I think he has a master's or maybe even a phd in biology, you can see it hanging on the wall when he does his outros. Definitely a knowledgeable guy when it comes to biology
Wearing proper protection,(PPE) is extremely important and helps the worker go home as safely as they came to work. Tell the employee that your insurance requires it or they can’t work. As a union pipefitter, if we didn’t wear it, we lost our job.
As an employer, you have no choice but to enforce safety and PPE, the culture of the employer is what the OSHA inspector will determine for a fine amount in case of an accident….camera or not…one accident and the insurance rate for the next 3 years will make you never want another accident again. One ER bandaid cost me 70,000 in insurance rate hike, since i only had a couple of employees at the time, and you can buy a lot of fancy PPE to help the employee to make a “good” decision. three years I paid for a kid that freaked at the sight of his own blood. Just some experience talking here.
The finished product looks great. If you want to protect the drain from taking on concrete/getting concrete on the surface, a good tip is to painters tape a garbage bag on top of the drain grate. I would also recommend putting some pins extruding from the existing concrete, so the rebar holds it together longterm.
I find that if you just score a saw cut along the 2 by 4, it makes a visible straight line. Then I remove the board and follow the line. They also make water attachments for those saws that receive a hose and spray water onto the blade. Love your videos Shawn
We call it a K12 saw. Put the car boy on top of the truck for better pressure. Smart keeping the dust down. We're required to use PPE. If we don't have it it could be a fine. They make us wear a face shield and the glasses. The welding guy made a Fred. With pipes metal or PVC. Place for a helmet and gloves glasses and safety vest if needed. It looks like a t. I think Ron being able to see you with both eyes the best is the best. You reduce the risk.
Looks great!… boy, you’re organized. You had another chopsaw in your trailer! As soon as that happened, I was betting that you had another saw, and you did. You really have your shit together. I like the idea that you make your people wear ear and eye protection. That’s very important. Another great video! Thank you.
That turned out nice but I'm like you here and I protection is a must if you using equipment like that for the noise and for the pieces hitting your eyes. Problem is you let it go by something happens and then they go after your insurance company. You know what they're going to say, so here and I protection is a must. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦
Here is Eastern Australia we have an organisation called WORKCOVER which visits worksites and reviews videos. Failure to wear the correct PPE for the job results in fines worth more than you earn that week, Remember that here we have free healthcover so when someone gets hurt through stupidity, everyone pays for it. This is a good looking concrete patch.
The same thing will happen between the old concrete and the new because they only poured 4” originally. Should have drilled into existing concrete and placed rebar to connect the two slabs.
Whatever works to get them to use protection. I was a railroad shop foreman and would remind and if that wasn't enough I'd order them. By the time I retired everyone donned the safety equipment without complaint. The job looked pretty nice finished. When it was still drying and dark after you put the lines in it had one of those 3-D optical illusion effects. 👀 Oh yeah, cool information about the bug. I think one of the most difficult jobs must be cataloging all the different insects.
Classifying insects is a gigantic undertaking for sure. Choose a group and have at it! I can identify most insects to family level. That's a broader spectrum but less depth.
Looks nice, i know of several around my place at work that could use the same thing that are a pain to drive around at the end of a building. Glasses for Ronald, yeah i noticed that.
I'm not sure how much the large bundles of lumber weigh, but the forklifts by themselves weigh close to 20,000 lbs. With no shock absorbers, they can bounce or bang hard driving across that area.
Nice. Is this the same place where you put that riprap channel off the lot and down to the drainage pond? Thanks for the water scorpion bonus, always glad to get the education!
Oh. Rebar drilled into the existing concrete all around is the best option to prevent any downward movement and it would prevent any further cracking from heavy trucks going over it.
Ive seen basins in much worse shape on properties where the owners dont care at all. Its cool that this business is taking care of something like this that in the grand scheme of things really doesnt effect their business at all
Question re the camera work - when your saw broke and the camera followed you and zoomed in and out - is that an automatic thing or was there someone working the camera?
It's a great work around but really just saying it's policy, your safety and the companies safety should be enough without tricking them into it. End result looks great.
