nice work...thanks for you tubing it for us!!
Love seeing updates at the end of the video to see how the drainage is working to learn a little myself.
STILL love this video... so much to watch and enjoy about this project!
Good job !! I'm glad you waited until it rained and took some more video to show how things were really working.
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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omg yayyy i had to resort to going back & watching my fave old vids from your channel.
Great job on the driveway. It should last a long time. Looks super.
Lovely finish. Great video. So pleased you showed us the rain at the end 👍👏👌☺️
Looks great. Hopefully the mail man can navigate the new pipe.
And dead trees also all the soft spots that will turn into pot holes from the mixing of top soil into the road base
oh heck yeah, I want one of those machines. that thing moves so fast work gets done real quick
Very nice work! Always great working for folks who want a job done the right way!
Sam
Unbelievable JOB ... the water
should follow the lrg rock .
I would of optioned for crushed blue
stone and compact - rolled it 57.
nice work showing the aftermath with the heavy rain! Was hoping for that
wow, and i thought only gate city foundation drainage revisited his work, good job.
Nice. A quality fix and upgrade. Good to go for decades.
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
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 👍
Super terrific workmanship. Great satisfying video. Educational too.
Thanks for your intro., Explaining the 'how to' and 'why'.
I bet a road trip with Jimmy is a real hoot! Your dirt moving capability will definitely increase with that baby. Maybe Jimmy won't get stuck as much too.
Very good operator! Fun to watch.
It looks fantastic, and coming back during the heavy rain to make corrections, priceless, well done sir.
I can not stopp watching this video.... it has so many things to look at!
@@martinr1834 this relaxes me.... lol
I just found your channel. I am just getting into the same business here in Alaska. I also have an e50 but I don't have the tilt bucket. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to seeing more of your videos.
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!
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.
This is STILL a favorite of mine to watch all 1 hour worth of footage. Great video!
Blow snow, don't plough. Enjoyed the video, thank you.
Excellent video and great job. Thanks for showing the performance at the end. Learned some things that I may do on my driveway.
Beautiful work, nice job.
Fantastic job, that client should be very happy with that.
Great job 100% better. Water issues should be eliminated.
Love ya work! hiring a ride on roller would have been worth your time.
This was a fun video to watch. The rain at the end was excellent
Exceptional driveway job Brian!
Also, your video editing skills are second to none.
Finished job looks very nice! Good work!
I watch alot of content like this, and first time seeing something from your channel. Excellent!!
Thanks!
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.
Nice job , and got your 10 mile walk in .
Exceptional driveway job Brian!Also, your video editing skills are second to none.. Excellent work. The whole job came out great..
Very nice work, but the finish needed a really heavy vibrator roller to compact it properly. The small gravel compacter is not enough, as will be borne out over time. Also the addition of several strategically placed yews, dwarf pines and other shrubs or placement of intermittent hedges on the open grounds and lawn would be a major defense against future erosion. But all in all, a job well done considering the wide open area, the slope of the land, and the reconstruction you had to do to rebuild the swales and berms. Congrats.
That was a great video you do good work. Glad to be on board
Bravo! More like rescued and great aesthetics. Fine job sir
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
Thank you ! It was great watching you working.
Liked and Subscribed.... Love the content and the driveway project! Please share more!
wow that road is picture perfect !
Just as Im thinking, "Id love to see that after a good rain" BAM there is it haha. Great job. Should last them a long time.
Thanks for showing the rain storm
Excellent work. The whole job came out great.
Thank you!
OUTSTANDING!!! Loved the video, you do great work!!
Great job and you are very articulate.
Wow what a remarkable difference‼️😎 Fantastic Job‼️😃
This was an entire driveway rebuild. Looks like good work! I know this video was more for entertainment value but I would have loved to hear why you used the different stone you used and why you put it down in the order you did. I use a Ventrac with a power rake to do some driveway repair (fixing potholes and crown), but so don’t do anything like this. I leave these total driveway overhauls to the big boy toys. Also a price break down on a job like this would be nice. I bet this repair was close to at least 20k.
Great video keep up the good work. Just one thought as a person who has worked in construction and transportation. I would for your own safety consider setting up orange cones around your rig on narrow two lane roads like that. Gives people a visual que to be aware of equipment and people working. Just my 2 cents.
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.