I’ve discovered a natural spring in the front yard of a elementary school less than 1,000 yards from the water tower, it was like surfing on top of a slab of dirt as I began to lift up, and then I found some of that spicy dirt about 20 feet away from the underground locator marks, and had to change my underwear after the fuse on the light pole next to me exploded. I miss the fun days of plowing fiber optics for AT&T. Locators are NEVER WRONG 😑
If they’d use the tools actually designed for the job instead of witching, that might not happen. Nothing like probing after the water company comes out, only to discover that those rods didn’t tell em a damn thing.
Or, as in the case of Fulton County Georgia, you have the layouts for all of the utilities flipped and everything is showing up on the wrong side of the roads. That actually happened in the early 2000's on more than one occasion. 🤷
They're putting in fiber a lot of places here, and it's been a mess. Got a student job with the city this year again for the summer, we had a tree we took out and went back a week later to get the stump. Guy putting in new utilites must have had a brand new pair of boots, he walked up to us with his white helmet and said we had to come see him to be on his job site. Keep in mind, he's working for a contractor hired by the city, and we're the city who had an active site there before they started working.
@@jenniferhamby7667 now why he got to be a greedy bastard? Those were his corn dogs, we all know Ricky knows where to get himself a corn dog. I mean it's bad enough the poor guy "fell" in a ditch.
John Deere utility locators never fail! I was on a Street lighting project overseas, with one good scoop, the operator hit a 11kilovolt cable, a 10 inch water main, and a 6 inch sewer line! Tell you what, that operator hit the bullseye, those three utilities were not run parallel, instead they crossed at that one exact spot. So not only did we have a geyser, it STANK, and it was electrified!
When your "best guy" or "efficient but lazy" worker, comes to you. It's never good 😆 they activity avoid authority, so they are telling you a problem or requesting permission for something
A large majority of the best senses of humor i've found have been construction and ag. Pretty much cause mistakes in those field, you have to laugh some, otherwise you'll go batshit.
everyone is a comedian or bitter old grumpasses, then you have the Rickys haha. some of the work is so shit and other times its a breeze, either way you get good at telling stories to pass time. a shutdown at a mill might have you sitting for 6 hours with a stranger then you'll end up know each others kids favorite colors and shit.
At the risk of sounding stupid (not very difficult for me), what does he mean by those two terms? I feel like I knew what they were at some point, but I haven't done construction in over 20 years so the knowledge has fallen by the wayside.
@@Singleprep “spicy dirt” in ya’ll construction terms would be dirt that’s above a specific type of line under ground that when you hit it will cause small but somewhat powerful explosions,and sparkling water is water that’s been touched or is being touched by an electrical line that hasn’t been secured
As the guy who has to call in the locators, man, I'm almost always calling them back after they miss stuff and whatnot. That parts about how they're trained professionals who never make mistakes made me laugh so damn hard.
Anyone else laugh their ass off when Ricky was eating the man’s corndog while telling the bossman that the third guy who never gives him a corndog just “fell in” 😂😂 I feel bad for laughing at it but it killed me knowing the man went for the food the first chance he got!
"Paublo calls it spicy dirt", just sends me. I've met so many 'Ricky's' in my lifetime tending bar, this character is perfect. Thank you for the glorious comedy.
I agree getting the water company to admit a mistake will never happen =) .. I have seen many springs and spicy dirt in my time digging for sewage pipes =)
@@isaactuttle1529 yeah, if you watch the vid towards the end, they hit a power cable and it was sparking about the place - Spicy dirt, probs refering to fact that the cable is REALLY hot AKA live
@@blakethornsbrough1528 Ricky didn't want him to burn his corndog, that would have been a waste. A bigger sin would be to get the corn dog all soggy in the water.
This is the first comment I've ever left here on youtube. I've been watching these Ricky videos for the last few days and thouroughly enjoy them. I work for a utility boring contractor, so the humor in these videos just absolutlely gets me. That being said, I'm actually writing this to remind everyone to be safe on the job site. I know first hand what can happen when a utility hasn't been located properly and what happens when you hit an active gas line with a bit. Fortunately, no one was injured that day. We did lose the rest of the because the gas company had to repair the damage. We have hit comm lines as well, and recently found an underground power line with one of our excavators. We, of course, do our due diligence by trying to find the marked utilities with a hydrovac, and if we can't them we do call the utiltity locaters to confirm where the utility should be. No one is perfect, and the locators do get it wrong sometimes. The goal at the end of the day is for everyone to go home safe. If you lose a day of productivity because you can't find a marked utility, it's better than someone getting hurt or worse. Be safe everyone, and have a wonderful 2022 🙂
Our water locates are just the water company witching the main and service lines. We've correctly located the water lines with an excavator more than once lately.
