Chris, you are the gold standard for anyone who wants to run a construction business. Everything you do is always well thought out and finished to perfection.
Cabin is looking absolutely beautiful! Thanks for the weather footage, always like it when you shows the ponds and how much water is flowing in and out.
Nice time to enjoy the rain from your beautiful deck. Pond looks wonderful. Definitely need some downspouts. Ok Chris send Texas some rain. We are parched. Have a great Sunday.
Also a little fire pit to keep the Mosquitos away. Space it up from the porch with cinderblocks. Also play some Merle Haggard. Throw a grill in the fire pit and have some chicken wings once she burns down. Cheers from Texas.
The great Rain Days make Your Time Planing a End. You work farther and to bring a old Fire Heap new to Burn, and burn a Other Heap on. To pull out farther on the Road the Trees and Shrub. Then by the great Rain a Visit by Your Cabin and the Ponds of Your Farm. The Rain so great that the Ponds go over! You must to wait of the Rain is out and then Inspect the Ponds. Very good Video. Thanks 👍
Hi Criss would love to have land like you. my garden is 4m square lol . would love living over there. I am an x excavator operator but now i have severe COPD so now cant do any thing like that any more but enjoy watching you doing your job. all the best Steve from England .
I have severe COPD also and can't do the stuff I used to do!! I definitely love seeing Chris' videos, feels like I'm there!! COPD is nothing to laugh at!! I hope you can find some relief very soon!
That's great you could get out and document the water flow around your property. I'd like to sit on that porch with my chubby English bulldog and enjoy a cigar and the rain.
Been watching ur videos for about 5 years now and you have inspired me to go from operating equipment on a farm to working for a big excavation company
Dammit Man !! That was one hell of a storm !! I've thought I have seen the little ditch behind the cabin flowing pretty good until now !! Wow !! You wasn't lyin' , it was about 20-30 ft. wide coming threw there !! lolol...Yeah, you can see for sure , what ya need to fix around your place to get everything flowing as it should !! Well, at least today "Saturday" Is the first time I have seen it clear in your area of rain , in a good minute. Well, hopefully you will get just a little more rain so, you can finish up with all the burning on that job anyway !! But, Great as Always Chris, Have a Great Evening Man, And, On too the Next !!
You got a pretty nice burn on those brush piles for as wet as you have it. Thanks for pond tour at the end of the video, was interesting to see the whole system in action, thanks the update, enjoyed watching.
Freak thunderstorms happen. I recorded a 2" rainfall in 15 minutes in a NWS rain gauge one year. Yeah, the area flooded. We were allowed to only pump to a 6' downstream water level. That rainstorm brought our water levels up to over 10'. Our structure could do nothing to hold back the water on the upstream side as ground level was 10' at the pump station fence. Water just flowed overland like at Chris's pond.
Great video bro, you are getting rain like we had most of 2023 here in NZ. Completely changed the shape of the land with all the slips and washouts including bridges and rail lines. Safe travels. Ken.
You definitely made the best of a rain day at work. Not a chance to be doing dirt work. But burning brush is a definite 👍. The cabin is really looking amazing. And now you know what you need to do with your ponds on your own property when you find a free day. Hopefully, Barney's got pontoons for work. Great video, Chris.
Looks like the 220 was carrying the Olympic torch down the path!! Here in low country SC we went from drought to flood in about 3 days. It rained so hard and fast that my two 36"dia culverts maxed out full. At least I know my ditches flow well. I got to love the way you can get burn piles going in the rain.
I love that thumb on this excavator. I bought an excavator on auction and they had broke the thumb off. I welded it back on, but it isn't as long as the bucket, so you have to curl the bucket under to pick anything up. I like the way yours will just pick something up straight off the ground.
Hi Chris Watching you trying to sweep a path with a log, a quick coupler fixed on a heave length of girder would give you a way to smooth, gather and to some extent dig or use for dredging ponds or cleaning ditches. A fan from the UK
The question between raw power vs. agility speed. With cars it depends on the roads what you should use. Nice when you can pick and choose what machine to use.
☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸 imma gonna sit in the cab & just pretend the 🌎 outside the job site stops 4 a minute. Cause It’s gone mad & ur calm steady presence is a breath. God bless ya Chris plz b safe cause ecoli & the fan r fixing 2 meet
You probably could use a 2nd small dozer w similar features as your other one . Seems to be a much needed tool on most of your jobsite projects. Maybe a great used one as I'm certain they are not reasonable.
