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Re the slippers in the excavator. I was a Lorry driver (trucker) and had leather/wood clogs to slide in and out of. Working boots on the step, keep the cab and floor clean. But you're obviously doing it all right and enjoying it as you go. More power to your elbow
Usually you add a Gravel base under your culvert , rake it out and add your culvert looking for low points. With an approximate 2% to 3% grade away from the uphill side. But then you have a start on it. You can also do a French drain using large rock. Which allows for drainage under your road grade without a culvert. Trench you put in can be filled with 5 to 6 inch minus rock. And then over graded with 3/4”Road Mix.
aaah, the old don’t want to lose your base wish. Something I didn’t even think of years ago, after laying in my new 500’ long driveway. I realize that’s just a drop on the ol per verbal mud hole for y’all, but still. I was so proud of all my hard work! Then torrential rains hit. The water quickly overwhelmed my beautifully sculpted side trench, and took out a little more than 300’ of the new drive. I never felt more defeated.
I am not surprised it works! However, you may want to build up a "head wall" at the up end inlet. The dribble today will become a gusher during those pesky monsoon rains that Washington sends over ... The more you can prevent the erosion around the culvert pipe the better it will work out. Maybe stage some rocks and dirt in case the back fill settles, too. I doubt Riley got 90 psi compaction across the road. Just make sure there aren't smaller rocks and debris that enters the pipe, then forms a blockage just out of reach. Great job! See you next time.
concur. I don't know how much rain you all get, but would be concerned of the ditch just cutting deeper and deeper w/ erosion. May ultimately need to line the bottom of the runoff ditch w/ stones or pile-O-rock waterbars to slow the velocity of the run-off to the culvert.
IF you have capacity problems during storms, modifying the inlet can substantially increase the capacity of a culvert. If there is room, you can miter the inlet of the pipe. If there's not room for that, careful positioning of large flat rocks to make a funnel shape at the pipe entrance might help.
For future benefit on the driveway, install road fabric before your base stone. This will keep the dirt from mixing with the rock over time. Really helps with potholes and having to regrade and apply more stone over the years. More cost upfront but well worth it.
Dont need fabric.cuse it rock grownd.you put fabric on clay or soft grown.im it got good whit im.got the perfect materiel rigt at good place rady like movie.😅✌️
You are officially the first TH-cam content creators that have made me go "Oh, it's Wednesday (or Sunday🙃), I should see what Riley and Courtney are up to." Another great video! Really enjoyed it. Thanks again for sharing your adventures!
you need a culvert twice that size kids....need to slow water down and use larger rocks for better drainage......trust me...your doing a good job!... thanks 4 video. be kind.
In interior Alaska, warmer weather comes much later toward the end of winter. When everything finally thaws, making a muddy mess there, it's called "break up." ... You two responded effectively to the gravity of the situation. Another win! Keep piling them up.
When spring comes I would lay a rock bed at the outlet end of the culvert to reduce erosion. As others have mentioned, culverts fail primarily due to water paths starting at the inlet end and traveling along the outside of the culvert taking the fill dirt with it so protecting the inlet is critical.
That excavator is one awesome tool. Courtney is right, it was a good purchase. My only concern is will that diameter pipe be enough? There is a lot of land that will be draining snow melt along your roadside which will be directed to the culvert pipe. Heck, I'm sure you guys know more about that than I ever will. Either way this is another great step forward in your dream mountain home & shop! Oh, and I love the "Reckless Riley official guarantee", it will work - the power of positive thinking!!!
@@AmbitionStrikes That makes sense. If it proves to be too small and more work is needed, can you not put in more than one of that size vs buying a more expensive larger one? I'm no expert, but it's just a thought to ponder.
If you upsize on this culvert, consider using the original higher up the hill to direct water away from this Crossing. Growing Up in Southern Ohio on a farm maintaining adequate drainage was a constant battle.
Other than the excavator, you guys keep older tools because they still work. A 1990 4 wheeler does great. An older Jeep, etc. I appreciate your work ethic and approach to getting things done with what you have. Great video.
The army truck needs locking differential and better series tires. It is expensive but it’s a one time investment. And no chains to install and uninstall according to weather. It would also be an awesome mini series to watch you too work on the army truck in your new work space garage.
Swales are important it is topside drainage that directs waterflow across the main road, construction materials are important and level aspect of drain is important to avoid swift water material removal.