They don't have tracers unless it's new. For old stuff they just need to go by dead reckoning or get some greybeard out that was there when they put it in the ground
Them tracks didn't help whoever was in the bobcat, the fact that they stayed in did. If you cut a power line, always stay in the seat, if not, you'll be 🔥.
Most of the time the 811 people only have the as-builts to go off of, so sometimes its just paperwork from the 70s is all that's keeping people from hitting stuff. And sometimes it can be way off
@@vladimirhenderson3854 let's not forget all the times the utilities were marked, contractor chooses to ignore it and dig on it anyway, hit a line and kick out the marks saying it wasn't marked 😂
I remember when oups ( ohio underground protection services 811) was way off. I hit a flex gas main line. That thing shot up out of the ground and started swinging every which way spraying rotten egg smelling gas like some kinda demon snake from hell. My co worker to it upon himself to "evacuate" the whole street.. Man what a mess that was.
I as a fence builder I can relate to this video. Sometimes the locator people don't show up until it's to late. When I was an apprentice one of the leads I worked under didn't check for locates I he told me to dig a hole 4ft down for a big gate post. 3ft down I found the main power line to the house I cut right into it with me diggers. I didn't get hurt but I blew up something on the power pole at the street. I had just thrown the diggers In there and saw some spicy dirt. The scary part was I had just been pokin around with a 6ft steel digging bar.
The most high tech equipment I’ve ever used doing locates is a probe rod. Now after 4 years of being with the City I know where most of our lines are so I just know where to mark now
I almost blew up an entire neighborhood when the locators missed a gas line. I was unaware and as I drove up I got outta my rig with a lit cigarette and the Boss Man came screaming and running put out yer cigarette!! Well, after I stopped shaking and jitters.. yeah that’s a day I won’t ever forget.
@@immaturedemolitions8220 Even if it was leaking, a cigarette isn’t hot enough to spark an ignition. You also need the perfect mixture of 5-15% Methane to O2, as well as it being in a confined space. I work for a Nat Gas Utility. I’ve been working on underground lines for 24 years. Im not saying it’s not a dangerous situation, but you need the perfect storm.
Thank you for your post!! I kid you not, they are what has been keeping a smile on my face EVERYDAY 🤠🤣 I’ve binged watch ALL of your videos over and over again for like the last week straight! Amazing dark humor content! Keep em comin brother!🤠🍻
This brings back good times. I was a heavy equipment operator for a wastewater city. An yes those line location guys suck lol. We had to take pictures before we started our jobs to show proof if they were way off. I remember one time we had to run 300 ft of new sewer pipe an anki 20 ft fron our start point was a electric pole with 2 big ass conduits ruing down them. An do u know they never marked them. U could see that they were crossing our path. So we had to wait a few hours for them to come back an remark it. Good times.
This is also where the phrase "1 more scoop" can become a particular co-worker's bane when they are told to do so when on a backhoe. Got a guy at work...started several years ago when the boss told him "1 more scoop" and BAM he hit a main line...fortunately only 4in. But ever since then...almost every time we tell him "1 more scoop" when digging to excavate major sections...mainly to get rid of the mass of loose dirt...it results in him hitting something. This is at the main County Park where MOST stuff we are already aware of...but have old lines whose locations are lost since the hard copies were turned in to get put on computer only for the computer to crash & lose everything while the hard copies got trashed. Needless to say we update the new maps. Sometimes we tell him "1 more scoop" just for the shits & grins it results in...knowing full well the danger...end up finding things we didn't know were there & no chance Blue Stake would either. This has gotten him (a pure-blood gringo as his hot sauce is ketchup) the nickname of "Uno Mas". We don't go out of our way to utter "The Phrase" when working where we KNOW for a fact there is a major line. In those instances it is taboo...leave it to his discretion to find that had we told him "The Phrase" instead of doing the rest of the probing by hand...it WOULD have been bad. If dealing w/ electrical however it is all dead serious...no screwing around.
