“A lot of scoopy scoops”, i surely hope you bid that job by the hour!!! I’m glad you found bottom without sinking to China!! It just shows the skills of a good operator, keep digging (not too deep) my friend!
Chris that is going to be a lot of mud to move but I know you can handle it so anyway my friend another great video so you and John stay safe and keep the videos coming and the tailgate looks good on the back of the haul truck.
You guys should invest in a GPS system like Trimble. We have one and once you get the model built it would make a job like this much easier and faster. I didn’t think it would pay for itself anywhere near as fast as it has for us. A base and rover would get you started don’t even need machine control to start. Eliminate grade stakes, laser, plans all of that. Very simple to understand once you get started.
For these jobs you need a mud sled. Think a large toboggan with sides on it. Dump the dirt onto that and tow it over to the load out site. If you had a winch on a big dozer you could drag it the way they used the old cable plows.
That does sound like a good idea, we used something like that for mulching on the golf course, dragging the mulch than stopping at every tree to add fresh mulch in the spring and end of summer. How would you make it work on a job like this? Clear a path for the dozer or on the sides? This job site seems incredibly tricky due to the water, even if you get it down to bare ground that becomes deep mud again with the water table setup
@@chosen1one930 The first couple pulls would be the hardest, after that the muddy grass would act like grease. Pulling would depend on what the bottom was. A crawler dump would be handy as well, but when you only need it for say 3 jobs a year it might not pay for itself very quick.
I was thinking a conveyor might at least cut down on how many times he has to move the mud. A smaller scale one like Parker uses on the show Goldrush would be pretty cool. He used an excavator chassis with an enormous boom.
I have no idea why watching a guy dig up some mud is fun to watch. But for some these are the best ones! (There's a guy in Latvia who mostly digs ditches for swampy roads, and that's fun too.)
Oh that’s a lot of mud to move! How much deeper is it after you reach the level you want? If the ground was solid at the bottom, could you use a dozer to bring the mud closer to the haul truck? You really do have a good variety of jobs! Never a dull moment.
Looking like you got a Good start on it Chris. Just hope that hill holds out , once you start hauling the mud out ?? We will see when you guys get going good on it..... Other than the hill holding out, looks like it's going to go pretty smooth.... Mud, mud, and more mud !! lololol.... Have a Great Evening Chris !! And, On too the Next !!
I've seen several of Chris's projects where he has had to move the same material multiple times. He is so patiently philosophical about it. I wish I was a genius and could develop an inexpensive and practicable system of move-it-once. I'd be a rich man!
Takes a special kind of person to keep operating at full steam through monotonous work. Though as the business owner I’d suspect the payday at the end is rather inspiring!
@@danl.909 Those rigs have to have super clean materials or clog’s equipment and pipes quickly our local water co dredging reservoir had floating dredge even silt from bottom has debris had to move processing plant closer to water because of clogging debris in pipe
It's much easier to build fish habits and have them tied down with blocks etc and as you said no more worries about clogging the overflow. Tires, pipes, trees etc are all great.
You’ve had a good start on the pond clean out,sure everything will fall in place once you start the dredging.keep doing your thing and enjoy the weather 👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
Awesome. Just believe Chris is all-the-time thinking about how he can do this better and quicker.. then realize what he is doing is the best and the quickest to get the job done.
Chris definitely does a great job on every project. He’s one of the best operators on RUclips. Dirt Perfect does great work too. Those two are basically the only two heavy equipment operators I watch on a regular basis.
After you spend thousands of hours on a machine you get very good at doing that task and then you can let your mind wander and try to figure ways to make that task easier and/or faster. As a farmer in Florida I spent hundreds of hours each year cleaning drainage ditches. I bought a deep, 5 ft wide cleaning bucket for my JD 510 backhoe. Looks like a bucket that size or larger would make this job go much faster. Time is money.
I like the foolproof tailgate design. They should have designed a pin like the bucket for ease of install. I think the mat screed is ingenious and fast.
Chris, I don't see how you could go wrong, with all of the experts giving advice. I do like that 12 foot finishing blade and it's fun to see a tailgate on the off road truck.