Dig out a depression in front of the inlet to let some water pool up before it goes into the culvert as this will let dirt settle there instead of your pipe.
Guys you need to put a flare on the upper part of it that will help catch the water and not just cover up the pipe the flares are not that expensive they're easy to install and the pipe is easy to install that's all you need to worry about
I love watching people discover and share my joy with Kubota products. Our mini hoe is an ‘06 with 3000 hours and still sounds exactly like yours when I start it. Agreed on the sticker shock turning into gratitude of the realization of time and work saved, especially with two operators.
I remember working on our road as a teenage Kid back on the ranch...of 20acres raw land with no power or utilities of any kind.... camping lanterns were the light 120lb propane bottles for the cooking stove and servile refrigerator.... and wood to heat the house with the wood stove. we were quite poor, but determined to make it work....all of us were, and this family of 4 did a bunch of work indeed.... every once in a while I would grab a shovel/spade and walk down the dirt road (creek bed,as we called it) and simply cut trenches for the rivlets of water to run off the road.....that helped so much as you could see areas that weren't trenched like that degrade over the next few weeks into a bumpy bog. the hand packing of rocks into the trenches cut by the tires worked the best.... we could not afford a dump truck of gravel....by any means so we made due. after about 8 years of that the road was quite solid and had no boggy spots.... although we hauled many a load of rock out of the creek in the 1959 Ford f100 the hand packing of the tire trenches became almost instinctual. just walking in after school on the 2 mile dirt road every day found me putting rocks in the trenches.... about once a week we would get the whole family out there and pack the trenches rain or shine when the road got bad.... a dirty nasty job ...but it worked all the gravel you guys put in at great expense will only last a few years after that it will be back to hand packing I am sure scraping the gravel off the shoulders and putting it back in the tire tracks will only postpone the inevitable..... putting down that heavy road base was the best thing you could have possibly done ! any areas that didn't get that heavy road base will fail over time..... so you know what you gott'a do in a few years ! hang in there !
You might want to consider finding a place to stockpile those rocks instead of tossing them over the hills. I suspect your road is going to need major renovating over time and small, medium and large rocks will be in great demand. Also remember what free advice is worth........
Very cool for your first time I think you’re a post to have three-quarter stone to lay around it I like the idea with the stone in front that’s awesome good job oh I like the way you handle excavator professionals
Maybe someone has already said this but I'm not reading all the comments to find if they have or not. But, as you've not been able to bury it with rock and block it is likely the culvert is going to fill with mud fairly quickly, run a length of chain through the culvert. Connect each end to a tree so you can easily find it. If the culvert eventually fills up you can hook a tire or something to one end of the chain and use the excavator to pull on the other end and pull all the sludge out of the culvert. Remember to attach a second length of chain to the tire on the other end before pulling it through so you are resetting your chain for the next time the culvert gets clogged.
This is one of the projects you have done that I was not surprised that worked. I will not mention the list that I have that have totally amazed me at how well they worked. I agree with others that a rock bed around the inlet to deter erosion would be a great idea. I am sure everyone has their own opinions about the size and amount. As for packing down the backfill on your culvert as others have mentioned, I do recall that you spoke of adding gravel later on this year and that should totally suffice.
Call up Bluejay Industrial in Hayden for chains for the Army truck! They do a lot with logging/heavy equipment and might have the right size in stock or could custom make them for you for cheap! I got a set of super heavy chains for my tractor tires for $500!
& they are nice 2 have around & if u find ur self getting to much or to fast of water put a bar on ur ditch above it & rock it good & that will slow it down I have lost a road 1 not good. good luck & god bless & yes plain a drive cuz ur going to be up & down next winter? Stay safe guys
@@AmbitionStrikes Me too , I need to learn how to spell or take the time to proof read my sentences . Always in a hurry but always have to take a break to see whats going up or down the mountain .
This is this video's comment: Water is wet, the sky is blue, and having trenched before with shovel only, I can say, it is much easier with some sort of machine help. Congrats on the working plastic tube solution.
You guys are SO hard working and your ability to do new, never done jobs is very inspiring. Jump right in there! Please tell Boone that I said "no more drinking old mud water". Looked like the dogs were having fun.
lol, Cortney...And that is how not to put a culvert in.......It will catch most of it and if you get to much water putting it in level would not have made a difference. take the win for doing it that time of year. Soil is very hard to work with.
