I'm not even that delicate moving them by hand. Although the last one was to draw attention to a small lake, so like fuck was I stepping in it to drop a cone.
That truck load of sand gave me chills! When I was 18 (1984) I was still laboring for my dad in the masonry business and the last job before I started laying brick was a huge huge warehouse. Every day a truck that size would dump sand and two semis would unload Cherokee block. If you were the ground men you mixed mortar and raised block non stop. Some days we only turned the mixers off at lunch. 60 scoops of sand 3 bags of cement and 15 gallons of water per batch, all day. repeat the next day for two months. No I didn't walk up hill to school every day. I didn't go half the time in high school I was working! lol My nephews pay to go to the gym and couldn't push a wheelbarrow filled with cement without dumping it if that had to...
You keep bursting my snow globe I thought it was your natural perfectionism coming out. I believe you could un-frost a cake without disturbing one crumb.
Took me 3 minutes in the video to noticed Oak Grove Church. I put a lot of vehicles on the shoulder right there on your trailers park. Good job brother enjoy watching your videos.
Lol Think about it though Would you really think to slow down for a little 200 foot construction zone… Your intentions were in the right place though I’ll give you that
@@dominicfarzetta I would give you odds that many of those drivers didn't even notice or pay attention to the work going on there, let alone slow down for it.
I deliver bricks most of the time off the side of the road and let me tell you it is very rare for anyone to slow down I have a near death experience at least once a week.
Letsdig18...your skills with all of your equipment is freaking amazing!!!! I’ve helped in some insane surgeries before, but watching you operate your equipment is even more impressive. Edit: That dump truck came in hot!!!! Driver knew exactly what they were doing!! Very impressive.
More cars have gone past you in this video than have gone by my house in 8 years. I'm literally not joking. Makes me glad to live in rural Montana even if my driveway isn't as nice as this one.
After watching all these years of you using the grading bucket on the mini and now on your 220 I went out and got one of my own and love it. Keep up the great work.
I watch a lot of people on equipment and I must say you are amazing on the excavator and rest of your equipment as well, and that swivel bucket on the yanmar excavator is amazing!!!
yes , what a wet mess things have been. springs coming out out the ground we've never seen. several new ditch lines in the woods. trees falling over. not cool. if it ever dries out I've got quite a bit of fixing to do on the farm.
127 inches of rain, hell that's far more than our rainy average here in Oregon. No wonder the soil there is so easy to scoop out. Doing a project like that in this state would take an environmental study and approval by snowflakes, flagmen, coned off to one lane access, 2 guys with hand held shovels, a foreman, a permit that takes forever to get approved, an inspection before, during, then after. And at least one teammate with CPR/first aid training. High fuel costs and smog regulations plus high taxes, to really put the squeeze on.
Looks like your off to a pretty good start Chris, Hope you don't get to many spots on that stretch, that start pumping on ya, and have to dig a lot more out .... Can't hardly get away from it with that much rain and water in the ground this time of year . But, hopefully it all goes pretty good and you can't get it all knocked out pretty quick !! lolol.... Have a Great Evening Man !! On too the Next....
When you said ten feet of rain fall "somehow" reminds me of my neighbor? Some fancy politician predicted 25 years ago that most of Florida would be underwater by 2006 or so. My neighbor panicked and literally gave away his home for pennies on the dollar and moved to Arizona. The polar ice was melting and melting fast they said, learn to swim or move to higher ground they said, gonna be ten feet of water over your house Bill. Fast forward to 2020 and the only thing that has changed is that his home he sold is now worth a hundred times more than what he sold it for and is still high and dry, we laugh to this day about that and he stopped listening to those fancy politicians, lol!
Man, you scared me yesterday with no video, I was ready to start combing the ditches of NC. You had a string going there, and it was part of my daily routine. I enjoy the vid's, thanks.
Those 4 in 1 buckets are really nice for driveway work and dirt moving . Nice work on the project. You guys do good quality work you probably stay pretty busy. Nice video keep up the good work and stay safe !
