Local Man Destroys Community Playground For Good Reason
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Destroying Our Local Playground with my John Deere backhoe, 755 compact tractor, F750 Dump Truck and last but not least, my trusty 036 chainsaw. We got to do quite a lot while working in the park today hoping to make way for some big changes coming this April.
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Boys don’t outgrow the playground, the toys just get bigger 💪
Very true!
True Dat! Best Toys are always in the Sandbox!!🤣😂🤣😂😁
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny!! Harlan County owes a huge appreciation for your family and neighbors getting stuff done for the community. You are a fantastic example of what "community" is supposed to be.
Neil, Kudos to you, your Dad and everyone else for the volunteer work. It's great when everyone comes together for a good cause !!
Thanks for you and your family’s hard work you put into the park! You guys are awesome. Happy Birthday Kenny! Can’t believe 80. You are still the 55 year old guy I knew growing up!
Yeah, I can't believe it either.
Neil, I volunteered to do some drainage work at our local park so it would not stay muddy a week after a rain. I anticipated the job to take 4 hrs to install 100' of French drain and a couple of outlets along the way. Little did I know once I installed the drain, a couple of neighbors and members of the club had me taking down 5 dead ash trees, 2 over grown oaks and 1 sweet gum tree! I went from 4 hrs of work to my whole weekend being consumed with my volunteerism! Lol I didn't mind as my family also enjoys this park and my kids play on the summer league for soccer and baseball/softball! In the end I was able to leave there with 5 single axle dump truck loads of firewood and before I had it all cleaned up the kids were already enjoying the dirt piles where the trees once stood. All in all I was glad I was asked to help to see the enjoyment out of the children.
Yeah that's the way those always go. I think the satisfaction from building community though makes it worth it. Good on you for helping out!
I love how your young fellow band together like brothers to serve your community. So much more of this is needed in America. Thanks for stepping up! God's continued blessings!
Thank you for service once again!
God’s Blessings!
Happy birthday Uncle Kenny. Happy 318day Neil. Bet you enjoy burning that stump in the boiler. You are so lucky to have fam/neighbours to pitch in on community projects like this. Hard work but nice work, bless you all. Spring nearly here but still cold in uk, good luck.
It is certainly nice having everyone around that is willing to pitch in and help! Thanks Meirion!
Hello Neil, wish uncle Kenny a happy birthday. Your invention with the chain works very well, the posts popped out really fast . The tree took a lot more effort but wel done.its going to be a nice piece of firewood for your woodboiler . Nice to see you and your dad working together, and your dad is still a hard worker for his age . Respect for dad 👍 and all the other helpers . The kids are going to have a really nice playground once finished. Wish we had the rubber mulch in the days . Didn't know that existed. I wish you al the best. Greetings from 🇧🇪
Thanks Johan!
Happy birthday Uncle Kenny! I'm glad to see people in the community helping out again.
As your elementary principal it was great to see you doing great things for the Harlan Community. Your parents taught you well.
Thanks Mr. Bauer!
@@digdrivediy You can call me Butch now.
Uncle Kenny, happy birthday and sincere wishes for many more!
Neil, when I saw you loading the 755, I thought, “There is no way he’s getting them out with that!” And, I was right… but, the backhoe didn’t even grunt.
It barely broke above freezing here yesterday. Your place had to be around 20f. You guys have some kind of dedication… hopefully the glow in your hearts, from Harlan’s new playground, offset any frostbite you got.
You must have burnt the midnight oil editing this video. For that, I thank you bud!!
Yes and yes.
It was miserably cold and windy yesterday when we were working on this. Any other time we would have opted out but we were working against a deadline because the new playground must be installed April 12-15th. We still have a lot to get done before we are ready so just trying to take advantage of the weekends.
The retired Park rangers will now work a little more leisurely through the week to cut all the concrete off all those wooden poles and then start getting rid of all the debris.
And yeah I had to work into the wee hours to get this one cranked out. I'm getting better at purposely filming in order to help facilitate the edit, which was helpful though. The weather is really slowing down. My options. Need to paint that darn tractor but just can't get the weather to cooperate.
Hopefully this new playground will be all worth the effort on this though. Can't wait till that's finished as well! It has been a long 3-year process.
Stay warm there Dave!
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny. I wish you good health, happiness and many more Birthdays to share with loved ones.