At the high end of convert pipe, you should randomly place available rocks to help trigs & debree from clogging your pipe.. We took some 2" x 4" fencing right at our convert pipes on our lane, along with the random rocks. We still need to clear from area 2 or 3 times per year, depending on our mountain Kentucky storms.
my wife and I have started watching your videos and have enjoyed them what we really like you don't spend half your time trying to here yourself talk you say what you're show how on one quick one then zip through the other ten instead of showing each one in real time. some TH-cam that are 30 min. long and 20 min. is them standing in front of the camera talking and no showing. you guys quickly say what you're going to do then you do it we really like that. It is great you have had youtube to find out how to do, 25 years when I built my addition there wasn't much help you had to rely on friends only made it hard. If I wasn't 73 I would be doing the same thing that you are good luck on your endeavors. from al Spencer orem ut.
There is an old plumber's adage .....so not surprised. I agree with the comment about watching for blockages. Guessing that crossing will need significant rock later for erosion. Good Job!!
Another great video! I really enjoy the fun and positive energy. A lot of neat camera angles. Your photography seems to just keep getting better and more entertaining. I look forward to your videos. They just seem to make me feel good and put a smile on my face. Keep up the good work and thanks.
When ever you can as you build your road try to slop it into the hill because if it's sloped over the hill as you slip on it you can slide off it's better to go to the ditch than over the hill
Awesome job! One thing you may want to do is to put in reflective stakes like they use for snow plowing so you don't fill it up with snow. Otherwise, looks great!.
I would suggest a rock lined sump at upper end of culvert then rock rock lined sump run off on exit. for long term success may need some clay at entrance to keep water from undermining culvert.
I love watching your channel and I also have a 1990 Honda Fourtrax 300 4x4 that I bought new, except I bought mine in the color Southern Blue. It was the first year they were available in this color, I still have it to this day and I absolutely love it! They don't make them tough and reliable like that anymore.
came home from working to watch you work,... you guya are always having fun! awsome attitudes. Good job, not suprised at all...you are certainly getting a good return on the excavator. Probably already suggested, but you might want some rock under the pipe at the entrance and particularly the exit, form a dissipater pad, that exit will erode faster than you think...
Long time listener/viewer here. I love the content but maybe an editing suggestion - put a low pass filter on the audio cause when I’m listening on my main tv or with headphones and you get into a vehicle the exhaust rumble about shakes the picture off the walls/pops my ear drums lol. Just an idea. Keep up the great work!
I would suggest a set of pallet forks for your excavator, I’ve watched you move a lot of stuff that fork’s would have made faster and safer. Look forward to your videos every week, thank you!!
152k, I was hopping more but still up. Is that next to the road?? I needed almost 30ft to under my 12ft road. Yes you will need to "control" the flow in and out or it will dig and undercut.
When you get a big rain or 2, expect some damage on that thing. since you just backfilled it with dirt, expect some settlement, but you can deal with that. When you have some time, key in where the water enters the culvert. Do do that, dig a wall/footing under and all around the entrance to the pipe and pour a concrete block or fill with mortared rocks. Please a LOT of rocks on the outfall as well. That will make it last a lot longer if you are not going to re-do it. I can probably email you a legit construction drawing and you can modify it to work with your materials onsite.
@@AmbitionStrikes wow, excuse all my typos. Was tapping away on the run. I’ll look for a detail you can copy. I have one on a job we just wrapped up. Will be overkill for a house in the woods, but you can figure out how to scale it back.
Another option to keep the culvert from filling up with dirt is a DI (drop inlet) silt protector. It can be as simple as jute mat or rice wattle. You won't really need it if you have a long enough run of rip-rap to slow the flow and let the sediments drop out. Of course it will be a balance between how much flow you have and how much the silt protector slows the flow.
Nicely done - should buy you some time until you can build-up the road bed. If you want to do a long-term culvert install, investigate culvert socks (they don't make culvert slippers - that will have to stay Courtney's thing).
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Re the slippers in the excavator. I was a Lorry driver (trucker) and had leather/wood clogs to slide in and out of. Working boots on the step, keep the cab and floor clean. But you're obviously doing it all right and enjoying it as you go. More power to your elbow
You are so far out in the woods, do you carry?
