My grandson was freaking out... He’s gonna get it stuck Papa I keep telling him to watch and find out. He was covering his eyes saying. No he’s stuck I know it. When he opened his eyes he came out with. I knew he could do it Mr. Chris is the best at that. Thank you, you made my 5yr old grandsons day.
That was easy....... for me, 8 pm on a Friday, cup of tea, Feet up on the desk. There was one scary moment as my chair started to tip, had to grab hold of the desk right quick. Hows your day been Chris?
only one other person I can remember as good as you are was Marvin Comer. he worked a P&H like no other. I worked for him in the 70's. he taught me a lot and got me my A permit on a B61 Mack. luv your videos from rosedale, md.
Considering how heavy the 250 is and how it was faring in material the consistency of old-style dairy manure, I'd say the mats did a good job. It'll be interesting to see what the creek bed looks like without several feet of soil eroded into it.
That drivin right there folks is why in my opinion Chris is the best there is when it comes down to driving in the mud and getting it done then getting back OUT !
Yeh Chris, don’t get the 250 too muddy, I like seeing that machine looking nice and preddy. I tell you what that 250 looks good in that muddy pond though. It’s by far my most favourite machine and yours I think. Doing a good job as usual. God bless you Chris, keep safe in that country of yours. Cheers from the land down under.
I had to trench a ditch through our pond at our sand pit. I had a baby mini 301 cat and I was walking out on pallets struggling. I also had no claw to pick pallets up. Was a tough day
It's amazing how much silt builds up.. shame you can't drain it and let it dry for enough time to make it easier. But great watching. Just amazing. Cornwall UK.
Hey Chris I work at the company that build the bucket and thumb on your machine cool to see our product out there getting used I don’t build the excavator buckets I build wheel loader buckets but I have help them build a few buckets just like you r using
Chris you need to set up a boot amp for people that just want to spend the day with you. You would get a lot done and make money by having them pay for the camp! I know I would definitely drop money on that!
Letsdig18 movies rule's. 1. No trast left behind by anybody ever. 2. READ RULE NO.1. 3. Be kind to everyone and be of sober mind. 4. No unautorized videoing aloud.
2 problems, I don't think he really wants a group of folks knowing where his property is and the Volvo's belong to his uncle, and I don't figure chris wants to catch hell from his uncle letting just any ole folk play with his excavators
That was some top notch sphincter retention exercise right there. I was concerned about the weight issues though no doubt the extra power that machine has enabled you to exit there without roadside assistance. Got to take my hat off Chris takes some balls to take a machine that heavy out there on such small mats. Whatever they are paying you it ant enough 😉 Chapeau 👏🏼
Huston, we have a problem I think I seen just a little bit of mud on the counter weight of your 250 Chris, lmaoooo, but great video brother and keep them coming you Tim and John y’all stay safe
Best damn in cab videos on TH-cam, not afraid to just let the camera run, instead of 2 or 3 minutes lol, good shit Chris, like I said on Instagram it's MUDTASTIC! Thanks for sharing bud 👍!
The concrete pump has become a meme - love it! We need a t-shirt with something relating to it stuck on it. Great skills as always, really enjoy these pond dredge videos. :)
Need to buy a long reach. We had several at the CAT dealer I worked at. Its amazing at the leverage those machines deal with on those long booms and sticks.
La verdad que esto me hace acordar los trabajos sobre refulado de las dragas. La única diferencia es q yo siempre pedía 4 planchas, para trabajar más seguro, aunq yo trabaja sobre 2 mts de barro . Excelente video y operador 👍
Yeah, The Man an Woman walking their dogs went strait in and called the head of HOA on ya already Chris !! lololol.... " There is a Young Man out here stirring up this mud and has the whole neighborhood stinking" !!!lololol... That's the way they used to do us, always one or two calling starting shit , before ya ever get started good !!! lololol...But, you know how it is , you've been down that road i'm sure somewhere along the way...lolol... Great as always Chris !!! Til the next..Stay safe out there Man !!! Have a Great Evening....
