You did what you needed to put that culvert in that drainage area. Top soil is one of the worst types of soil you could have used, but it was available. You most likely would not use it again in an area that you want to move heavy equipment through. God job any how Matt. That material in your pit would have been much better. Love the channel, and use to be living not far from you in Oakdale when the Army base was there in the early 70’s. Nice country out there.😊
I cringed at using topsoil as well, but given the application, it shouldn't be an issue. It's not a main driveway, just a path through the woods, and if it washes, he can do another video to dig it out and fix it!
You could probably also do is take one of you compactors over there and vibrate the hell out of it. In my experience with packers, the vibrations will draw the moisture out of the ground faster than mother nature and it will pack the dirt so you can then top off with gravel.
I think he'd be better off waiting till he's digging in the borrow pit, take the dozer and scrape all that topsoil off the pipe, then bring in clay.... THEN compact it with the vibratory roller.
Hi Matt, love the channel, keep up the good work. I recall you have a lot of timber lying around so if you're up for an experiment do like the old timers. Lay a good timber carpet straight on that slop, 8 inch round down to brushwood, the more tangled and random the better. A good layer of soil over the top that'll work into the voids then a deep shale cap. Won't hurt if you end up with a rise over the pipe. In the rainy UK we've built roads and railways over bogs on brushwood matts that are still good 150 year later. Thinking about your International loader maybe there's a coolant blockage? When you're working the revs keep enough flow through the rad but back at idle it hotshots and boils?
When operating why does it not keep the rpms up ? Hey Matt whatever happened to Christine the blade? I don't see her hanging out,I must've missed an episode.. 30:34.
Did you have fun? Did you get to operate multiple older machines that may be in a scrap yard if you didn’t save them? Did you put out a sweet video for the week? The answer is yes to all! So how I see it is it was a success!
Either way regardless it's good content as always and how Matt takes the time out of his very busy schedule to post videos for us great job Matt were all human bro back to the drawing board I am sure you already have a solution by now ..... honestly if I were close by your neck of the woods I would help out for FREE just so I could operate the old school machines you got cos old things are awesome and they don't build them like they used to ha ha!
I sort of winced when I saw you tossing so much topsoil on top of that pipe. The contractor I hired to put in my road for my house did the same thing; It was my fault for not specifying exactly what I wanted done, I counted on their competence and I was not present when the work was done. What won-out with that crew was their laziness in not wanting to wait for five or six truckloads of rock to show up. Twenty five years later it is still a boggy mess down there. I wish they had dropped a couple of loads of #3 and then more loads of #5 to give it a drivable surface. I was down there yesterday and the ruts are almost a foot deep along the edges of the road. Work-wise, one of the sites I was responsible for (pumping station for an oil pipeline) was a giant, mucky mess and it took almost two feet of #1 to create a base that I had them top off with another foot of #5. It still was not a fun surface to ride on (lumpy) but at least we did not need to call for a tow truck to get our 4x4 work vehicles out of a mud pit that had buried up to the door rockers. (I am an electrical engineer and don't know much about civil engineering or site construction but working for an oil company they just see the word "engineer" attached to your name and think that we know everything about every imaginable subject.. Usually if they force me in to that sort of predicament I will end up overbuilding to keep it from being a fiasco.)
I'm a retired civil engineering technician and have designed many a roads. You never use topsoil for road base. You must use a good gravel base. You'll have to remove all the topsoil and put material from your barrow pit to build your road. You really need to remove all the topsoil along the entire length of the proposed road, especially if you're going to be running heavy loaded trucks over it.
Entirely agree, and I’m sure Matt knew this. I honestly can’t think why he went down the road (no pun intended) of using top soil, even allowing for the fact that it was available, to use as a base for a haulage road.
I also agree. I also think he needs to use a compactor to compact the gravel base and soil so that it holds together more better this way the road lasts longer. As for the dampness in the soil I think sand might help out with that as well. I could be wrong but hey it's a thought.
Howdyyawl from the land down under. Well Matt, you did a good job. Now you'll have to watch the antinompaction as the water runs. Might to fortify the ends of the pipe so water doesn't wash the fill away. You can still lay road base over when the weather comes up latter on. Liked the video. Doing it real😊
The International 3850 loader has a hydraulic system relief valve setting at 2,250 PSI, so looking at the video the machine is working wonderfully. There is a difference between machine performance between 2,250 and the new loaders 3,500 up to 4,000 PSI working pressure. Back in the day the early 1970's; that 3850 was a loader owner operators dreamed about owning, it was 4 wheel drive, one could get some serious work done with it vs a two wheel rear drive on the backhoe loaders.! Thanks for the memories Diesel Creek Matt.
Job well done, nothing broke down ! its a plus with older vintage equpment to keeps things running,,,,true talent indeed, that old equipment will still be running when the new fangled joy stick contoled tier 4 piece of equpment be dead on the road ,broken down !
I've been in heavy construction since our family was in business and i was 12years old as an operator as well as a Forman and or boss for the later years of my life and don't care if you don't listen to my suggestions but when I installed a culvert pipe I always installed an extra 6 foot on each side of the culvert ! This extra length is for the slope on each side of the bridge from top of road to flowline of culvert pipe to minimize erosion on the inlet and outlet of your culvert pipe ! As well as for better compaction along the edges of the road !
