Comparing Frost Ripper VS Digging bucket on a Excavator cutting through frozen ground
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Comparing Frost Ripper VS Digging bucket on a Excavator cutting through frozen ground. Hello my name is Mike and I'm the owner operator at TC Excavating also known as Dirt Boss please leave a comment and tell me what you think!
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Springfield Illinois.
People that aren’t exposed to this type of work have no idea how powerful frost can be. Like your channel. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Bill You are correct Good luck on the giveaway !
Indianapolis and life has been hell for me these last few weeks
Here in Maine our frost is at least 4-5 feet down and sometimes more depending on the frost. Thats why we don’t do anything in the winter either. Good channel!
Yeah I hear you Joey Thanks
We need more Dirt Boss videos!!! Nice and Nice
Thanks buddy appreciate it !
Agree!
You are doing good videos and great job. I love to look these . No grap talk, just real things
Thanks buddy appreciate it
Ontario Canada
We don’t have much frost here this year maybe six inches
Thanks for the video
Thanks Adrian
I live in RI and have to install a residential yard hydrant in the spring frost layer up here is 52" I think I'll shoot for 60" after seeing this to be safe.
Yes sir while you're digging you might as well just give it that extra scoop for safety !
Hi Boss , I'm Dale Dirt .... Yes I watch Todd doing his thing at Diggin life 21 , Great guy and good work , I'm originally from NC . So I am kinda the Hawaii Hillbilly , been watching your channel for over a year or more . Great channel and I always learn a lot . I am in the process of building a ripper , not for frost but for Lava Rock ..... I am small time , got a few pieces of my own , but love your channel . Tell Todd Aloha from Kona .
Hey hola my buddy thanks!
Glad you posted a video! It’s single digits with snow and wind here in Wisconsin! Be safe
Thanks Jason Good luck
Great demonstration! When we would run out of frost blankets on a basement dig we would bail a bunch of snow in the hole and it would prevent the ground from freezing. It's crazy how well snow insulates.
Thanks buddy yeah definitely snow is a blanket !
The nice thing when it snows down here in North Carolina is everything shuts down. I used to live in Raleigh, NC when I first moved to NC, Raleigh gets more snow when it does snow than here in the Charlotte, NC area. My boss used to be amazed that me, and a guy from Buffalo, NY, and another one from Long Island, NY were always the first ones to work when it snowed. LOL!!! Born and raised in Upstate NY don't miss the winters.
Thanks George Good luck
Another great educational and fun video from you. That frost is no joke, it’s definitely not worth the hassle unless it’s an emergency. We just plow in the winter! Viewing from Vermont!
Thanks Mr 802 Good luck
I like the ripper it made a big difference for sure great video man ..👍🏻 Kentucky here
Yes sir Thanks man appreciate it
nice to see someone else waiting out winter here in the northeast.we near binghamton have around the same amount of frost now as well.i always pick a dirt oerfect for only needing to bury water lines a foot down.
Yeah definitely I'm jealous of their techniques !!
The joys of winter in the northern climate. Where I live, it's currently 6 ft. Not much snow cover this year.
Yes 6 ft That's a challenge !
🔥🔥🔥 DEFINITELY PUTS OUR FROST LAYER TO SHAME DOWN HERE 😂😂😂. We just freeze and thaw repeatedly. Makes for a muddy misery. Thanks for the awesome shoutout my brother 🙏🏻
You got it my buddy yeah I had a show that frost It just tears equipment up !
Elmer, New Jersey. Awesome videos! Keep up the great work!
Thanks Elmer Good luck
Hey Dirt Boss. Nice to see you. You make it look so easy. Just waiting to hear the dozer again.
Thanks Larry me too !
From Russia with respect and good luck! Зимняя эксплуатация техники - штука серьёзная... Зима красивая! Снег!
Thanks Russ and good luck
Abaco, Bahamas 🇧🇸. The coldest it may get down here is 57°F but too us that is pretty cold. We are use to the upper 80's to 100°F. We never experience frost or snow here but we have natural hard limestone and flint rock here. All of our excavator our equipped with narrow rock buckets and twin tiger teeth. We work year around. We don't put quick couplers on our machines either because the constand digging hard rock destroys them quick. Nobody around here uses jack hammers on machines either 🤦♂️ but we get it done. Nice videos 😎
Nice yeah I could take the Bahamas right now ! I hear you with the rock It definitely tears couplers up quick Thanks buddy Good luck !