I don’t have a lot of the same toys Neil. But I make cool art pieces for silent auction’s for the schools to raise money and we sponsor a few teams for them to raise money and pay for equipment. And we also help out when we can. Love the video! Reminded me of when we used to work on the little league fields when my dad was league president. Good times and hard work, that never hurt anyone that’s for sure.
Oh, I've seen a lot of your work on Instagram. Matt! You make some awesome stuff for sure. Everyone gets to help in a different way and it's all valuable. To me that's what makes community.
What a service, you and your family provide to the community, and every child that will use that new park, for the next 20 years. Happy 80th Kenny, that would have cost a fortune today, to have all of that removed by a company, love what you guys do, now lets get back to the 318, hehe.
Thanks Joe. That tractor myself are both waiting for a nice warm day to get things painted!
Happy Birthday Uncle K. One of the coolest things I saw out in Montana Bird hunting this Fall was depression era schools where all that was left was a merry go round frame. They would still spin. Love the commitment to community of your family.
What a great project, service to your community. Too bad not more people would help just a little. Sometimes just a few do most work. Congratulations on working in your community.
Hold on a minute there....Uncle Kenny had to leave because it was his 80th birthday party?!?!?!! Uncle Kenny was out there helping and he's EIGHTY??!!! !!Just wow!! A big Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny!!! Good on ya!!
I am amazed by him and my Dad both.
It's great to see the people in the community pitching into help. May God Bless you and all that helped.
Happy birthday, uncle Kenny.
That looks like a lot of work.
Would have been more fun if not so darn cold! :)
Nice work. As a guy that has pulled lots of poles. Just a chain wrap will hold and on the ones too big us a steel rim and pull them with tractor laying the chain over to rim to pull up. Great work. We will need an update when the new system gets installed.
I think a chain wrap would have worked just as well but was just looking for something that was really fast and easy to do.
I plan to do some filming when we put up the playground too so hopefully folks will be interested in watching it.
318 got it
Happy Birthday Kenny, I hope I am still getting out there in 9 years.
Neil I think it's great that you and so many others care about your community.
I got to play with my little JD last fall helping my neighbor pull some 6x6 porch posts.
Usually a day on a JD is a pretty good day 🙂
Merry Birthday to Uncle Kenny! You're a good fellow for your community services. Sweet collection of JD garden tractors!
Thanks 👍
Happy belated birthday uncle Kenny 🥳. Y’all got a lot of work done on a Saturday!! Ain’t No quit in your dad 😊
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny! Love seeing people come together for projects like this. Could you find some older 4H kids to come help and learn from the old timers?
I really like to get some kids involved. It's harder all the time to find kids that want to do this stuff. It seems. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.
Good for you and your Dad helping out in the community, Neil!
Happy birthday, uncle Kenny. A day's work and some firewood.
You do so much for your community as does your Dad and your friends love you guys
Never underestimate the power and use of a 310. And 318 day. Pretty fitting ha. Happy birthday uncle Kenny. 80 years and going strong. Awesome. Thanks Neil. Another great video.👍
Thanks so much!
Hi Neil. Happy birthday, Uncle Kenny! 80 years old and still doing manual labor. I think that must be the secret to staying young! That chain apparatus worked really well. I would think you would be able to burn those posts, if the town doesn't want them. They looked like if they had been soaked in creosote, it has long since dried out. Do you think they would be safe to burn? Thanks for the video!
-mike
Thanks Mike. From what I have read, the pressure treated lumber from that time. Was full of arsenic and it's advised to not burn it. I think to play it safe. I am not going to burn it in my wood stove so that it's not around our house. Originally I wanted to but figured better safe than sorry and there is not much to it cuz it's all hollow and full of holes anyway.
@@digdrivediy That makes sense. Thanks!
Great job! It’s so cool how the whole community and mostly your family get all this work done. Good stuff
3/18 day, 🤣🤣🤣
Those poles came out pretty easily, with the backhoe. Imagine if all y'all had were shovels and pickaxes. No thanks.
That was one huge ball bearing for the merry go round. That was a lot of concrete used for the merry go round. At least it didn't go lopsided since it's been there for decades.
Great job taking out that dead tree. I hope you saved it to cut and cure for next winter.
Love the video. Thank you for posting!
See you in the next one! 🥰🤗😘
Tobacco sure has spoiled me in terms of manual labor Susan!