Excellent work Chris, mud master, pond master, goop master Chris is at it again, making ponds great again, alot of mud, tailgate was a must have, that's a nice incline the truck has to climb, thanks for sharing the best content on YT Chris, look forward to seeing the next video 🇺🇸
I think if you shorten the side cables, the tail gate will be ok for hauling trees and brush, it lifts too late to clear them right now. Super long logs of course that are longer than the truck won't fit in the haul truck.
Screed, A layer or strip of material used to level off a horizontal surface. I have seen lots of cement finishers work, but never used a screed (mat) like this! Love and enjoy your videos!
Maybe weld on some heavy duty pegs _behind_ the pivot point of the dump gate so when it is closed it's just touching them. That way if/when you DO have to take the gate off, it will be a lot easier to get back on.
Right several places along the arms, just set the gate on those and bolt it back up. Could even space it for shims you keep on the truck. Or if there's clearance, flip the gate all the way forward after disconnecting the cables and strap it down.
That’s a lot of mud. Dredging it out will ad a lot of water to the pond. You always do such a good job on every project you take on. I can’t wait to see the next video.
Can't wait to see it all finished. I love this project. Bet it is going to look gorgeous when it's all done. It is a massive project with plently of problems with mud and hills But I have FAITH you will make it look stunning. 😎
Always just as interesting to see you work. You are not just a professional at driving the machine, it is just as much about planning how and what to do. Greetings from Gothenburg.
Sure looks like this pond project is much easier on you and equipment (pins, bushings, roller, etc...) than the animal hospital with all the bed rock, last year. The old/new haul truck looks like a great add to the fleet.
This haul truck is John's truck. Chris recently bought his haul truck for his company. Chris works with and for his uncle John 3 days a week, running John's company's equipment and the other 3 or 4 days a week Chris works for himself and uses his own equipment.
Speaking about fish habitat, fish are not picky when it comes to objects which can be used to create a habitat. You can take an old car body that has been prepared for being submerged in water for a long period of time, and that will suffice. I mean, look at what they are doing with mothballed ships in order to create a coral reef. The people responsible for the lake can buy a heavy, plastic log, and place it out in the deepest part of that lake. Then attach a buoy to it so that people will know where it is when on the lake.
After watching just a few of your videos, I've watched them all, I'd like to think your viewers would figure out that you know what you're doing. I'm convinced. I've got my ideas, but I'm quite positive in knowing that you know what you're doing. This series of videos is going to be some of your best yet. That beautiful tailgate!! So excellent. A video about that would be incredible to watch.
Put alot if those gates and side boards on 773 775 and 777 hual trucks. Landscaping the woods lol have to love the irony of moving to the country but "cleaning" up the woods. Another awesome project!!!
Good on ya! After a couple hours of this, my A.D.D. would kick in and I would be figuring out anything I could to get out of that cab! You, Sir are a great operator!
I thought this was going to be a much deeper pond for once. It looks like it could be deeper if they wanted it to be. Maybe it's a matter of how much they can waste on other areas of their property. I'm really looking forward to the next part Chris!
Oh, it's going to be fairly deep. This is the head section after all. The closer to the dam you get the deeper. Down by the dock, the cut is over 4'. That's a gigantic amount of material to pull out. You don't want more than 12 or 15 feet of depth anyway. Deeper ponds will turn over. If that happens, it'll kill all the fish.
maybe fab a couple brackets that bolt and unbolt simple and easy, which acts as an alignment type thing. Sturdy enough to support the weight of the tailgate arms, and only installed on the bed when installing the tailgate. When installed the tailgate gets lowered, to rest on the brackets, then the mounting bolts for the tailgate arm pivots are fastened, then the brackets get removed. No more painstaking alignments every time you want to install the tailgate. Compliments on your many videos.
Chris, how do you deal with a client who is looking for a way to not pay full or the bidded price? For example, let's take this pond and the engineer being very specific. Does 'to grade' mean spot on everywhere or in general? And if in general does the engineer have the ability to make you keep working on it until he is satisfied? Perhaps a video on problem customers might be of interest to more folks than just me... best.
you bid the job according to the stamped approved prints, and you cut and grade to the elevations, if you do that and you know your spot on, then anything after that is an add on or as built and cost more, with that pond work just say the cut is gradually getting deeper and your pulling too much your just costing yourself money because your going to exceed your yardage and not be finished with the cut so you’ll be eating it .