Need the Terex Spider for those pond jobs. Wouldn't need the mats. Just crawl the machine in and start dredging mud. But one needs to be able to walk, chew gum and pat head and tummy all at once. Lol
The technical difference between a lake and a pond is simply the depth. You can have a body of water that is 2 square miles and it could be only a pond if it is shallow. If the water is deep enough to not let light hit the bottom then it is a lake.
oh my goodness!!! The most fun has started!!! Chris..when xl or xxl t-shirts be available? awesome vid!!! Just a little weight difference between the 160 and 250... This might be the top 4 of Chris getting a machine muddy!! We all know that from 11 years ago!!
Just a thought, wouldn't buying a crane with a clamshell save you from going into the mud, you can pickup the mud and put it into the truck in one move. love your videos!
18:10 I think your best game plan for that machine would have been dig out a hole down to the solid bottom, THEN crawl out into the pond, dredging it out as you go, staying in the ever widening hole you're digging out of the mud... That way, you don't have to screw around with inadequate mats or risk burying the machine and the community gets a deeper pond that's less prone to weeds or clogs caused by silt buildup...
I guess I'm still a kid, because I enjoyed this all the way through. I did get a chuckle about putting this much weight out on the small mats, especially once they began disappearing. These are about the size I haul around the country on the heavy-haul truck I drive (not that I'll make any great claims to being able to finesse them around outside of loading and unloading them off the trailer... I would probably look like I had Tourette's out in the mud like this lol). Thanks for sharing these digs. :)
What great skill and patience you have Chris! I love watching these videos. Is it the case that the mats provide a ‘floor’ at the bottom of the stream, rather than keeping the machine afloat on top of the mud? You seem to get a tremendous amount of mud in your streams and ponds. Does it have to be dredged every year?
@@Jacob-64 haha then u have never used a tiltrotator, i have a rototilt r8 on my ec300e with a 2000 liter bucket witch is 400 liter over rekomended from volvo and it works like a dream
Man I need better mats, I seem to shred mine way too fast. I just got a CAT 307 for my farm and have been dredging our ditches and started a pond and getting this deep would freak me out. I watch your videos mostly for positioning and operating flow tips. Thanks and keep it up!
There are times I think you could do with a hull harness seat belt to stop you falling out of the cab. The mud would make for a soft landing, but one best avoided methinks.
Chris just asking why wouldn't you use a long reach and just work off the bank? Surely cost of moving all the mats around vs the cost of the different machine even themselves out and you don't get all that shitty mud grinding out the running gear by staying up on the bank?
Genuine question, have u priced a longer dipper/stick for that machine? Given how much dredging/swimming in the mud you do, having a long reach aint viable granted, but a second long stick in the yard for the long jobs would justify the cost/hours to change it over compared to so much mat wrangling. And if Chris’ local volvo rep is reading, 5% commisions fine thanks.😎🇬🇧
My grandson was freaking out... He’s gonna get it stuck Papa I keep telling him to watch and find out. He was covering his eyes saying. No he’s stuck I know it. When he opened his eyes he came out with. I knew he could do it Mr. Chris is the best at that. Thank you, you made my 5yr old grandsons day.
My son and I were thinking the same thing! We didn't think he was going to get it out of there so easily either.
wow so cool!
Idk why this channel was recommended to me but this is mesmerizing. I can't stop watching...
same for me. :-D
Right? What is it...
happened to me 2 weeks ago and I can't stop watching lol
He's very, very good! You should see him work when he's not in quicksand! 😆 😆
That was easy....... for me, 8 pm on a Friday, cup of tea, Feet up on the desk. There was one scary moment as my chair started to tip, had to grab hold of the desk right quick. Hows your day been Chris?
Out of all the jobs I have had throughout my life, operating medium to large excavators was the most exciting and fulfilling. Everyday was funland.
only one other person I can remember as good as you are was Marvin Comer. he worked a P&H like no other. I worked for him in the 70's. he taught me a lot and got me my A permit on a B61 Mack. luv your videos from rosedale, md.
Chris definitely knows what he's doing.
I like the way you structure your videos. Giving us a mission goal, the work and then a summary of what just happened at the end. Thanks
Considering how heavy the 250 is and how it was faring in material the consistency of old-style dairy manure, I'd say the mats did a good job. It'll be interesting to see what the creek bed looks like without several feet of soil eroded into it.