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Good luck tomorrow, Dirt Boss. Looking forward to your next LIVE stream.
Thanks Dale I appreciate it and good luck ! for some reason your comment earlier today I could not respond to and when I clicked on it it just disappeared ?
Hey Dale I can't reply to your comments That's like the third one so far lately not sure if it's on my end or yours it was just on the short video I posted when I click on your name it disappears
great test on frozen ground . here in tn got less than 4 inches , great comment on diggin life 20 , got to your channel from him mentioning it . thanks, hey send that hat man
Yes sir thanks and good luck !
Great demonstration of the frost we get here in the North. Not worth the trouble and abuse on the machines
Good video Dirt Boss👍
North Bay, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks Gibson Good luck !
Another fabulous video keep it up can’t wait tell spring and we are back on site !!! .
People learn the hard way with frost seen some funny looking fences here in Ontario
Exactly if you don't put your structure below frost she'll be tipping
Great demo. I'm from New York.
Thanks Patty Good luck
I'm from Callao Missouri. Enjoy your channel
Thank you sir Good luck
North Carolina
Glad we don’t freeze that hard down here. Great videos!!
Thanks Jesse
Love your equipment lineup !! Awesome videos also .. That’s crazy to watch .. I live in North Georgia and we barely freeze .. Basically thaws out daily .. That ripper is a definite must where you are .. Thanks for sharing my friend !! Blairsville Georgia is where I live .
Thanks Alan much appreciated
Frost tooth on my ripper and digging bucket.
For some strange reason the landscape architect's want to do summer work in the winter here 🙄. Small pile caps and grade beams that need a smaller machine do to access. I also use a breaker with a spade bit on it.
Cost 3-4 times more to do the work in winter.
Yes I agree It definitely cost more in the winter
Good luck tomorrow with your shots. Great live feed last night thoroughly enjoyed it. This is Don from Maine
Thanks Don appreciate it Good luck !
South Wales. Over in the UK. Keep up good work.
Thank you sir Good luck
I like Dirt Perfect homemade ripper. It is 7” wide, combination ripper/trencher for water lines, electric lines etc. In Kentucky where I live its a must,also!
I hear ya !
Hello from Wales 🏴 Great Britain
Hello buddy Thanks for watching Good luck !
Just saw the video. Down here on cape cod! Was out digging dry wells last week and was about 6” deep here. Then it rained and thawed out pretty quick. Getting ready for about 6-8” of snow today though.
Wow that's good on 6" yeah I heard about the snow coming !
Yeah I have to dig footings this Friday up here in Minnesota.
Good Luck
You got some nice dirtcycles with the ripper must be tough on the body bouncing around like that!!!!LONG ISLAND NEW YORK in the house with MIKE The DIRT BOSS!!!!!!!
Yeah Henry you got that right ! Good luck
Great comparison Dirt Boss! I'm in NJ and hate to admit it
I hear you Mike Good luck
Man i didnt think we would have had enough cold to get the frost that deep. its been such a mild winter most of the waterways are just now really getting some good ice. great video.
I know Robert I agree I thought it would be maybe 2 ft or less
Mikey Mike ... You know I would totally Rock a Tri County Hat....Summer or Winter. Oh wait though...What about that friggin awesome Drone Intro ( perfect music selection) to this video...HHMMMM❓❓❓ I'm Seriously impressed With the video production valves⭐🏆⭐ Oh Yeah.....Palenville. NY 12463
Yeah buddy I appreciate that Thanks and good luck !
hi from Garson, Ontario Canada thank you !!
Thanks buddy
That frost ripper is the bomb, enjoyed watching Mr. Dirt Boss
Thanks Al appreciate it !
Good comparison between the two. Our frost line can go down 8' here, so i understand when you say no work gets done when its cold lol
Wow that's straight up permafrost !
Hey Mike. Been enjoying your channel for about a year and half now. Looking forward to seeing what's in store for the year ahead. Commenting from Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
Thanks Eric !