For sure. Some of those cars really appear to be flying. Not sure what the speed limit might be but you think they might ease up a bit with equipment operating so close to the road. But I can sort of relate. I live in a semi-rural residential neighborhood with a 25 mph speed limit. If I had a buck for every car going under 40....I'd be broke.
Hiii dear Friend ! In my old age, I do have a Komatsu PC27 M2 for developing my piece of land / ground in French Guyana, I think this is why I love seeing you work but often I am "jealous" of your machinery and the easy of you working. Nota Bene. No coca-cola nor pepsi-cola nooooo fruit juice !!! I drink coconut water, lemon juice, mango juice etc....... OK keep well and strong one must work while he is young and fit........ Old it become's heavy and too slow !! I know !
I use to drink 36 to 48 cans of Coke Cola daily. When I was working 20 hrs per day for ruffly 2 1/2 years straight. So I started buying it buy the pallet directly from Coke Cola best decision I ever made. I was saving $350 per pallet. I turned a toolbox into a refrigerator that ran off of propane in the bed of my truck just to keep my soda nice and ice cold.
New subscriber here, just wanted to say really looking forward to watching some of your videos. I recently went "all in" for starting a excavating business full time now. At the moment things are slow but really excited to see where it takes me, great video and be safe and God bless!
That's sure a busy stretch of road. The wide entrance for safer exit and entrance to the drive is a must. I don't need one, but I'd love to have a skid steer just to play and make a mess with.
It is interesting to see the different driveways you get involved in versus the ones I am familiar with in Northern Utah and used to be familiar with in the South Bay Area (between San Jose and Monterey CA). Has to be zoning and permits process in part as well as climate and soils. I have lived from coast to coast as well as Canada to Gulf of Mexico in my 70+ years..
I randomly came across your videos a few weeks ago and have probably given you about 50 hours of watch time in the past month! Haha. Then I notice that this job is 1/4 mile from my property on 96. Super cool that you're local! Love the dirt work buddy!
Sorry, I had to pause the video to eat dinner last night. Just getting back to finish watching I hope that didn't cause the truck to tie up traffic that long also!🤣😁 love the videos!
Hey Chris you definitely need some help I have to try to find another Tim, lol. But anyway brother another great video you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming in again I can’t wait do you get back on the animal shelter project that’s going to make some good videos
What gravel size did you use to cover the road culvert and the transition into the driveway? On top of the material for the driveway, what sizes or rock/gravel were used from bottom to top layer and the depth of each layer if the sizes were larger to smaller? Thanks.
Jobs like that close to busy roads always make me uneasy, people are more worried about what you're doing then driving. Stay safe out there bud you do excellent work 🤘
I love the way you and Mr Dirt get along and work together! You guys are awesome working together. If you can just get him trained right, he could be really good! 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂
Crazy amount of rain your area has gotten this year. Been wicked dry here in Maine. We could use a foot or so of your over flow. Getting snow today saying 3"-5", white out conditions and a whole 13° currently! Guess we are having a white Christmas 🎄.
nice Takeuchi skid steer Takeuch iis getting popular..... lot of contractors here in Texas use the mini Takeuchi trackhoes for installing conduit for roadway lighting
You remind me of a guy who taught me a LOT running equipment. I swear he could Knit with a skidsteer! Watching you work... I absolutely love the dexterity with an excavator... you should clamp a paintbrush on your bucket and paint a picture! Keep on keepin on man! 😁
The road is looking good Chris.lots of work ahead of you yet. I hope it wont Da in down on the road And wash it away.timmy is missing on the jobsite. Your Can feel it that theres someone Not there. Keep Up the hard work Chris and stay safe.i Miss timmy not being there anymore.😓
I don't get why people want road access but insist on pretending there isn't a road there at all. Especially when they want a gravel road in. To hell with that; I want a proper sealed surface that stays put!
Bossman nailed the timing on that first dump!