That drivin right there folks is why in my opinion Chris is the best there is when it comes down to driving in the mud and getting it done then getting back OUT !
I am not convinced this is your 3rd day as I saw you on here before rescuing a stuck 360 digger. A pleasure to watch the skill.
Very impressive video. I could watch this all night. Amazing how those mats can support that machine in the mud. Great job and waiting for more.
My first "Chris" video was digging out another excavator. I was hooked! Nothing is better than watching an expert at work!!!
Yeh Chris, don’t get the 250 too muddy, I like seeing that machine looking nice and preddy. I tell you what that 250 looks good in that muddy pond though. It’s by far my most favourite machine and yours I think. Doing a good job as usual. God bless you Chris, keep safe in that country of yours. Cheers from the land down under.
That guy walking his dog at 3:10 was like gosh dang brother, that's one beautifull machine right there 😂
That's what you call a sidewalk superintendent right there.
Actually he's thinking " I could do that"🤣
@@HEADDYNAMICS no he was just watching a cool machine
I think he was telling his dog THAT GUY BETTER NOT BREAK MY SEWER REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. His body language wasn't friendly.
Glad to see you’re back on the Lake Dredging Project. Can’t wait to see more of this work. 👍
Got the job done and didn’t lose any mats. I’d say that was a success. Well played.
Haha, the concrete pump shade! Love it.
Need to put that on a T-shirt : suck that through your concrete pump!
@@rppvt Make another shirt with " I never heard about filters"
Brad Holtz
Chris Needs a bicycle pump as well 😉🇬🇧
@@csnelling4
😂😂😂🇬🇧
Don't understand why you never just went round to the other side...
I've watched a bunch of em on you tube here. You're the best Chris. Master operator
I just don’t see how you keep your cool when the machine is sunk down that deep brother, I’d be a total mess! lol this video is so awesome brother!
Can't buy experience and a cool head
So this is really a chess game and your opponent is water. Huge respect Chris.💪
Oh what a mess, another good video Chris. Thank you.
Looks great Kap...... The birds should love it.
You know, I love seeing the 250 clearing trees as it just rips them and breaks some big trees up!
I had to trench a ditch through our pond at our sand pit. I had a baby mini 301 cat and I was walking out on pallets struggling. I also had no claw to pick pallets up. Was a tough day
I love watching you operate that big Volvo, I know next to nothing about excavators but I get the feeling it's a real nice one.
That's some lovely thick mud there. Probably plenty of organic matter in it by the looks of the stuff growing on top, too.
good stuff...many others would be sunken doing this stuff , never get enuf of watching good operators :)
It's amazing how much silt builds up.. shame you can't drain it and let it dry for enough time to make it easier. But great watching. Just amazing. Cornwall UK.
Hey Chris I work at the company that build the bucket and thumb on your machine cool to see our product out there getting used I don’t build the excavator buckets I build wheel loader buckets but I have help them build a few buckets just like you r using
Chris you need to set up a boot amp for people that just want to spend the day with you. You would get a lot done and make money by having them pay for the camp! I know I would definitely drop money on that!
Letsdig18 movies rule's.
1. No trast left behind by anybody ever.
2. READ RULE NO.1.
3. Be kind to everyone and be of sober mind.
4. No unautorized videoing aloud.
2 problems, I don't think he really wants a group of folks knowing where his property is and the Volvo's belong to his uncle, and I don't figure chris wants to catch hell from his uncle letting just any ole folk play with his excavators
That was some top notch sphincter retention exercise right there.
I was concerned about the weight issues though no doubt the extra power that machine has enabled you to exit there without roadside assistance.
Got to take my hat off Chris takes some balls to take a machine that heavy out there on such small mats.
Whatever they are paying you it ant enough 😉
Chapeau 👏🏼
They use it because of the size of the bucket. Moves more material per hour.
Huston, we have a problem I think I seen just a little bit of mud on the counter weight of your 250 Chris, lmaoooo, but great video brother and keep them coming you Tim and John y’all stay safe
Best damn in cab videos on TH-cam, not afraid to just let the camera run, instead of 2 or 3 minutes lol, good shit Chris, like I said on Instagram it's MUDTASTIC! Thanks for sharing bud 👍!