Did you ever consider/try using a leaf blower to get the fire going. The rapid influx of oxygen would really generate some needed heat on the damp wood.
All the water ,DP needs to bring the 850j with the tile plow ,lay some drainage tile for you ,then we get a push off between the D7 versus the 850 DP should be in down time now as Farmer Chris has no more fields to lay pipe in ,well until ?
Smooth, standing that bucket back upright. I may have crushed the bucket and spread the fire. Cabin or house looks real nice Chris. Hopefully rains will let up and give you a break.
Chris let us see a update on some of your projects you done after the rain, Like the big one that is being filled up with roof water, The biggest one you done by yourself.
With the pond by the flooded driveway are you just in a situation where a heavy rain is more than that pond can handle no matter what you do? Over the years I have seen you work on that pond several times and it seems to always be in some kind of trouble. I will say the dam is perfect for if it flows over. Nice and even across the whole thing.
Chris you are a master with the big machines and your eye for detail is second to none , getting levels , getting the job done to a high standard, love your work cheers from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Good job that you have such a job Chris because if you didn't you would make a really good pyromaniac and the police would soon have a new occupant in one of their jail cells!
It's been over 2 months since we have seen any rain. My poor garden is pretty much dead and the lawn is all brown. Supposed to rain all this week starting Tuesday though. We'll most likely see alot of flooding from run off. I haven't had to mow in almost 2 months. Saved me a few $$$ in gas lol.
YOu need to have more faith in old Barney. Those trucks will go through mud like you never suspect and it is not like you don't have enough to pull him out if he gets stuck with that 350 on site.
Accomplished quite a bit for the weather you had to work with.burn piles are looking good,impressive for conditions.just keep doing what you do best.great video.be safe.😎😎😎👍👍👍
That fire resistant hydraulic hose is making a lot of sense right now!
Chris, you are the gold standard for anyone who wants to run a construction business. Everything you do is always well thought out and finished to perfection.
Cabin is looking absolutely beautiful!
Thanks for the weather footage, always like it when you shows the ponds and how much water is flowing in and out.
We like your rain days. The cabin and pond looks awesome. Sitting on the porch listening to the rain is peaceful.
Chris redefines the meaning of "coming in hot"
Nice time to enjoy the rain from your beautiful deck. Pond looks wonderful. Definitely need some downspouts. Ok Chris send Texas some rain. We are parched. Have a great Sunday.
Wow, the ponds. That was amazing, thank you for sharing that. Those 2 ponds are a real testament to your grading abilities. That was neat to see.
The cabin is beautiful and the picture off the back porch is great looking over the pond 😊
The cabin's back porch, during a heavy rain, would be a great place to sit with a good bottle of bourbon, some good friends, and some good music.
Also a little fire pit to keep the Mosquitos away. Space it up from the porch with cinderblocks. Also play some Merle Haggard. Throw a grill in the fire pit and have some chicken wings once she burns down. Cheers from Texas.
Finally a day without rain here in Western NC
Alot of rain and the cabin is looking good!!
Nice touch with the plastic bucket. :) Those ponds are wild and that is a lot of water! Thank you and have a great day.
Northern California is on track for the hottest july on record with 21 days over 100 degrees, no green, no burning anything.
Wow! that's a lot of water! Everywhere!!
Several inches of rain piles up in a hurry. Cabin is looking good and your ponds are full.
Full ponds for everyone. Glad the fires got going. Those piles just kept growing. Nothing a little diesel fuel can't take care of.
The great Rain Days make Your Time Planing a End. You work farther and to bring a old Fire Heap new to Burn, and burn a Other Heap on. To pull out farther on the Road the Trees and Shrub. Then by the great Rain a Visit by Your Cabin and the Ponds of Your Farm. The Rain so great that the Ponds go over! You must to wait of the Rain is out and then Inspect the Ponds. Very good Video. Thanks 👍
Hi Criss would love to have land like you. my garden is 4m square lol . would love living over there. I am an x excavator operator but now i have severe COPD so now cant do any thing like that any more but enjoy watching you doing your job. all the best Steve from England .
I have severe COPD also and can't do the stuff I used to do!! I definitely love seeing Chris' videos, feels like I'm there!! COPD is nothing to laugh at!! I hope you can find some relief very soon!
Atleast you didn’t have to worry about any dust . The cabin is looking good .
Wow ❤! Let's Dig 18!!!
