Hey Josh it was good to see your Dad and while I’m thinking about it we’re really glad to see Mrs Stoney Ridge back. We enjoyed the video. Good work on the ditch and culvert ext. 👍👍👍❤️
In the Northwest we refer to the type of culvert you used as bell and spigot culvert. The straight line concrete tile we call tongue and groove pipe. Last Spring we did a similar project cleaning up our driveway and putting in a circular turn around for the FedEx and UPS drivers. They appreciated the effort.
Good philosophy, the only problem nowadays is that the government is more and more going out of their way to penalize you for taking such initiative and some folks in government want to make it impossible for you to do such a thing in order to create dependency and control from the cradle to the grave. Not trying to get political but stating the sad obvious.
@@____________________________.x it don’t look to good now. They r giving people 1400 dollars apiece and r going to get to vote behind bars. They r giving 350 a month for every kid so now u don’t need 15 dollars a hour. Just stay home and hope u have triplets.welfare queen here we come folks. Oh yea have u noticed how every thing has to do around black now. Poor ole joe is going to feel out of place in a few more weeks of this
Hey Josh, great video. Once you dry that area out a bit (but before too dry), another nice video would be using a rear blade to cut and dress that ditch up. Looks like it was simply filled in over years. Again, I enjoyed the video and your channel. Jason
i put a security box with a digital keypad at the end of my driveway attached to my fence and then just put the security code in my ups/fedex/usps account. The drivers love using it and 90% of our packages fit in it every once in a while we get something larger that wont.
In 1972 I was on the city survey crew. I learned a great deal about grade and drainage. I still apply that knowledge today. Maybe those delivery drivers just want to see just how strong the TYM 1104 really is.
Nice job. Just remember your culverts you want a 2" drop for every twenty feet and keep ground level with the bottom of the culvert to keep water flowing smoothly through it. Also use the bucket on ditch but use it backwards so you put down pressure on it and drag back towards road when you go to clean it up.
It has most certainly made life easier for the delivery trucks to turn around...now If I can get the Amazon delivery person to understand that you don't leave boxes out in the rain without appropriately bagging them
Want to be careful when deepening a ditch.Good way to roll a mowing tractor onto its side. I have some serious grip marks on my JD 1250 tractor seat that I use with a 6' mower up front on my ROW. Steep angle and pucker factor about 129%.FYI: if you start to go over steer into the direction of the roll.
Drainage is tricky. We’ve found after building our house in a former pasture field and our driveway from woods, water flows where you wouldn’t think it would. We’re still adjusting drainage.
Hey nice picking in the Last couple videos just catching up. You almost got ole cripple creek. Better than I could, ha sorry I missed the video I could have won some overalls 😅. We found ducks helped curb our mosquito population almost in half or more. We haven't had luck getting bats in but trying to add bat boxes soon. So I don't have awkward looking mosquito bite horns on my forehead (never fails).
When you were deciding which equipment you wanted for your farm, what made you decide to get the small tractor with a backhoe rather than a mini-excavator since you have the John Deere with a loader? Just wondering what factors influenced your equipment picks.
Had to laugh, you’re shoveling with the backhoe right there. Release breaks, raise bucket and out riggers, push with shovel. Never have to leave the seat. Dig sump hole away from work for water to go to. Strap tile to move it. They do break. Greetings from Riceville, TN.
A little shovel work aint gonna kill me brotha....folks think everything can be done on a farm with a piece of equipment....heck...I'm in the ditch...take 10 mins to dig it out or move the tractor 3 times...I choose the shovel lol
Being a union equipment operator, I would have done a some stuff different but you got it done! And it looks good, So who cares! Haha to clean up the slope/ ditch, I would get that 3point blade that I think you still have. You made a video with it years ago grading the rock on the driveway. That would make it look the cleanest
LOL...being a union equipment operator....does that mean we'd need about 10 more guys and 4 more hours lol....just picking ...yep the ditch does need work later in summer once it's dry
In my area in upstate Ny I’ve spent a lot of hours cleaning and clearing ditches on our road too protect the property’s and the road being the town ship doesn’t take care of ditches or pipes till the road completely washes out
If there is water at the driveway on the high side of the ditch I would start there and work down that way the water checks your grade for you and makes sure you have fall. As long as the water keeps running towards you your good.