Usually you add a Gravel base under your culvert , rake it out and add your culvert looking for low points. With an approximate 2% to 3% grade away from the uphill side. But then you have a start on it. You can also do a French drain using large rock. Which allows for drainage under your road grade without a culvert. Trench you put in can be filled with 5 to 6 inch minus rock. And then over graded with 3/4”Road Mix.
aaah, the old don’t want to lose your base wish.
Something I didn’t even think of years ago, after laying in my new 500’ long driveway.
I realize that’s just a drop on the ol per verbal mud hole for y’all, but still.
I was so proud of all my hard work! Then torrential rains hit. The water quickly overwhelmed my beautifully sculpted side trench, and took out a little more than 300’ of the new drive.
I never felt more defeated.
Yikes! Nothing like watching money wash away... 😳
You guys are having fun...Courtney you're great using the big machines....I'm only done a lawn mower...hehehe enjoy guys!
I'm sitting here in Texas, watching y'all in the snow, wondering how y'all ain't looking cold!
Tiling slippers and now excavating slippers?😂Gonna have to get to Walmart and get me some of them! Nice work on the culvert btw!
Thank God for for gravity, haha, really! Nice job playin' in the dirt!!
I am not surprised it works! However, you may want to build up a "head wall" at the up end inlet. The dribble today will become a gusher during those pesky monsoon rains that Washington sends over ... The more you can prevent the erosion around the culvert pipe the better it will work out. Maybe stage some rocks and dirt in case the back fill settles, too. I doubt Riley got 90 psi compaction across the road. Just make sure there aren't smaller rocks and debris that enters the pipe, then forms a blockage just out of reach. Great job! See you next time.
Thanks for the tips Donald!
I fully support it! This guy knows what he's saying.
concur. I don't know how much rain you all get, but would be concerned of the ditch just cutting deeper and deeper w/ erosion. May ultimately need to line the bottom of the runoff ditch w/ stones or pile-O-rock waterbars to slow the velocity of the run-off to the culvert.
@@AmbitionStrikes listen to this guy Riley...He knows his shit! Stay safe.
IF you have capacity problems during storms, modifying the inlet can substantially increase the capacity of a culvert. If there is room, you can miter the inlet of the pipe. If there's not room for that, careful positioning of large flat rocks to make a funnel shape at the pipe entrance might help.
For future benefit on the driveway, install road fabric before your base stone. This will keep the dirt from mixing with the rock over time. Really helps with potholes and having to regrade and apply more stone over the years. More cost upfront but well worth it.
I agree
Yes!
Dont need fabric.cuse it rock grownd.you put fabric on clay or soft grown.im it got good whit im.got the perfect materiel rigt at good place rady like movie.😅✌️
Great video Riley and Courtney
You are officially the first TH-cam content creators that have made me go "Oh, it's Wednesday (or Sunday🙃), I should see what Riley and Courtney are up to." Another great video! Really enjoyed it. Thanks again for sharing your adventures!
Thanks for following along James! ☺️
you need a culvert twice that size kids....need to slow water down and use larger rocks for better drainage......trust me...your doing a good job!...
thanks 4 video. be kind.
Nicely done! Consider putting reflective driveway markers on ends of pipe for snow plowing & future maintenance locator.
That is a great idea!
Way to go!!
In interior Alaska, warmer weather comes much later toward the end of winter. When everything finally thaws, making a muddy mess there, it's called "break up." ... You two responded effectively to the gravity of the situation. Another win! Keep piling them up.
When spring comes I would lay a rock bed at the outlet end of the culvert to reduce erosion. As others have mentioned, culverts fail primarily due to water paths starting at the inlet end and traveling along the outside of the culvert taking the fill dirt with it so protecting the inlet is critical.
Great job running the mini excavator Riley
Our dog is the same way as Boone. Puddle water is the best water!
Not surprised that it worked. BUT, I've built a road or two in my 67 years. Congratulations in living a life that you enjoy each day.
That excavator is one awesome tool. Courtney is right, it was a good purchase. My only concern is will that diameter pipe be enough? There is a lot of land that will be draining snow melt along your roadside which will be directed to the culvert pipe. Heck, I'm sure you guys know more about that than I ever will. Either way this is another great step forward in your dream mountain home & shop! Oh, and I love the "Reckless Riley official guarantee", it will work - the power of positive thinking!!!
We have no idea if it is large enough. But the price to size up was significant so we are going to give this a shot!