I was expecting 200 cars to pass when he went to dump.
It was flawless.
It's like he's done that before. Smooth pull in, dump, and gone in 30 sec. :)
He did a perfect 10 on that drop.....
And not a drop spilled on the road either
He still should have “be prepared to stop”signs out on that road and at least jump out with a flag to get traffic stopped.
Your videos are great Covid relief. Such delicate touch in moving the cone.
I'm not even that delicate moving them by hand.
Although the last one was to draw attention to a small lake, so like fuck was I stepping in it to drop a cone.
Why is watching a dude scrape sod with a skid steer so relaxing? Maybe cause up North we been plowing snow all day...
Oh ... much more civilized then humping silt, sand and mud out of a pond! I could watch this all night. And, no snakes!
I like the way you provide just enough commentary to explain what you’re doing without overloading your videos with too much talking.
@ Rick - Well Said.... Yes exactly, i prefer channels like this, that don't overdo it
That truck load of sand gave me chills! When I was 18 (1984) I was still laboring for my dad in the masonry business and the last job before I started laying brick was a huge huge warehouse. Every day a truck that size would dump sand and two semis would unload Cherokee block. If you were the ground men you mixed mortar and raised block non stop. Some days we only turned the mixers off at lunch. 60 scoops of sand 3 bags of cement and 15 gallons of water per batch, all day. repeat the next day for two months. No I didn't walk up hill to school every day. I didn't go half the time in high school I was working! lol My nephews pay to go to the gym and couldn't push a wheelbarrow filled with cement without dumping it if that had to...
You keep bursting my snow globe I thought it was your natural perfectionism coming out. I believe you could un-frost a cake without disturbing one crumb.
The way you effortlessly use that 4in1 bucket is truly amazing.. you are amazing at what you do..
I was thinking I couldn't move that cone with my foot as tenderly as he moved it with the bucket.
This was a great video Chris. It showed much more of the process in order. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
You are right about one thing and that is one busy road. Those folks are going to have more in that driveway than I payed for my house.
I'm thinking the same thing LOL
Nice little project. Jon getting it done in pure Jon fashion balls to walls 😁
What is the fine material he is using under the abc?
@@charlesstevens8378 screenings it’s the fines that come in base rock
Great job! That's the proper way to install a driveway.
Took me 3 minutes in the video to noticed Oak Grove Church. I put a lot of vehicles on the shoulder right there on your trailers park. Good job brother enjoy watching your videos.
I like how the traffic slows down and drives carefully past you as you work next to the road....
Lol
Think about it though
Would you really think to slow down for a little 200 foot construction zone…
Your intentions were in the right place though I’ll give you that
@@dominicfarzetta I would give you odds that many of those drivers didn't even notice or pay attention to the work going on there, let alone slow down for it.
Rubber necking.
I deliver bricks most of the time off the side of the road and let me tell you it is very rare for anyone to slow down I have a near death experience at least once a week.
Yeah! I was noticing that too! Damn... And no median strips?!
Wow, 10 ft of rain. We in the Central Valley of California have had less than 1 inch since July 1. Last year, less than one foot!
Love the sound of the Yanmar oil pump...
You are getting more rain than England Chris🙂
Thanks for the video 👍🇬🇧
Gonna be fun putting the culvert in the creek to get across it. Looks like it'll take a lot of fill.
Chris that main road is like a racetrack, your work is awesome. Kevin
Letsdig18...your skills with all of your equipment is freaking amazing!!!! I’ve helped in some insane surgeries before, but watching you operate your equipment is even more impressive.
Edit: That dump truck came in hot!!!! Driver knew exactly what they were doing!! Very impressive.
More cars have gone past you in this video than have gone by my house in 8 years. I'm literally not joking. Makes me glad to live in rural Montana even if my driveway isn't as nice as this one.
We visited Montana a few years ago and loved it. We were in the Bozeman area
I'm in Amish country in Ohio. I actually told people to go home at one point in the video. I share your anxiety.
