Awesome job with these videos and your updates. Added together with your other videos, this is a great channel for many reasons. I'm headed north for a camping trip and we were going to stop and check out the reservoir/spillway . With these videos there is no need to waste a day now. Thanks again.
Juan I love watching stuff blow up! I am addicted to your excellent updates! Thanks for always professional and easy to understand updates. Keep up the great work.
to fix 'shaky cellphone' video, you can use a selfie stick, and use a 1/4-20 screw to attach something heavy to the bottom, or use zipties to stick a water bottle holder to the bottom to take out shaking.
Great coverage as always, Juan. Been watching your coverage on the Oroville Dam from here in the Midwest ever since it all began in early February. You have a real talent for reporting ... the MSM could sure take some lessons from you! Thank you as well for your service to our country. All the best to you! 👍
One of your best videos, if not the best. I don't know where you find the time. You are the Story Musgrave of TH-cam! Loved the overheads, and watching how they plant the charges, and all the technical details.
I personally want to thank you for your coverage of the Oroville spillway reconstruction, your right the main media doesn't find it exciting enough, but with the detail that you give to what is going on, enables me to understand how complicated and the procedures they need to do, especially the blasting explanation that you gave goes far beyond what the main media would try to cover, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels the same way, your information is more precise than the medias and more interesting in the way you present it. I appreciate the time it takes for you to do this type of work for us viewers. Thank you.
Outstanding sir! I've been watching a bunch of your vids since Feb. Well documented and thorough. 10 times better than any main media. Keep it up. This is an ongoing huge story.
Juan - I just wanted to say thanks a bunch for taking the time and effort to collect, assemble, and present the Oroville visual and factual update info. Very well done!
Juan, thanks for the great coverage/update! Those employees are working at a fast pace, I can tell from my previous construction experiences. I might also point out, those operators, working close to the edge and performing the blasting, are experts in their field, just like you performing your "day job". You mentioned the lack of news coverage, which I think is great ("no news is good news")! If the news media and TH-cam channels/producers will remain POSTIVE and offer continued encouragement, (which you've done a wonderful job of doing with your productions) the area's 'scare' would settle down and all of the sadness and criticism could turn into CHEERS! Thanks for the video and thanks for noting to the viewers that safety is of the greatest importance. The well controlled and very professionally done blasting was great to see! --- and I might add, "just like my paycheck, nothing to it!".......................lol ....13
Thanks Juan. Your dedication to information on the Oroville Dam situation has earned you much respect. Watching your videos is similar in ways to have been able to watch the workers build the Pyramids. Such an enormous, colossal, project. I wouldn't watch mainstream TV even if they covered these same blasts and footage. Why, not when the standard of excellence has been set by you and yours. Awesome Job Dude. Really
Juan, that was some more of your great video and explanation of what"s going on with the spillway, thanks, I'm like you, I could watch those explosions all day long. Please keep them coming.
I very much appreciate your video coverage of the Oroville Dam reconstruction. As a fourth-generation Californian, I understand the importance of maintaining our vital water supplies/dams/reservoirs/water pipeline systems. Thank you for sharing.
Pretty well controlled blasting, moving only the ground intended with a minimal amount of rubble bouncing. Well done by the explosive engineers. The last bit of demo was what most people expect to see. Very good coverage, Juan! Thank you!
Just another of your fans, Mr. B. Have been watching you from the start and much appreciate your ability to give a compelling explanation to a layman. Thanks so much!
Thanks for your excellent coverage of this entire episode of the Oroville Dam adventure! As a former employee of Plumas Rock Inc.(portable rock crushing, grading and logging road builders) out of Quincy, I can personally relate to the immense scope of this project. Without your time and efforts we folks would have been sorely in the dark regarding the day to day progress and direction of the spillway R&R. Thanks again Bro! 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for these videos describing the rebuild of the spillway at the Oroville dam. Especially the technical descriptions and your flights in the "Mighty Luscombe".