I wasn't sure we'd be able to get that merry-go-round out or the tree stump for that matter, but little patience and it came right out. Part of me felt sad about tearing out the old merry-go-round but I guess some things just have a lifespan and he got to say goodbye.
Thanks so much for checking it out!
*The BACK HOE has spoiled him (not tobacco)
I hope Harlan appreciates you and the crew!! Nice job my friend
Happy birthday Uncle Kenny. Great community project.
Happiest birthday uncle Kenny and many more to come
I grew up playing on that playground. Lots of memories made there!!
That's awesome! Hopefully you can bring your kids back here some day for the new playground!
you filmed this on March 18th and today is the 19th. Great turn around time. Great job
Had to burn a little midnight oil :)
You all are great and a blessing to and for your community! Be well, be safe!
We knew you could do it, Neil. I sure wish you folks would keep this cold air to yourself. It's a windy 26 degrees here in north Georgia as I watch this. So, can we expect a tractor update video this afternoon? 😁
Actually I'm at a point where the weather is starting to impede my progress. I need to be able to paint and it has just been too cold!
Happy uncle Kenny! And I hope you have many more birthdays to celebrate.
Great work men! I'd be arrested and thrown in prison if I did this at any of my community parks up here in CT; Selectment and Karens screaming about bids, bonds, and liability.
Happy birthday to your uncle Kenny 3/18 day is my birthday must be why I love John Deere so much great video hopefully you can show the new play ground going together I love community activities
going in
Happy birthday Shane!
Yeah I hope to be able to share the new playground as we install it as well. It'll be quite the project!
Pretty satisfying to watch and a really unique job - glad you shared this with us
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great for the community. Thanks for your service!
Great job Neil...ever notice how it's always the same group of people doing the work in their community? It's like that everywhere.
I have noticed that :/
It would be nice to start seeing the ground here! Looking forward to spring at this point!
I hear you!
hi there fun show . well done , oh did you bring the trees home for firewood , john
Haven't brought the tree home yet but I will.
Great work on that project! It looked like your whole family was volunteering. I wish I could have been there to help!
Who was that other guy in the shop with you and you’re dad? He looked familiar 😂 😉
Needle chain definitely helped but my favorite pull was the “2fer” where two posers and bases came up with the same pull! Is there one thing you feel like you could have done better?
Ha ha! It was 3/18 day! I can’t wait for the next video and update!
Hey thanks for the cameo in this video Stephen! I should have introduced you on camera but I was getting too many things going on in my mind at one time! :) If I could change anything about that day to make it better it would have been to wait for it to be warmer!! :) Thanks for the visit!
@@digdrivediy lol! No worries. I didn’t need an intro :) I was just happy to Visit. You certainly did have a lot going on on that very chilly day 🥶
I can’t wait to see what’s next for the play ground!!!
Hello from the Netherlands.
thanks for the video Neil.
Sincerely Hollandduck
80 years young and Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny. I see you also got some more firewood to split, and I think the replacement playground will be a future build on DDD. Neil, Good Job on the puller for the posts but next time try to get to the job on time, OK? 😉
Yeah I was running a little late! :)
Looked like a cold day! But I actually like working in the cold!
That darn wind...
The needle chain thingy worked great
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny!! Great video! Team work got the job done!
Happy Birthday uncle Kenny. To bad you weren't able to do the big 318 reveal on 3-18 day. Nice to see community come together and help. Keep up the good work.
Yeah I know. I didn't realize 318 day until I was right on top of it! That would have been cool. The weather is keeping me from finishing that project cuz I need to paint.
Happy 80th Birthday Uncle Kenny hope you had a great time
Great job keep up the great work love your videos thank you and Happy Birthday to Kenny
Good God! Concrete must have been 50 cents a yard when they built the playground! I've seen whole houses with less.
Yeah no joke! The new playground requires 8 yards of concrete I think!
Happy birthday uncle Kenny!!!
You guys are motivated it was miserably cold and windy yesterday... I was outside for about an hour and I'm still cold the next day!
Yes, it was terrible yesterday. We're working against a hard deadline so we just got to get it done.
The mulch around swing set will be everywhere but the swing set
^True. We may replace that mulch eventually.
Did you remember to ask Kenny if he worked on the hospital expansion in St. Marys Ohio in the early 80s? I am really curious if he is the one I worked with. The age would be about right. Happy birthday Kenny.
