Mini Excavator Digging to the Holidays
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Plenty of help on this one! It’s nice to see a few returning helpers. You guys may end up with a good crew if this keeps up!!
Watching you dig under that pipe reminded me of my first ‘dig under’.
I had exactly one month experience running my new baby backhoe. A fellow that worked for me needed a frost free faucet installed.
He had bought a small farm during the summer. Being a city boy, he knew nothing about cows, fences or plumbing. When the first frost hit, his hose froze and his spigot in the side of his house burst. I went over after work to see what we could do.
After sizing up the situation I recommended that we replace the 100’ garden hose with a frost free faucet. He thought that was a great idea. So, I gave him a list of supplies and told him we would start on Saturday morning.
It was chilly when I got there so, I wore a long sleeved button up shirt under my jacket. As I started digging, the sky cleared and the sun began beating down. By the time I got half way to the stock tank I had shed the jacket and folded up the cuffs on my shirt sleeves.
Being a rookie farmer, he had purchased a 1000 gallon stock tank… for his one skinny calf to drink from. Why? Because , “Why not!” The tank was full of water and he had set it a foot inside the fence.
I assumed that he wanted the faucet in the yard with a short hose or a floating filler valve to reach the tank. But, did I mention that he was a city boy turned rookie farmer?
As a result, he was afraid that having the faucet sticking up in the yard would interfere with mowing the golf course quality lawn he was dreaming about having. So, he insisted it be inside the fence.
It was a 3’ frost line faucet, so I had to dig a 4’ pit beneath the fence. Because the giant tank was in the way, I had to put the pit right under the fence.
I’d never seen a ‘dig under’ done before. (You see, 20 years ago, Google was a number with 20 digits… not a search engine!). At any rate, I turned the backhoe around and finished trenching to the fence. When I got to the place where the pit needed to go, I spent an hour carefully clawing the rocks and dirt beneath the fence. At the end, the fence was intact snd a respectable 4’ deep hole was dug between it and the tank.
The city boy, turned farmer, came up to me with his wheelbarrow full of gravel and stones to fill the bottom foot of the pit. I had lifted the bucket above the fence and was explaining to him where to dump the gravel. Being one of those guys who can’t talk without using his hands. I put my right arm forward to point into the pit… as I did so, the rolled up cuff of my sleeve caught the control for the boom.
It dropped like someone had tossed a cinder block off a bridge. Isn’t it funny how time slows down during s disaster?
The old fence grunted then the two strands of barbed wire snapped. The top foot of the woven wire fenced bent. Then, my senses returned to my control and I raised my arm.
Well, the woven wire was caught in the bucket teeth. The control was still entangled in my sleeve. The result was that two seconds after it started the bucket was back at the height it started with fencing dangling from it.
I thought he was going to faint. You see, the only fence he’d ever put up was a chain link dog pen from Home Depot. Barbed wire and woven cattle wire were way over yonder more advanced than his skill set.
So, I swung the bucket to the side and jumped off the back hoe. After about five minutes of discussion, I finally convinced him that the third rock still orbited the sun… that by the time we got the faucet in place, repairing the old fence would be a breeze…. And, would actually be the perfect opportunity to tighten and stretch it into professional farming shape.
He dumped the wheelbarrow as I straightened the wires and pulled them out of the way. Then, I gave him lessons on plumbing in a 3/4” PVC waterline, installing a frost free faucet, drilling through a concrete wall and tapping into a waterline in his basement.
I let him do as much of the work as he could and he learned a lot. Then I filled the trench and told him I’d be back in a bit with my fencing tools.
When I returned, we took the fence loose from corner to corner of its 50’ run. He was amazed at how much the fence stretched. We easily had enough overlap to tie the ends together. By the time we fastened it back to the posts you could play tunes on it like a harp!
On Monday, word got around about our adventure. By the time the story got back to me, my reputation as a plumber and fencing aficionado was almost a legend. However, my prowess as a backhoe operator was not as highly touted!
That experience taught me a lesson… don’t wear long sleeved shirts with loose cuffs when digging under a cattle fence… unless you thought to bring your fencing tools!
You guys keep digging and, I’ll keep studying!!!
Good job guys
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Thanks for watching bud!!
Awesome job... I live in the mountains and I haven't run into any Rock like you guys do. I better knock on wood I will probably go out tomorrow and that's all I'll find lol you need more help I could come down with my machine and give you a hand hahaha... take care bud..👍👍🍻🍻🍻😎
Thanks for watching Brad and the rock is insane sometimes beat the machine up for sure !! Hahaha its crazy busy where we live!! And you as well bud!!
Rock is tough on machines & oporaters we deal with alot of rock as well it is a Royal pain we also deal with mud mud & more mud
Training new folks on equipment ain't is but it all part of the trade
25:50 Why does that guy NEVER have a shovel in his hand?????
Hahaha
How do you find these types of jobs and how do you quote them? Hope you respond. Thanks man!
You need new laborers. You should not have to get off the machine to uncover a pipe and they don’t do what they are told to do until they’re ready. None of them had shovels in there hands for most of the video.
Hahaha thanks for watching Dominic and i wish it were that easy to find Labor. And to travel 4 to 7 hours from home with 24 hour notice. When i find i guy like i was to Ed ill pay them alot of money hahah thats alls i can say on that comment thanks again for watching.
How has the price of conduit been trending lately?
Thanks for watching Mr Thomas and honestly couldnt tell you we dont supply the material!!