Ok short story my dad was digging down to fix a water line in Sandestin golf resort down in Florida and they had line spots done the day before because the irrigation main line was coming out of the pump station 60 ft away and the power was spotted 93 ft away so he was stand in knee deep water and mud cleaning out the area to do the repair and he went to scoop another shovel of mud out and hit the spiciest of the spicy dirt he knocked out half of the resorts power and some how by the grace of god survived and walked out of the hospital that evening he now has holes in his calf muscles where the electricity blew out of his body this happened in 1998
They run em together to save money. One trench equals enough space for all the volatiles. Just cause water makes power more deadly and then gas right on top of power? Hell that's just a safety for the power. And sewer being all the way down is so power, water, gas, phone, cable, irrigation and storm drain repair doesn't have to be a shitty situation.
I'm not quite sure which is the best part of this video the fact that Ricky is eating a corn dog in the beginning and then he starts talking about that guy that brings four corn dogs to work and will never give him one or when Ricky says Pablo calls it spicy dirt.
Hi guys love the bits I worked as a pipe layer when I was younger I'm 52 years ripe now I was lead man in the hole and yes they do get it wrong sometimes old town crappy blue print's keepers well we hit a FPL line it blew a hole in the back hoe bucket 3 foot hole in the bucket it through me back at least 6 feet you want to talk about fried chicken 🐔 it sends all my hair on my arms and my head and eyebrows I didn't know if I was coming or going
Working on the 811 call center for MN i can tell you those locators will miss A LOT of utilities and if you have a private utility(well,septic tank,electric going from pole to a shed or garage) they will not mark it.
This one hits home. Northern CA, big sewer project for regional wastewater district. In this neck of the woods, we call 811. “811” guys come out, mark the mains(water, gas, sewer). Foreman asks 811 guy, “Are you sure? We only have 3” of variance from the plan set we obtained from the county”. (This is a 12’ diameter hole in the middle of public road). 811 guy says yes. We get about 40” down and hit an 8” gas main. 811 guy was 2” off on a 3” variance. Scary shit. There was a gas station on both sides of us. Could have been a potential catastrophe, but all was averted. Lesson learned- NEVER TRUST THE MAGIC STICK OF THE 411/811 guy!!!!!
I found a 'spicy wall' once. While cutting a hole in one of the exterior walls of a bathroom to put in a dryer exhaust, I found a 220 line, that did not come through the circuit breaker. It was GLUED to the back of a wall stud. Apparently in some bygone age someone had put in then later removed some of the old style industrial outlets to run 1960 washer and dryer, splitting off the main before the breaker, then sometime later removed the plugs when a modern washer/dryer combo was put in another room. But they didn't remove the line....or cap it we found the end just hanging in open space. I found it with a sawzall, 12 seconds later I no longer had a sawzall, or conscious thought and the homeowner was out a toilet, as the sawzall exploded, I launched backwards into the toilet hard enough the handle of the hammer in my toolbelt wrecked the toilet bowl.
Had one once where the locator messed up, and poor utilities worker plowed a blind mole through a major fiber optic line. How major? Well the NSA showed up on site
I work for a consultant. I NEVER say I’m a “professional.” I just say and give my best “opinion.” The rest of the work is “dear gawd don’t fucking hit anything.”
Knew a guy working for the water department on their record it showed a 4 inch old water line. Well the electric company decided to run their power line inside the old water line but did not update the records. Long story short he started cutting the pipe it flew him and everyone though he was dead. Saw fully melted to the pipe. The ceo of the electric company came down and took him to dinner and treated him good for one day and said we are sorry. To this day they believe his boots and gloves is what saved him.
That happened when me and my dad was fixing one of our rentals, had the guys come in and show us where the water pipes were because we had to fix the downstairs wall and in order to we had to dig a big ass hole, well, they were wrong, and let's just be glad that the walls were getting fixed with cement because if not then we would have done all that work for nothing
I know this one so well, about 3yrs ago here in NZ I worked for a medium size earthmoving contractor in Waikato, cutting it sort I was digging a water in from the mains, water sonar boys cleared us down and around certain Active lines, we got to a point that they gave us the clear, dig straight through. 5m later I hit a secondary power cable and water line, dating back to 1966, no record of it. Fire /Police/Ambulance and traffic management were called it was a major 😂
Ricky: Walks over eating a corn dog …. “the guy that brings 4 corn dogs and never gives me one oh idk he just fell in” 😂😂😂😂👌🏽
I literally couldn’t stop laughing 😂 I’m crying
Boy am I glad you were here to explain the joke for us.
