Quality work Stan! Most demo guys would have just left the footings - you do a quality HONEST job removing everything! I'd hired you in a heartbeat! Great video!
I enjoy the job site videos as I have said before, for those of us that don't work in this industry (I'm retired from manufacturing after 40 years), it kind of gives us an idea of how much work goes into doing the job properly and why it cost what it cost.
Ive done demolition and removal of old foundations and old swimming pools. Around here in SW Missouri big rocks called floaters damage pool floors or footers. Crack them wide open. I have a 1973 White Dump truck 18yard Dump bed . My crawlers are a 1966 7-G Allis Chalmers Dozer and a 1964 6-G Front Loader. The 7-G has 30 inch wide tracks for the ground around here.
My Grand Father was digging a hole for a Septic tank he got it all put in but forgot to weigh it down a abit as the next morning it was floating on the top of the mud pool my god I learnt some new language that day LOL (are cottage was a 1 minute walk to the beach an had a swamp next to it hence a shallow water table)
I love it when you get all the comments from the, "I would have done it that way crowd". Keep up the good work, get the job done with a profit and a happy customer.
Interesting to watch this. I’m a pool Contractor the guys who build these vinyl liner pools correctly put those deck supports in to ensure the decks never separate or settle! This guy did it good. And yes liners are nasty like any pool when they sit!!!
More job site videos please. I've put in pools like that, but I haven't even watched one be removed. It's amazing all the things you can find buried in someone's backyard
I never worked in this industry but I did work in manufacturing for 40 years, now retired. Until I read you comment I didn't notice that back up alarm. You learn to tune it out if it is something you work around everyday. I know I did, you know what 'noise' you should be hearing and ignore it, it's just those other noises that get your attention real quick.
Yeah, I think you do learn to tune it out but not after a few breakdowns. I know a guy was in a gehl and could not turn it off. looked far and wide on the inter webs and found zip. got so frustrated at one point he said he thought about taking a hammer to the speaker. Department of mental health and osha better have a sit down
The reason for the alarm comment... machinery has been running on my property for a few days. The operators are wearing ear protection, me the homeowner is not. Looking forward to their departure but the beeping will be buried in memory for awhile.
Another reason I like your videos Mr Stan...its not full of F bombs or any other cussing. It like Rated G, for all the family to view. Keep up the great work!
Hockey mask on the front 🤣 your funny, must have high water tables there is my guess for the extra support walls, my buddy back in the 80's worked for a company that did pool installs in Winnipeg, we have lots of land that was formerly marsh or swampy and they use to install these extra footings or walls to keep the pools from heaving during the warm months of heavy rainfall, the customers would always cringe when the installer told them this and said it was allot of extra work and money, great video Stan
That Tonker toy would never get my swimming pool up. 😆 2'6" thick side concrete re-enforced with rebar. Bottom 3' thick with rebar. Living close to swamps wanted something that couod not be popped out of the ground if empty during a rain event.
Craziest thing I ever found while excavating a site was a zeppelin anchor. Yup... that’s right a friggin air ship anchor. 30 ft long 10 feet high by 8 ft wide, reinforced, poured concrete block.
Stan You solid tires do not flex. The flex in the regular ties increases the area of the tire's foot print. That area difference is why the solid tires have less traction.
To get better finesse with your volvo skid steers talk to your dealership about adjusting your hydraulic settings. The one that my dealership has for shop use had the same issue before they fine tuned it and now it runs very smooth
A Volvo and a ASV, interesting combo. Tracks seem to work so much better. We have a 259d cat and i just kept seeing how much faster it would of took that pool down simply with tracks and extra pushing power. The anti stall in cat and kubota skids is worth having.
He is leveling out the over fill from when they dug the pool. All the dug out dirt goes around the pool edge to create a level base for a patio around the pool
Always when you are going to dig, have a rock clause, a surprise clause like footings and a liability waver in case you hit a utility. Call Miss Utility even if you think there is no way there is something buried. Years ago builders dug a pit in the backyard and buried every piece of garbage from the build.
I've seen four building lots go useless because under them was an old garbage dump nobody knew about. I jackhammered blue granite for two weeks when we hit a boulder which the geologists said extended a quarter mile under a dense established neighborhood so we couldn't blast. These guys are so clueless I wouldn't let them mow my lawn! Apparently the "big" thing they dug up was their ego...
I like the single boom. I don't own one yet. I'm getting older and I don't like climbing over the bucket. I've slipped off the bucket twice in the ice. It hurts to land on your head! Just stepping into the side of the machine is awesome! Although those tires are questionable
I like the tele-handler with the demo grapple.... always wanted to try one. We have many attachments where I work including tilt rotators, but we don't have any tele-handlers yet.