A lot depends on how the contract is written, the exact wording. If it says that the grade will be cut to 343.20 foot elevation in a 100 foot by 500 foot area designated by survey flags, it will generally have a Tolerance or Varience factor given, so maybe +- .2 tenths of a foot. Then as long as everything is minimum 343.00 and maximum 343.40, it passes, and anything outside that needs to be corrected. It could also be specified to cut down to 343.20 maximum surface height, in which case you can go deeper and remove more material, but you are only getting paid to go to that level, so places can be deeper, but nothing can be above that. For a pond they generally don't care about going deeper, except if getting rid of the dirt is a problem lol But generally if you don't complete the project according to the specifications, and according to the contract wording, you will need to correct the issues, or you are likely to have problems! In this case if you have actual blueprints, they should have all the specs you have to follow, and the contract will basically be to create the end result as shown on the blueprints. And how picky the engineer or project head is all depends on the job. If the goal is to have the water 5 feet deep under the dock, and one spot of gushy mud is 6 inches high, it may not matter, especially if they are going to working out there further to build the dock, or the engineer may be very picky and write them up if he can find a single mud bomb that measures above the spec, even if all it needs is to be stepped on... Lol
@@njonebale7889 in the video Chris read the elevation on one of the grade stakes and I couldn't remember the exact elevation but I tried to get close lol I used to be the grade setter on pond projects that would give Chris vertigo from the tall pond dams and I still remember a little of it!
Sorry for being so selfish, but 28:50 just wasn't enough. I know after a hard day's work, the last thing you want to do is sit and edit, but watching you sculpt and make pretty(as you say 😉) never gets old. GREAT AND SATISFYING VIDEO.
While you have the tail gate on the truck, bolt on a frame mount that holds the tail gate in the proper place, then hopefully it will just be a matter of bolting on the frame, drop the tailgate into place, bolt it up, remove the frame and away you go.
Some tabs welded to the bed side plate of the pivot plate, and a few across the bottom of the tailgate, then simply unbolt the pivot plate and then left/set the gate back on the tabs.
Hi from uk chris👍👋 cant wait to see how clean this pond will look once completed as it wasnt much of pond more a dene with a stream😂 but house will have a lovely view once chris has come through👌 thanks for your time and be safe see you soon👍👋
Something to file in your memory bank..., it might not happen but it works. ,,,,, we always kept several Big hollow logs for water ways. They are biodegradable.. Drop in and pile dirt over them.... For temporary skidder paths... Across water ways.... Easy to remove or leave. .. Don't have to take with you...
Tail gate working good. Mats working good. Mud doing what it does best - getting wetter every scoop. Excavator dredging going good. Weather beautiful. Letsdig18 in his element. Love it.
I've seen you use one of those mats several times to scrape with. It moves an incredible amount of material fast and gives a nice finish! You should build one out of steel and name it "The Bisquit" like for cleaning the gravy off your plate!
Love the channel! I look forward everyday to see the new videos. I also have gone back and viewed alot of the older posts. If I had my youth to do over again I would be doing what you do for a living. Thank you for sharing. God Bless you and yours! Keep on keeping on!
You don’t want the Volvo stuck like that excavator you rescued on that one job back when! That sucker was buried brother but you got it out, that was a good video Chris! Thanks for sharing my friend and we’ll see you tomorrow hopefully if the rain holds off! Stay safe and healthy brother! 👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸
Chris, I am looking at that tailgate and thinking that if you had four lengths of 2" round bar that were drilled to take decent sized bolts, you could place them in the top corners of the web that holds the pivot. I don't know if the bed is double skinned there. If not, drill through and have a nut on the inside. If yes, then you might have enough meat to tap a thread in the bed, or weld a 1/2" thick reinforcing plate to make the threaded hole strong enough. Then take them off and and keep them hand for the next time you need to refit the tailgate. If I was doing it I would drill the 2" bar a little off centre, and drill holes into the circumference so you could turn the bar like a cam to fine tune the bushing location. It might sound like a bit of work, but it would take me one to two hours depending (mostly on if the bed is double skinned there, and how thick it is at that location. Another method would be to drill holes in the web big enough to put a tapered pry bar through, and smaller holes in the bed that aligned with the holes in the webs. Then use one or two pry bars to lever the bushing into position - sort of like the trick of fitting truck wheels with a pair of three foot pry bars that lift and rotate the wheel to align the lug nut holes. That would be easier and faster, if you had the means of drilling the webs - you'd need something like a 3/4" hole to give the pry bar room to be angled so they could pick up the holes in the bed.