😂😂😂😂
oh noooo
@@hometownmedic7355you must be really fun at parties
I’ve discovered a natural spring in the front yard of a elementary school less than 1,000 yards from the water tower, it was like surfing on top of a slab of dirt as I began to lift up, and then I found some of that spicy dirt about 20 feet away from the underground locator marks, and had to change my underwear after the fuse on the light pole next to me exploded. I miss the fun days of plowing fiber optics for AT&T. Locators are NEVER WRONG 😑
If they’d use the tools actually designed for the job instead of witching, that might not happen. Nothing like probing after the water company comes out, only to discover that those rods didn’t tell em a damn thing.
@@Thisshitcrazybruh that’s the damn truth.
Or, as in the case of Fulton County Georgia, you have the layouts for all of the utilities flipped and everything is showing up on the wrong side of the roads. That actually happened in the early 2000's on more than one occasion. 🤷
They're putting in fiber a lot of places here, and it's been a mess. Got a student job with the city this year again for the summer, we had a tree we took out and went back a week later to get the stump. Guy putting in new utilites must have had a brand new pair of boots, he walked up to us with his white helmet and said we had to come see him to be on his job site. Keep in mind, he's working for a contractor hired by the city, and we're the city who had an active site there before they started working.
Riiiiiiight.
“ That’s the main power feed to the town they quit doing a lot of shit “😂😂
Like breathing. 👻👻👻
"That first one went in just fainted, we thought he just never saw real work before." Buwahahahahahaha
It’s a lazy bastard that stops his heartbeat just to get out of a little work…..
Yea, the guy that never gives me a corn dog, yea, he “fell”.and that’s the laugh of the year for me!
Especially since Ricky was finishing off a corndog as he walked up, lmao
@@blze0018 Took me 3 watches to notice that.
Buy one question is do you think Ricky grabbed it as he pushed him, or he pulled a I'll hold that for you and then shoved?
Ricky done pushed that greedy bastard in ..
@@jenniferhamby7667 now why he got to be a greedy bastard?
Those were his corn dogs, we all know Ricky knows where to get himself a corn dog. I mean it's bad enough the poor guy "fell" in a ditch.
I once heard it said that the most effective utility locator is a contractor with a backhoe
It is so hard not to be all in once you're all in....
John Deere utility locators never fail!
I was on a Street lighting project overseas, with one good scoop, the operator hit a 11kilovolt cable, a 10 inch water main, and a 6 inch sewer line! Tell you what, that operator hit the bullseye, those three utilities were not run parallel, instead they crossed at that one exact spot.
So not only did we have a geyser, it STANK, and it was electrified!
@@tailgunner2 electrified smelly water from the main waterline. What a fun combination
@@tailgunner2 damnnnnnnnnnn he hit the trifecta what do ya do at that point other than just stand there and laugh at the shit
@@tailgunner2 Damn, all he was missing was the gas main and he'd have won backhoe locator bingo.
When Ricky starts off with “Hey Hey Hey Bossman!”, the next sentence is never good.
Kinda like when Jim Carey as Fire Marshal Bill says" LEMEE SHOW YA SOMTHIN!!!!"
Q
@@txgunguy2766 very true!
When your "best guy" or "efficient but lazy" worker, comes to you. It's never good 😆 they activity avoid authority, so they are telling you a problem or requesting permission for something
I'm gonna start using that line on my superintendent at work
"Those men are trained professionals."
Well technically, so is Ricky. So just keep that in mind.
I never would have expected construction humor to be so damn entertaining. I could and am binge watching these.
A large majority of the best senses of humor i've found have been construction and ag. Pretty much cause mistakes in those field, you have to laugh some, otherwise you'll go batshit.
I am currently this guy hits the nail on the head. Lmao
It's always a better story from ground zero🤓🤣
everyone is a comedian or bitter old grumpasses, then you have the Rickys haha. some of the work is so shit and other times its a breeze, either way you get good at telling stories to pass time. a shutdown at a mill might have you sitting for 6 hours with a stranger then you'll end up know each others kids favorite colors and shit.
It's even better when you have lived most of these skits. Lol
“Spicy dirt” and “sparkling water” are my 2 new favorite phrases😂😂😂
At the risk of sounding stupid (not very difficult for me), what does he mean by those two terms? I feel like I knew what they were at some point, but I haven't done construction in over 20 years so the knowledge has fallen by the wayside.