I have said this before and I will say it again. This young man works his ass off making these videos that we all immensely enjoy. I see there are 468,000 views and only 61,000 likes. A thumbs up is totally free. It boggles my mind to know that over 400,000 people watched this video and just moved on without giving a simple click of the "like" button. That is just pathetic. Art from Ohio
Sokoban is the name of the game with a guy having to move things around in a room. Fun game from the early 80's. There have been many iterations of it since with all kinds of different names :)
Good morning Matt. Just bought 18 acres going to start clearing it. Bought a 400 dollar 4wheeler yesterday. Looking at backhoes. Lol getting a late start
I agree with the thoughts about a corduroy road. We have old logging roads still being used by equipment that are well over 100 years old. And they can be laid over top soil as these sure are.
Dear Matt, In our wet climate over here in the Netherlands we never use top soil over a culvert or a concrete pipe. Most of the time we’re digging out the soil for about 40 inch under the position where the pipe needs to come with at least 40 inch above the pipe for covering the pipe. Of course the total depth for digging is depending on the diameter of the the pipe. With us width of the area to be dug needs to be at least 80 inch plus the diameter of the pipe. First we make a bed for the pipe out of 40 inch high sand out of the rivers. Than the pipe needs to be positioned in the middle of the made space and the sides can be filled equally with sand of a river. On top of the pipe approximately 33 inch of river sand and finally the last layer of about 6 inch with small ground stone. Only the sides where the pipe is coming out at both ends will be finished with top soil for making grass growing possible. the entire dam with water passage, is well rolled so that heavy traffic can pass over it. Often such a construction also receives an asphalt layer, but never in situations like yours. End of the lesson how to make a solid dam with water passage.😀 I look forward to your next vlog and send you love from the Netherlands
This intermittent Probably flows a few months of the year Plus he said 30 inch is overkill . I think he is just using excuses to put it in other to level ot out a little
I fear that the Dutch way of making these things is a bit over the top for a backyard project like Matts since our country is basicly a reclaimed river delta / swamp..
I wish I had the availability of surface waters to create a pond. Living on a mountain made of karst terrain (caves and solution channels) means that we can get three inches of rain in 24 hours and it doesn't puddle or pond anywhere.
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Big trucks need hard thick roads. Our town crew put in a 48"" culvert last year and used a John Deere 2WD loader/backhoe, a dump truck and most impotantly a little walk behind compactor. There are 2 guys on the crew and it took them 2 days with most of the time spent compacting each refill layer. The culvert is a composite steel outer corrugated shell with smooth UHMW liner so beavers have a harder time damming it up. Cool video, liked it much!
I have sold almost everything as far as tractors and equipment goes now and only own a Toro mini skid steer and i can tell you that for it's size those little minis are the best things since sliced bread. I'm crippled up from 44 years of Construction work and that machine is adaptable for doing a lot of Farm and Construction and landscaping work and i even use it to ride down to the mailbox just to get the mail.
😂 looks like a vid from the summer. So much green on the trees. I think the only piece of equipment still missing on the farm is an articulated dumptruck. Anyway nice job Matt and maybe if you need the road pretty fast lay down some steel sheets to bridge the culvert. Thats what is done over here a lot when the soil isnt load bearing.
Just as I sit down and eat dinner, thinking about what to whatch on youtube, i see Matt uploaded a new video for us to watch! Keep up with good! Hello from Bosnia!
Keep up the great work ! I love how you can take anything apart and put it back together again. I have stage IV lung cancer nodles and your videos are great to watch and forget about everything for a while. THANK YOU, May God continue to bless you and your wife and your families !
Should have looked for a flatbed trailer for a bridge. Those sales auctions I bet would have one. My brother bought one then revised the wheels. It works great. Just a thought. Love the channel.
Dear Matt I have really enjoyed your video regarding repair of old machines. It's amazing how you trouble shoot and get the machines up and running. I really enjoy your up attitude and how you teach us how to fix this stuff. Lately I have noticed your nice piece of land is looking like Diesel Creek Trailer Trash Dump area. Think if something happened to you and your wife is stuck with this mess.
Pouring concrete over the plastic Colbert pipe works really good to if you can afford 2 grand for concrete! Just use the good stuff and the fill with rock and screenings and do it right and be done with it !
No worries Matt everything takes time you have been working towards this for some time patience is necessary for great rewards thank you for sharing this six stars brother
Oregon department of forestry has a push now for metal culverts. They had a fire line on a road, and it got the plastic culvert and got away from them. Burnt thru the plastic to the other side. . They would also have a fit over the length of the culvert they'd want another 10foot with 5 foot on each side to avoid soil run off. They can get mity picky sometimes.
You have lots of neat stuff. I live in the city so my "neat" stuff is limited but my grandkids love to go through it. "Tata, why do you have so much neat stuff?" I tell them that's what Tatas are for.
In Florida where I grew up, when we ran into muddy situations on roads near our property, we used old trees that we had laying around. I see you have some cut up wood laying around. We cut up pieces of wood and laid it in the mud and it works for a cheap temporary solution.
Sir, thank you for all the knowledge you bestow on us. Some of us are concrete locked in the city. Your content allows us to escape and through you and your adventures, get away and ponder...if only...possibly one day. We are right there with you bud! Pray all are well.
Wow Old Girl Got Bunch more power then i was Exspecting Matt Super Sweet she taking that pile of Dirt and Weeds and Grass down Like A Champ 10:15 @Diesel Creek
As with several other commenters, I say there are two options here: 1) Lay down a corduroy road over the topsoil, then add a layer of shale atop that. If it's good enough to keep freight trains from sinking into muskeg, it's good enough for you. 2) Dig out all the topsoil and start over with clay fill. Overall, looking good!