Sean, you were talking about people wearing PPE, whilst sitting directly in front of the person cutting......He only had to hit something hard and that saw could have bounced up and would have been very close to a part of your body........I had a friend a few months ago had the saw bounce up and it sliced his front lip open just under his nose, like the alien in Predator.
Looks great! You and your wild life interest has introduced me in a fun way to more "anu-mules" than my boring biology class in high school ever did. I never knew there was such a thing as a water scorpian. 🥰
I would have perhaps made it circular to avoid cracks. But that is a judgement call. There is not much you can do for such a simple project. Perhaps dig it out a couple inches deeper and add compacted 3/4 minus stone.
Speaking as a viewer who loves to see Ronald on your jobs, blame me all you like. Speaking as the Emergency Department nurse who has taken care of folks injured on jobs, at home, from fireworks, from... please wear PPE even when you are not videoing!!!
PPE is very important, just sometimes PPE makes things more dangerous, those plastic glasses make things worse vision and I've seen someone not able to see something dangerous in front of them, I had to blow stop horn.
Was just wondering about a video from ya'll. And boom, here it is. Nice job my friends. Just left my chiro, and was eyeing up that big concrete cut. Take care of yourselves. I'm falling apart after years of beating myself up.
The best way to get people to wear PPE is to make it easy and comfortable. Make sure they never have to take more than a few steps to get to the PPE, and make sure to get PPE that's actually comfortable to wear and use. Most people don't mind PPE, they mind the hassle of getting it and the discomfort of wearing it.
I'd use a rope to paint a "chalk line", a pump sprayer for water, clean the area before cement truck shows up, definitely would have skreeted that cement, forget about those diagonal lines and wouldn't bother edging the parameter. (Gives water a path to penetrant down) Otherwise great job!
Yes I have a masters in biology/ecology and worked for several years at an environmental consulting firm. I specialized in aquatic insect identification. Later, I taught biology at the local community college and we did a couple labs where we sampled insects out of the ponds on campus.
That fast food joint I worked for when the woman who bought into the store I worked they not only bought the store and parking around it the land went into part of the original small strip mall of an anchor grocery and 5 small storefronts that included 2 surface drainage basins. The cement frame was broken on the one and drivers tire hit it and flipped it damaging that persons car. PPE course at my current job every one who worked there had to go thru the course. I thought it stupid that I had to endure a 20 video and test, because I work from home as a customer service rep. Not always going to have cameras to bank that on. It is for his protection. Safety is more important. He could provide his own safety eyewear.
Excellent job. I dont think i would leave it up to the customers to determine if you should clean up. Make it part of every jobs routine so it seperates you from the joe smoe's. Strive to exceed not just meet expectations. love all the vids, keep it up!
Your right about PPE any way you can get them to wear it do it. Its regulation and Law. What if the company complained that your working for? How would he feel then?
Telling them it’s for the video is definitely one way, but telling them it’s so your work comp insurance doesn’t go sky high and you have to let go of employees is another way lol
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I like the little biology breaks, they are fascinating! I never heard of a water scorpion before this video.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍
I think he has a master's or maybe even a phd in biology, you can see it hanging on the wall when he does his outros. Definitely a knowledgeable guy when it comes to biology
Wearing proper protection,(PPE) is extremely important and helps the worker go home as safely as they came to work. Tell the employee that your insurance requires it or they can’t work. As a union pipefitter, if we didn’t wear it, we lost our job.
100%
It would be a good idea to drill the old pad and insert rebar to tie the old and new concrete together.
Thinking the same
Good job! Keep your PPE on at all times!
Agreed.
As an employer, you have no choice but to enforce safety and PPE, the culture of the employer is what the OSHA inspector will determine for a fine amount in case of an accident….camera or not…one accident and the insurance rate for the next 3 years will make you never want another accident again. One ER bandaid cost me 70,000 in insurance rate hike, since i only had a couple of employees at the time, and you can buy a lot of fancy PPE to help the employee to make a “good” decision. three years I paid for a kid that freaked at the sight of his own blood. Just some experience talking here.
The finished product looks great. If you want to protect the drain from taking on concrete/getting concrete on the surface, a good tip is to painters tape a garbage bag on top of the drain grate. I would also recommend putting some pins extruding from the existing concrete, so the rebar holds it together longterm.
It’s pretty cool when you talk about plants and insects
Thank you! At the core of it I'm a biologist.