That's great you could get out and document the water flow around your property. I'd like to sit on that porch with my chubby English bulldog and enjoy a cigar and the rain.
A lot of rain on my end of NC lately as well. Went from bone dry to a lot of rain.
Wow, thats a lot of water flowing Chris, the cabin looks beautiful, now that you see the water flowing, you know what you need to do.
Been watching ur videos for about 5 years now and you have inspired me to go from operating equipment on a farm to working for a big excavation company
Dammit Man !! That was one hell of a storm !! I've thought I have seen the little ditch behind the cabin flowing pretty good until now !! Wow !! You wasn't lyin' , it was about 20-30 ft. wide coming threw there !! lolol...Yeah, you can see for sure , what ya need to fix around your place to get everything flowing as it should !! Well, at least today "Saturday" Is the first time I have seen it clear in your area of rain , in a good minute. Well, hopefully you will get just a little more rain so, you can finish up with all the burning on that job anyway !! But, Great as Always Chris, Have a Great Evening Man, And, On too the Next !!
You got a pretty nice burn on those brush piles for as wet as you have it. Thanks for pond tour at the end of the video, was interesting to see the whole system in action, thanks the update, enjoyed watching.
Thanks for the cabin and pond excursion.
nice burning and clearing. great to see the cabin and ponds real nice. cheers.
25:30 You need to try DP's trick on that log. Drive up on it and then hook an end with the bucket and pry it up to break.
I live about 15 mins from Morehead City, NC and we have had our share of rain the past couple of days in South eastern NC!
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Send that rain to SW Indiana!! We need it!
Looked like you were heading off to Paris to light the Olympic torch!😂
Thanks!
Another great burn great video thanks Chris
Wow, Might need to raise that pond dam or lower that spillway. Never good to overtop the dam. Just do it in the dryer season so grass can grow first.
The mastery of brush pile burning is a skill learned from many years of experience - great to see how it is done, fire in the bucket as well.
I still can't get over how little freeboard most dams out there have. There'd be at least 5' above spillway elevation and we don't get hurricanes.
Freak thunderstorms happen. I recorded a 2" rainfall in 15 minutes in a NWS rain gauge one year. Yeah, the area flooded. We were allowed to only pump to a 6' downstream water level. That rainstorm brought our water levels up to over 10'. Our structure could do nothing to hold back the water on the upstream side as ground level was 10' at the pump station fence. Water just flowed overland like at Chris's pond.
Mango Bango it's a epic rainfall for Chris's ponds.
He's finally getting an idea about where needs to make changes to overflows.
Great video bro, you are getting rain like we had most of 2023 here in NZ. Completely changed the shape of the land with all the slips and washouts including bridges and rail lines. Safe travels. Ken.
That fire-resistant hydraulic hose is making all the difference. Great investment!
You definitely made the best of a rain day at work. Not a chance to be doing dirt work. But burning brush is a definite 👍. The cabin is really looking amazing. And now you know what you need to do with your ponds on your own property when you find a free day. Hopefully, Barney's got pontoons for work. Great video, Chris.
Chris when are you going to put those rubber track on Barney ? It would make the truck so much more valuable on jobs like this.
Gotta keep changing the channels on the high temp TV.
Great job 👍🏻
Ficus trees grow roots like those. Guaranteed to find your sewer line.
Looks like the 220 was carrying the Olympic torch down the path!! Here in low country SC we went from drought to flood in about 3 days. It rained so hard and fast that my two 36"dia culverts maxed out full. At least I know my ditches flow well. I got to love the way you can get burn piles going in the rain.
I love that thumb on this excavator. I bought an excavator on auction and they had broke the thumb off. I welded it back on, but it isn't as long as the bucket, so you have to curl the bucket under to pick anything up. I like the way yours will just pick something up straight off the ground.
Have a good time digging. Do you feel that the fire weakens the life of the hydraulic hoses? Keep up the great posts…
Not at all
Everything looks to be holding up nicely, also cabin looks nice .
Good luck Chris
Hi Chris
Watching you trying to sweep a path with a log, a quick coupler fixed on a heave length of girder would give you a way to smooth, gather and to some extent dig or use for dredging ponds or cleaning ditches.
A fan from the UK
The question between raw power vs. agility speed. With cars it depends on the roads what you should use. Nice when you can pick and choose what machine to use.
Nice video Chris.
☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸 imma gonna sit in the cab & just pretend the 🌎 outside the job site stops 4 a minute. Cause It’s gone mad & ur calm steady presence is a breath. God bless ya Chris plz b safe cause ecoli & the fan r fixing 2 meet
Good Video Thax 👍👍😀😀
Sir how big is the new pond going to be? Always enjoy watching you work. You could most likely perform surgery with your skills with your machine
[27:00} That'll be a good test for the roof of the cabin :-)
nice work
You probably could use a 2nd small dozer w similar features as your other one . Seems to be a much needed tool on most of your jobsite projects. Maybe a great used one as I'm certain they are not reasonable.
There is a guy who has done some nice D4's or the J.D equivalent. Same guy who restored the D7 for Chris. Clint does nice work.
Did you ever consider/try using a leaf blower to get the fire going. The rapid influx of oxygen would really generate some needed heat on the damp wood.
He has used that in the past and I believe, he might have removed the blower, it is still on the work truck.
Not sure what time of trees those were but suspect the root rug issue has a lot to do with how wet that floor was for so long.
LetsFloat18!😊
All the water ,DP needs to bring the 850j with the tile plow ,lay some drainage tile for you ,then we get a push off between the D7 versus the 850
DP should be in down time now as Farmer Chris has no more fields to lay pipe in ,well until ?
Smooth, standing that bucket back upright. I may have crushed the bucket and spread the fire. Cabin or house looks real nice Chris. Hopefully rains will let up and give you a break.
roots! must be sandy there - the roots following water along the sand lens
no. they travel along the surface because its rocky there.
Wonder how the deep pond you built earlier this year is filling up? Curious to see
All in all, your hydraulic management plan seems to be working quite well.
Chris, just curious…have you ever encountered a situation where the burn pile has burned so hot that it fused some of the soil underneath?
32:53 little fishy/snake
Beautiful cabin ❤😊
Good
Haha your weather sounds almost as wet as what we've been having in Houston.
MM77 Approved 👍🏼 👍🏼
Man y'all are wet over there have a great day 👍🏻🇺🇲
good video
Late evening UK bring over trusty Barney its been a credit to you best regards Chris great 👍 video 📷
Chris u just don't know how PHENOMENAL of a operator u are. Pick that fuel bucket up & set it up straight u R TOTALLY AWESOME PHENOMENAL
And the weather here in the U.K is surprisingly warm, with no rain
Be careful Chris, don't want to do a Andrew Camatra !
At last, a look at the progress on the cottage.
Chris let us see a update on some of your projects you done after the rain, Like the big one that is being filled up with roof water, The biggest one you done by yourself.
With the pond by the flooded driveway are you just in a situation where a heavy rain is more than that pond can handle no matter what you do? Over the years I have seen you work on that pond several times and it seems to always be in some kind of trouble. I will say the dam is perfect for if it flows over. Nice and even across the whole thing.
Chris you are a master with the big machines and your eye for detail is second to none , getting levels , getting the job done to a high standard, love your work cheers from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Love the rain videos
Water shows level better than any laser
Good job that you have such a job Chris because if you didn't you would make a really good pyromaniac and the police would soon have a new occupant in one of their jail cells!
It's been over 2 months since we have seen any rain. My poor garden is pretty much dead and the lawn is all brown. Supposed to rain all this week starting Tuesday though. We'll most likely see alot of flooding from run off. I haven't had to mow in almost 2 months. Saved me a few $$$ in gas lol.
Send some of that rain to norther/central California to help put out the wildfires.
BC, Canada could use some in our Northern and Eastern section right now. One town 30 to 50 gone, in Alberta and another one at serious risk.
I visited Jasper many years ago. Beautiful town and the rest of the area. Too bad it's been nearly wiped out.
Did you ever stock your pond
defo might need to run a pole up that pipe and see if its clogged but might need an upgrade 2 pipes or a bigger pipe or something
YOu need to have more faith in old Barney. Those trucks will go through mud like you never suspect and it is not like you don't have enough to pull him out if he gets stuck with that 350 on site.
Snap axles and driveshafts though.
🙂
That same system came over us in nags head. Had all the roads flooded out, we had a ball in it though lol
Chris, do you find yourself narrating what you are doing when you are at home not on camera?
You probably need a dumper to match the 350.
Do You needed a boat I have one you cld borrow 😂😂😂 what a rain wow
Good afternoon my friend 🌞😊🥰👍😁
Accomplished quite a bit for the weather you had to work with.burn piles are looking good,impressive for conditions.just keep doing what you do best.great video.be safe.😎😎😎👍👍👍