Incredible footage! How lucky are we to have the technology to pull off such feats of construction/ deconstruction/reconstruction, but also the technology to record such events from many angles! And how lucky are we to have someone who cares enough to keep us up-to-date and informed of it all! From Pennsylvania, thank you for your amazing videos.
Another good one Juan. You da man :) Blasting well done - a classic ''heave'' approach. ANFO is much gentler and less brissant than TNT... takes me back to my course on blasting in the 80s. DWR drone footage is excellent. This truly is a massive operation.
100x better than any mainstream news channel! Watching from about 3,200 miles to your East in Western Central MA. Keep up the great work! This is fascinating to watch!
Your presentation skills are much improved. A portable tripod for your camera would increase your production values. Many thanks for your efforts. I'm sure you know what is needed. No hype and no clickbait. Hats off to you from southern Oregon. Outstanding reporting.
When we see the original work on the spillway exposed by the catastrophe, it seems as if a miracle held it in place as long as it did. Thanks Juan for keeping us all so well informed.
Easy understandable unfolding of the spillway repair plan, Juan, thanks to your oral comment in combination with excellent picture shooting and spherefull musical accompaniment. From a Dutch radio amateur, PD4Rob.
Very much enjoyed the entire video but especially where the set up for the blasting was shown. Highly educational, highly interesting. Keep 'em coming.
Jaun, As others have said your reporting and videos are just getting better. Great content, editing, and information. Thank you and God bless you. Paul
You've probably already noticed that the crawler crane they're using to erect one of the batch plants has a flashing, red warning light on the end of the boom. The boom is probably at least 250' long. I noticed it the first night that the state parks had the web cam up and running. I wonder if it's meant for low flying Luscombe's?
a done a lot of blasting when I was younger here in East Tennessee, The "fertilizer" used to come in 90 pound bags and I carried it from daylight to dark MOST of the time from a distance of 50 yards to over 300 yards every time we would shoot holes in the strip pits.....and allow me to say, those guys that's doing the blastin has it easy with that fertilizer truck bringing it to them! we really enjoy your videos thank you for all you do! Jim, East Tennessee
Juan that was too entertaining. I had to watch it twice. I even shared it with my friends. heck, I may go watch that a third time. I am so jealous you got to watch that but satisfied I got to watch it. Thanks
ANFO is a low density explosive. It fractures the rock without shattering it and throwing bits far away from the shot. The shot up above had very nice lift, looks like about six feet. Looks like they're building a ramp for a road down into Croyle canyon. They need to get rollers and other heavy equipment into the canyon so they can get the job done.
Precisely. Explosives have a lot more to them than most would think. These are nice, slow shockwave blasts, designed to loosen but not move the earth so the excavators can easily deal with it. Same reason the spillway charges look tame, the blast has been designed to happen under the slabs, to crack the concrete up & break it loose of the substrate.
Hi and thank you for the continued great videos!!! Would really enjoy seeing a video blog on YOU TUBE you as Captain flying the Triple 7 / 777. Now that would be so cool!!
Super video Mr. Browne !! I've worked with PKC before and IMO they're a class act ! Not much "fly rock" evident on those shots ! Nor did it go far ! Looks like tough blasting conditions to this old tunneler, too ! I came into the business when "Non-Electrical" capping was just making headway . Now it seems to have progressed considerably ! Super stuff to have in a world where the electrical spectrum is alive . That ground appears so seamed and vugged as to be a geologist and blasting engineer's nightmare, so PKC's engineering and site staff have their work cut out for them to perform on time, on budget and safely ! Jobs like this appears tone shaping up to are why "Walking Bosses " remedial alcohol intake rises ! Take care Sir !
In the last blast you showed, about 17:30 there's a worker walking towards the blast site just seconds after. far upper right of shot. He was pretty close when the blast occurred. You mentioned being 1500 feet away, he was maybe 200 feet away! BTW Love the videos, great work. I've been following since the initial flooding. I'm in St Louis, Mo but fascinated by these events half way across the country.