After watching all these years of you using the grading bucket on the mini and now on your 220 I went out and got one of my own and love it. Keep up the great work.
makes you wonder how you went without one for so long
Figured got to buy more equipment to do the work my self good employees are hard to find.
I watch a lot of people on equipment and I must say you are amazing on the excavator and rest of your equipment as well, and that swivel bucket on the yanmar excavator is amazing!!!
I just love watching the way you work so smooth and precise, keep up the great work can't wait for more 👍
yes , what a wet mess things have been. springs coming out out the ground we've never seen. several new ditch lines in the woods. trees falling over. not cool. if it ever dries out I've got quite a bit of fixing to do on the farm.
127 inches of rain, hell that's far more than our rainy average here in Oregon. No wonder the soil there is so easy to scoop out. Doing a project like that in this state would take an environmental study and approval by snowflakes, flagmen, coned off to one lane access, 2 guys with hand held shovels, a foreman, a permit that takes forever to get approved, an inspection before, during, then after. And at least one teammate with CPR/first aid training. High fuel costs and smog regulations plus high taxes, to really put the squeeze on.
Sounds more like California
Looks like your off to a pretty good start Chris, Hope you don't get to many spots on that stretch, that start pumping on ya, and have to dig a lot more out .... Can't hardly get away from it with that much rain and water in the ground this time of year . But, hopefully it all goes pretty good and you can't get it all knocked out pretty quick !! lolol.... Have a Great Evening Man !! On too the Next....
Mtn Dew in the morning is breakfast of champions
That’s always my go to, the blue one
I enjoy drinking all kinds of Mtn Dew whenever I get enough money I will be buying one of every Mtn Dew drinks for me to have forever
only Pepsi PLEASE
Woo, new project. Thanks for the vid, Chris. You need a Pepsi sponsorship, IMO.
Your probably loving that new bucket, looks like it works great! Well worth the investment
When you said ten feet of rain fall "somehow" reminds me of my neighbor? Some fancy politician predicted 25 years ago that most of Florida would be underwater by 2006 or so. My neighbor panicked and literally gave away his home for pennies on the dollar and moved to Arizona.
The polar ice was melting and melting fast they said, learn to swim or move to higher ground they
said, gonna be ten feet of water over your house Bill.
Fast forward to 2020 and the only thing that has changed is that his home he sold is now worth a hundred times more than what he sold it for and is still high and dry, we laugh to this day about that and he stopped listening to those fancy politicians, lol!
Awesome job Chris
Man, you scared me yesterday with no video, I was ready to start combing the ditches of NC. You had a string going there, and it was part of my daily routine. I enjoy the vid's, thanks.
haha Yeah I was bored out of my mind with no work to do lol
@@letsdig18 Just a day to goof around with the moo-moos :D
127" of rain!!!
Man, that's really wet- 2½ or more times the usual annual amount for NC. No wonder everything you've worked on has been so muddy!
We’ve had 161” in my city here in Louisiana this year
Those 4 in 1 buckets are really nice for driveway work and dirt moving . Nice work on the project. You guys do good quality work you probably stay pretty busy. Nice video keep up the good work and stay safe !
10', holy crap!!! we haven't gotten that much in 10 years and the cattle know it
Uncle John rolls in like a boss and was gone before anyone could complain.
He had paperwork to do!
@@cathiwim uuu8
Love the way you handle the Skid Steer 👌🏽
Love the content, video, camera view and channel! Need more driveway work in the next year!
Chris! I like the big yellow tripod you have on this job !
Hello from the west coast of England
Goodbye from the east coast of America.
Hello from SW Germany, Hows Home !?
@@mirage4014 Hello. Well. And with you?
@@Namaste3004 Hi Gisela, Mir gehts gut danke, Just normally go back to England for Christmas, but with Corvid 19 a little difficult this year
East side of lake Ontario
Awesome job!!!! It was cool to see that different camera angle!!!