I find that if you just score a saw cut along the 2 by 4, it makes a visible straight line. Then I remove the board and follow the line. They also make water attachments for those saws that receive a hose and spray water onto the blade. Love your videos Shawn
We call it a K12 saw. Put the car boy on top of the truck for better pressure. Smart keeping the dust down. We're required to use PPE. If we don't have it it could be a fine. They make us wear a face shield and the glasses.
The welding guy made a Fred. With pipes metal or PVC. Place for a helmet and gloves glasses and safety vest if needed. It looks like a t. I think Ron being able to see you with both eyes the best is the best. You reduce the risk.
Looks great!… boy, you’re organized. You had another chopsaw in your trailer! As soon as that happened, I was betting that you had another saw, and you did. You really have your shit together. I like the idea that you make your people wear ear and eye protection. That’s very important. Another great video! Thank you.
Looks great! Would like to see video of water draining away on a rainy day.
I absolutely love the entomology tangent! Great work on this project and also thanks for encouraging your employees to don PPE.
Really good job done Shawn, PPE should be used on every job 👍👍
PPE works most of the time, I have had pieces of material removed from my eyes many times with and without glasses/shields, I endorse safety as I age.
Nice they paid to fix it right. Unfortunately a lot of places leave them all broken and busted. Keep up the good work 👍
Love seeing Ronald on the job!
In regards to the jumping jack, I think you have said it before.. if you take care of your equipment, your equipment takes care of you.
I completely agree!
That turned out nice but I'm like you here and I protection is a must if you using equipment like that for the noise and for the pieces hitting your eyes. Problem is you let it go by something happens and then they go after your insurance company. You know what they're going to say, so here and I protection is a must. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦
I like to have PPE easily on hand and convenient
Concrete looks great. I’ve never heard of a water scorpion before, interesting 😊
They are pretty interesting for sure. I like them.
Great video Shaun
Your workmanship on all your videos is second to none.
Good to see the safety boots out on the job 🤔
omg Shawn that looks so good, youre a mud man now too yay. that is gonna save you lots of money if you can do all your own concrete now.
missing your video's we need more
I know Matt! I've been working on a really big project!
@@GCFD i really injoy your video's i can't wait to see more it stinks not seeing them
Here is Eastern Australia we have an organisation called WORKCOVER which visits worksites and reviews videos. Failure to wear the correct PPE for the job results in fines worth more than you earn that week, Remember that here we have free healthcover so when someone gets hurt through stupidity, everyone pays for it. This is a good looking concrete patch.
Looking good, great idea about the PPE Shawn.
Thank you Dylan!
Have you considered buying electric wheel barrow? Chore warrior wheel barrow It’s a game changer
Wow great job! Love seeing these different types of jobs!
Thank you Steve!
Like your core content. Getting water away from building
Thank you!
The same thing will happen between the old concrete and the new because they only poured 4” originally. Should have drilled into existing concrete and placed rebar to connect the two slabs.
We definitely could have pinned them together.
Thought you had deserted RUclips and us subscribers.. long time no see..😢😊
@@georgemaru4653 I’ve been super busy lately!
Awesome job guys! Take care and I’ll see you down the road…
Great video Shawn! I always enjoy the biology segments!!
Thank you! I do too
Man, it's been a while... I was having withdrawal symptoms 😄 Nice to see a new video uploaded 👍
I know and I agree. I've been super busy lately. I'm hoping to get more videos going soon !
Looks good boys. The residue will wash away in time
Thank you !
Whatever works to get them to use protection. I was a railroad shop foreman and would remind and if that wasn't enough I'd order them. By the time I retired everyone donned the safety equipment without complaint. The job looked pretty nice finished. When it was still drying and dark after you put the lines in it had one of those 3-D optical illusion effects. 👀 Oh yeah, cool information about the bug. I think one of the most difficult jobs must be cataloging all the different insects.
Classifying insects is a gigantic undertaking for sure. Choose a group and have at it! I can identify most insects to family level. That's a broader spectrum but less depth.
Looks nice, i know of several around my place at work that could use the same thing that are a pain to drive around at the end of a building. Glasses for Ronald, yeah i noticed that.