Again Juan great job. It's awsome to watch news and go away satisfied. Your coverage is unparalleled by any MsM attempt . You should teach them how to report. ......nah. Maybe they will just fade away . My family still loves to watch you , even my 8yr old. He likes that your a great pilot and a great reporter. ...from his own mouth lol. He especially liked when you took your grandson with you camping in your smaller aircraft . I think he was imagining he was with you two . As always we await your next videos .
The little boy in me loves watching this stuff. I just can't help myself! LOL!! Many years ago I was able to watch a coal company blast overburden off a coal seam near the power plant I was working on. It was the best lunch break entertainment a guy could ask for. On the top of two giant coal fired boilers eating sandwiches and waiting to hear the warning sirens. Good times!!!
Thanks for the update. ANFO is Amonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil. Coming over I80 on Saturday there was still some snow under the trees. Northern NV is very wet for the time of year, roads closed around Winnemucca where the Humboldt river has flooded at least one local road. Flood warnings near Elko too. The wetlands up in the Duck Valley Reservation were huge shallow lakes. Wild Horse reservoir was flowing over its spillway. The majority of the high ski areas visible from I80 are still covered too. The passes on 4, 108 and 120 will still be closed for weeks, lots of snow to clear there still. We went out on 88 and that was open and very clear. But there's a good amount of snow left to melt in some places.
Juan, you're keeping me up to date as much as the guy in the Forbestown Store having his cup of coffee and a gossip. Oh, and I'm writing from S.E. Asia!! Good work 😃
You do such good work and it is appreciated very much. The main stream media needs to take lessons from you in honesty and purity of reporting and educating so many of us about things like this Dam Project. The very best to you and your family and Thank You.
I'll be on the DWR media conference call with Kewit tomorrow 7 June-I'll have a double flyover update posted shortly thereafter...stby...
Awesome job with these videos and your updates. Added together with your other videos, this is a great channel for many reasons. I'm headed north for a camping trip and we were going to stop and check out the reservoir/spillway . With these videos there is no need to waste a day now. Thanks again.
Juan I love watching stuff blow up! I am addicted to your excellent updates! Thanks for always professional and easy to understand updates. Keep up the great work.
Your reports/updates are getting better and better. The excavators in the stream remind one of bailing out the cellar with a teaspoon.
They should reward you in some way, you did the best job of getting the truth out on what was and still is happening at this dam.
to fix 'shaky cellphone' video, you can use a selfie stick, and use a 1/4-20 screw to attach something heavy to the bottom, or use zipties to stick a water bottle holder to the bottom to take out shaking.
Great coverage as always, Juan. Been watching your coverage on the Oroville Dam from here in the Midwest ever since it all began in early February. You have a real talent for reporting ... the MSM could sure take some lessons from you! Thank you as well for your service to our country. All the best to you! 👍
thank you for your coverage of the dam !
One of your best videos, if not the best. I don't know where you find the time. You are the Story Musgrave of TH-cam! Loved the overheads, and watching how they plant the charges, and all the technical details.
I personally want to thank you for your coverage of the Oroville spillway reconstruction, your right the main media doesn't find it exciting enough, but with the detail that you give to what is going on, enables me to understand how complicated and the procedures they need to do, especially the blasting explanation that you gave goes far beyond what the main media would try to cover, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels the same way, your information is more precise than the medias and more interesting in the way you present it. I appreciate the time it takes for you to do this type of work for us viewers. Thank you.
Outstanding sir! I've been watching a bunch of your vids since Feb. Well documented and thorough. 10 times better than any main media. Keep it up. This is an ongoing huge story.
Juan - I just wanted to say thanks a bunch for taking the time and effort to collect, assemble, and present the Oroville visual and factual update info. Very well done!
Juan, thanks for the great coverage/update! Those employees are working at a fast pace, I can tell from my previous construction experiences. I might also point out, those operators, working close to the edge and performing the blasting, are experts in their field, just like you performing your "day job".
You mentioned the lack of news coverage, which I think is great ("no news is good news")! If the news media and TH-cam channels/producers will remain POSTIVE and offer continued encouragement, (which you've done a wonderful job of doing with your productions) the area's 'scare' would settle down and all of the sadness and criticism could turn into CHEERS!
