Challenging start to clearing house lot. Very limited space for sure. 120 doing good job clearing trees and ground cover. Thank you for great visit. God's blessings and take care of you!
I had a 600 cfm air compressor I used with an air lance for exposing fiber optic lines. Amazing how fast it was to expose a length of it. Worked well with other utilities. Had to be careful with direct bury phone cable. Air lance could cut it.
Chris, on clearing off a residential lot like this one are you allowed to have a burn pile? Absolutely love the show, can't get enough, I guess it's because I have worked for 52 years and now at 73 I get to sit back, relax and watch you at work...(;-)
Its fun watching you pull light trees. The snaps, the fully tops. Like pulling carrots from a veggi bed. The site is problematic with all those services, but you sure can make space fast when needed. What trees have the property owners asked to keep, if any?. I dont care for pines much.
I have never seen a neater truck load of brush . When you load out a truck load . I have seen some loads going down the road limbs sticking every which of way going down the road
Hi Todd he does make a perfect load of brush every time and then John go's around the truck with a saw and cleans up all the hang overs they are the perfect team
Man just look at tht fresh sunshine spreading all over now tht will dry up some muddy crap alot faster.even though you're not done.just nice to see that after winter.
Yeah you're right you don't want to dig up the fiber octaves I think the bill for that has like 6 zero's on the end of it. Good job today and keep the videos coming. I watch your channel every evening with my dinner, I love it 👍
Your not the only one. It's just so relaxing to just watch and listening to him talk to us while he does his job which is excellent as always. I love the lot clearing jobs best. The Crash and Crunch of trees sounds great but no burn piles 😥
Ithaca New York yesterday, ~30 miles north of the Pennsylvania/New York border, some places in the area got a little over 15 inches of heavy snow, trees are down in odd spots. Did I mention it's the middle of April? Many contractors got an unexpected last plow job of the season. Unbelievable! ⚠
Yeah it cooled off here in Central Florida to... only in the low 80’s. Last week it was low 90’s and 70 dew point. I really feel for you northern guys we dropped to like 35° in January and I don’t know how you deal with 6 months of that.
@@gstealer11 hurricanes only happen maybe once or twice a year... and I’m located in central Florida so there not nearly as bad as on the coast. Up north snow and cold can last 4 to 5 months vs 1 or 2 of storms.
It's interesting to see the different construction process around the country in upstate New York in the watershed for New York City. You have to leave the stumps, cut them flush to the ground in the leachfield.
I just commented pretty much the same on Dirt Boss’s channel this week. I can’t imagine leaving trees or stumps anywhere in a drain field. We have to take everything out of the area. Like you say, interesting
@@ryanmartin4292 we do a lot of engineered systems which require cutting 6-14” organics, placing 6-14” class 1 sand fill and 6-14” rock and pipe with 12” fill cap. Time and labor intensive
I love living in the country .. closest neighbor 1/4 mile down the rd .. that location is a bit close for me to the neighbors .. just need a big magnet Chris wave over what's left of the trusses or maybe the plates will fall off if you move them around enough ?? great video
Another great job! Chris's skills are unmatched anywhere. I love his videos, the only thing that would make them better would be an ending line like, keep digging, let's keep digging, keep on digging, etc. Just my opinion. Keep up the great work!
Chris: How about using the hydro dredging setup you did a video on to clean around the roots and learn exactly where the lines are and how entangled they are in the roots. Seems the safest and least amount of risk
Was a big glulam arch that killed my BIL back in 1990. He was working on a church and the crew left over the weekend, came back Mon after a high wind weekend. his boss was setting another arch that got free and the rest went down like dominos. The BIL ran but didn't make it. The arch drove his skull through two 3/4" layers of plywood!.
Chris, Is there a video of the " brush landfill " and the equipment they use. Is it a possibility to make one? Thank you for the great content and sharing your talents!