@@Singleprep “spicy dirt” in ya’ll construction terms would be dirt that’s above a specific type of line under ground that when you hit it will cause small but somewhat powerful explosions,and sparkling water is water that’s been touched or is being touched by an electrical line that hasn’t been secured
@@dionnefycf799 Okay. That's what I was thinking they were. Thanks for verifying that for me. Much appreciated!
@@Singleprep no problem. I had to watch the video a couple times to try and understand what it was too
@@dionnefycf799Just to clarify, for spicy dirt, is the line that gets hit gas, or electric? With enough voltage I could see both but I imagine gas.
As the guy who has to call in the locators, man, I'm almost always calling them back after they miss stuff and whatnot. That parts about how they're trained professionals who never make mistakes made me laugh so damn hard.
I laughed out loud when he said they came out within 24hrs.
@@joshuawhite1692 oh shit a fellow utiliquest guy 😂
@@joshuawhite1692 this guy knows.
They can be super accurate and the tools are cool. But they aren't given the time to do it
Anyone else laugh their ass off when Ricky was eating the man’s corndog while telling the bossman that the third guy who never gives him a corndog just “fell in” 😂😂
I feel bad for laughing at it but it killed me knowing the man went for the food the first chance he got!
"Paublo calls it spicy dirt", just sends me. I've met so many 'Ricky's' in my lifetime tending bar, this character is perfect. Thank you for the glorious comedy.
You should try working in Ricky's shoes... You're only getting 10%
I agree getting the water company to admit a mistake will never happen =) .. I have seen many springs and spicy dirt in my time digging for sewage pipes =)
What is spicy dirt
@@isaactuttle1529 pretty sure it's refering to underground electrical cables, though i may be wrong.
I'm glad I'm not the only one, I thought spicy dirt meant the sewers
@@isaactuttle1529 yeah, if you watch the vid towards the end, they hit a power cable and it was sparking about the place - Spicy dirt, probs refering to fact that the cable is REALLY hot AKA live
@@isaactuttle1529 I thought at first he was gonna show what happens when they hit a gas line. Basically, a flamethrower after a fireball/explosion.
Ricky eating a corn dog at the start. 😂
The guy that fell in didn't need his today.
@@blakethornsbrough1528 Ricky didn't want him to burn his corndog, that would have been a waste. A bigger sin would be to get the corn dog all soggy in the water.
This is the first comment I've ever left here on youtube. I've been watching these Ricky videos for the last few days and thouroughly enjoy them. I work for a utility boring contractor, so the humor in these videos just absolutlely gets me. That being said, I'm actually writing this to remind everyone to be safe on the job site. I know first hand what can happen when a utility hasn't been located properly and what happens when you hit an active gas line with a bit. Fortunately, no one was injured that day. We did lose the rest of the because the gas company had to repair the damage. We have hit comm lines as well, and recently found an underground power line with one of our excavators. We, of course, do our due diligence by trying to find the marked utilities with a hydrovac, and if we can't them we do call the utiltity locaters to confirm where the utility should be. No one is perfect, and the locators do get it wrong sometimes. The goal at the end of the day is for everyone to go home safe. If you lose a day of productivity because you can't find a marked utility, it's better than someone getting hurt or worse. Be safe everyone, and have a wonderful 2022 🙂
Our water locates are just the water company witching the main and service lines. We've correctly located the water lines with an excavator more than once lately.
That water witching shit pisses me off. Use a goddamn tool, not great grandpas magic trick that only works half the time if that.
Seriously? They actually do that? Like what? Those rods people hold?
Really? That's fucking hilarious and not that shocking to be honest...
Not some special rods really just be some flags bent into the right shape
They don't have tracers unless it's new. For old stuff they just need to go by dead reckoning or get some greybeard out that was there when they put it in the ground
@@DownLow0099
Oh it's shocking given the right circumstances.
We hit some spicy dirt when one call marked the wrong property, ended up blowing a transformer...thank bobcat for rubber tracks..
Them tracks didn't help whoever was in the bobcat, the fact that they stayed in did. If you cut a power line, always stay in the seat, if not, you'll be 🔥.
@@brian_2040 😱😨
@@brian_2040 yeah and have someone throw you a jug or something, don't piss out the door like you usually would
Been there... locates off by 12'... that was fun.
NGL, if i found spicy dirt, i'd have to change my draws.
I worked with a guy... When he started with HEY HEY boss man...... Yep it's time to go to lunch EARLY... Maybe for the whole day.