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I'm not sure how much the large bundles of lumber weigh, but the forklifts by themselves weigh close to 20,000 lbs. With no shock absorbers, they can bounce or bang hard driving across that area.
Congrats Guy's on getting the old and cracked concrete up and out, and getting the pad with the new concrete put in. looking great guy's.
Been with you since the start man. Always love to see when a new vid is out.☮
Thank you!!
Nice. Is this the same place where you put that riprap channel off the lot and down to the drainage pond? Thanks for the water scorpion bonus, always glad to get the education!
Well done. Definitely a like from me. Cheers Steve Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Oh. Rebar drilled into the existing concrete all around is the best option to prevent any downward movement and it would prevent any further cracking from heavy trucks going over it.
Great, yes you only have 2 eyes. Stay safe along with the good jobs you do. Insects! Man
, there are a lot of them 😊👍🇨🇦
Brilliant job - looks as though it was part of the original plan 😊
Ive seen basins in much worse shape on properties where the owners dont care at all. Its cool that this business is taking care of something like this that in the grand scheme of things really doesnt effect their business at all
plastic drop cloth over grate for concrete?
Great neat job Shawn, Im OTT but would have gone with a bit stronger sized wire mesh? Regards from UK
This was a budget repair but it could have gone as much as possible. I tried to balance a quality repair that looks good and will last.
Did you not need to use the concrete vibrator because of the wire?
It flowed into the space pretty well but we could have vibrated it too.
Came out great 👍
Thank you Chris!
I have a few questions about drones. Do they come with cameras? If they do, how do you view what the drone is looking at? Any suggestions?
Is this your first time doing concrete finishing? I want to learn to do that.
Question re the camera work - when your saw broke and the camera followed you and zoomed in and out - is that an automatic thing or was there someone working the camera?
Looks good, especially when you compare it to before
Yes rebar micro fiber in the concrete. Should of used cureseal
It's a great work around but really just saying it's policy, your safety and the companies safety should be enough without tricking them into it.
End result looks great.
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Sean, you were talking about people wearing PPE, whilst sitting directly in front of the person cutting......He only had to hit something hard and that saw could have bounced up and would have been very close to a part of your body........I had a friend a few months ago had the saw bounce up and it sliced his front lip open just under his nose, like the alien in Predator.
Awesome video 💥👍🏼
Thank you!
It looks great. I hope that you broomed surface for slip resistant.
Just a light broom. The surrounding concrete was all slick so we went with that.
@@GCFD That is what I was talking about.
Looks great! You and your wild life interest has introduced me in a fun way to more "anu-mules" than my boring biology class in high school ever did. I never knew there was such a thing as a water scorpian. 🥰
Thank you! I always tried to get my classes outside to see cool organisms.
Which jumping jack do you have?
Was the job so small to only charge a minimum or did you price it regularly?
0:01 i think who did the previous job… without any wire mesh ..considering the traffic that concrete has to withstand…did it 100% wrong!
No one ever uses mesh around here.
@@GCFD they should! Especially when you need something structural….
Thanks for the biology lesson.👏👏👏👏
I hope you enjoyed it!
@@GCFD I did.
Nice work!
Nice work
Thank you Julie!
You need a head cam holder
Big or small jobs, as always excellent content.
I would have perhaps made it circular to avoid cracks. But that is a judgement call. There is not much you can do for such a simple project. Perhaps dig it out a couple inches deeper and add compacted 3/4 minus stone.
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PPE always sounds like a pain, til you're in the eye surgical area of the hospital.
I hope that didn’t happen to you
Speaking as a viewer who loves to see Ronald on your jobs, blame me all you like.
Speaking as the Emergency Department nurse who has taken care of folks injured on jobs, at home, from fireworks, from... please wear PPE even when you are not videoing!!!
Yes I agree. I make sure we have plenty of hearing, knee, eye protection as well as gloves within easy reach.
Hi Sean , thank you for the vids. Do you use the fiber in concrete frequently? My company supports its use as an innovation.
Yes I use fiber in all my concrete jobs. No reason not to use it, right?
Nice job!
Alright...I'll say it first. You have a nice PC, but on the next bad weather day you've gotta do something about that cable management.
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Hahah I don't have time to dedicate to cable management! But I feel ya!