I did some work in the telephone company business with cable but I did know people that were splicing fiber optics and you don't want to hit that because it does cost a lot of money to have it put back together, splices can make 5 to $10,000 a day no problem if they're a private contractor and they do it right like my stepfather did
Frontier hung fiber all over the state here, BUT in some places they figured it didn't need to be that far up because it was only the access road to a field. Took a week for a grain truck to tear down the first one! A week later a farmer snagged one with a combine chute. They then spent time going to farms fields and raising them on the subcontractors dime because of it.
Oh , That's going to suck , when ya have to get the drive in , with the stump right in the middle and all the utilities in the way !! Always something , ya know it Chris ?? Your right there is a 1000 plates in that pile of trusses !! About got it knocked out...; Great little in an out job. Well, Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening, and On too the Next....
Man I wish I had that 160 paid for. Thats a sweet running tractor. I myself run into trees over main lines at times. Thersx no easy way to deal w em. Even If u have em cut an stump ground. We usually run into footing guys getting into stump
When they mark for unity it would be nice if you knew exactly how deep they were. When you have a lot of big trees that are pretty good shape do you sell for pulp wood at a saw mill would it be worth your time thanks for the video
Well thats one thing about removing the majority of trees is the owner can come back after the house is built and plant whatever kind of trees he wants and put them where he or she wants them
Well Chris it’s been a while since y’all cleared a house lot, but anyway brother another great video and can’t wait to you get back over on the big pond dredging job and get it finished up so you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming my friend
Sometimes you seem to need a 10 gallon bucket of trained termites to eat the stumps you can`t dig and a pack of trained squirrels with saws to top out trees in tight areas.
The problem with crews putting in fiber and power lines is they don't see that dirt may have to come out for driveways and such. To them two feet is two feet
Sometimes these developments are so delayed in approval and the utilities get done first , the clearing should be done first but some unlucky operators get to rip out services with tree roots.
Must be nice having trees with leaves on them.We still have a lot of snow.We have a winter like we used to have in the 1970s.And it’s been snowing off and on for the past three weeks.No spring here yet.
Hi Chris I have been watching your channel for over two years now, I am a retired engineer in the UK and really enjoy the artistry you have in moving earth. There is just one question I would like to ask, that is when you service one of your heavy machines, what do you do with all the galleons of used oil? Actually my wife wants to know, ha ha
Chris had a huge container, square one, in a steel cage, about 3feet by 3feer, by 3feet where all the used oil is stored in his shed, where the farm tractor, and some of the earthworks equipment is stored, until it is picked up by a company.
thats when you leave the stump till someone who is getting paid enough to be responsible for the utilities tells you to move it and confirms its not your problem if the likely happens lol
That Glue Lam was probably close to $1,000 when it was new, not to mention those trusses. Surprised the previous purchaser didn't at least try to sell them?
At that time they has pretty much zero value. My brother owned a window company with a contract to install new windows in a 2,500 housing project and in one day lost it all in 2008. He got stuck with 300 window sets for that many houses he'd already taken delivery on and paid for. He got lucky as he had job completion insurance on the contract and got paid. The insurance company took possession then ended up giving them back to for pennies on the dollar sign they wouldn't have to pay to dispose of them. My brother had a friend with several acres empty so he bought several containers that were sold cheap and stored them till the market came back plus used about a third of the to do upgrades on houses being remodeled. That way he was able to keep his core employees working.
@@pinwizz69 So he was a victim of the Stock Market melt-down and the housing crash of 2008? Sorry to hear that. Happened to a lot of people and small businesses. Just like Covid is doing right now.
@@merlepatterson. That mini-depression was due to both parties ending of the laws that were enacted by President Roosevelt after the great depression to keep another one from happening. President Clinton signed the bills that ended the last two. Bush Bimbo's economic program agenda was the last straw. President Obama's actions saved America from a second far worse depression that would have devastated the world's economy and taken decades to recover from.
Chris has mentioned....a couple of times....that he has indeed considered a chipper. The economics rarely work on his jobs. What Chris needs is someone who wants to do that for him...for the product. i keep wondering if a properly scaled and outfitted company could turn a profit doing just that.