Topsoil is absolutely the wrong material from the get go. You don't use clay fill for culverts or bases either,.. unless you plan to stabilize it with lime or cement.
@@jcgoogle1808 Clay is a great sealant around culvert pipes to prevent water from running outside and then you fill in with dirt and stack rocks around the ends to prevent erosion and to get sharp edges around the pipe. Then you leave it or compact the material and add some geotextile fabric and a layer of coarse gravel on top for road and it'll hold up. Once you get pure clay in the ground and compacted and have some drainage in the area and don't disturb the clay it will be like concrete. It's when you have water moving in clay and disturb it things get dicey with tixotropics and liquidation.. Topsoil mixed with clay for it all like Matt did is definitely not the way to go for a road..
@@TheBibliofilus I've managed tons of commercial projects including (among other infrastructure) installation of uncounted miles of storm drain systems and culverts,.. under roads, train tracks, parking lots,. etc. The number one backfill material under and around storm pipe is usually 3/4" crushed limestone. Water is going to go through the pipe unless it's full of silt or something. There's usually no concern with water going around the outside of the pipe. But if it does, the course aggregate will allow it to go around the pipe without any erosion or deleterious effects to the subgrade. Using clay around a culvert will get saturated with water and could easily settle and/or pump and eventually fail under the weight of vehicle traffic. Topsoil is an absolute waste of time for any fill or base except for yards.
Hi Matt, I've enjoyed watching all your posted clips/videos here. I used to work with an engineering and testing company here in B.C. and a 3 inch minus materials should have been ideal for the culvert backfill and top it off with a foot of layer of final base with road mulch/quarter inch mulch. Have fun!
Matt, the pond sounds like a good idea. I would encourage you to start looking around for a source of clay to line your pond with, and also, depending how big you make it, you might want a FD connection for your shop and or house near the driveway in the unlikely event it becomes a need. For what little it would add in cost, because you are rural, it would be cheap insurance.
Not far from the lake where my family vacationed for many years is a small but deep pond that actually has a pipe along the main road that the fire trucks can fill up from should the need arise.
@@Renville80In my area, we are rural with very little city water lines. We use that same system you mentioned on many of our local larger creeks for fire safety. The fire trucks carry trash pumps also.
You could use some timber over it, just like they used to here in Alaska, It's amazing how well that works, and you'd only need about 50 feet of it just over the top soil area....
Man, I really like that little loader . Put some love into it and ROPs, you will have a handy machine there. Even build a grapple for the bucket. Do like they did in Alaska with the Corduroy road .
Lots of engineers around here that want to criticize, but after working on a gigantic cattle ranch for 5 years, cutting lots of roads, installing cattle guards, etc you know what? I learned that sometimes you have to run what ya brung to get it done. Is topsoil a good road base? Nope. Not even a little, lol. I know that, you knew that, and apparently all of youtube knows that...but you had it sitting there and needed to move it out of the way. You now have a somewhat passable road and have simultaneously cleared out several piles of dirt. You'll likely have to either mitigate the topsoil by adding wood or another modifier to it, or redo the road base completely before it sees any heavy traffic...but that's not a terribly huge job with the equipment you have. I'd call that a win in the short term, man.
Why do I sit here and watch you move dirt? Why? Cause I love it and dream of doing the same on a property of my own, one day. Watch all videos, literally all! Great video work!
Geeze Matt, that puzzle thing was my life for years. Trying to explain it to people was a task in itself. Gotta do 9 things before you can get to the 1 thing you want to do to begin with.
Hey you had to move the material anyway and although the road doesn’t have immediate utility as a haul road it does give you access for lighter vehicles. Your property is a long term project and in time your needs and vision for it will evolve.
I'd have to agree with you, Matt. It would seem to me that one excavator w/thumb could have done all the culvert pipe procedure and the front loader and dump truck to haul the dirt pile away. Probably used a roller attachment on the excavator to compact the pipe a bit better too - like Chris does.
Top soil is terrible for fill… you should be using rock around the culvert and then rocky fill on top of it (like you did with your shop). In addition, the culvert isn’t buried far enough, they need to be _at least_ half the diameter. Lastly, plastic culverts are junk, only use metal ones (just ask post10).
While watching the last Scrappy Industries video because of missing Diesel Creek. Then boom, there Matt is, just like ordered.. Watching you working the machines is so much more fun than watching your buddy rebuilding a hydraulic cylinder.
And I suspect that that is what Matt needs to be doing with that Kobelco excavator soon, as can be seen in the last 30 secs of this vid, the main boob seems to be losing hydraulic pressure fairly quickly when left in the raised position.
Field expedients takes priority, use what your brought! Your project is a work in progress, so that culvert is in, is the road travelable, yup! Will it carry a 22 ton Bay City crane??? Matt would give it a try, may need his Buddy Sam to help pull it out....LOL Good post!!
Seeing the topsoil you have down there makes me chuckle. Try that here and you would have had at least one rock the size of that skid steer, and about a 50% mix of rock as big as your head.
Good Morning Matt and fellow viewers. I thought you were going to use the topsoil to stabilize the culvert then use your fill material to finish. I'm afraid it will never stabilize as a dependable haul road. I see digging it out and rebuilding with proper material before you drive over and collapse the culvert and sink, or worse, roll your truck. Just be Careful, that's the main thing. We don't need you hurt 🤕. God Bless and Stay Safe. 👍🇺🇲💪
Rolling a truck is my biggest concern, the top layer could be deceiving but below that crust could be Danger waiting to strike. I hope 🙏 I'm wrong, very wrong. One or two heavy rains and I fear problems will show up quickly.