I give the UPS and FEDX people enough room to turn around that they could land a plane but they still drive through my front yard and run over my water lines. Last UPS guy said the front yard look better to turn around in. He also told me UPS doesn’t fix waterlines.
Yesterday the Amazon delivery guy walked up to the porch with a big box....wife said "there's 2 stepping stones right there for ya....he stepped directly on our lilies. My wife almost punched him...better to just leave our stuff at the gate. I love my fed ex guy ...he's cool
Not sure why but my thoughts go to having a muck wagon in tow to put that mud and fill into while you go to keep that from being a problem down the line.
yep...or...the ditch is in a dip right there my friend. It's fairly flat there...water has pooled up ever since we moved here...even on google maps before we moved here the ditch was full of water
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Best solution to that is to dig up the whole ditch across the driveway and grade it out better but in lieu of that you might wanna look into all those companies they can raise the sidewalk with pumped in concrete or expanding foam. That or cut a second drainage line across it under the road and go to the creek over there or whatever that long trench is on the road side of your fence off pasture.
Your better setting on the road along side the ditch pulling from the side you can keep ditch straight and on grade easier sloping sides as you go and remember call 811 for locating any underground utilities should help you better with practise
Shovels are man's oldest tools they come in many shapes and sizes little shovels we use returning eggs and pancakes you've got short handled shovels round point square, short and long handle you can get small round points which women and children prefer to use you have snow shovels trenching shovels, military have folding shovels. There are those that use shovels to paddle canoes you can even put them in or locks and roll a boat.
If you had a backhoe you could dig a trench and the water would run out. It could trench for the culvert piece too ;) Shovel work for the gravel backfill? That is what tractor buckets are for!!
Bat houses, that's a nice bit of lateral thinking. Reminds me of when the Chinese killed off the birds for eating their grain, they never did understand eco systems
Can you push the push the tractor being hydrostatic with the back hoe as you would with a normal case or caterpillar backhoe? Also use the bottom of your backhoe bucket or heal as you sit perpendicular to the ditch to dress up your banks saves from rutting up the work you did and getting stuck if the bottom falls out.
Yeah I was wondering about that too. Most backhoe operators will usually just leave the machine in neutral and hold themselves with the outriggers. Then you can just push yourself along and steer just a little sometimes
Easy way to set your grade down your ditch you set a few posts or rods, doesn’t have to be to heavy duty you’re just going to tie a string from one to the next and with a line level set your grade. you want to make sure these are back away from the lowest part of the ditch so you can get your tractor/backhoe in and then starting at the bottom you make your initial cut and then attach a string to a yardstick or some other light weight straight dowel rod or bamboo and connect it over to your grade string so that it’s level. At that point attach it so that it does not move on your measuring stick then as you work your way up the grade by keeping the string parallel it will follow the grade string and you’ll want your measuring stick to just be touching the bottom of where you excavate. Would be handy if you had a second person to take care of your measuring stick and follow you as you work your way along back up the grade.
Isn't that part of the road maintained by your County Road Dept? Give em a call and schedule a time they can come out and redo those ditches with their ditcher equipment. Helps justify paying all those county TAXES.
Do you want the county or city digging and making a mess in your front yard? I'll just take care of it...save the tax $$$. No use in wasting tax $$$.....if we don't have to. I don't feel a sense of entitlement because I pay county and state taxes...I just feel like I'm doing my part to keep up schools and roads
All the cow fart comments are funny. I wonder if the folks making the comments know about the reduction of cow farts with grassfed only vs the increased farts with grain fed, or how cows on healthy pastures (not sacrifice lots) have the benefit of beneficial bacteria that absorb and process the cow farts just like how healthy environments pull carbon out of the atmosphere.
I noticed you cleared the obstruction first so the water followed you down. You could have done all the work dry first like the culvert etc and then saved the obstruction for last.
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Maybe something to consider in the future. But I'm always a day late and a Dollar short! You know what they say about Hindsight Being 20/20.