This guys got some skills 👍
I would love to get into that line of work someday. Your videos are awesome and informative. I dig it
The concrete pump has become a meme - love it! We need a t-shirt with something relating to it stuck on it. Great skills as always, really enjoy these pond dredge videos. :)
Chris buying the new Volvo excavator.
Chris: How deep is her draft?
Salesmen: 🤔
Chris: What's her displacement?
Salesman: 🤔
Lol God bless
Great 👍 hope you’re feeling well you’re doing good *$d3&c’
This is going to be few good videos i can tell. Keep up the work buddy! Love your dredging videos
Yep another good video to watch. Thanks Chris
We had danger, thrills and chills, but no skateboard! Thanks Chris
Need to buy a long reach. We had several at the CAT dealer I worked at. Its amazing at the leverage those machines deal with on those long booms and sticks.
"Hey, what is that digger dude doing?"
"It looks like he... lost something"
I started watching your videos this week. I had a tremendous amount of respect until i saw this one and now I think you are crazy!
La verdad que esto me hace acordar los trabajos sobre refulado de las dragas. La única diferencia es q yo siempre pedía 4 planchas, para trabajar más seguro, aunq yo trabaja sobre 2 mts de barro . Excelente video y operador 👍
How do you like working with an audience?!😂😂 that 1st lady walking her dog was looking like she was going to invite you over for lunch!😂😂
She could have been a "Karen" on her way to speak to the manager.
@@dannysowell9071 lol.
Because the mud stinks lol.
All that flamin' mud! You tamed it though Chris! Well done! :-)
chris you should sell baseball style caps with your logo on it either in camo or other colors
Thanks for helping the fish survive.
Nice work with that mess buddy! She did sink like a rock lol
You do good work my friend. Love the videos, hope to be half as good as you at some point in my life.
Enjoyed watching the video Chris 😊
"bicycle #1"
Next video: He uses mats to cross an ocean.
Awesome operator! And the 250 is a awesome machine!
Yeah, The Man an Woman walking their dogs went strait in and called the head of HOA on ya already Chris !! lololol.... " There is a Young Man out here stirring up this mud and has the whole neighborhood stinking" !!!lololol... That's the way they used to do us, always one or two calling starting shit , before ya ever get started good !!! lololol...But, you know how it is , you've been down that road i'm sure somewhere along the way...lolol... Great as always Chris !!! Til the next..Stay safe out there Man !!! Have a Great Evening....
Lol at scool to put in a house we cut down a tree lol i gess some one wated it for thare yard
Need the Terex Spider for those pond jobs. Wouldn't need the mats. Just crawl the machine in and start dredging mud. But one needs to be able to walk, chew gum and pat head and tummy all at once. Lol
You love playing in mud so much, I keep waiting for you to climb down and make mud pies!🤣
This this doesn't float like the 160 but you sure can move a huge amount of materials with the 250
The technical difference between a lake and a pond is simply the depth. You can have a body of water that is 2 square miles and it could be only a pond if it is shallow. If the water is deep enough to not let light hit the bottom then it is a lake.
Heck no!!! I would’ve had so many mats down it’d look like I was driving on a oak floor with a little mud drug in.
Ah. Finally. Thank you Chris.
That last mat retrieval was impressive..deep in there to restack...
oh my goodness!!! The most fun has started!!! Chris..when xl or xxl t-shirts be available?
awesome vid!!! Just a little weight difference between the 160 and 250...
This might be the top 4 of Chris getting a machine muddy!! We all know that from 11 years ago!!
Just a thought, wouldn't buying a crane with a clamshell save you from going into the mud, you can pickup the mud and put it into the truck in one move. love your videos!
an excellent job done by a very competent operator.i wonder if he played in mud puddles as a youngster!!!.thanks for the video.
18:10 I think your best game plan for that machine would have been dig out a hole down to the solid bottom, THEN crawl out into the pond, dredging it out as you go, staying in the ever widening hole you're digging out of the mud...
That way, you don't have to screw around with inadequate mats or risk burying the machine and the community gets a deeper pond that's less prone to weeds or clogs caused by silt buildup...