The other trick with plastic pipe like that (from my observations here in northern New England) Is that you need a lot of cover or it will pop back out after only a few years. (Frost or flood)
Suggestion in the Navy for a culvert like that to support the weight in a jungle where all you have is topsoil and trees is lay long tree trunks across your culvert long ways across then cover that with more top soil and then more logs in the same direction as the ravine. then more dirt .
🤔🤔I'm thinking if you saved the top soil near by where your going to build the house. That would be a good place to store it for when the house is finished and you need top soil for your new yard and instead use clay from the borrow pit for the culvert.
I guess the topsoil will freeze solid in the winter. and then you can hall your fill over it. We would lay timber ( small trees) over soft spots hear in Oz.
He got the top soil from making his main road into the property, so Matt obviously knows how to build a road. Using the top soil was a matter of convenience.
The flip side is, the only reason he has to make this road is because his main road won't stand up to truck traffic. Maybe should've been done differently to begin with
Take some sand mixed with bentonite and spread it in. It will seal and solidify. Or make a runny slurry of grout and make some holes within the mound and let it permeate the soil
All that good fill in your borrow pit and you used topsoil to backfill a culvert? I would expect that section of road will punch out when you start hauling and destroy the culvert. I would have got 4 or 5 loads from the borrow pit then lose your top soil on backslopes of the road and the bottom of the borrow pit when you are done
Just get some bags or sacrete and throw it on dry and till it in..sucks the moisture right out and will become rock solid..fixed many of wet soil conditions like that and still holding solid to this day
your ADD is gettingthe better of you. Take this winter to focus getting your domane organized. stop with the new projects until the main infrastructure is completed. you have tons of projects on your plate. get them crossed off your list. trust me im speaking from experience in my own business. trust me you will have so much more free time if you spend the time now up front.
I see a future project on your to do list and that is fixing what seemingly looks like a hydraulic issue on your Kobelco excavator;as the boom slowly began to drop after loading your dump truck and leaving it idling with the boom raised up,in the time lapse at the end of the video.
Hey Matt, i noticed the overhead clearance between the dumptruck and the leanto was a little close. Did you dig a hole for the front wheels to go down into? Good idea ! Yours is my favorite channel on you tube. Keep em coming!
Matt, you saved all that precious topsoil, because it's hard to come by in the woods. I hate to say, but you know you made a mistake, we all do. Start over dig it out and, use that material where you got for making the pad where you put your new shop. You won't regret it, you will always have problems with all that topsoil. I enjoy all of your video's, keep them coming.
Great video Matt, at least you tried,time to cut a few tree's out of the way so the sun can peek through,not alot just enough to get some sunlight there & dry it out then you can finish it with some loads of gravel & sand
You did what you needed to put that culvert in that drainage area. Top soil is one of the worst types of soil you could have used, but it was available. You most likely would not use it again in an area that you want to move heavy equipment through. God job any how Matt. That material in your pit would have been much better. Love the channel, and use to be living not far from you in Oakdale when the Army base was there in the early 70’s. Nice country out there.😊
I cringed at using topsoil as well, but given the application, it shouldn't be an issue. It's not a main driveway, just a path through the woods, and if it washes, he can do another video to dig it out and fix it!
You could probably also do is take one of you compactors over there and vibrate the hell out of it. In my experience with packers, the vibrations will draw the moisture out of the ground faster than mother nature and it will pack the dirt so you can then top off with gravel.
I think he'd be better off waiting till he's digging in the borrow pit, take the dozer and scrape all that topsoil off the pipe, then bring in clay.... THEN compact it with the vibratory roller.
Hi Matt, love the channel, keep up the good work. I recall you have a lot of timber lying around so if you're up for an experiment do like the old timers. Lay a good timber carpet straight on that slop, 8 inch round down to brushwood, the more tangled and random the better. A good layer of soil over the top that'll work into the voids then a deep shale cap. Won't hurt if you end up with a rise over the pipe. In the rainy UK we've built roads and railways over bogs on brushwood matts that are still good 150 year later. Thinking about your International loader maybe there's a coolant blockage? When you're working the revs keep enough flow through the rad but back at idle it hotshots and boils?
I agree something for the soil bind against and be might strong and last a lifetime
the oil coolers bad so when the bad oring expands it pushes oil into the coolant then pushes coolant out
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 I doubt that will help with the coolant leak...
When operating why does it not keep the rpms up ? Hey Matt whatever happened to Christine the blade? I don't see her hanging out,I must've missed an episode.. 30:34.
@@AnZsDad1973 no ,but more importantly it will assure a place in heaven
Did you have fun? Did you get to operate multiple older machines that may be in a scrap yard if you didn’t save them? Did you put out a sweet video for the week? The answer is yes to all! So how I see it is it was a success!
Also, did you generate a lot of comments to help the channel?
Also, the chance of doing it all again a few meters either side, and infilled correctly with grit /sand gravel & hardtop..
Yeah just another video eh?
Either way regardless it's good content as always and how Matt takes the time out of his very busy schedule to post videos for us great job Matt were all human bro back to the drawing board I am sure you already have a solution by now ..... honestly if I were close by your neck of the woods I would help out for FREE just so I could operate the old school machines you got cos old things are awesome and they don't build them like they used to ha ha!
@@James_ScheidHave you driven a Ford lately?
I sort of winced when I saw you tossing so much topsoil on top of that pipe. The contractor I hired to put in my road for my house did the same thing; It was my fault for not specifying exactly what I wanted done, I counted on their competence and I was not present when the work was done. What won-out with that crew was their laziness in not wanting to wait for five or six truckloads of rock to show up.