@@AmbitionStrikes That makes sense. If it proves to be too small and more work is needed, can you not put in more than one of that size vs buying a more expensive larger one? I'm no expert, but it's just a thought to ponder.
If you upsize on this culvert, consider using the original higher up the hill to direct water away from this Crossing. Growing Up in Southern Ohio on a farm maintaining adequate drainage was a constant battle.
@@markjordan348 sounds like too much work
You guys NEVER surprise us, we know you can do anything you put your mind to
Consider putting rocks in front of both pipe openings to reduce erosion
Other than the excavator, you guys keep older tools because they still work. A 1990 4 wheeler does great. An older Jeep, etc. I appreciate your work ethic and approach to getting things done with what you have. Great video.
That excavator SSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Worth it.
The army truck needs locking differential and better series tires. It is expensive but it’s a one time investment. And no chains to install and uninstall according to weather.
It would also be an awesome mini series to watch you too work on the army truck in your new work space garage.
Great solution to a stucky problem.
Great job installing the culvert Riley and Courtney
Thanks Kevin!
Swales are important it is topside drainage that directs waterflow across the main road, construction materials are important and level aspect of drain is important to avoid swift water material removal.
Dig out a depression in front of the inlet to let some water pool up before it goes into the culvert as this will let dirt settle there instead of your pipe.
Guys you need to put a flare on the upper part of it that will help catch the water and not just cover up the pipe the flares are not that expensive they're easy to install and the pipe is easy to install that's all you need to worry about
I love watching people discover and share my joy with Kubota products. Our mini hoe is an ‘06 with 3000 hours and still sounds exactly like yours when I start it. Agreed on the sticker shock turning into gratitude of the realization of time and work saved, especially with two operators.
Installing the plastic culvert pipe makes a lot of sense to help keep your road from washing away.
Cortney by the way you are very professional on your presentations.
Not surprising at all, you guys have way more skills than the average .........
I am confident you can make it work.
I remember working on our road as a teenage Kid back on the ranch...of 20acres raw land with no power or utilities of any kind.... camping lanterns were the light 120lb propane bottles for the cooking stove and servile refrigerator.... and wood to heat the house with the wood stove. we were quite poor, but determined to make it work....all of us were, and this family of 4 did a bunch of work indeed.... every once in a while I would grab a shovel/spade
and walk down the dirt road (creek bed,as we called it) and simply cut trenches for the rivlets of water to run off the road.....that helped so much as you could see areas that weren't trenched like that degrade over the next few weeks into a bumpy bog. the hand packing of rocks into the trenches cut by the tires worked the best.... we could not afford a dump truck of gravel....by any means so we made due. after about 8 years of that the road was quite solid and had no boggy spots.... although we hauled many a load of rock out of the creek
in the 1959 Ford f100 the hand packing of the tire trenches became almost instinctual.
just walking in after school on the 2 mile dirt road every day found me putting rocks in the trenches.... about once a week we would get the whole family out there and pack the trenches rain or shine when the road got bad.... a dirty nasty job ...but it worked
all the gravel you guys put in at great expense will only last a few years after that it will be back to hand packing I am sure scraping the gravel off the shoulders and putting it back in the tire tracks will only postpone the inevitable..... putting down that heavy road base was the best thing you could have possibly done ! any areas that didn't get that heavy road base will fail over time..... so you know what you gott'a do in a few years ! hang in there !
The mini digger has definitely been worth you buying it. No doubt it has already paid for itself with the work that it has done.
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You might want to consider finding a place to stockpile those rocks instead of tossing them over the hills. I suspect your road is going to need major renovating over time and small, medium and large rocks will be in great demand. Also remember what free advice is worth........
Loved the slippers, nice touch
Very cool for your first time I think you’re a post to have three-quarter stone to lay around it I like the idea with the stone in front that’s awesome good job oh I like the way you handle excavator professionals
Looks good. It ought to do what you want it to do
Maybe someone has already said this but I'm not reading all the comments to find if they have or not. But, as you've not been able to bury it with rock and block it is likely the culvert is going to fill with mud fairly quickly, run a length of chain through the culvert. Connect each end to a tree so you can easily find it. If the culvert eventually fills up you can hook a tire or something to one end of the chain and use the excavator to pull on the other end and pull all the sludge out of the culvert. Remember to attach a second length of chain to the tire on the other end before pulling it through so you are resetting your chain for the next time the culvert gets clogged.