Love your use of the pads as a spatula to pull up large swaths of mud and muck. Wish there was an easier way to transport the muck from middle to the extraction point. Could it be pumped out with something similar to a concrete pump system.? Wishing you and your family a blessed week. Happy spring Chris.
I was thinking about those little track dump trucks on a roll out stabilization road. I know they only haul like 6 yards but three of them hauling all the way out to the fill site. Just wondered
Incredible job you're doing cleaning out that mess Chris. Absolutely no doubt that the owners will be bragging to their family and friends about your ability to take a seriously nasty eyesore and turn their pond and property into a thing of beauty. You definitely earn every penny they pay you on jobs like this one.
Can you use the gradeing bucket when your dredgeing? you got the off-road haul truck that's good for on land now all you need now is a track dump truck that's good for mud and water you can take the track dump truck out into the pond with and the excavator all it requires is a whole lot of mud mats laid out all the way back to shore and safe ground
Morning Chris, looks like you may have to make an attachment the same size as a mud Matt to go on your machine. It makes a nice job of scraping the sludge off the base. I take it that your fitter chap fixed the "No high speed" issue with the air line blocked up. Machine looks good. Nice video as normal. Regards Richard 🇬🇧
Loved this video and your narration! This is a huge project. You do amazing work. Looking forward to following along. Thank you!!! God's blessings and stay safe.
Last dump trailer i used behind the tractor folds down flat so the only way it can get stuck inside is if you get super sticky stuff, have to remember to open it tho with hydraulics or someone is going for a wee sail into the air unless the hook fails xD
The pond master is off again great video Chris 🏴👍
“A lot of scoopy scoops”, i surely hope you bid that job by the hour!!! I’m glad you found bottom without sinking to China!! It just shows the skills of a good operator, keep digging (not too deep) my friend!
Wow! That last shot of you showing your progress really puts it in perspective of how much material actually out there!
Chris that is going to be a lot of mud to move but I know you can handle it so anyway my friend another great video so you and John stay safe and keep the videos coming and the tailgate looks good on the back of the haul truck.
You guys should invest in a GPS system like Trimble. We have one and once you get the model built it would make a job like this much easier and faster. I didn’t think it would pay for itself anywhere near as fast as it has for us. A base and rover would get you started don’t even need machine control to start. Eliminate grade stakes, laser, plans all of that. Very simple to understand once you get started.
His mate has one, I seem to remember him saying it wouldn’t make sense for the work he does, his mate does more fine grading work.
Nice work my man, southern craftsmanship at its best.
Love how you're fine grading with the swamp mats. Sometimes, you have to use what you got. Looks good bro
Man oh man, have you got some goopy mud to haul out? Big job Chris. Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰
Love the super oversized squeegee! That made quick work of the skim job… perfect !
For these jobs you need a mud sled. Think a large toboggan with sides on it. Dump the dirt onto that and tow it over to the load out site. If you had a winch on a big dozer you could drag it the way they used the old cable plows.
That does sound like a good idea, we used something like that for mulching on the golf course, dragging the mulch than stopping at every tree to add fresh mulch in the spring and end of summer. How would you make it work on a job like this? Clear a path for the dozer or on the sides? This job site seems incredibly tricky due to the water, even if you get it down to bare ground that becomes deep mud again with the water table setup
@@chosen1one930 The first couple pulls would be the hardest, after that the muddy grass would act like grease. Pulling would depend on what the bottom was. A crawler dump would be handy as well, but when you only need it for say 3 jobs a year it might not pay for itself very quick.
I was thinking a conveyor might at least cut down on how many times he has to move the mud. A smaller scale one like Parker uses on the show Goldrush would be pretty cool. He used an excavator chassis with an enormous boom.
I have no idea why watching a guy dig up some mud is fun to watch. But for some these are the best ones! (There's a guy in Latvia who mostly digs ditches for swampy roads, and that's fun too.)
Oh that’s a lot of mud to move! How much deeper is it after you reach the level you want? If the ground was solid at the bottom, could you use a dozer to bring the mud closer to the haul truck?
You really do have a good variety of jobs! Never a dull moment.
Using the mats as skid steer blades is brilliant!