Seems your driveway culvert (original) is about half silted up, thats why you ended up shovelling water. Put clearing the roadside ditch from the driveway to the top of the rise on your to do list, plus maybe 40 feet or so (tapering out to nothing) on the down stream side as well. Then water will run along the upper ditch, through the culvert and along the lower ditch. If the water flows smoothly, it will keep the culvert free of mud and gravel, so drainage will be better and nearby soil will dry much better. Also need more practice with the hoe so you can create a smooth base to your ditches and not have high spots where you you have to move along when you run out of reach.
When we get rid of useless pollution, like personal jets for these "green" warriors then maybe we can discuss cow farts.
My cow doesn't fart...
@@beefcakes27 Cows belch more than fart.
Nuclear is the answer.
Loved seeing you both working together. God bless you both.
Nice looking tractor and backhoe
Hey Josh it was good to see your Dad and while I’m thinking about it we’re really glad to see Mrs Stoney Ridge back. We enjoyed the video. Good work on the ditch and culvert ext. 👍👍👍❤️
That’s great to see your pops helping... supervising.. take advantage of the time together.. I can’t anymore.
I just found your channel. Thanks for sharing your videos with us 😀
Every video with your Dad is the best.
Hey Josh thank you for the video and it was nice to see your father there again to woo
Good job nice to see you and your Dad working together that's awesome thanks
Love you working with your dad
Nice to see your Dad in the Video Josh
Enjoyed it Josh. Good to see you pop out there supervising! Lol
Great video Josh
In the Northwest we refer to the type of culvert you used as bell and spigot culvert. The straight line concrete tile we call tongue and groove pipe.
Last Spring we did a similar project cleaning up our driveway and putting in a circular turn around for the FedEx and UPS drivers. They appreciated the effort.
Love the farm bud and and yep those lil tractors are pretty powerful for what they are ..great vid bud godbless and stay safe.
I feel like a state jobsite supervisor Watching you work .....great job Josh... Woooooo! 👍
"Why waste tax dollars when I've got the machinery to do it myself." I wish more people had this mindset.
Amen....I'm not standing here with my hand out waiting for someone to give me something.
Good philosophy, the only problem nowadays is that the government is more and more going out of their way to penalize you for taking such initiative and some folks in government want to make it impossible for you to do such a thing in order to create dependency and control from the cradle to the grave. Not trying to get political but stating the sad obvious.
Yep, I'm glad others picked up on that comment, I'm really hoping America can steer itself back in that direction again
@@____________________________.x it don’t look to good now. They r giving people 1400 dollars apiece and r going to get to vote behind bars. They r giving 350 a month for every kid so now u don’t need 15 dollars a hour. Just stay home and hope u have triplets.welfare queen here we come folks. Oh yea have u noticed how every thing has to do around black now. Poor ole joe is going to feel out of place in a few more weeks of this
I have always remembered something my father said from oldest memories, “you control the water, or it will control you”.
Hey Josh, great video. Once you dry that area out a bit (but before too dry), another nice video would be using a rear blade to cut and dress that ditch up. Looks like it was simply filled in over years. Again, I enjoyed the video and your channel. Jason
Your pops is a cool dude. Nice work!
hey Josh, while you were digging out your ditches, you were making some GREAT mud pies! Where are all the kids and grandkids when you need them? LOL!
i put a security box with a digital keypad at the end of my driveway attached to my fence and then just put the security code in my ups/fedex/usps account. The drivers love using it and 90% of our packages fit in it every once in a while we get something larger that wont.
Great video Josh 🇺🇲 I really enjoyed this video with your Dad WOOOOOO!!!!!!
In 1972 I was on the city survey crew. I learned a great deal about grade and drainage. I still apply that knowledge today. Maybe those delivery drivers just want to see just how strong the TYM 1104 really is.
😅 I love it , shoveling and you have a backhoe 5' away. Some habbits are hard to break. Have a Great Day , GOD BLESS
Nice job. Just remember your culverts you want a 2" drop for every twenty feet and keep ground level with the bottom of the culvert to keep water flowing smoothly through it. Also use the bucket on ditch but use it backwards so you put down pressure on it and drag back towards road when you go to clean it up.