Hey Don. I did ask him and he doesn't think he worked there. He said there was another Ken Koch in the Union and maybe it was him.
@@digdrivediy thank you for the response. I was on that job exactly 1 year and he was the foreman on the job and was there before me and after I left so if your uncle was on that job he would have remembered it.
Do your kids a favor and get rid of that rubber mulch. Town is lucky to have you all.
HAPPY 80TH KENNY!!!! HAPPY 318 DAY!!! One question, where the heck did you haul all that concrete off too?
Well I haven't hauled any of it away yet, but we have a local volunteer that's going to take some of it to put in an eroding ditch bank.
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny!! Hope it was a great one!
Happy Birthday to Noel’s Uncle
Happy 80th birthday Kenny, cheers to many more 🍻
Happy birthday Uncle Kenny hope you have a wonderful birthday
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny!🎉 Nice work guys!😁👨🚒
Happy birth day Kenny great job working together to clean up the old park
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny -- from fans in BERMUDA 32N64W.
That's awesome 👍🏻
I worked for creek county for a year and u would not believe how he hauled his backhoe they welded a plate across the front of trailer and when he ran up on trailer he put the bar on front of the bucket under it and locked the brakes never chained it down at all.on the way out to the job there was no way I could follow him thinking he is going to loose it at any time the way it flopped around on the trailer
Yeah that doesn't sound good.
I have a day like that. It’s a great day because I am rewarding someone who has a need for my skills and it’s always fun. Never feels like working. 😇🤩
You are just what I want to be I love your videos and I like like a hour away you are the only TH-camr that I stop what I stop what i am doing and watch you. I want to be just like you and have all the stuff you have too.
Hey thanks a lot. It's very easy to be way better than me though! Thanks so much for watching!
@@digdrivediy I love the video and love all the tractors and love your backhoe that’s my dream
If you ever get that upgrade I will probably buy your old backhoe if you sell it
@@chand2337 I'll keep that in mind. Never know when the right opportunity might come along!
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny
Just love the video , every one helping .
Happy 80th birthday Uncle Kenny
Maybe those concrete columns could be used as a barrier around the field drain next to your property.
There ya go!
@@digdrivediy it will at least hopefully stop the flow of the big stuff...
You guys look cold. Happy birthday Kenney.
It was very windy and cold.
A belated Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny 🎉❤
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr. Kenny!!!!! Hope you had an AMAZING day!!
03/18/34 My moms Birthday. Looked like fun neighbor...
Hope Uncle Kenny had a Happy Birthday 🎂🎉
Nice work mate.
Is it colder than normal for you this time of year?
Because here in Australia it’s so hot for March.
It was cold on that day for sure.
A log choker works best for pulling poles and posts out
At least you didn’t have to deal with any snow showers like we did, just to the east of you (Archbold Ohio)
Yeah I was just spitting a few times. Nothing to stick at least.
Happy birthday uncle kenny !
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny!!!
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny!
Nice work! One comment though. When I'm working the hoe I do not like anyone standing within its swing radius. I have had to tell them to stand back, way back. My machine is older and I fear an accidental jerk or wide swing that will hurt someone. Seems like some guys think you have total control over what the machine does. Not always true.
Happy Birthday Uncle Kenny and many more to you 🎉
I love the small town community projects like this one and the ball field. You guys take a little grant money and make it go extremely far. It is so unfamiliar to where I live. The way "community" projects work here is the corrupt politicians spend taxpayer money and hire the most corrupt contractors to do the work at an exorbitant rate.
Oh boy, I would hate that. Yeah we took our grant money and spent as much as we could on hardware and then we're doing as much volunteer labor as we can to stretch our dollar. Hopefully it pays off but it is a lot of work.
Curious why you didn't just pull the posts first to speed up hauling the material out?
We didn't want the holes filling up full of the mulch as they were pulled out.
Great video. I like this style of video.
Awesome, thank you!
Happy Birthday uncle Kenny 🎉
HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE KENNY!!! 🎂🍨🥳🥳🎉🎉🎊🎊
Make a water turbine that uses the water to spin it It would break up the debri as it spins like the spinner on an aeration septic system
FYI that equipment was purchased from Leo Elementary when they replaced theirs. Angel was in school when they did that.
I heard it was moved in 2000. Good to know.
What a great project! Nice work!
happy birth day so glad that you are turning 80