Twenty five years later it is still a boggy mess down there. I wish they had dropped a couple of loads of #3 and then more loads of #5 to give it a drivable surface. I was down there yesterday and the ruts are almost a foot deep along the edges of the road.
Work-wise, one of the sites I was responsible for (pumping station for an oil pipeline) was a giant, mucky mess and it took almost two feet of #1 to create a base that I had them top off with another foot of #5. It still was not a fun surface to ride on (lumpy) but at least we did not need to call for a tow truck to get our 4x4 work vehicles out of a mud pit that had buried up to the door rockers.
(I am an electrical engineer and don't know much about civil engineering or site construction but working for an oil company they just see the word "engineer" attached to your name and think that we know everything about every imaginable subject.. Usually if they force me in to that sort of predicament I will end up overbuilding to keep it from being a fiasco.)
I'm a retired civil engineering technician and have designed many a roads. You never use topsoil for road base. You must use a good gravel base. You'll have to remove all the topsoil and put material from your barrow pit to build your road. You really need to remove all the topsoil along the entire length of the proposed road, especially if you're going to be running heavy loaded trucks over it.
I was about to say the same thing, where I live in Florida even gravel gets washed away so we have to reinforce them with concrete instead of
think he covered that in the video
Entirely agree, and I’m sure Matt knew this. I honestly can’t think why he went down the road (no pun intended) of using top soil, even allowing for the fact that it was available, to use as a base for a haulage road.
I also agree. I also think he needs to use a compactor to compact the gravel base and soil so that it holds together more better this way the road lasts longer. As for the dampness in the soil I think sand might help out with that as well. I could be wrong but hey it's a thought.
@@Disblair wtf does top sirloin have to do with it....
Had a soft spot on my farm lane that took 60 ton of stone before I ever found a bottom and got it firm. It was 75' long....
Could be good to make some DIY swamp mats up to put over that would stop it getting too bad to drive on.
31:20, I see the tiniest of hydraulic leaks in the kobelco all Matt in his Tonka toys in his sandbox. A TWO thumbs up...!
Nothing beats a Sunday morning with a hot cup of coffee and a fresh Diesel Creek video!
You got it!
Always great to See the Old international Loader Since the Video From Picking it up Matt 7:00 To 9:20 @Diesel Creek
Topsoil wasn't the greatest stuff to use , but it is what you had handy , so , hope it works out enough for it's purpose .
Trust me, there plenty of clay in typical western Pennsylvania "topsoil".
I thought the same... but I expect it will come good in the end once it dries and compacts with time.
Howdyyawl from the land down under. Well Matt, you did a good job. Now you'll have to watch the antinompaction as the water runs. Might to fortify the ends of the pipe so water doesn't wash the fill away. You can still lay road base over when the weather comes up latter on. Liked the video. Doing it real😊
Matt thanks so much for your commitment to keeping us entertained with your planning, shooting, editing and posting week after week. 🎉🎉
The International 3850 loader has a hydraulic system relief valve setting at 2,250 PSI, so looking at the video the machine is working wonderfully. There is a difference between machine performance between 2,250 and the new loaders 3,500 up to 4,000 PSI working pressure.
Back in the day the early 1970's; that 3850 was a loader owner operators dreamed about owning, it was 4 wheel drive, one could get some serious work done with it vs a two wheel rear drive on the backhoe loaders.! Thanks for the memories Diesel Creek Matt.
To say i was surprised you were using only topsoil would be an understatement.
Used what he had, and this will work, as it is not a big water flow area as is seen.
Job well done, nothing broke down ! its a plus with older vintage equpment to keeps things running,,,,true talent indeed, that old equipment will still be running when the new fangled joy stick contoled tier 4 piece of equpment be dead on the road ,broken down !
loving the consistent uploads recently, keep up the hard work !
Thanks! Will do!
MATT, MATT, MATT ... You have to redo that CULVERT . Next spring you will have a ditch on oth sides of the culvert, and you know that !
That thumbnail is the dream day of almost every 10 year old who grew up in the 80s 😂
The styling of the 3850 loader is cool early 1970s. Neat to see an IH combo, loader and dump.
I've been in heavy construction since our family was in business and i was 12years old as an operator as well as a Forman and or boss for the later years of my life and don't care if you don't listen to my suggestions but when I installed a culvert pipe I always installed an extra 6 foot on each side of the culvert ! This extra length is for the slope on each side of the bridge from top of road to flowline of culvert pipe to minimize erosion on the inlet and outlet of your culvert pipe ! As well as for better compaction along the edges of the road !
I have said this before and I will say it again. This young man works his ass off making these videos that we all immensely enjoy. I see there are 468,000 views and only 61,000 likes. A thumbs up is totally free. It boggles my mind to know that over 400,000 people watched this video and just moved on without giving a simple click of the "like" button. That is just pathetic.
Art from Ohio
Sokoban is the name of the game with a guy having to move things around in a room. Fun game from the early 80's. There have been many iterations of it since with all kinds of different names :)
Good morning Matt. Just bought 18 acres going to start clearing it. Bought a 400 dollar 4wheeler yesterday. Looking at backhoes. Lol getting a late start
Right on!
I agree with the thoughts about a corduroy road. We have old logging roads still being used by equipment that are well over 100 years old. And they can be laid over top soil as these sure are.