A huge job! Lots of prep work. 💪
Looking like you got a Good start on it Chris. Just hope that hill holds out , once you start hauling the mud out ?? We will see when you guys get going good on it..... Other than the hill holding out, looks like it's going to go pretty smooth.... Mud, mud, and more mud !! lololol.... Have a Great Evening Chris !! And, On too the Next !!
I've seen several of Chris's projects where he has had to move the same material multiple times. He is so patiently philosophical about it.
I wish I was a genius and could develop an inexpensive and practicable system of move-it-once. I'd be a rich man!
Chris never uses one of those sludge pumping rigs. I’ve often wondered why, but I figure if he doesn’t like them there must be a good reason.
Takes a special kind of person to keep operating at full steam through monotonous work. Though as the business owner I’d suspect the payday at the end is rather inspiring!
Maybe too many sticks, log and just plain stuff.
@@danl.909 Some dumbass kept dumping mixed crap at the landfill so they quit accepting it because they can't see what's in the tank.
@@danl.909 Those rigs have to have super clean materials or clog’s equipment and pipes quickly our local water co dredging reservoir had floating dredge even silt from bottom has debris had to move processing plant closer to water because of clogging debris in pipe
It's much easier to build fish habits and have them tied down with blocks etc and as you said no more worries about clogging the overflow. Tires, pipes, trees etc are all great.
Thanks for showing the tailgate setup. That is a really simple and yet well designed way to have the gate open and close.
You’ve had a good start on the pond clean out,sure everything will fall in place once you start the dredging.keep doing your thing and enjoy the weather 👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
Awesome. Just believe Chris is all-the-time thinking about how he can do this better and quicker.. then realize what he is doing is the best and the quickest to get the job done.
Chris definitely does a great job on every project. He’s one of the best operators on RUclips. Dirt Perfect does great work too. Those two are basically the only two heavy equipment operators I watch on a regular basis.
@@davidepool5884 same here
After you spend thousands of hours on a machine you get very good at doing that task and then you can let your mind wander and try to figure ways to make that task easier and/or faster. As a farmer in Florida I spent hundreds of hours each year cleaning drainage ditches. I bought a deep, 5 ft wide cleaning bucket for my JD 510 backhoe. Looks like a bucket that size or larger would make this job go much faster. Time is money.
Really think one of the coolest ideas you had is that large screed board. Makes pulling back mud so quick. Enjoyed this first video of the dredging.
I like the foolproof tailgate design. They should have designed a pin like the bucket for ease of install. I think the mat screed is ingenious and fast.
Always nice to have a digging video to watch while i dig. You say Lets Dig i say how deep .
Clever handling the swamp.
Chris, I don't see how you could go wrong, with all of the experts giving advice.
I do like that 12 foot finishing blade and it's fun to see a tailgate on the off road truck.
Good one Chris , you have great skill with that mat to scrape the mud . 👏👏👏👍🥰🍺🇬🇧
First time I saw him clear a lot with a felled tree I knew he was a genius.
Excellent work Chris, mud master, pond master, goop master Chris is at it again, making ponds great again, alot of mud, tailgate was a must have, that's a nice incline the truck has to climb, thanks for sharing the best content on YT Chris, look forward to seeing the next video 🇺🇸
Pond dredging with moving big amount of mud are spectacular
I hope with the first full cut, drainage will occur and allow you an easier solution/path to load out the dirt. Good job and best wishes.
Cool!!! Love the gate. Nice setup.
Chris another great video! A full day of work! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
I’ve never seen a tailgate like this on one of these haul trucks. I love the simple design even tho it’s a pain in the ass to install. Pretty cool
Most common design thats been around for years and years!!
I think if you shorten the side cables, the tail gate will be ok for hauling trees and brush, it lifts too late to clear them right now. Super long logs of course that are longer than the truck won't fit in the haul truck.
Screed, A layer or strip of material used to level off a horizontal surface. I have seen lots of cement finishers work, but never used a screed (mat) like this! Love and enjoy your videos!
Looking good so far Chris 👍👍👍👍👍
Maybe weld on some heavy duty pegs _behind_ the pivot point of the dump gate so when it is closed it's just touching them. That way if/when you DO have to take the gate off, it will be a lot easier to get back on.
Right several places along the arms, just set the gate on those and bolt it back up. Could even space it for shims you keep on the truck. Or if there's clearance, flip the gate all the way forward after disconnecting the cables and strap it down.