That culvert is kinda small for your snow a d water that is going to go through it and the beavers come and build a dam in front of it.
Peter
This is one of the projects you have done that I was not surprised that worked. I will not mention the list that I have that have totally amazed me at how well they worked.
I agree with others that a rock bed around the inlet to deter erosion would be a great idea. I am sure everyone has their own opinions about the size and amount. As for packing down the backfill on your culvert as others have mentioned, I do recall that you spoke of adding gravel later on this year and that should totally suffice.
Call up Bluejay Industrial in Hayden for chains for the Army truck! They do a lot with logging/heavy equipment and might have the right size in stock or could custom make them for you for cheap! I got a set of super heavy chains for my tractor tires for $500!
Thanks for the lead Tim!
Good job.!. The iron clad guarantee was valid.!!. Hurray.!!!.
& they are nice 2 have around & if u find ur self getting to much or to fast of water put a bar on ur ditch above it & rock it good & that will slow it down I have lost a road 1 not good. good luck & god bless & yes plain a drive cuz ur going to be up & down next winter? Stay safe guys
You guys are a couple big kid always playing and having fun .
The older we get, the bigger the toys get! 😂
@@AmbitionStrikes
Me too , I need to learn how to spell or take the time to proof read my sentences . Always in a hurry but always have to take a break to see whats going up or down the mountain .
This is this video's comment: Water is wet, the sky is blue, and having trenched before with shovel only, I can say, it is much easier with some sort of machine help. Congrats on the working plastic tube solution.
Good job, having the correct tools always helps.
You two do a really good job at researching everything before you do it. I am really never surprised by your guys his successors.
You guys are SO hard working and your ability to do new, never done jobs is very inspiring. Jump right in there!
Please tell Boone that I said "no more drinking old mud water". Looked like the dogs were having fun.
lol, Cortney...And that is how not to put a culvert in.......It will catch most of it and if you get to much water putting it in level would not have made a difference. take the win for doing it that time of year. Soil is very hard to work with.
At the high end of convert pipe, you should randomly place available rocks to help trigs & debree from clogging your pipe.. We took some 2" x 4" fencing right at our convert pipes on our lane, along with the random rocks. We still need to clear from area 2 or 3 times per year, depending on our mountain Kentucky storms.
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Thank you so much! 😊
my wife and I have started watching your videos and have enjoyed them what we really like you don't spend half your time trying to here yourself talk you say what you're show how on one quick one then zip through the other ten instead of showing each one in real time. some TH-cam that are 30 min. long and 20 min. is them standing in front of the camera talking and no showing. you guys quickly say what you're going to do then you do it we really like that. It is great you have had youtube to find out how to do, 25 years when I built my addition there wasn't much help you had to rely on friends only made it hard. If I wasn't 73 I would be doing the same thing that you are good luck on your endeavors. from al Spencer orem ut.
There is an old plumber's adage .....so not surprised. I agree with the comment about watching for blockages. Guessing that crossing will need significant rock later for erosion. Good Job!!
Another great video! I really enjoy the fun and positive energy. A lot of neat camera angles. Your photography seems to just keep getting better and more entertaining. I look forward to your videos. They just seem to make me feel good and put a smile on my face. Keep up the good work and thanks.
Thanks so much for watching! 😊
When ever you can as you build your road try to slop it into the hill because if it's sloped over the hill as you slip on it you can slide off it's better to go to the ditch than over the hill
That's a great point!
Awesome job! One thing you may want to do is to put in reflective stakes like they use for snow plowing so you don't fill it up with snow. Otherwise, looks great!.
I feel like this should be in the Road Playlist.
I agree. I just added it!
Put large chunky rocks and gravel at both ends of the pipe to allow water flow.
It must be nice to live a place where you haven't got to deal with frost in February. That excavator will be worth it's weight in gold over the years.
Awesome love the Kubota .
Here is an interesting reference for building farm lanes: Polyface Micro by Joel Salatin. Pages 77-81
Great job! A great operator always has a clean cab, so slipper’s are always a good choice of foot wear.
I would suggest a rock lined sump at upper end of culvert then rock rock lined sump run off on exit. for long term success may need some clay at entrance to keep water from undermining culvert.
Training water is always a challenge.
Just 31 days till spring Official here on the east coast less than 100 ft above current sea level
Thanks for sharing your lives with us. Watching you two is a great way to spend some time 👍🏼🤠😊
Mission accomplished!!