Dear Matt,
In our wet climate over here in the Netherlands we never use top soil over a culvert or a concrete pipe. Most of the time we’re digging out the soil for about 40 inch under the position where the pipe needs to come with at least 40 inch above the pipe for covering the pipe. Of course the total depth for digging is depending on the diameter of the the pipe. With us width of the area to be dug needs to be at least 80 inch plus the diameter of the pipe. First we make a bed for the pipe out of 40 inch high sand out of the rivers. Than the pipe needs to be positioned in the middle of the made space and the sides can be filled equally with sand of a river. On top of the pipe approximately 33 inch of river sand and finally the last layer of about 6 inch with small ground stone. Only the sides where the pipe is coming out at both ends will be finished with top soil for making grass growing possible. the entire dam with water passage, is well rolled so that heavy traffic can pass over it. Often such a construction also receives an asphalt layer, but never in situations like yours. End of the lesson how to make a solid dam with water passage.😀
I look forward to your next vlog and send you love from the Netherlands
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Probably flows a few months of the year
Plus he said 30 inch is overkill .
I think he is just using excuses to put it in other to level ot out a little
its his back yard and he used what he had and he covered what he has to do in the video
I fear that the Dutch way of making these things is a bit over the top for a backyard project like Matts since our country is basicly a reclaimed river delta / swamp..
Matt you are pulling at my heart strings with a dam and pond build! I work in 90 MW hydro generating stations.
I wish I had the availability of surface waters to create a pond. Living on a mountain made of karst terrain (caves and solution channels) means that we can get three inches of rain in 24 hours and it doesn't puddle or pond anywhere.
@@Tishers Clay or plastic basing will hold water; look up the series by the Rainey's of Homestead Rescue.
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As a retiree every day is like Sunday, what makes real Sunday's special is starting it with a new Diesel Creek video.
Big trucks need hard thick roads. Our town crew put in a 48"" culvert last year and used a John Deere 2WD loader/backhoe, a dump truck and most impotantly a little walk behind compactor. There are 2 guys on the crew and it took them 2 days with most of the time spent compacting each refill layer. The culvert is a composite steel outer corrugated shell with smooth UHMW liner so beavers have a harder time damming it up. Cool video, liked it much!
Man it has to be so rewarding to have a machine for each step of this project !
O yeah 👍
No kidding! That's a week's work with two guys and shovels. Plus a case of IcyHot muscle reliever.
I have sold almost everything as far as tractors and equipment goes now and only own a Toro mini skid steer and i can tell you that for it's size those little minis are the best things since sliced bread. I'm crippled up from 44 years of Construction work and that machine is adaptable for doing a lot of Farm and Construction and landscaping work and i even use it to ride down to the mailbox just to get the mail.
😂 looks like a vid from the summer. So much green on the trees. I think the only piece of equipment still missing on the farm is an articulated dumptruck. Anyway nice job Matt and maybe if you need the road pretty fast lay down some steel sheets to bridge the culvert. Thats what is done over here a lot when the soil isnt load bearing.
Just as I sit down and eat dinner, thinking about what to whatch on youtube, i see Matt uploaded a new video for us to watch! Keep up with good! Hello from Bosnia!
Keep up the great work ! I love how you can take anything apart and put it back together again. I have stage IV lung cancer nodles and your videos are great to watch and forget about everything for a while. THANK YOU, May God continue to bless you and your wife and your families !
I live in AZ but sure would love to meet you! I'm 60yrs and made a living working on the same equipment you have. I don't understand the newer stuff.
Should have looked for a flatbed trailer for a bridge. Those sales auctions I bet would have one. My brother bought one then revised the wheels. It works great. Just a thought. Love the channel.
Dear Matt
I have really enjoyed your video regarding repair of old machines. It's amazing how you trouble shoot and get the machines up and running. I really enjoy your up attitude and how you teach us how to fix this stuff.
Lately I have noticed your nice piece of land is looking like Diesel Creek Trailer Trash Dump area. Think if something happened to you and your wife is stuck with this mess.
Sokoban is how I know the old game with the blocks you need to move.
Pouring concrete over the plastic Colbert pipe works really good to if you can afford 2 grand for concrete! Just use the good stuff and the fill with rock and screenings and do it right and be done with it !
No worries Matt everything takes time you have been working towards this for some time patience is necessary for great rewards thank you for sharing this six stars brother
Oregon department of forestry has a push now for metal culverts.
They had a fire line on a road, and it got the plastic culvert and got away from them. Burnt thru the plastic to the other side.
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They would also have a fit over the length of the culvert they'd want another 10foot with 5 foot on each side to avoid soil run off.
They can get mity picky sometimes.
You have lots of neat stuff. I live in the city so my "neat" stuff is limited but my grandkids love to go through it. "Tata, why do you have so much neat stuff?" I tell them that's what Tatas are for.
Hello everybody and thumbs UP to Matt! Its going to be a great day now! YAY!!
I would love to see that bucyrus shovel digging that borrow pit! It would be in its element again after so many years!
It's amazing what a guy can do with determination and the right equipment !
Having the right equipment is easy for Matt, since he has ALL the equipment! 😂
🤣@@tcaky
One thing I really like about Matt is that he is like Andrew Camarata and Derek Bieri in that shiny new equipment makes him nervous! @@tcaky
I am glad to see that he has that new truck working well. 3.5
Watching Matt doing something like this is so satisfying, I love watching this guy's content.
In Florida where I grew up, when we ran into muddy situations on roads near our property, we used old trees that we had laying around. I see you have some cut up wood laying around. We cut up pieces of wood and laid it in the mud and it works for a cheap temporary solution.