Skimming / moving mud with the mats is a great tool . Spending the money on a thumb gives a great return .
That’s a lot of mud. Dredging it out will ad a lot of water to the pond. You always do such a good job on every project you take on. I can’t wait to see the next video.
Ok that tailgate is pretty slick and I think I see new mats in the real near future and I love Bojangles bo rounds and a sausage biscuit 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Can't wait to see it all finished. I love this project. Bet it is going to look gorgeous when it's all done. It is a massive project with plently of problems with mud and hills But I have FAITH you will make it look stunning. 😎
Always just as interesting to see you work. You are not just a professional at driving the machine, it is just as much about planning how and what to do. Greetings from Gothenburg.
I’m impressed. You did an admirable job. Thanks for sharing.
There it is, the Haul Truck made it too work! Awesome! Congrsts Chris, hope she treats you well!👊💪
That is not Chris's truck, it is John's.
It will still treat Chris well i'm sure
Sure looks like this pond project is much easier on you and equipment (pins, bushings, roller, etc...) than the animal hospital with all the bed rock, last year. The old/new haul truck looks like a great add to the fleet.
This haul truck is John's truck. Chris recently bought his haul truck for his company.
Chris works with and for his uncle John 3 days a week, running John's company's equipment and the other 3 or 4 days a week Chris works for himself and uses his own equipment.
Chris,
What you need for that skimming is a Steel H Beam !!
Speaking about fish habitat, fish are not picky when it comes to objects which can be used to create a habitat. You can take an old car body that has been prepared for being submerged in water for a long period of time, and that will suffice. I mean, look at what they are doing with mothballed ships in order to create a coral reef. The people responsible for the lake can buy a heavy, plastic log, and place it out in the deepest part of that lake. Then attach a buoy to it so that people will know where it is when on the lake.
After watching just a few of your videos, I've watched them all, I'd like to think your viewers would figure out that you know what you're doing. I'm convinced. I've got my ideas, but I'm quite positive in knowing that you know what you're doing. This series of videos is going to be some of your best yet. That beautiful tailgate!! So excellent. A video about that would be incredible to watch.
Always makes me smile when you have all the high dollar equipment but you can pick up a log or pad and beautify a pond bank or bottom like An artist
Put alot if those gates and side boards on 773 775 and 777 hual trucks. Landscaping the woods lol have to love the irony of moving to the country but "cleaning" up the woods. Another awesome project!!!
Good on ya! After a couple hours of this, my A.D.D. would kick in and I would be figuring out anything I could to get out of that cab! You, Sir are a great operator!
That soft mud digging you could be using the big grading bucket.
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or bring in the drag line ;-)
I thought this was going to be a much deeper pond for once. It looks like it could be deeper if they wanted it to be. Maybe it's a matter of how much they can waste on other areas of their property.
I'm really looking forward to the next part Chris!
It is at what cost… money is normally the controlling issue.
Oh, it's going to be fairly deep. This is the head section after all. The closer to the dam you get the deeper. Down by the dock, the cut is over 4'. That's a gigantic amount of material to pull out. You don't want more than 12 or 15 feet of depth anyway. Deeper ponds will turn over. If that happens, it'll kill all the fish.
Just amazing what we see you do I have never seen anybody use a matt for scraping an leveling just genius
Towards the end of one lot clearing job he grabbed a felled tree trunk and did the same. Simply genius.
That skimming technic with the mat is amazing. I've only seen it in a couple of your videos before, but it works great!
Thanks Chris for another job. You sure help understand what you're doing when you explain each step.
Thank You Sir.
maybe fab a couple brackets that bolt and unbolt simple and easy, which acts as an alignment type thing. Sturdy enough to support the weight of the tailgate arms, and only installed on the bed when installing the tailgate. When installed the tailgate gets lowered, to rest on the brackets, then the mounting bolts for the tailgate arm pivots are fastened, then the brackets get removed. No more painstaking alignments every time you want to install the tailgate. Compliments on your many videos.