Thanks for the video and thanks for noting to the viewers that safety is of the greatest importance. The well controlled and very professionally done blasting was great to see! --- and I might add, "just like my paycheck, nothing to it!".......................lol
....13
Thanks Juan. Your dedication to information on the Oroville Dam situation has earned you much respect.
Watching your videos is similar in ways to have been able to watch the workers build the Pyramids.
Such an enormous, colossal, project. I wouldn't watch mainstream TV even if they covered these same blasts and footage. Why, not when the standard of excellence has been set by you and yours. Awesome Job Dude. Really
Juan, that was some more of your great video and explanation of what"s going on with the spillway, thanks, I'm like you, I could watch those explosions all day long. Please keep them coming.
Your videos are a treat to watch, it's the enthusiasm, it's catching! Thank-you Juan, I too could watch blasting all day.
I very much appreciate your video coverage of the Oroville Dam reconstruction. As a fourth-generation Californian, I understand the importance of maintaining our vital water supplies/dams/reservoirs/water pipeline systems. Thank you for sharing.
Pretty well controlled blasting, moving only the ground intended with a minimal amount of rubble bouncing. Well done by the explosive engineers. The last bit of demo was what most people expect to see.
Very good coverage, Juan! Thank you!
Thanks for continuing to keep us updated on the Orville Dam, Juan. I truly appreciate all your effort. You are filming history in the making!
Just want to say thanks again for keeping us updated on the progress of the rebuild job.
Watching these vids will get you an upper tier Man-Card...even if you don't have one yet.
Fascinatin' stuff . . . riviting !!!
Just another of your fans, Mr. B. Have been watching you from the start and much appreciate your ability to give a compelling explanation to a layman. Thanks so much!
Juan, you always amaze! Thank you for your work videoing the Oroville Dam! 🇺🇸
Thanks for your excellent coverage of this entire episode of the Oroville Dam adventure!
As a former employee of Plumas Rock Inc.(portable rock crushing, grading and logging road builders) out of Quincy, I can personally relate to the immense scope of this project.
Without your time and efforts we folks would have been sorely in the dark regarding the day to day progress and direction of the spillway R&R.
Thanks again Bro! 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for these videos describing the rebuild of the spillway at the Oroville dam. Especially the technical descriptions and your flights in the "Mighty Luscombe".
Juan, you are better than any mainstream media! so very interesting...thx
Thx for the great updates. Keep them coming!
Things are really shaping up. Thanks for the excellent up date Juan.
I've been watching this channel on the dam. Please continue the great coverage. Excellent job as always juan!! Thank you
Great update as usual Juan, superb reporting all facts, refreshing in itself. Thanks again for the good work.
Incredible footage! How lucky are we to have the technology to pull off such feats of construction/ deconstruction/reconstruction, but also the technology to record such events from many angles! And how lucky are we to have someone who cares enough to keep us up-to-date and informed of it all! From Pennsylvania, thank you for your amazing videos.
Juan, thanks for continuing these great reports! See you on the back roads sometime.
Another good one Juan. You da man :)
Blasting well done - a classic ''heave'' approach. ANFO is much gentler and less brissant than TNT... takes me back to my course on blasting in the 80s.
DWR drone footage is excellent. This truly is a massive operation.
Thank you for your continued high quality documentation. Keep up the awesome effort.
100x better than any mainstream news channel! Watching from about 3,200 miles to your East in Western Central MA. Keep up the great work! This is fascinating to watch!
Fascinating! Great footage and explanation, Juan! What a huge undertaking this is!
Once again thank you very much for your time you put in and the footage you show us👍🏻✌️🙂😊
The drone photo-captures of the explosions are as good as oil paintings. As always, thank you for the fine work.
Another great update!! Following your fantastic videos from Vancouver B.C.!
Thanks Juan: Nice original work including the compilation and narration of the DWR footage.
Keep on the straight.