As a FedEx driver thank you for making it easier on us. Never know what your getting into when delivering in the country with such long driveways.
It has most certainly made life easier for the delivery trucks to turn around...now If I can get the Amazon delivery person to understand that you don't leave boxes out in the rain without appropriately bagging them
Great videos Josh, love watching them. Keep up the great work and I wish you the best!
Thanks so much!
Want to be careful when deepening a ditch.Good way to roll a mowing tractor onto its side. I have some serious grip marks on my JD 1250 tractor seat that I use with a 6' mower up front on my ROW. Steep angle and pucker factor about 129%.FYI: if you start to go over steer into the direction of the roll.
Hi..... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍
Nice shovel work (manual and mechanized).
Awesome Brother Josh you Dad is there to help you
Lift the front bucket, lift the outriggers just a bit and use the backhoe to move yourself forward. You have to be careful, but it’s not hard to do.
Drainage is tricky. We’ve found after building our house in a former pasture field and our driveway from woods, water flows where you wouldn’t think it would. We’re still adjusting drainage.
One piece of advice, as your digging your ditch slope the sides it cleans up the appearance and makes it easier to maintain!
too muddy to work...more to come
Lol the Bloopers always make me laugh. That little TYM is a cool little tractor. Love that backhoe attachment.
next time your visit you're gonna be running that thing!
Hey nice picking in the Last couple videos just catching up. You almost got ole cripple creek. Better than I could, ha sorry I missed the video I could have won some overalls 😅.
We found ducks helped curb our mosquito population almost in half or more. We haven't had luck getting bats in but trying to add bat boxes soon. So I don't have awkward looking mosquito bite horns on my forehead (never fails).
The ducks eat the larve in our frog pond and our larger pond goes almost stagnant by the end of summer.
Use the back of your bucket to smooth out the piles of the dirt you dump... just a suggestion, daughter of a heavy equipment operator of fifty years
I like the tractor has the roll over protection bar.
Nice to see dad make it out for another video. A mans hands can tell you a lot about the man. And I highly doubt that your dad has soft hands.
Great 👍 job thank you for sharing
Good morning from WV! Love the channel! Keep up the great work!! The farm looks fantastic!!
Need to get a laser level, get the ditch to flow, no stagnant water, no mosquitoes. I am sure some company will send you one for promotions.
Yep.....a laser would help...but nobody's lining up to send me one lol...I borrow a buddies lazer when I need one
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer You need to see how the Millennium Farmer gets all his stuff.
When you were deciding which equipment you wanted for your farm, what made you decide to get the small tractor with a backhoe rather than a mini-excavator since you have the John Deere with a loader? Just wondering what factors influenced your equipment picks.
"Cows don't fart. They are vegan." This is just too funny! 🤣
Took the words right out of my mouth🤣😂
Had to laugh, you’re shoveling with the backhoe right there. Release breaks, raise bucket and out riggers, push with shovel. Never have to leave the seat. Dig sump hole away from work for water to go to. Strap tile to move it. They do break. Greetings from Riceville, TN.
A little shovel work aint gonna kill me brotha....folks think everything can be done on a farm with a piece of equipment....heck...I'm in the ditch...take 10 mins to dig it out or move the tractor 3 times...I choose the shovel lol
I just mentioned that to my wife and here I’m reading it!!😂😂😉
I would replace the mud around your pipe extension with 3/4 minus rock.
mud makes dirt...dirt packs...and it's free brotha...I covered it with rock after this video
"Ain't it fun to watch somebody else work?" LOL Love it. Keep u-p the great content my guy!
Good work 🇺🇸
Subsume with a hose to dredge the water
Subpum is the word I'm trying to say
That little tractor just keeps proving itself on all these jobs , deff considering one for my upcoming homestead
I think you should keep your big backhoe and sell that little thing back to the dealer
Being a union equipment operator, I would have done a some stuff different but you got it done! And it looks good, So who cares! Haha to clean up the slope/ ditch, I would get that 3point blade that I think you still have. You made a video with it years ago grading the rock on the driveway. That would make it look the cleanest
LOL...being a union equipment operator....does that mean we'd need about 10 more guys and 4 more hours lol....just picking ...yep the ditch does need work later in summer once it's dry
That video of sorting out the ditch is the one that I found first for SRF. He’ll know what to do with the blade.