Great demonstration...here in Idaho
Thanks buddy Good luck
What’s up my people man that frost is crazy mike been a subscriber for 2 years or so now I think dirt boss from nsw Australia 💪💪💪
Thanks Jamie tonight 7:30 we're live ! Hope you can make it
@@DIRT-BOSS just set a reminder boss I’ll do my best 👍👍
Digging frost is one way to push a excavator to the limit ,much like rock.
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I like your Komatsu. I have a Komatsu PC75UU-2 up in Ontario Canada
Thanks Eric I had that same exact machine I loved it with the split boom !
@@DIRT-BOSS that’s funny you had the same machine, I have a couple videos of mine on my channel
Now I recall why I moved from the Northeast in 1970!---Georgia
Exactly Thanks Sam
Yeah when the frost gets as deep as you guys have it it doesn’t pay to work! I do love the ripper tooth . I don’t know what I would do without them 👍🏻
Yeah I hear you ripper's definitely the ticket A lot of applications you could use them
Wow, on a bad year we might get 4-6" of frost here in central NC. We haven't even had that the last several years, just mud. Lol. Stay safe Boss.
Yeah Mark could get irritating I hear that
That's interesting. I get customers all the time, either from New York or anywhere else up north, that move south here to tn and want their utilities 4 ft deep. Our frost line is 12 inches but it's rare we even see 6 inches of frozen dirt. Your video here shows why they want that. They don't need it, but I understand where they're coming from.
That's cool Thanks for watching bud
I’m here because of diggin life.
Thanks!
Hi from Kentucky
Good luck Robert!
Hi from Hertfordshire England we are lucky if we get and inch of frost in the ground that may last a day then it is just a soggy gloopy mess of clay.
Yeah wet clay is no fun either Good luck
It's amazing to think that before modern powerful excavator/equipment hydraulics just about all excavating stopped in winter months circa up to about early 1970s, the trades went hunting and traveling for the winter layoff lol!
I know it's crazy isn't it !
Love your stuff from Vermont
Thanks buddy big snow country !
Great video Tennessee here
Thanks Mike
Thanks for doing this video Mike . A lot of people ask me why I’m sitting home also . Guy can brake a tooth shank on that stuff . ! Cape cod 🤘
Exactly Frost just tears equipment up big time No such thing as grading !
@@DIRT-BOSS Company I used to work for after high school would work all winter long and just break everything . I’m too small to afford that😂
@@DirtBrute yeah definitely I used to do that too it's cheaper to stay home.
We don't get near that much frost here in Kansas, I mainly use my ripper for stumps and rock.
Yeah ripper 👍🏼
Great hat use it all the time😆
Yeah buddy You may have 2 ! Good luck
Awesome thanks for sharing
Thanks Don
From Texas my friend!!
Thanks buddy !
Hi from Québec, Canada!!!
Thanks Gab Good luck !
Youngstown Ohio
Love your videos
Thanks Rick
@@DIRT-BOSS you follow my neighbor JC Smith small world 😆
Watching from Downeast Maine .
Thanks buddy
Awesome video
Thanks man
Great video
Thanks man
Western Maryland, MY PEOPLE
Yeah Derrick Good luck buddy !
Great video!! Maine
Good luck buddy
I'm glad to see a video buddy have been missing u. Great video.
Thanks Mike !
over the year with a skid loader i use a set of forks put them together
Gotcha
That's impressive frost that deep, six to ten inches here is alot. Southeastern, Kentucky
Yeah and this winter has been mild
Ya man, I get weather like you in Ontario Canada,
Oh yeah John You know what it's about 👍🏼
How do you like that little dumper you have. We have kicked around buying one a few times
I love it It is a great truck Tough truck
Good video my brotber!!
Thanks Vinny
Frost teeth on the bucket would help a lot
Here in Hawaii we don’t have a frost line obviously, but the ripper tooth is the next best thing to a hammer for digging in rock. You can just peck away at it and work a crack. Great for tree removal too. Put all that hydraulic force to a single point,
Yes you are so correct I used to watch a guy that had a channel in Hawaii He doesn't put anything out anymore though Wesley's world..
Here in mid Ohio we got snow with no frist. It is still muddy in the woods even after some cold weather.
Yeah the woods will have a little less frost around here too
Cleveland OH in the house!
Yeah Dan thanks Good luck !
Alright myyyyyy people......from the UK.
Good luck Dylan !