"Trained Professionals" merely means "Trained Idiots" or at least that's what my old boss use to say after every FUBAR
Most of the time the 811 people only have the as-builts to go off of, so sometimes its just paperwork from the 70s is all that's keeping people from hitting stuff. And sometimes it can be way off
@@vladimirhenderson3854 let's not forget all the times the utilities were marked, contractor chooses to ignore it and dig on it anyway, hit a line and kick out the marks saying it wasn't marked 😂
Dude, if they turned in all their IDIOT forms and they were filled out correctly what's the problem? They are certified...
@@matthewshearin1755 covering their own asses I suppose
I use to call these in! This is hysterical!! Thank you for a great belly laugh
"Welp... You might wanna call them MF's back.... And tell them they missed." This shit is hysterically accurate!!! This guy is great!
I remember when oups ( ohio underground protection services 811) was way off. I hit a flex gas main line. That thing shot up out of the ground and started swinging every which way spraying rotten egg smelling gas like some kinda demon snake from hell. My co worker to it upon himself to "evacuate" the whole street.. Man what a mess that was.
I as a fence builder I can relate to this video. Sometimes the locator people don't show up until it's to late. When I was an apprentice one of the leads I worked under didn't check for locates I he told me to dig a hole 4ft down for a big gate post. 3ft down I found the main power line to the house I cut right into it with me diggers. I didn't get hurt but I blew up something on the power pole at the street. I had just thrown the diggers In there and saw some spicy dirt. The scary part was I had just been pokin around with a 6ft steel digging bar.
That's why, no matter what, I treat wider as better than deeper. Nothing a little extra quickcrete can't fix
“Trained professionals with high tech equipment” that’s the quote of the year
More like "Cletus and Bubba Joe are out there with the dowsing rods. They might get lucky."
The most high tech equipment I’ve ever used doing locates is a probe rod. Now after 4 years of being with the City I know where most of our lines are so I just know where to mark now
I almost blew up an entire neighborhood when the locators missed a gas line. I was unaware and as I drove up I got outta my rig with a lit cigarette and the Boss Man came screaming and running put out yer cigarette!!
Well, after I stopped shaking and jitters.. yeah that’s a day I won’t ever forget.
A butt, aint hot enough to spark a hit gas line.. Trust me.
@@davidhopkins7215 unless there was a leak from the digging, though I honestly doubt that, those should be a decent thickness, no?
@@immaturedemolitions8220 Even if it was leaking, a cigarette isn’t hot enough to spark an ignition. You also need the perfect mixture of 5-15% Methane to O2, as well as it being in a confined space. I work for a Nat Gas Utility. I’ve been working on underground lines for 24 years. Im not saying it’s not a dangerous situation, but you need the perfect storm.
@@immaturedemolitions8220 Actually nowadays, most gas lines are made of plastic. So damaging a line isn’t very difficult.
@@davidhopkins7215 wait, plastic? Does gasoline eat through that? Or am I thinking of those absolutely shit chem containers?
My boy do you know how many work accidents could be prevented by giving Ricky a corndog, instead of signing a JSA
Lol I don't even read jsa's any more if something happens on the road you probably dead and it won't matter
“You can see it. ITS ELECTRIC! You can feel it! ITS ELECTRIC!”
laughing so hard when you said 811 came out within 24hrs of call.... pure comedy😁
We got the pressure down, when everyone got in ankle-deep started passing out. Ha, turns out it was sparkling water. Lmfao that shit was rich my boy.
I didn’t understand what the sparkling water was. Can you clarify please?
@@wolffam2210 Pretty sure it's electrically charged.
@@wolffam2210 Hit water AND power.
@@tomkeehn Huh, my guess was water and gas.
Thank you for your post!!
I kid you not, they are what has been keeping a smile on my face EVERYDAY 🤠🤣
I’ve binged watch ALL of your videos over and over again for like the last week straight!
Amazing dark humor content!
Keep em comin brother!🤠🍻
Keep them coming brother... laughing my ass off here!!
This brings back good times. I was a heavy equipment operator for a wastewater city. An yes those line location guys suck lol. We had to take pictures before we started our jobs to show proof if they were way off. I remember one time we had to run 300 ft of new sewer pipe an anki 20 ft fron our start point was a electric pole with 2 big ass conduits ruing down them. An do u know they never marked them. U could see that they were crossing our path. So we had to wait a few hours for them to come back an remark it. Good times.