Cheers,
Mark
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Your presentation skills are much improved. A portable tripod for your camera would increase your production values. Many thanks for your efforts. I'm sure you know what is needed. No hype and no clickbait. Hats off to you from southern Oregon. Outstanding reporting.
When we see the original work on the spillway exposed by the catastrophe, it seems as if a miracle held it in place as long as it did. Thanks Juan for keeping us all so well informed.
Easy understandable unfolding of the spillway repair plan, Juan, thanks to your oral comment in combination with excellent picture shooting and spherefull musical accompaniment.
From a Dutch radio amateur,
PD4Rob.
Excellent update Juan Many thanks. regards from the UK
Awesome as always Juan.Thanks for all your doing.Cant wait to see the air footage from the Mighty Luscombe. Be safe.
Great job, Juan!! I look forward to all of your updates.
Thank you for your efforts to provide info on this project.
Another excellent report. I could get used to this. Thanks Juan.
Very much enjoyed the entire video but especially where the set up for the blasting was shown. Highly educational, highly interesting. Keep 'em coming.
Great update, Juan! Thanks so much for the excellent commentary!
Thanks for the updates. I appreciate the clear footage.
Jaun,
As others have said your reporting and videos are just getting better. Great content, editing, and information. Thank you and God bless you.
Paul
Alright I was 777! Awesome work Juan. Still the best reporting out there. Keep up the great work!
You do so well in your explanations and your planning of the videos shows. Again, well done.
Thanks from the Netherlands ! Noone overhere has ever heared from this dam and stuff but i like it. Keep up the news :)
Love the so very accurate comment, "not enough mayhem for the main stream media". Thanks Juan for keeping us all updated.
You've probably already noticed that the crawler crane they're using to erect one of the batch plants has a flashing, red warning light on the end of the boom. The boom is probably at least 250' long. I noticed it the first night that the state parks had the web cam up and running. I wonder if it's meant for low flying Luscombe's?
Thanks Jaun, great video and commentary. I still say the put the batch plant on the wrong side, but what do I know.
Good point/question for the contractor!
Nice work and thanks for your service...
a done a lot of blasting when I was younger here in East Tennessee, The "fertilizer" used to come in 90 pound bags and I carried it from daylight to dark MOST of the time from a distance of 50 yards to over 300 yards every time we would shoot holes in the strip pits.....and allow me to say, those guys that's doing the blastin has it easy with that fertilizer truck bringing it to them!
we really enjoy your videos thank you for all you do!
Jim, East Tennessee
Juan that was too entertaining. I had to watch it twice. I even shared it with my friends. heck, I may go watch that a third time. I am so jealous you got to watch that but satisfied I got to watch it. Thanks
I love what you're doing with these videos! It s fascinating stuff.
ANFO is a low density explosive. It fractures the rock without shattering it and throwing bits far away from the shot. The shot up above had very nice lift, looks like about six feet. Looks like they're building a ramp for a road down into Croyle canyon. They need to get rollers and other heavy equipment into the canyon so they can get the job done.
Precisely. Explosives have a lot more to them than most would think. These are nice, slow shockwave blasts, designed to loosen but not move the earth so the excavators can easily deal with it.
Same reason the spillway charges look tame, the blast has been designed to happen under the slabs, to crack the concrete up & break it loose of the substrate.
Wow very impressive.Thanks for sharing.I look forward to all your postings.
Great update Juan, many thanks.....
Thanks man this is cool! This whole project is simply memorizing to watch. Especially the drone shots.
I will never grow tired of those beautiful drone shots. We can assume that they will run round the clock to pull this job off.
Great video. Thanks again. Really looks like they are going to get a lot done this summer.
Thanks for the update. I could watch all day too, but have to work!
Hi and thank you for the continued great videos!!! Would really enjoy seeing a video blog on YOU TUBE you as Captain flying the Triple 7 / 777. Now that would be so cool!!