The Video beginn on a Wonderful Spring Day morning. In a Deciduous Forest. Where You to clear of Trees. I to think in this Wood to beginning a new Colony from Cottage at rise. A very good Work, then You have the Trees with the Roots clearing.! Gladden my of the Continuation from the Video. 👌👍
You can have some of our heat and humidity in Florida... actually cooled down to 80° so it’s not to bad now. The low 90° last week more like Florida tho.
In this specific case, it went to a site that accepts brush. On other big jobs, where there is space to do so, Chris burns most of the cleared tree material. Chris have commented maybe on average very nearly every single clearing video that it is alway more costly, as well as slower to mulch up, plus the mulching equipment is very expensive to maintain.
I wonder if you will see a big increase in big tree clearing jobs over the next few years since America has signed a deal recently to ban the clearing and burning of larger areas of land
Challenging start to clearing house lot. Very limited space for sure. 120 doing good job clearing trees and ground cover. Thank you for great visit. God's blessings and take care of you!
Hilly green woodlands....what a beautiful landscape. :-)
Nice change of scenery. Loving that sunshine on your shoulders. ☀️
Thank you!
I had a 600 cfm air compressor I used with an air lance for exposing fiber optic lines. Amazing how fast it was to expose a length of it. Worked well with other utilities. Had to be careful with direct bury phone cable. Air lance could cut it.
Well, it never gets boring when John involved, he finds some interesting jobs.
With John's reputation, I doubt that he has to actively look for work. The same goes for Chris.
@@larrykeenan598 I guessing it came threw the door.
Chris, on clearing off a residential lot like this one are you allowed to have a burn pile? Absolutely love the show, can't get enough, I guess it's because I have worked for 52 years and now at 73 I get to sit back, relax and watch you at work...(;-)
Its fun watching you pull light trees. The snaps, the fully tops. Like pulling carrots from a veggi bed.
The site is problematic with all those services, but you sure can make space fast when needed.
What trees have the property owners asked to keep, if any?. I dont care for pines much.
I have never seen a neater truck load of brush . When you load out a truck load . I have seen some loads going down the road limbs sticking every which of way going down the road
Hi Todd he does make a perfect load of brush every time and then John go's around the truck with a saw and cleans up all the hang overs they are the perfect team
@@ryanhoward1013 yeah I know .
Nice work Chris. Always a treat when I see you have a new one up here.
Thank You sir, you've made my day.
Man just look at tht fresh sunshine spreading all over now tht will dry up some muddy crap alot faster.even though you're not done.just nice to see that after winter.
'08 - remember it well! (Lost a 'bit'.) Nearly need the whole front of the block for access! Yes pretty on a lovely sunny day . Nice work.
Looking forward to seeing it finished. You definitely had a beautiful day on this job.
Amazing how fast Mother Nature reclaims the land in your area. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah you're right you don't want to dig up the fiber octaves I think the bill for that has like 6 zero's on the end of it. Good job today and keep the videos coming. I watch your channel every evening with my dinner, I love it 👍
Your not the only one. It's just so relaxing to just watch and listening to him talk to us while he does his job which is excellent as always. I love the lot clearing jobs best. The Crash and Crunch of trees sounds great but no burn piles 😥
What’s a fiber octaves?
Ithaca New York yesterday, ~30 miles north of the Pennsylvania/New York border, some places in the area got a little over 15 inches of heavy snow, trees are down in odd spots. Did I mention it's the middle of April? Many contractors got an unexpected last plow job of the season. Unbelievable! ⚠
Glad it stayed well south of the lake... I already put my blower away
Yep, had 17" total in the yard, heavy yet crap. Blower hated it. Power was out 30 hours. Today most of it has melted down to about 4-6" left.
Yeah it cooled off here in Central Florida to... only in the low 80’s. Last week it was low 90’s and 70 dew point. I really feel for you northern guys we dropped to like 35° in January and I don’t know how you deal with 6 months of that.