That excavator sure was a handy purchase.
Bravo!!! I'm in love with your excavator. Then I looked up how much they cost...EEE GOD! Sadly I fear this will be an unrequited love.
You make it look easy, but I know it is hard, tedious work. Great job!
Howdy neighbor! I can’t wait to get an excavator and play on my property up in North Idaho!
Dont know pricing,,,,, but if your going to more gravel on driveway inquire about a fabric or mat of some sort for Bad areas
I love watching your channel and I also have a 1990 Honda Fourtrax 300 4x4 that I bought new, except I bought mine in the color Southern Blue. It was the first year they were available in this color, I still have it to this day and I absolutely love it! They don't make them tough and reliable like that anymore.
That is so awesome! It's such a great machine and it just plain works.
Nice job. You may want to add a hole upstream of your culvert to function as a silt trap. Cam
Good make do, as Becky Crump says, use geotex and gaqrvel infill when you redo it BEFORE summer rains hoit! take the waves out!
came home from working to watch you work,... you guya are always having fun! awsome attitudes. Good job, not suprised at all...you are certainly getting a good return on the excavator.
Probably already suggested, but you might want some rock under the pipe at the entrance and particularly the exit, form a dissipater pad, that exit will erode faster than you think...
Long time listener/viewer here. I love the content but maybe an editing suggestion - put a low pass filter on the audio cause when I’m listening on my main tv or with headphones and you get into a vehicle the exhaust rumble about shakes the picture off the walls/pops my ear drums lol. Just an idea. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for the tip Stephen. I’ll have to try that on the next episode!
I'm pretty sure you two could do anything. I was very happy to see a new video out!
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May need to put filter on top end to save it from blocking up with leaves and twigs
Hello from the Netherlands and thanks for the video AS .
It looks nice with the drainage pipe in now
It looks a tad small but it depends on the flow
I would suggest a set of pallet forks for your excavator, I’ve watched you move a lot of stuff that fork’s would have made faster and safer. Look forward to your videos every week, thank you!!
Agreed! Making a set is high on our list once we get our plasma table up here!
Great job and what's always nice to see, is that you both always seem to have fun doing the job. 👍
Good job guys!!!
Now build a retention pound at the bottom with a filter and pump station to store more water off grid 😄.
Yes!!
Careful you don't bury snow in the driveway. It makes a super muddy mess when it thaws. Been there done it.
You guys are about to deal with the northern Idaho spring freeze-thaw-freeze cycle that drives many people mad. Good luck!
Your videos are terrific and I enjoy the interaction between the two of you. Please keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for watching! ☺️
Muddy joystick smiles 😊
152k, I was hopping more but still up.
Is that next to the road?? I needed almost 30ft to under my 12ft road. Yes you will need to "control" the flow in and out or it will dig and undercut.
When you get a big rain or 2, expect some damage on that thing. since you just backfilled it with dirt, expect some settlement, but you can deal with that. When you have some time, key in where the water enters the culvert. Do do that, dig a wall/footing under and all around the entrance to the pipe and pour a concrete block or fill with mortared rocks. Please a LOT of rocks on the outfall as well. That will make it last a lot longer if you are not going to re-do it. I can probably email you a legit construction drawing and you can modify it to work with your materials onsite.
Thanks for the tips. It sounds like we should make a few tweaks to it before the rain arrives!
@@AmbitionStrikes wow, excuse all my typos. Was tapping away on the run. I’ll look for a detail you can copy. I have one on a job we just wrapped up. Will be overkill for a house in the woods, but you can figure out how to scale it back.
Good Teamwork building the culvert!
As always great video guys..I really enjoy them.😃
Another option to keep the culvert from filling up with dirt is a DI (drop inlet) silt protector. It can be as simple as jute mat or rice wattle. You won't really need it if you have a long enough run of rip-rap to slow the flow and let the sediments drop out. Of course it will be a balance between how much flow you have and how much the silt protector slows the flow.
That was great you two enjoyed it thank you for sharing and your time great job.
Nicely done - should buy you some time until you can build-up the road bed. If you want to do a long-term culvert install, investigate culvert socks (they don't make culvert slippers - that will have to stay Courtney's thing).
😂 We'll check that out! Thanks for the tip.
It’s all about that base, about that base, about that base. 😊