Super video Mr. Browne !! I've worked with PKC before and IMO they're a class act ! Not much "fly rock" evident on those shots ! Nor did it go far ! Looks like tough blasting conditions to this old tunneler, too ! I came into the business when "Non-Electrical" capping was just making headway . Now it seems to have progressed considerably ! Super stuff to have in a world where the electrical spectrum is alive . That ground appears so seamed and vugged as to be a geologist and blasting engineer's nightmare, so PKC's engineering and site staff have their work cut out for them to perform on time, on budget and safely ! Jobs like this appears tone shaping up to are why "Walking Bosses " remedial alcohol intake rises ! Take care Sir !
Me too, before and after. All electric before and the aluminum filled tubes and the single primer after. VERY interesting.
Lewie McNeely n
In the last blast you showed, about 17:30 there's a worker walking towards the blast site just seconds after. far upper right of shot. He was pretty close when the blast occurred. You mentioned being 1500 feet away, he was maybe 200 feet away! BTW Love the videos, great work. I've been following since the initial flooding. I'm in St Louis, Mo but fascinated by these events half way across the country.
Another great report, Juan. Thank you
Again Juan great job. It's awsome to watch news and go away satisfied. Your coverage is unparalleled by any MsM attempt . You should teach them how to report. ......nah. Maybe they will just fade away . My family still loves to watch you , even my 8yr old. He likes that your a great pilot and a great reporter. ...from his own mouth lol. He especially liked when you took your grandson with you camping in your smaller aircraft . I think he was imagining he was with you two . As always we await your next videos .
G'day from Australia. Love your work, informative and interesting as always. Cheers..
Great coverage as usual.
Thanks!
That must be tough drilling. We did 20' x 4" holes in Delta peat and clay.
simply amazing Juan. nice job as always look forward to them.
Hello, Juan! Thanks for all your work! Yeah I can watch it too… nervously though.
Your coverage is top notch. Thank you!
I'm hooked on these updates beautiful part of the world hope to visit one day from England.
quality reporting as always, cheers from UK
Thanks for all your reporting.
Thanks for the update! Keep them coming.
Can't imagine all the work being done, labor hours, cost. Appreciate the updates! Hope everyone is ok out there!
Juan Brown...FANTASTIC!!! all that bedrock has the gold hunters salivating...
Thank you for continuing coverage.
Thank you , for keeping the World informed , with real news !
Regards from Germany
Awesome coverage. I enjoy watching the blasting big or small.
You're now my favorite channel.
Explosive reporting Tonight on Dam Watch.
Thank you for your informative videos, and straight talk, much appreciated.
Thanks Juan! Great job as usual!
The little boy in me loves watching this stuff. I just can't help myself! LOL!! Many years ago I was able to watch a coal company blast overburden off a coal seam near the power plant I was working on. It was the best lunch break entertainment a guy could ask for. On the top of two giant coal fired boilers eating sandwiches and waiting to hear the warning sirens. Good times!!!
You are doing a beautiful job on these reports and the videos' creation!
Thanks for the update. ANFO is Amonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil.
Coming over I80 on Saturday there was still some snow under the trees. Northern NV is very wet for the time of year, roads closed around Winnemucca where the Humboldt river has flooded at least one local road. Flood warnings near Elko too. The wetlands up in the Duck Valley Reservation were huge shallow lakes. Wild Horse reservoir was flowing over its spillway. The majority of the high ski areas visible from I80 are still covered too. The passes on 4, 108 and 120 will still be closed for weeks, lots of snow to clear there still. We went out on 88 and that was open and very clear. But there's a good amount of snow left to melt in some places.
Juan, you're keeping me up to date as much as the guy in the Forbestown Store having his cup of coffee and a gossip. Oh, and I'm writing from S.E. Asia!! Good work 😃
Great report! i think that spillway blast was just a test to determine the amount of explosives to use. Later they hit it again with a proper charge.
Fun, I just happened to be watching the live feed yesterday just as they did another blast. Good timing.
You do such good work and it is appreciated very much. The main stream media needs to take lessons from you in honesty and purity of reporting and educating so many of us about things like this Dam Project. The very best to you and your family and Thank You.
Your reports are awesome.
Greetings from Croatia!