This is also where the phrase "1 more scoop" can become a particular co-worker's bane when they are told to do so when on a backhoe. Got a guy at work...started several years ago when the boss told him "1 more scoop" and BAM he hit a main line...fortunately only 4in. But ever since then...almost every time we tell him "1 more scoop" when digging to excavate major sections...mainly to get rid of the mass of loose dirt...it results in him hitting something. This is at the main County Park where MOST stuff we are already aware of...but have old lines whose locations are lost since the hard copies were turned in to get put on computer only for the computer to crash & lose everything while the hard copies got trashed. Needless to say we update the new maps. Sometimes we tell him "1 more scoop" just for the shits & grins it results in...knowing full well the danger...end up finding things we didn't know were there & no chance Blue Stake would either. This has gotten him (a pure-blood gringo as his hot sauce is ketchup) the nickname of "Uno Mas".
We don't go out of our way to utter "The Phrase" when working where we KNOW for a fact there is a major line. In those instances it is taboo...leave it to his discretion to find that had we told him "The Phrase" instead of doing the rest of the probing by hand...it WOULD have been bad. If dealing w/ electrical however it is all dead serious...no screwing around.
When they showed spicy dirt I lost it I'm laughing, snorting, wheezing god I can't breathe 🤣👍
Ok short story my dad was digging down to fix a water line in Sandestin golf resort down in Florida and they had line spots done the day before because the irrigation main line was coming out of the pump station 60 ft away and the power was spotted 93 ft away so he was stand in knee deep water and mud cleaning out the area to do the repair and he went to scoop another shovel of mud out and hit the spiciest of the spicy dirt he knocked out half of the resorts power and some how by the grace of god survived and walked out of the hospital that evening he now has holes in his calf muscles where the electricity blew out of his body this happened in 1998
I had a good idea what the first two were but I had no idea what “spicy dirt” would be… I was not disappointed 😂
For those not in the construction industry,, all these videos are far more realistic than u all think. This shit is spot on. Got to love it all
They run em together to save money. One trench equals enough space for all the volatiles. Just cause water makes power more deadly and then gas right on top of power? Hell that's just a safety for the power. And sewer being all the way down is so power, water, gas, phone, cable, irrigation and storm drain repair doesn't have to be a shitty situation.
I just noticed the corndog Ricky was eating then what he said about the coworker that wouldn't give him a corndog LMAO
At the moment there is one dislike, I’m assuming he works for the 811 people
Ricky reminds me a lot of how I was in construction... That’s why I left to go work at the Hospital...
Lol that’s for darn sure!
Part 1: 411, LOL... that's general information 🤣 ... Dig number is 811. Part 3: Ricky called it correctly. 😁
I’m crying, I’m laughing so hard. You are funny brah.
Pablo calls it spicy dirt had me crying that’s too funny 😂
Locators are NEVER wrong…funniest statement all year!
I just realized that Ricky walked up eating a corn dog. Comedy gold
And I just figured out what that actually meant by your comment!! Therefore, they need 3 new helpers
@@Ahch. Ricky has killed for less than a corn dog I think.
I'm not quite sure which is the best part of this video the fact that Ricky is eating a corn dog in the beginning and then he starts talking about that guy that brings four corn dogs to work and will never give him one or when Ricky says Pablo calls it spicy dirt.
That 'Spicy Dirt' will get you every time.
*Ricky: "Pablo calls it Spicy Dirt." 🤣🤣*
Loving these trilogies, I've somehow managed to miss the first one. Sparkling water, lol :D
Spicey dirt is a classic!
🤣 I can't stop watching these videos!
Nobody's ever accurate enough for ricky 🤣🤣
That's exactly what I was picturing in my head as soon as he said spicy dirt😂😂😂😂
You’re a freaking genius and soooooo much content. Love the videos bruv!
You made this sad heart happy. Thank you
I love the guy just casually walking past the Spicy Dirt.
I love these bro. Really put smile on my face
Hi guys love the bits I worked as a pipe layer when I was younger I'm 52 years ripe now I was lead man in the hole and yes they do get it wrong sometimes old town crappy blue print's keepers well we hit a FPL line it blew a hole in the back hoe bucket 3 foot hole in the bucket it through me back at least 6 feet you want to talk about fried chicken 🐔 it sends all my hair on my arms and my head and eyebrows I didn't know if I was coming or going
Love the videos!! I needed that today😂
Love your skits
Sparkling water lol , you guys are geniuses
"They quit doin a lotta shit " JFC I'm cryin ! LMFAO
Spicy dirt 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 get this man his own TV series, this shit is golden!!!!