Hey from Kentucky
Thanks Anthony good luck
Watched you stumping with that thing in a couple of your videos & was surprised to see you not using conventional bucket. Wouldn't the bucket be faster & easier?
Mike in Connecticut
No way bucket it wouldn't even touch the frost And when stomping you disturb way too much ground by the bucket Thanks and good luck
Vermont.
Would be cool to check the temp of the dirt 4 feet down with an infrared thermometer just after you broke through.
Yeah that would be a good idea I do have a temperature gun too
Annapolis, MD in the house
Yeah Danny !
There are shady sides of glaciers that aren’t frozen as solid as that! Something tells me that, around there, no one leaves their garden hose hooked up to their hose bib... the second winter.
Here in S/W MO, we get ponds frozen thick enough to walk on, about one year out of three... note, I said walk on. I only know one person who knows how to ice skate. And, she learned how at college in New Hampshire. Our safe frost line is 24”... but my guess is that happens once in 100 years.
Our forte’ is freezing rain that breaks the trees down a couple of times each year. That’s why poplars and gum trees don’t grow very big here... now oaks and hickories they are survivors!
Thanks for the look at a place I’ve only seen from above. I always wondered what a deep freeze looked like beneath the surface.
Pardon me while I go back to the sunny side of the glacier!
Yeah I hear you there sassafras around here we drive full size pickup trucks on the ice
Going into deep freeze for next five days in Kenosha WI heads up Mike its headed your way
I know I know ! Thanks
Why Tony Soprano had to use Satriani's on his winter hits... that damn frost in the NJ woods prevents the victim from digging his own grave...LOL.... Perma frost in the Klondike costs Parker S and crew tons of time and money... You got some great equipment for Gold exploration.... I'd bet Northern NY has Gold too just waiting to be mined.
Peter you're singing music to my ears I'm ready to build a crew called RUclips Gold ! 💪🏼😂
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I hear ya !
Whaaat’s up my dude?! That ripper can get it done, but a day of that would probably be a week to the chiropractor lol. It’s expensive, but they got those ground thaw machines for excavation in the winter. The firm I worked for in college had one and it thawed like 6000 sq ft 1-2 feet a day depending on the frost? Kept us working through the winter on the football Stadium, but I don’t wanna know what that bill looked like😅
Oh yeah I rented those before It was costing me $3,500 a week plus fuel but it definitely knocks out Frost ! Good Good to see you pal !
@@DIRT-BOSS springs coming man! Lookin forward to the list of projects coming! Hope your off-season has treated you well
how does an excavator dig a trench in frozen ground when the trench cannot be straddled< Ontario Canada
I dug today under snow had no frost easy digging .
I wish it was like that here !
Hey from Tennessee
Thanks Rodney Good luck
Great video! Hope I win shipping would be cheap 😉
😂 LoL
Need the Hat- Colorado
Yes sir Good luck
Does it bug you to keep your machines outside all the time and not be inside or in a nice building? I know it doesn't matter much as they are 95% outside. But I gotta admit on my end It does get to me on all the days the hot sun is beaming on that brand-new yellow paint. As I know it's gonna make it fade! Kinda gets a under my skin personally! LOL
Yes I hate equipment being out in weather from sun to snow it's always doing some type of damage to paint and decals !
@@DIRT-BOSS yea I know in time when I keep mine out during summer that the hot sun is gonna make the paint and plastic fade. Kinda gets to me !LOL
The 160 has a lot more power pulling and down force. So that is gonna come in to play in this test also. However minor or much it matters
No I agree with that That's why I stated that in the beginning but it was just the show basically what frost is and how tuff it is
Here from New York
Yeah New York in the house !
D-BOSS! your the man, i ain’t dig much either, i keep passing by your way every weekend going to the slopes, hitting whiteface on friday , that cap is sweet but i need a tuque, hope the shots cure the pain...broheem!
Thanks NJ Good luck be safe skiing bro I love snowboarding it's been years though !
👍👍 good explanation y not to try n did that stuff when it’s real deep , MI
Thanks buddy
Probably good for ripping tree 🌲 roots also
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Check it out!
Don't envy your permafrost in the winter, all we get in the south eastern UK is mud and sticky clay - nightmare to get it out of the digger bucket.
I hear you there Kevin Thanks buddy