Sir, thank you for all the knowledge you bestow on us. Some of us are concrete locked in the city. Your content allows us to escape and through you and your adventures, get away and ponder...if only...possibly one day. We are right there with you bud! Pray all are well.
Wow Old Girl Got Bunch more power then i was Exspecting Matt Super Sweet she taking that pile of Dirt and Weeds and Grass down Like A Champ 10:15 @Diesel Creek
no it wont, Ill fix it when If I come up there
I’ll prob have it done by then 😂
Dang it Matt... I was looking forward to seeing you use the old IH Dump Truck. Other then that fun video. Thx J
As with several other commenters, I say there are two options here:
1) Lay down a corduroy road over the topsoil, then add a layer of shale atop that. If it's good enough to keep freight trains from sinking into muskeg, it's good enough for you.
2) Dig out all the topsoil and start over with clay fill.
Overall, looking good!
Topsoil is absolutely the wrong material from the get go.
You don't use clay fill for culverts or bases either,.. unless you plan to stabilize it with lime or cement.
@@jcgoogle1808 Clay is a great sealant around culvert pipes to prevent water from running outside and then you fill in with dirt and stack rocks around the ends to prevent erosion and to get sharp edges around the pipe. Then you leave it or compact the material and add some geotextile fabric and a layer of coarse gravel on top for road and it'll hold up. Once you get pure clay in the ground and compacted and have some drainage in the area and don't disturb the clay it will be like concrete. It's when you have water moving in clay and disturb it things get dicey with tixotropics and liquidation.. Topsoil mixed with clay for it all like Matt did is definitely not the way to go for a road..
@@TheBibliofilus
I've managed tons of commercial projects including (among other infrastructure) installation of uncounted miles of storm drain systems and culverts,.. under roads, train tracks, parking lots,. etc.
The number one backfill material under and around storm pipe is usually 3/4" crushed limestone. Water is going to go through the pipe unless it's full of silt or something. There's usually no concern with water going around the outside of the pipe. But if it does, the course aggregate will allow it to go around the pipe without any erosion or deleterious effects to the subgrade.
Using clay around a culvert will get saturated with water and could easily settle and/or pump and eventually fail under the weight of vehicle traffic.
Topsoil is an absolute waste of time for any fill or base except for yards.
Hi Matt,
I've enjoyed watching all your posted clips/videos here. I used to work with an engineering and testing company here in B.C. and a 3 inch minus materials should have been ideal for the culvert backfill and top it off with a foot of layer of final base with road mulch/quarter inch mulch. Have fun!
Matt, the pond sounds like a good idea. I would encourage you to start looking around for a source of clay to line your pond with, and also, depending how big you make it, you might want a FD connection for your shop and or house near the driveway in the unlikely event it becomes a need. For what little it would add in cost, because you are rural, it would be cheap insurance.
Not far from the lake where my family vacationed for many years is a small but deep pond that actually has a pipe along the main road that the fire trucks can fill up from should the need arise.
@@Renville80In my area, we are rural with very little city water lines. We use that same system you mentioned on many of our local larger creeks for fire safety. The fire trucks carry trash pumps also.
You could use some timber over it, just like they used to here in Alaska, It's amazing how well that works, and you'd only need about 50 feet of it just over the top soil area....
Man, I really like that little loader . Put some love into it and ROPs, you will have a handy machine there. Even build a grapple for the bucket. Do like they did in Alaska with the Corduroy road .
I’ve laid down several corduroy roads around Colorado , old ways sometimes are still usable
I agree with another comment from the UK. add logs, that are small perpendicular to the road and it will become solid for a long time.
Love to see all those old machines being put to good use
I wish u the best holidays
Same to you!
Lots of engineers around here that want to criticize, but after working on a gigantic cattle ranch for 5 years, cutting lots of roads, installing cattle guards, etc you know what? I learned that sometimes you have to run what ya brung to get it done.
Is topsoil a good road base? Nope. Not even a little, lol. I know that, you knew that, and apparently all of youtube knows that...but you had it sitting there and needed to move it out of the way. You now have a somewhat passable road and have simultaneously cleared out several piles of dirt. You'll likely have to either mitigate the topsoil by adding wood or another modifier to it, or redo the road base completely before it sees any heavy traffic...but that's not a terribly huge job with the equipment you have. I'd call that a win in the short term, man.
Its always a good day when I get a Diesel Creek upload in the morning
Why do I sit here and watch you move dirt? Why? Cause I love it and dream of doing the same on a property of my own, one day. Watch all videos, literally all! Great video work!
Matt not only has the most toys, he fixes the most toys!! I love watching this old gold run.
Andrew Camarata might give matt a run for the money, equipment wise ?!
Andrew wins hands down cheers.@@timothyabraham2228
Yeah Matt I like to see more of your work I keep watching other boring videos that other have out on RUclips 😊
@timothyabraham2228 Jesse muller has alot to
Geeze Matt, that puzzle thing was my life for years. Trying to explain it to people was a task in itself. Gotta do 9 things before you can get to the 1 thing you want to do to begin with.
Watching the channel for 2 years now and every time when Matt says contact on start up i have a chuckle 😂
I also like that Eric O over at South Main Auto has started to say it as well... just shows that we're all a big family here!
Now I say that all the time too
Hey you had to move the material anyway and although the road doesn’t have immediate utility as a haul road it does give you access for lighter vehicles. Your property is a long term project and in time your needs and vision for it will evolve.
That loader deserves a full mechanical rebuild. It's cool and looks like it'll get the job done.