20 minutes into these videos and I feel like I just knocked out 1,000 sit-ups
Working on the 811 call center for MN i can tell you those locators will miss A LOT of utilities and if you have a private utility(well,septic tank,electric going from pole to a shed or garage) they will not mark it.
This one hits home. Northern CA, big sewer project for regional wastewater district. In this neck of the woods, we call 811. “811” guys come out, mark the mains(water, gas, sewer). Foreman asks 811 guy, “Are you sure? We only have 3” of variance from the plan set we obtained from the county”. (This is a 12’ diameter hole in the middle of public road). 811 guy says yes. We get about 40” down and hit an 8” gas main. 811 guy was 2” off on a 3” variance. Scary shit. There was a gas station on both sides of us. Could have been a potential catastrophe, but all was averted. Lesson learned- NEVER TRUST THE MAGIC STICK OF THE 411/811 guy!!!!!
This one never gets old.
0:11 Ricky finally got his corn dog!🤣
The first videos I watched
Pablo calls it “spicy dirt”. Shifts to main power line sparking. 🤣🤣
I found a 'spicy wall' once. While cutting a hole in one of the exterior walls of a bathroom to put in a dryer exhaust, I found a 220 line, that did not come through the circuit breaker. It was GLUED to the back of a wall stud. Apparently in some bygone age someone had put in then later removed some of the old style industrial outlets to run 1960 washer and dryer, splitting off the main before the breaker, then sometime later removed the plugs when a modern washer/dryer combo was put in another room. But they didn't remove the line....or cap it we found the end just hanging in open space. I found it with a sawzall, 12 seconds later I no longer had a sawzall, or conscious thought and the homeowner was out a toilet, as the sawzall exploded, I launched backwards into the toilet hard enough the handle of the hammer in my toolbelt wrecked the toilet bowl.
You your videos dude I can't stop watching you keep up the good work hilarious 🤣🤣
Ricky is a blessing 😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
411 is never wrong........ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Now THAT'S funny!!!!
Man your video's make me miss being in construction instead of being in this 9-5 job! Keep up the great work!!
I just noticed ricky had a corndog lol
This is how I feel everytime I have to tell my boss somebody broke something.
hahahahha "they quit doing alot a' shit!" rollin man.
Had one once where the locator messed up, and poor utilities worker plowed a blind mole through a major fiber optic line. How major? Well the NSA showed up on site
Air Force Bases are like that.
Not everything are on those prints due to security.
😂😂😂 Yooo! They were all good but spicy dirt got me!
Haha, working Underground construction doing water main I for sure know this feeling 💀 we just learned that it’s a 50/50 depending on the city
Spicy dirt That must be a sight to behold
Sparkling water! That's awesome.
Breadstick Ricky is da shit
I can't stop laughing with ur videos keep up the good work brother
You know the one who doesn't share the corn dogs? Well he fell in....lol. more liked pushed in...lol. This was too funny.
Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I work for a consultant. I NEVER say I’m a “professional.” I just say and give my best “opinion.” The rest of the work is “dear gawd don’t fucking hit anything.”
Knew a guy working for the water department on their record it showed a 4 inch old water line. Well the electric company decided to run their power line inside the old water line but did not update the records. Long story short he started cutting the pipe it flew him and everyone though he was dead. Saw fully melted to the pipe. The ceo of the electric company came down and took him to dinner and treated him good for one day and said we are sorry. To this day they believe his boots and gloves is what saved him.
I'd have sued. That would have been a payday to retire on.
This is THE BEST channel on RUclips.
That happened when me and my dad was fixing one of our rentals, had the guys come in and show us where the water pipes were because we had to fix the downstairs wall and in order to we had to dig a big ass hole, well, they were wrong, and let's just be glad that the walls were getting fixed with cement because if not then we would have done all that work for nothing
I just love these videos
This and Pablo are my favorites.
Spicy dirt
Sparkling water... thats just great.
I know this one so well, about 3yrs ago here in NZ I worked for a medium size earthmoving contractor in Waikato, cutting it sort I was digging a water in from the mains, water sonar boys cleared us down and around certain Active lines, we got to a point that they gave us the clear, dig straight through. 5m later I hit a secondary power cable and water line, dating back to 1966, no record of it. Fire /Police/Ambulance and traffic management were called it was a major 😂
Fkn genius...u make my day
Your channel is the best in the world
Oh I like tht 1.. spicey dirt guaranteed to give u abit of a tingle.😆😆
Wish we could’ve gotten all the songs with the original… spicy dirt!!