@@GCFD
That PC deserves a couple of hours.
You should maybe paint "Gate City Foundation Drainage" over "Ace" on your wheelbarrows.
Can you make a video on how to run a company?
That would be an interesting one. What all would you like to know about?
Cash flow Management and worker retention?
Maybe u could have covered the drain with something when u poured the concrete, quite a bit of concrete fell down the drain.
Small project but well done : )
Yay. Been waiting for a new video
I know! I've been trying to get some videos uploaded.
PPE is very important, just sometimes PPE makes things more dangerous, those plastic glasses make things worse vision and I've seen someone not able to see something dangerous in front of them, I had to blow stop horn.
Yes that's very true! I try to keep new, safe PPE around within easy reach for that very purpose. 👍
Was just wondering about a video from ya'll. And boom, here it is. Nice job my friends. Just left my chiro, and was eyeing up that big concrete cut. Take care of yourselves. I'm falling apart after years of beating myself up.
Thank you!
Hey Shawn, you did right by Ronald! BTW I found your book on Amazon - $197.50. You always have great videos!!
The best way to get people to wear PPE is to make it easy and comfortable. Make sure they never have to take more than a few steps to get to the PPE, and make sure to get PPE that's actually comfortable to wear and use. Most people don't mind PPE, they mind the hassle of getting it and the discomfort of wearing it.
Well said Tim! I've tried to do just that.
Came to watch a concrete pour and a entomologist show up a good video.
Haha
I'd use a rope to paint a "chalk line", a pump sprayer for water, clean the area before cement truck shows up, definitely would have skreeted that cement, forget about those diagonal lines and wouldn't bother edging the parameter. (Gives water a path to penetrant down) Otherwise great job!
Looks like you have a walk behind saw right there and your breaking your back with a hot saw 😂
That drain basin probably settled.
I was wondering about that too.
Where do you find jobs like this?
My minimum order is 4 yards. That's up from 3 yards last year. They are charging $138 a yard, no fiber.
It helps knowing the plant owner! For sure.
How u know about these insects? U go to school for it?
Yes I have a masters in biology/ecology and worked for several years at an environmental consulting firm. I specialized in aquatic insect identification. Later, I taught biology at the local community college and we did a couple labs where we sampled insects out of the ponds on campus.
That fast food joint I worked for when the woman who bought into the store I worked they not only bought the store and parking around it the land went into part of the original small strip mall of an anchor grocery and 5 small storefronts that included 2 surface drainage basins. The cement frame was broken on the one and drivers tire hit it and flipped it damaging that persons car. PPE course at my current job every one who worked there had to go thru the course. I thought it stupid that I had to endure a 20 video and test, because I work from home as a customer service rep. Not always going to have cameras to bank that on. It is for his protection. Safety is more important. He could provide his own safety eyewear.
Definitely should have power washed the concrete regardless
Fun little detail just after 5:28 - apparently the concrete saw also controls the wind. Watch the back of Shawn's shirt. 😂
Love the shorter video.
Excellent job. I dont think i would leave it up to the customers to determine if you should clean up. Make it part of every jobs routine so it seperates you from the joe smoe's. Strive to exceed not just meet expectations.
love all the vids, keep it up!
Great point Devin!
The "mess" he left is just a stain that the rain will wash away. Most of the dust and debris were swept with a broom.
I think the only like that matters would be Mike Haduck.
Very true! I wonder what he'd say... Maybe get an interview on his tailgate?
5:57 don’t take Ronald sky diving!
Your right about PPE any way you can get them to wear it do it. Its regulation and Law. What if the company complained that your working for? How would he feel then?
All that plus I really want my people to stay safe. 👍
I agree for sure@@GCFD
PPE is paramount and should be a rule at all times. Might be a good idea to stock up on some and have available.
Yes, I think having PPE around is the best way to use it. All my equipment has a pair of heating protection hanging on it.
Telling them it’s for the video is definitely one way, but telling them it’s so your work comp insurance doesn’t go sky high and you have to let go of employees is another way lol
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You either put on the safety equipment availible or you look for another job. there, thats the way
Good job!
Thank you!
In small companies,this a problem.
LOL, You're paying him. You tell him to wear PPE, not ask. Now he thinks he doesn't have to wear it if you're not filming.