I like that old loader. I like the stubby size of it. Seems compact
I'd have to agree with you, Matt. It would seem to me that one excavator w/thumb could have done all the culvert pipe procedure and the front loader and dump truck to haul the dirt pile away. Probably used a roller attachment on the excavator to compact the pipe a bit better too - like Chris does.
You have, hands down, the best collection of ADULT TONKA TRUCKS and equipment EVER.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Top soil is terrible for fill… you should be using rock around the culvert and then rocky fill on top of it (like you did with your shop). In addition, the culvert isn’t buried far enough, they need to be _at least_ half the diameter. Lastly, plastic culverts are junk, only use metal ones (just ask post10).
While watching the last Scrappy Industries video because of missing Diesel Creek. Then boom, there Matt is, just like ordered.. Watching you working the machines is so much more fun than watching your buddy rebuilding a hydraulic cylinder.
And I suspect that that is what Matt needs to be doing with that Kobelco excavator soon, as can be seen in the last 30 secs of this vid, the main boob seems to be losing hydraulic pressure fairly quickly when left in the raised position.
@@unclegreybeard3969 He's testing it? Like, OK what's next in the job jar?
Field expedients takes priority, use what your brought! Your project is a work in progress, so that culvert is in, is the road travelable, yup! Will it carry a 22 ton Bay City crane??? Matt would give it a try, may need his Buddy Sam to help pull it out....LOL Good post!!
I love these kind of projects with a lot of machines in action. Big thanks Matt!!
Seeing the topsoil you have down there makes me chuckle. Try that here and you would have had at least one rock the size of that skid steer, and about a 50% mix of rock as big as your head.
Good Morning Matt and fellow viewers. I thought you were going to use the topsoil to stabilize the culvert then use your fill material to finish. I'm afraid it will never stabilize as a dependable haul road. I see digging it out and rebuilding with proper material before you drive over and collapse the culvert and sink, or worse, roll your truck. Just be Careful, that's the main thing. We don't need you hurt 🤕. God Bless and Stay Safe. 👍🇺🇲💪
Rolling a truck is my biggest concern, the top layer could be deceiving but below that crust could be Danger waiting to strike. I hope 🙏 I'm wrong, very wrong. One or two heavy rains and I fear problems will show up quickly.
Good point. Never seen a culvert covered with dirt instead of rock.
The other trick with plastic pipe like that (from my observations here in northern New England)
Is that you need a lot of cover or it will pop back out after only a few years. (Frost or flood)
Suggestion in the Navy for a culvert like that to support the weight in a jungle where all you have is topsoil and trees is lay long tree trunks across your culvert long ways across then cover that with more top soil and then more logs in the same direction as the ravine. then more dirt .
I can't wait for the video that shows us the installation of the overhead crane
its coming, ive almost got all the pieces I need
Driving the International dump truck looked like quite the spine compacting experience!
The whole question is,did you have fun doing it?
7 loads of that Shell rock would do you better.
Good video Matt
🤔🤔I'm thinking if you saved the top soil near by where your going to build the house. That would be a good place to store it for when the house is finished and you need top soil for your new yard and instead use clay from the borrow pit for the culvert.
I guess the topsoil will freeze solid in the winter. and then you can hall your fill over it. We would lay timber ( small trees) over soft spots hear in Oz.
Needs some stones on there Matt
He got the top soil from making his main road into the property, so Matt obviously knows how to build a road. Using the top soil was a matter of convenience.
The flip side is, the only reason he has to make this road is because his main road won't stand up to truck traffic. Maybe should've been done differently to begin with
Take some sand mixed with bentonite and spread it in. It will seal and solidify. Or make a runny slurry of grout and make some holes within the mound and let it permeate the soil
Oh, the golfwagon 😊I'm with you since....
All that good fill in your borrow pit and you used topsoil to backfill a culvert? I would expect that section of road will punch out when you start hauling and destroy the culvert. I would have got 4 or 5 loads from the borrow pit then lose your top soil on backslopes of the road and the bottom of the borrow pit when you are done
Just get some bags or sacrete and throw it on dry and till it in..sucks the moisture right out and will become rock solid..fixed many of wet soil conditions like that and still holding solid to this day
your ADD is gettingthe better of you. Take this winter to focus getting your domane organized. stop with the new projects until the main infrastructure is completed. you have tons of projects on your plate. get them crossed off your list. trust me im speaking from experience in my own business. trust me you will have so much more free time if you spend the time now up front.
I see a future project on your to do list and that is fixing what seemingly looks like a hydraulic issue on your Kobelco excavator;as the boom slowly began to drop after loading your dump truck and leaving it idling with the boom raised up,in the time lapse at the end of the video.
One of these days he's gonna run over that damn camera!
Probably has that’s why we don’t have video! Lol
That fine roller that you rebuilt should be a good asset on that fill.
Hey Matt, i noticed the overhead clearance between the dumptruck and the leanto was a little close. Did you dig a hole for the front wheels to go down into? Good idea ! Yours is my favorite channel on you tube. Keep em coming!
Always good to see the Cherokee still running around
Matt, you saved all that precious topsoil, because it's hard to come by in the woods. I hate to say, but you know you made a mistake, we all do. Start over dig it out and, use that material where you got for making the pad where you put your new shop. You won't regret it, you will always have problems with all that topsoil. I enjoy all of your video's, keep them coming.
Great video Matt, at least you tried,time to cut a few tree's out of the way so the sun can peek through,not alot just enough to get some sunlight there & dry it out then you can finish it with some loads of gravel & sand