Chris, how do you deal with a client who is looking for a way to not pay full or the bidded price? For example, let's take this pond and the engineer being very specific. Does 'to grade' mean spot on everywhere or in general? And if in general does the engineer have the ability to make you keep working on it until he is satisfied? Perhaps a video on problem customers might be of interest to more folks than just me... best.
you bid the job according to the stamped approved prints, and you cut and grade to the elevations, if you do that and you know your spot on, then anything after that is an add on or as built and cost more, with that pond work just say the cut is gradually getting deeper and your pulling too much your just costing yourself money because your going to exceed your yardage and not be finished with the cut so you’ll be eating it .
A lot depends on how the contract is written, the exact wording.
If it says that the grade will be cut to 343.20 foot elevation in a 100 foot by 500 foot area designated by survey flags, it will generally have a Tolerance or Varience factor given, so maybe +- .2 tenths of a foot.
Then as long as everything is minimum 343.00 and maximum 343.40, it passes, and anything outside that needs to be corrected.
It could also be specified to cut down to 343.20 maximum surface height, in which case you can go deeper and remove more material, but you are only getting paid to go to that level, so places can be deeper, but nothing can be above that.
For a pond they generally don't care about going deeper, except if getting rid of the dirt is a problem lol
But generally if you don't complete the project according to the specifications, and according to the contract wording, you will need to correct the issues, or you are likely to have problems!
In this case if you have actual blueprints, they should have all the specs you have to follow, and the contract will basically be to create the end result as shown on the blueprints.
And how picky the engineer or project head is all depends on the job.
If the goal is to have the water 5 feet deep under the dock, and one spot of gushy mud is 6 inches high, it may not matter, especially if they are going to working out there further to build the dock, or the engineer may be very picky and write them up if he can find a single mud bomb that measures above the spec, even if all it needs is to be stepped on... Lol
@@ke6gwf that’s a very good explanation and should cover it, those seem like charlotte elevations too
@@njonebale7889 in the video Chris read the elevation on one of the grade stakes and I couldn't remember the exact elevation but I tried to get close lol
I used to be the grade setter on pond projects that would give Chris vertigo from the tall pond dams and I still remember a little of it!
Sorry for being so selfish, but 28:50 just wasn't enough. I know after a hard day's work, the last thing you want to do is sit and edit, but watching you sculpt and make pretty(as you say 😉) never gets old. GREAT AND SATISFYING VIDEO.
While you have the tail gate on the truck, bolt on a frame mount that holds the tail gate in the proper place, then hopefully it will just be a matter of bolting on the frame, drop the tailgate into place, bolt it up, remove the frame and away you go.
Some tabs welded to the bed side plate of the pivot plate, and a few across the bottom of the tailgate, then simply unbolt the pivot plate and then left/set the gate back on the tabs.
Hi from uk chris👍👋 cant wait to see how clean this pond will look once completed as it wasnt much of pond more a dene with a stream😂 but house will have a lovely view once chris has come through👌 thanks for your time and be safe see you soon👍👋
Evening all from the uk 👍👍🇬🇧
“Lotta a scoopie scoops”…..Understatement of the year! 😁👍🏻
Beautiful work! 🤘
Yes looking good. The dump truck's nice with a tailgate on it. It'll make it a lot easier. Good stuff. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦
The image of Chris flying a helicopter with an excavator arm and bucket with a letsdig18 thumb on it is forever stuck in my memory.
Something to file in your memory bank..., it might not happen but it works. ,,,,, we always kept several Big hollow logs for water ways. They are biodegradable.. Drop in and pile dirt over them.... For temporary skidder paths... Across water ways.... Easy to remove or leave. .. Don't have to take with you...
These large projects are great!
Man with a plan, I was wandering how you was going to do that,....very good 👍
I think if I was the one writing the checks I'd be very satisfied with the progress you can actually see day to day.
Tail gate working good. Mats working good. Mud doing what it does best - getting wetter every scoop. Excavator dredging going good. Weather beautiful. Letsdig18 in his element. Love it.
I've seen you use one of those mats several times to scrape with. It moves an incredible amount of material fast and gives a nice finish! You should build one out of steel and name it "The Bisquit" like for cleaning the gravy off your plate!
I think he has used logs in the past hasn't he ?
Love the channel!
I look forward everyday to see the new videos. I also have gone back and viewed alot of the older posts. If I had my youth to do over again I would be doing what you do for a living. Thank you for sharing. God Bless you and yours!
Keep on keeping on!