Looks like that road is the Indianapolis 500!!!
The Human race heading back and forth between home and the Rat race!
For sure. Some of those cars really appear to be flying. Not sure what the speed limit might be but you think they might ease up a bit with equipment operating so close to the road. But I can sort of relate. I live in a semi-rural residential neighborhood with a 25 mph speed limit. If I had a buck for every car going under 40....I'd be broke.
Bossman, Uncle John was a Ninja with that second load.
*Forty-two freaking inches of SNOW just last night it's one of the many pleasures of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York*
If y’all have to much, send it south!
Only 29 inches here, we are just outside the lake effect region.
@@Blazer02LS in S.C.we are lucky to get 2-3 inches a year.
24" last night in Acton Maine and it sucks lol
Coffee is my drug of choice...tks for video
Same here, can't live without it. Actually, I could live without it but why would I do that?
Awesome work Chris!
Hiii dear Friend ! In my old age, I do have a Komatsu PC27 M2 for developing my piece of land / ground in French Guyana, I think this is why I love seeing you work but often I am "jealous" of your machinery and the easy of you working. Nota Bene. No coca-cola nor pepsi-cola nooooo fruit juice !!! I drink coconut water, lemon juice, mango juice etc....... OK keep well and strong one must work while he is young and fit........ Old it become's heavy and too slow !! I know !
I use to drink 36 to 48 cans of Coke Cola daily. When I was working 20 hrs per day for ruffly 2 1/2 years straight. So I started buying it buy the pallet directly from Coke Cola best decision I ever made. I was saving $350 per pallet. I turned a toolbox into a refrigerator that ran off of propane in the bed of my truck just to keep my soda nice and ice cold.
Fun to watch the 12V2 push wet rock! 🙂
New subscriber here, just wanted to say really looking forward to watching some of your videos. I recently went "all in" for starting a excavating business full time now. At the moment things are slow but really excited to see where it takes me, great video and be safe and God bless!
“The more you twist and turn around on it the wetter it gets.”
There’s a joke in there somewhere...
I'm not plumber so it has to be sexual in nature
Came here to comment this, was not disappointed to find it already done LOL
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Can there be any doubt Chris is the Ninja Master of Skid Steers !?😎?!
He handles that machine as tho the two of them are a Borg.
That's sure a busy stretch of road. The wide entrance for safer exit and entrance to the drive is a must. I don't need one, but I'd love to have a skid steer just to play and make a mess with.
It is interesting to see the different driveways you get involved in versus the ones I am familiar with in Northern Utah and used to be familiar with in the South Bay Area (between San Jose and Monterey CA). Has to be zoning and permits process in part as well as climate and soils. I have lived from coast to coast as well as Canada to Gulf of Mexico in my 70+ years..
Surprised you weren't vibrating that rock. I love running the roller.
Hopefully there will be a part 2 so we can see this job completed. Awesome video!
Dr. Pepper is the way to get the day started.
There's just something about those 23 flavors
I personally prefer nc real sundrop
Always looking forward to a new Video!!👍👍
I randomly came across your videos a few weeks ago and have probably given you about 50 hours of watch time in the past month! Haha. Then I notice that this job is 1/4 mile from my property on 96. Super cool that you're local! Love the dirt work buddy!
I don't know about anybody else but I find it so satisfying to watch you grade with the skid steer lol
Details fella you are, most operators would not of thought of putting the clay soil at the end of the pipe to keep the sand from washing away. NICE!!!
Holy cow Chris I think it's time to build an ark that's 10 ft of rain with some change Don't drown I like your channel
Your a Pure pro no shaking, vibrations, and totally smooth. Plus your def expert level with grading bucket. Good work and job outta you.
I really enjoy watching you.
Thank you!
Sorry, I had to pause the video to eat dinner last night. Just getting back to finish watching I hope that didn't cause the truck to tie up traffic that long also!🤣😁 love the videos!