Hahaha yes! And not a one would be doing anything but telling each other how they could do it better haha
In my area in upstate Ny I’ve spent a lot of hours cleaning and clearing ditches on our road too protect the property’s and the road being the town ship doesn’t take care of ditches or pipes till the road completely washes out
If there is water at the driveway on the high side of the ditch I would start there and work down that way the water checks your grade for you and makes sure you have fall. As long as the water keeps running towards you your good.
Good morning from Butler, Pa!
Not to many things are better than working on a project with Dad!
Great video josh!
I give the UPS and FEDX people enough room to turn around that they could land a plane but they still drive through my front yard and run over my water lines. Last UPS guy said the front yard look better to turn around in. He also told me UPS doesn’t fix waterlines.
Yesterday the Amazon delivery guy walked up to the porch with a big box....wife said "there's 2 stepping stones right there for ya....he stepped directly on our lilies. My wife almost punched him...better to just leave our stuff at the gate. I love my fed ex guy ...he's cool
What you did wrong installing the culvert was using the manual shovel versus the powered shovel. just my personal opinion.
Cool....kinda hard to get around the outside edge of that pipe with a back hoe...like flossing your teeth with a fire hose my brotha
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I've repaired water lines I know . 60 inches deep hoping not to accidentally find it.
Not sure why but my thoughts go to having a muck wagon in tow to put that mud and fill into while you go to keep that from being a problem down the line.
hello from wake forest uni just down the road!
You probably need to clear out the outlet side of your culvert to get the water to drain out
yep...or...the ditch is in a dip right there my friend. It's fairly flat there...water has pooled up ever since we moved here...even on google maps before we moved here the ditch was full of water
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Best solution to that is to dig up the whole ditch across the driveway and grade it out better but in lieu of that you might wanna look into all those companies they can raise the sidewalk with pumped in concrete or expanding foam. That or cut a second drainage line across it under the road and go to the creek over there or whatever that long trench is on the road side of your fence off pasture.
That explains so much.... It's the cow farts... and here I thought it was the bull manure being shoveled in DC..
Oh, funny. Do you mean the Longhorn Congress? A point here and a point there and a lot of bull in between?
the tym tractor is starting to grow on me looks like the backhoe had good power
It surprised me for sure...I love that little tractor!! Trying to get one for dad!
I Love work , I could watch it all day !
😁😜🤪
Your better setting on the road along side the ditch pulling from the side you can keep ditch straight and on grade easier sloping sides as you go and remember call 811 for locating any underground utilities should help you better with practise
Yep...I know where the utilities are on my place brotha..I'm far from done...you'll like the end result..first we gotta drain the skeeter pit
Shovels are man's oldest tools they come in many shapes and sizes little shovels we use returning eggs and pancakes you've got short handled shovels round point square, short and long handle you can get small round points which women and children prefer to use you have snow shovels trenching shovels, military have folding shovels. There are those that use shovels to paddle canoes you can even put them in or locks and roll a boat.
If you had a backhoe you could dig a trench and the water would run out. It could trench for the culvert piece too ;)
Shovel work for the gravel backfill? That is what tractor buckets are for!!
Best intro song ever! lol
Lol my cows are vegan!!!!! I love it!!!
Bat houses. Are the best weapon against mosquitoes.
Preventing standing water helps too my brotha
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer guinnies ugly as heck. They also help with ticks taste like chicken and eggs taste alot like chicken eggs.
Bat houses, that's a nice bit of lateral thinking. Reminds me of when the Chinese killed off the birds for eating their grain, they never did understand eco systems
Bats eat very few if any mosquitoes, that’s mostly eat Lot of months.
@@____________________________.x Historically we haven't respected eco systems either.
Good stuff buddy
Can you push the push the tractor being hydrostatic with the back hoe as you would with a normal case or caterpillar backhoe? Also use the bottom of your backhoe bucket or heal as you sit perpendicular to the ditch to dress up your banks saves from rutting up the work you did and getting stuck if the bottom falls out.