@@crandonborthI'd much rather deal with snow than hurricanes and such.
@@gstealer11 hurricanes only happen maybe once or twice a year... and I’m located in central Florida so there not nearly as bad as on the coast. Up north snow and cold can last 4 to 5 months vs 1 or 2 of storms.
Was just thinking earlier today that I miss lot clearing vids, glad to have another one Chris.
A good relaxing house clearing job. Always efficient makes for quick work. Enjoyed and can’t wait for the big dredge project.
And Bealey Goods give acre pond.👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥
Nice scenery. Nice job
Thank you and have a good day
Looks a nice spot for a house bro, the utility's will make it interesting putting in a entrance. Safe travels
It's interesting to see the different construction process around the country in upstate New York in the watershed for New York City. You have to leave the stumps, cut them flush to the ground in the leachfield.
I just commented pretty much the same on Dirt Boss’s channel this week. I can’t imagine leaving trees or stumps anywhere in a drain field. We have to take everything out of the area. Like you say, interesting
Usually 3 ft raised systems up here
@@ryanmartin4292 we do a lot of engineered systems which require cutting 6-14” organics, placing 6-14” class 1 sand fill and 6-14” rock and pipe with 12” fill cap. Time and labor intensive
@@ryanmartin4292 not to mention, a triaxle load of granite in my area is @$1300. These systems get expensive quick
Yeah it's about 10 to 12,000 a bedroom up here.
Great video,was back in the woods.should make nice homesite,keep up the pace and carry on.👍👍👍😎😎😎
Chris thanks for sharing! Kevin
glad to see when ppl call 811 to locate before u dig i do landscaping and ive came crossed some crazy lines where i have dug and im glad i called
I love living in the country .. closest neighbor 1/4 mile down the rd .. that location is a bit close for me to the neighbors .. just need a big magnet Chris wave over what's left of the trusses or maybe the plates will fall off if you move them around enough ?? great video
Another great job! Chris's skills are unmatched anywhere. I love his videos, the only thing that would make them better would be an ending line like, keep digging, let's keep digging, keep on digging, etc. Just my opinion. Keep up the great work!
Chris: How about using the hydro dredging setup you did a video on to clean around the roots and learn exactly where the lines are and how entangled they are in the roots. Seems the safest and least amount of risk
Was a big glulam arch that killed my BIL back in 1990. He was working on a church and the crew left over the weekend, came back Mon after a high wind weekend. his boss was setting another arch that got free and the rest went down like dominos. The BIL ran but didn't make it. The arch drove his skull through two 3/4" layers of plywood!.
Chris, Is there a video of the " brush landfill " and the equipment they use. Is it a possibility to make one? Thank you for the great content and sharing your talents!
I did some work in the telephone company business with cable but I did know people that were splicing fiber optics and you don't want to hit that because it does cost a lot of money to have it put back together, splices can make 5 to $10,000 a day no problem if they're a private contractor and they do it right like my stepfather did
Frontier hung fiber all over the state here, BUT in some places they figured it didn't need to be that far up because it was only the access road to a field. Took a week for a grain truck to tear down the first one! A week later a farmer snagged one with a combine chute. They then spent time going to farms fields and raising them on the subcontractors dime because of it.
Oh , That's going to suck , when ya have to get the drive in , with the stump right in the middle and all the utilities in the way !! Always something , ya know it Chris ?? Your right there is a 1000 plates in that pile of trusses !! About got it knocked out...; Great little in an out job. Well, Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening, and On too the Next....
Man I wish I had that 160 paid for. Thats a sweet running tractor. I myself run into trees over main lines at times. Thersx no easy way to deal w em. Even If u have em cut an stump ground. We usually run into footing guys getting into stump
Chris, sorry for the double question, but why couldn't the dump driver back up into the lot and make your loading so much easier and quicker?...