Hey Chris you definitely need some help I have to try to find another Tim, lol. But anyway brother another great video you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming in again I can’t wait do you get back on the animal shelter project that’s going to make some good videos
Loved the shout to old dirt perpect
Great video Chris and u make great fast progress.
Just wondered why the fabric doesn't start from the road edge. Coffee and a cig starts the day for me, thats all i need through the day.
1336 views in 8 minutes. I must not have been the only one waiting for a new video. :-)
What gravel size did you use to cover the road culvert and the transition into the driveway? On top of the material for the driveway, what sizes or rock/gravel were used from bottom to top layer and the depth of each layer if the sizes were larger to smaller? Thanks.
Ya got a good start on it - lots more twisting and turning...
When it is turned, at the beginning, it sounds like something out of star wars.
Just imagine...people used to do this by hand. 👍
You and DP might have the same taste is soda but not pipe bells
Chris is a man of few words while DP is.......................well, you know!
Jobs like that close to busy roads always make me uneasy, people are more worried about what you're doing then driving. Stay safe out there bud you do excellent work 🤘
Idk why but I love watching you build driveways lol
Got my new shirt yesterday. Like the new logo.
I love the way you and Mr Dirt get along and work together! You guys are awesome working together. If you can just get him trained right, he could be really good! 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂
NAILED IT💪
I think I jinxed everyone with the rain when I went out on my own. Been really wet here too. Lol.
Congratulations on going full time hoping for your continued success
Crazy amount of rain your area has gotten this year. Been wicked dry here in Maine. We could use a foot or so of your over flow. Getting snow today saying 3"-5", white out conditions and a whole 13° currently! Guess we are having a white Christmas 🎄.
For me it was the Dew that got my days started. You know the Mountain Dew, Then Black Folgers Coffee with 4 sugars, Then it was Code Red Mountain Dew.
NICE JOB CHRIS, WELL DONE LIKE ALWAYS.
nice Takeuchi skid steer Takeuch iis getting popular..... lot of contractors here in Texas use the mini Takeuchi trackhoes for installing conduit for roadway lighting
I had to snowblow first time in years out at road was over my head and driveway over 30" when I got home. Usually plow.
I wish you could send some of that rain my way. New Mexico gets by on as little as 12 to 18 inches a year.
its marvellous no cars till he starts tipping the 6 turn up
You remind me of a guy who taught me a LOT running equipment. I swear he could Knit with a skidsteer! Watching you work... I absolutely love the dexterity with an excavator... you should clamp a paintbrush on your bucket and paint a picture! Keep on keepin on man! 😁
With all that water you’re having it a wonder that roller was pumping that ground.
I don't know why but I find this oddly relaxing to watch! lol :)
The road is looking good Chris.lots of work ahead of you yet. I hope it wont Da in down on the road And wash it away.timmy is missing on the jobsite. Your Can feel it that theres someone Not there. Keep Up the hard work Chris and stay safe.i Miss timmy not being there anymore.😓
We just did a driveway like this and we started with a thick chert layer on fabric and topped it with crusher run
That truck with fill came in @12:24 and out by 13:26; faster than a Brooklyn mob hit.
Uncle John comin in hot with that first load of stone
letsdig18 makes this type of work look like an art form.
Wow, 10 and a half feet. That is more than double what we get on average here in Auckland NZ
You should really buy the roller attachment for the skid steer it’s be a lot easier then bringing a roller every time
When Winston gets older he can operate the mini !
That driveway back to the future home site must have cost a piece of change in itself before the footings for the home ever go in.
I don't get why people want road access but insist on pretending there isn't a road there at all.
Especially when they want a gravel road in. To hell with that; I want a proper sealed surface that stays put!
@@Skorpychan Maybe the home owner wants to do this in stages? I can't think of any reason why just a gravel road.
@@Skorpychan they probably wait to pave/concrete until after all the heavy construction traffic is over to prevent damage to the driveway
@@terrynichols7199 Gravel roads are cheaper to maintain and build than tarmac.