Yep...if it wasn't so soupy right here in this spot
Yeah I was wondering about that too. Most backhoe operators will usually just leave the machine in neutral and hold themselves with the outriggers. Then you can just push yourself along and steer just a little sometimes
Good morning from Missouri! That's an awesome tractor set up. You did a great job!
Been meaning to ask, Is the backhoe removable so you could attach different implements? Thanks
Yep...got the 3pt aerator hooked to it now! Yee haw!
No frogs were harmed in the making of this video maybe.
That was a very dangerous spot you were squatting at after pulling the pins showing the backhoe called the pinch area most dangerous spot on backhoes
You don't have to get off when you need to move. Just push yourself forward with your backhoe.
Easy way to set your grade down your ditch you set a few posts or rods, doesn’t have to be to heavy duty you’re just going to tie a string from one to the next and with a line level set your grade. you want to make sure these are back away from the lowest part of the ditch so you can get your tractor/backhoe in and then starting at the bottom you make your initial cut and then attach a string to a yardstick or some other light weight straight dowel rod or bamboo and connect it over to your grade string so that it’s level. At that point attach it so that it does not move on your measuring stick then as you work your way up the grade by keeping the string parallel it will follow the grade string and you’ll want your measuring stick to just be touching the bottom of where you excavate. Would be handy if you had a second person to take care of your measuring stick and follow you as you work your way along back up the grade.
A man of few words
Isn't that part of the road maintained by your County Road Dept? Give em a call and schedule a time they can come out and redo those ditches with their ditcher equipment. Helps justify paying all those county TAXES.
Do you want the county or city digging and making a mess in your front yard? I'll just take care of it...save the tax $$$. No use in wasting tax $$$.....if we don't have to. I don't feel a sense of entitlement because I pay county and state taxes...I just feel like I'm doing my part to keep up schools and roads
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Silly seeing you use a shovel right there. That mini backhoe would have done a fine job. You said to tell ya
I pity the fool with bad drainage. 👊🏼
As my granddad would say..... just “ knockherin”
Mechanical thumb 👌
I moved to East Tennessee and people call culvert pipes “tiles” around here for some reason, I didn’t know what they were talking about at first.
At one time many of them were constructed using terracotta "tile" sections. In my teen years I helped replace many of them with plastic or steel.
Drain tile is why
All the cow fart comments are funny. I wonder if the folks making the comments know about the reduction of cow farts with grassfed only vs the increased farts with grain fed, or how cows on healthy pastures (not sacrifice lots) have the benefit of beneficial bacteria that absorb and process the cow farts just like how healthy environments pull carbon out of the atmosphere.
Did you do a follow up video on that deer repellent device? Does it still work?
video was 4 years ago...they're all broken, worn out or hit with a mower. They're a solution to deer but the best solution is my video on deer fencing
Its a backho that connects to the back of a small lawn tractor
You should look at a dish bucket
Before you put that Culvert in there oh, it look like plenty of room for most people to be able to turn. But not package delivery guys
I noticed you cleared the obstruction first so the water followed you down. You could have done all the work dry first like the culvert etc and then saved the obstruction for last.
I'm not so sure it was very scientific my brotha...water has always pooled up around this pipe
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Maybe something to consider in the future. But I'm always a day late and a Dollar short! You know what they say about Hindsight Being 20/20.
I like that little tractor
A tractor backhoe is never a permanet replacement for a mini excavator, only a substitute. Especially if you're working in the woods.
Was hear
Woooooo
Seems your driveway culvert (original) is about half silted up, thats why you ended up shovelling water. Put clearing the roadside ditch from the driveway to the top of the rise on your to do list, plus maybe 40 feet or so (tapering out to nothing) on the down stream side as well. Then water will run along the upper ditch, through the culvert and along the lower ditch. If the water flows smoothly, it will keep the culvert free of mud and gravel, so drainage will be better and nearby soil will dry much better. Also need more practice with the hoe so you can create a smooth base to your ditches and not have high spots where you you have to move along when you run out of reach.
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