That vulva is dirrrrrty now. We at least the tracks and bucket are!
Chris said if he goes down we are going down with him. This maybe however I'm standing on your shoulders Chris. Lol God bless
This video is testament to the quality of the mats and the skill of the operator, although I have to wonder why there wasn't a couple more on site.
I wish I knew how to connect your videos so that I would know which videos belong to what projects.
I've been waiting for this job since you put that road in.
I guess I'm still a kid, because I enjoyed this all the way through. I did get a chuckle about putting this much weight out on the small mats, especially once they began disappearing. These are about the size I haul around the country on the heavy-haul truck I drive (not that I'll make any great claims to being able to finesse them around outside of loading and unloading them off the trailer... I would probably look like I had Tourette's out in the mud like this lol). Thanks for sharing these digs. :)
Awesome job. Skills👍
Awesome video Chris thank you for sharing
A nice little bog to park your digger in. I could see how you could loose mats in that place. Really easily. Did I have 4 or 5?
That 250 is a beast. 63,000 lbs. wet sticky gumbo mud don't stand a chance. After this the 250 deserves a bath.
“Top of the tracks, Ma!”
Say it in James Cagney’s voice for full effect.
What great skill and patience you have Chris! I love watching these videos.
Is it the case that the mats provide a ‘floor’ at the bottom of the stream, rather than keeping the machine afloat on top of the mud?
You seem to get a tremendous amount of mud in your streams and ponds. Does it have to be dredged every year?
Hi Chris! Why you dont usa a tiltrotator with a bucket with a blade on it instade teeths
Want a Rototilt’s tiltrotator on the Volvo, would give you much more machine versatility.
You think ,tiltrotator are over rated and make operators lazy ,plus the extra weight not good for this type of work ....Just my option
@@Jacob-64 haha then u have never used a tiltrotator, i have a rototilt r8 on my ec300e with a 2000 liter bucket witch is 400 liter over rekomended from volvo and it works like a dream
@@rasmus8447 I'm so happy for you
Love your channel look forward to seeing your videos thanks for sharing
Man I need better mats, I seem to shred mine way too fast. I just got a CAT 307 for my farm and have been dredging our ditches and started a pond and getting this deep would freak me out. I watch your videos mostly for positioning and operating flow tips. Thanks and keep it up!
This is mud more fun to watch than screening 😎
Ol Brutus sinks alot !!! Lmao
I don't know anything about machines but really enjoy these videos. Why does he use a little bucket to do all this work instead of a big front loader?
There are times I think you could do with a hull harness seat belt to stop you falling out of the cab. The mud would make for a soft landing, but one best avoided methinks.
Nice!!!!(concrete pumps may have some merit..... application specific rweeks needed!!)
Need one like at the scrap yard got. Set 10ft in the air. No worry about sinking.
That is easy to stop siphon, how do you get the siphon started to siphon????....
That 250 looks like happy little hippo taking a mud bath.
Chris just asking why wouldn't you use a long reach and just work off the bank? Surely cost of moving all the mats around vs the cost of the different machine even themselves out and you don't get all that shitty mud grinding out the running gear by staying up on the bank?
New to the channel and enjoying the projects. One comment, Lapel Mic. Would like to hear your play by play.
It would be nice to make a video of all the machines you have and a bit of history about them.
You need a walking drag line from a Polk county, Florida phosphate mine. To be in town that's some serious mud lol.
What if when you sunk like that you stuck your matts together; bigger surface area? Have you ever tried does it wreck the matts or?
Hi, you have to pay the boss this week, you were having too much fun to be working!
The 250 is a BRUTE, also HEAVY. Would 220 float any better?
just about need the Longreach kitty cat back.
I was thinking the long reach would have been a better choice
Genuine question, have u priced a longer dipper/stick for that machine? Given how much dredging/swimming in the mud you do, having a long reach aint viable granted, but a second long stick in the yard for the long jobs would justify the cost/hours to change it over compared to so much mat wrangling. And if Chris’ local volvo rep is reading, 5% commisions fine thanks.😎🇬🇧
When do we get to see the future videos of this project??