Nice work Chris
When they mark for unity it would be nice if you knew exactly how deep they were. When you have a lot of big trees that are pretty good shape do you sell for pulp wood at a saw mill would it be worth your time thanks for the video
Well thats one thing about removing the majority of trees is the owner can come back after the house is built and plant whatever kind of trees he wants and put them where he or she wants them
Sure is a nice drive and house site back in there !
That tree got sick-a-bit-more with your help. Otherwise, what you have done looks good. Glad it wasn't muddy, although, you do like playing in Mudd. That stringy hard-wood beats catgut which is also used as strings for violins. Something I used to use when I played the violin back in the '50s. Now, I play with something a little bit hotter, I make hot sauce. It's got some peppers that you might recognize and some that you might not. Starting with 500 Thai; 225 Ghost; 425 Habanero; 450 Jalapeno; 400 Serrano; 300 Cheyenne; 250 Carolina Reaper; and 250 Jamaican Scorpion. For giggles and grins, I don't cook it and yes it has a © of 1997 on it and the powder as well.
Excellent job as usual and you got alit of it cleared too. You go dude. Making that money with a quickness buddy.
that is a nice lot. good work again. stay safe.
Ahhh, back to some good ol' tree clearing, and NO MUD! LOL!
Easy one for you today, Chris. Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰
Another great job well done Chris 🇺🇲
Always amazes me where people want a house. People in my area like cliff dwellings sometimes. Poor excavator guys have to make a way! Lol
Well Chris it’s been a while since y’all cleared a house lot, but anyway brother another great video and can’t wait to you get back over on the big pond dredging job and get it finished up so you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming my friend
great to hear you sounding healthy again!
And on the bright side there is no mud 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤣😂🤣😂
Sometimes you seem to need a 10 gallon bucket of trained termites to eat the stumps you can`t dig and a pack of trained squirrels with saws to top out trees in tight areas.
I actually put those trusses there in 2009
Tell us more, why? Etc.
The problem with crews putting in fiber and power lines is they don't see that dirt may have to come out for driveways and such. To them two feet is two feet
Another housing development by Chris, definitely the best man and machinery for the specific task, 👍.
...good one, keep safe..
Sometimes these developments are so delayed in approval and the utilities get done first , the clearing should be done first but some unlucky operators get to rip out services with tree roots.
Must be nice having trees with leaves on them.We still have a lot of snow.We have a winter like we used to have in the 1970s.And it’s been snowing off and on for the past three weeks.No spring here yet.
Hi Chris I have been watching your channel for over two years now, I am a retired engineer in the UK and really enjoy the artistry you have in moving earth. There is just one question I would like to ask, that is when you service one of your heavy machines, what do you do with all the galleons of used oil? Actually my wife wants to know, ha ha
Chris had a huge container, square one, in a steel cage, about 3feet by 3feer, by 3feet where all the used oil is stored in his shed, where the farm tractor, and some of the earthworks equipment is stored, until it is picked up by a company.
That house lot has a bunch of your favorite trees on it, (pine trees) 😆
just wondering why you didnt mulch the trees ion site?
Busy busy as always Chris.Look forward to your uploads.Good job 👍🏻
You had me at tight house clearing lot and grabbing the 160.
Pretty damn nimble with the 160,fast and accurate.
It's not spring yet. No Uncle John shorts.😊
You forgot to say timber on the last two trees ha ha. Love the channel.
Are you able to use a triaxle dump truck in NC? What's the GVW of your quadaxle?
What a wonderful video.👍👍
Great video 👍 👍
I guess a big old magnet would attract and find the nail plates. No idea where you go after finding them. ;) Be well Chris. :)
old trusses? BURN PILE!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Done a lot of twigs for that big machine but good job you did it
thats when you leave the stump till someone who is getting paid enough to be responsible for the utilities tells you to move it and confirms its not your problem if the likely happens lol
Hmm… Got fiber but no sewer. How ironic.
Agreed, Reese...gas but no water? Humm?
That Glue Lam was probably close to $1,000 when it was new, not to mention those trusses. Surprised the previous purchaser didn't at least try to sell them?