You don’t want the Volvo stuck like that excavator you rescued on that one job back when! That sucker was buried brother but you got it out, that was a good video Chris! Thanks for sharing my friend and we’ll see you tomorrow hopefully if the rain holds off! Stay safe and healthy brother! 👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸
Chris, I am looking at that tailgate and thinking that if you had four lengths of 2" round bar that were drilled to take decent sized bolts, you could place them in the top corners of the web that holds the pivot. I don't know if the bed is double skinned there. If not, drill through and have a nut on the inside. If yes, then you might have enough meat to tap a thread in the bed, or weld a 1/2" thick reinforcing plate to make the threaded hole strong enough. Then take them off and and keep them hand for the next time you need to refit the tailgate. If I was doing it I would drill the 2" bar a little off centre, and drill holes into the circumference so you could turn the bar like a cam to fine tune the bushing location. It might sound like a bit of work, but it would take me one to two hours depending (mostly on if the bed is double skinned there, and how thick it is at that location. Another method would be to drill holes in the web big enough to put a tapered pry bar through, and smaller holes in the bed that aligned with the holes in the webs. Then use one or two pry bars to lever the bushing into position - sort of like the trick of fitting truck wheels with a pair of three foot pry bars that lift and rotate the wheel to align the lug nut holes. That would be easier and faster, if you had the means of drilling the webs - you'd need something like a 3/4" hole to give the pry bar room to be angled so they could pick up the holes in the bed.
Oh, if ONLY the truck could drive on the dredged pond bottom. What a lot of work that would save!
Works really good,the tail gate
Love your use of the pads as a spatula to pull up large swaths of mud and muck. Wish there was an easier way to transport the muck from middle to the extraction point. Could it be pumped out with something similar to a concrete pump system.? Wishing you and your family a blessed week. Happy spring Chris.
I was thinking about those little track dump trucks on a roll out stabilization road. I know they only haul like 6 yards but three of them hauling all the way out to the fill site. Just wondered
That’s a good idea. Save a bunch of scoopy scoops
Incredible job you're doing cleaning out that mess Chris.
Absolutely no doubt that the owners will be bragging to their family and friends about your ability to take a seriously nasty eyesore and turn their pond and property into a thing of beauty.
You definitely earn every penny they pay you on jobs like this one.
fantastic work as always chris&John
Coming along nicely 👌
Its pretty cool when you scrape the bottom with that matt. what a great time saver ..really like watch your pond jobs.. your good at it..
You should get yourself an old pickup truck snowplow blade and mount it to your gimbal landscape type attachment. Skimming would be a sinch.
Love the tail gate. Real nice!
That is a sweet tailgate never seen nothing like that before it worked wonderfully.
Thank you and have a great day.
Awesome work brother
Hey Chris great video 🇺🇲 looks like a big job I can't wait to see what's next always learn something new watching your videos 🇺🇲
Nice to watch a genius at work you are the business.
Can you use the gradeing bucket when your dredgeing? you got the off-road haul truck that's good for on land now all you need now is a track dump truck that's good for mud and water you can take the track dump truck out into the pond with and the excavator all it requires is a whole lot of mud mats laid out all the way back to shore and safe ground
Great work Chris
Morning Chris, looks like you may have to make an attachment the same size as a mud Matt to go on your machine. It makes a nice job of scraping the sludge off the base. I take it that your fitter chap fixed the "No high speed" issue with the air line blocked up. Machine looks good.
Nice video as normal.
Regards Richard 🇬🇧
Loved this video and your narration! This is a huge project. You do amazing work. Looking forward to following along. Thank you!!! God's blessings and stay safe.
We had off-road haul truck on a job once, that they unhooked the cable and flipped the tailgate over onto the head board.
YES! Wasn't sure if it would clear the lift cylinder mount points on the bed in this case?
@@jcadult101 you could put stops on the tipper body to stop the tailgate arms interfering with the lift rams.
Good day today, Achieved a lot congratulations, can hardly wait to see the last part
Wow that’s a lot of mud. Can’t wait to watch the transformation
Something SO satisfying about the sound of mud splatting.
Last dump trailer i used behind the tractor folds down flat so the only way it can get stuck inside is if you get super sticky stuff, have to remember to open it tho with hydraulics or someone is going for a wee sail into the air unless the hook fails xD
Great job Chris 👏 Thanks for sharing 👍
Dredging mud is so satisfying to me.