At that time they has pretty much zero value.
My brother owned a window company with a contract to install new windows in a 2,500 housing project and in one day lost it all in 2008.
He got stuck with 300 window sets for that many houses he'd already taken delivery on and paid for.
He got lucky as he had job completion insurance on the contract and got paid.
The insurance company took possession then ended up giving them back to for pennies on the dollar sign they wouldn't have to pay to dispose of them.
My brother had a friend with several acres empty so he bought several containers that were sold cheap and stored them till the market came back plus used about a third of the to do upgrades on houses being remodeled.
That way he was able to keep his core employees working.
@@pinwizz69 So he was a victim of the Stock Market melt-down and the housing crash of 2008? Sorry to hear that. Happened to a lot of people and small businesses. Just like Covid is doing right now.
@@merlepatterson.
That mini-depression was due to both parties ending of the laws that were enacted by President Roosevelt after the great depression to keep another one from happening.
President Clinton signed the bills that ended the last two.
Bush Bimbo's economic program agenda was the last straw.
President Obama's actions saved America from a second far worse depression that would have devastated the world's economy and taken decades to recover from.
@@pinwizz69 ok
Chris said " One more scoop of dirt and roots and that should fill the load up". I thought it were already full. 😆
Timmy , Timmy, where are you Timmy? Bring your chain saw! lol
Why roof trusses would be the only building material on the lot is a mystery and probably an interesting story.
Probably the only material that couldn't be returned. Most trusses are built to order.
That's what I was thinking unless they were leftover from another job and were moved there for another project that didn't work out.
Nice fast work
You need to have AMI build a chainsaw bucket so you can cut the big stuff from the air conditioned confines of the cab!
LOVE your lot clearing videos, but miss the big ole tree ones so we can here TIIIMMMMBBBBEEERRRRR!!!!!!!!! hahahaha
Great video Chris
That red clay soil looked pretty loose if that's the case should pass a perc test for leech field?
Chris has mentioned....a couple of times....that he has indeed considered a chipper. The economics rarely work on his jobs. What Chris needs is someone who wants to do that for him...for the product. i keep wondering if a properly scaled and outfitted company could turn a profit doing just that.
Nice job!!
I would have love to see you load the 160
Use a propane weed burner to dry your trailer off before loading track machines.
The Video beginn on a Wonderful Spring Day morning. In a Deciduous Forest. Where You to clear of Trees. I to think in this Wood to beginning a new Colony from Cottage at rise. A very good Work, then You have the Trees with the Roots clearing.! Gladden my of the Continuation from the Video. 👌👍
Unfortunately The bottom is about to fall out of this ‘22 building attempt too.
Good days work there now.
wow you have leaves already we had a snow storm yesterday
You can have some of our heat and humidity in Florida... actually cooled down to 80° so it’s not to bad now. The low 90° last week more like Florida tho.
Today's word of the day is...jiblets.😆😆
Where do you haul all of the brush to? Do you mulch it or burn it? Or does it go to a dump
In this specific case, it went to a site that accepts brush.
On other big jobs, where there is space to do so, Chris burns most of the cleared tree material.
Chris have commented maybe on average very nearly every single clearing video that it is alway more costly, as well as slower to mulch up, plus the mulching equipment is very expensive to maintain.
good video of the house lot
Looking 👍👍👍👍👍 good
that lot 2008 housing nightmare.
chris you are a master
Hated hauling trees.
I think I'll be scare to live so deep in the woods, looks nice though.
That's why we in North Carolina are armed. I can tell you that there are more problems with two-legged animals than with the four-legged kind.
@@larrykeenan598 I’ll take the four legged over two legged any day.
Can you grind the stump down a bit, toss some rock salt on it and cover it over?
Lets dig figurine another difficult job out
Air spade those sketchy trees over the fiber optic line.
I wonder if you will see a big increase in big tree clearing jobs over the next few years since America has signed a deal recently to ban the clearing and burning of larger areas of land
another great video