The lifetime warranty on the single boom is great if you buy it new. What I just learned is that you should NEVER buy a used Volvo. Even if it is 3 months old, as 2nd owner, you lose if that boom breaks. Metal is just like a person, the older it gets the more it fatigues and each time it is used that boom is closer to breaking. A mono-boom is exposed to different stresses that a dual boom does not see. I have been on job sites with JCB units that have single arms. The Telehandlers usually are not exposed to the abuses a skid loader takes and the buckets are centered on excavator booms. I know that Volvo makes great equipment but if the entire machine has the same warranty as the boom? No more auction buys for me, no matter the hours.
this is why when you hire someone to do a job for you some times you get lucky and can save money but its insurance to hire some one with experience an knowlege of what you can run into . like you knew what the concrete supports where.
Using a Minnie Excavator bud is the only way to go. Along with a Hammer for your machine. I just dont feel like you can keep a stable load with that single arm, but proof in the the pudding as they say, great job bud.
More jobsite videos and show all the way to the end of the job please! Also show how you bid every aspect of it and how much it would cost to do something like this please!
Volvo makes a lot of good things, I think a testament to that is the Sledge (can't wait to see that again), but that loader seems a lot more limited than say the ASV
Real nice machine I love running this type stuff special now that I gotton older my back ain't what it use to be to be in feild setting up finish stuff.
The frame of the single-boom skidders is actually stronger than the duals because of the off-balance transfer - at worst you get a little extra wear on the front right kinda like how you get extra wear on your front left on cars from hard right turns. The simplification of hoses and control valves combined with the better protection the hydraulics have inside the boom *and the benefit that telescoping capacity brings you on the ones like the JCB* far outweigh the detriments (off center driver, elliptical wear on bucket bar bearings etc).
No surprise about using iconography, manufacturers of consumer electronics started doing that back in the 1980s. They do it to save costs on not having to create labels in multiple languages. Oh and by the way might I recommend your guys go and RTFM as it likely shows what all the symbols mean.
Oh one of those in ground aluminum pools. I filled one of them in once. It had an aluminum fence around it as well. We scrapped all that aluminum. Also I've been demoing concrete pools for years. I mean alot of them. I get it save / scrap the aluminum. Why are you guys not just demoing the concrete ones first and filling the bottom with the concrete?
Quality work Stan! Most demo guys would have just left the footings - you do a quality HONEST job removing everything! I'd hired you in a heartbeat! Great video!
I always enjoy the job site videos. My 2 yr old son likes watching the construction equipment. Thanks, Stan!
Thank you and happy to hear your son likes them !!
I enjoy the job site videos as I have said before, for those of us that don't work in this industry (I'm retired from manufacturing after 40 years), it kind of gives us an idea of how much work goes into doing the job properly and why it cost what it cost.
Thank you , I am glad that you enjoy and learn form them !
Only watched 8 min. Then went to comments and was not surprised
Sameee
Good God put a cut off switch on that Back up alarm!! No need for it beeping all the time down in the pit!! LOL!! Neighbors must love that!
Ive done demolition and removal of old foundations and old swimming pools. Around here in SW Missouri big rocks called floaters damage pool floors or footers. Crack them wide open. I have a 1973 White Dump truck 18yard Dump bed . My crawlers are a 1966 7-G Allis Chalmers Dozer and a 1964 6-G Front Loader. The 7-G has 30 inch wide tracks for the ground around here.
I enjoy these time lapse job site videos.
Great to know 👍 I'll keep that in mind
I loved the term “Hockey Mask” when referring to the front protection on the cab of the Volvo. Definitely from Minnesoooota there!
Lol, for sure!
Ohhh yeahhh good point eh
I like the job site videos. But I like all the videos you do.
Thank you !!
Love it when you tell story as job going. Volvo good demo unit!!
LOL. When I read the title, I visualized a heavy piece of equipment falling into an old illegally built septic tank.
I thought it’d be a ancient skeleton that put the project on hold until they painstakingly excavate the area lol.
Same! :-D
My Grand Father was digging a hole for a Septic tank he got it all put in but forgot to weigh it down a abit as the next morning it was floating on the top of the mud pool my god I learnt some new language that day LOL
(are cottage was a 1 minute walk to the beach an had a swamp next to it hence a shallow water table)
That looks like a lot of fun. I don't know why but I was glued to the screen. Plus, I was waiting for y'all to dig up a dead body or something. 😂
I love this videos!
Thank you Tom, I appreciate that!
Black dirt is like gold
Very experienced crew, operators. You do jobs right! Not half ass. Thanks for making the videos there excellent!
Thank you , I am glad you like them!
I love the side entrance on the machine, now that is badass
Thanks for the comments Steve!
I love it when you get all the comments from the, "I would have done it that way crowd". Keep up the good work, get the job done with a profit and a happy customer.
Haha will do, thanks for the support Kevin 😊
Long videos are fine. This is really interesting. Do more like it.
Nothing like having the demo process completely out of order as posted. Like the work.
Interesting to watch this. I’m a pool
Contractor the guys who build these vinyl liner pools correctly put those deck supports in to ensure the decks never separate or settle! This guy did it good. And yes liners are nasty like any pool when they sit!!!
ill watch more job site videos. all your videos are cool.
Appreciate that Joe, thanks !
More job site videos please. I've put in pools like that, but I haven't even watched one be removed. It's amazing all the things you can find buried in someone's backyard
More to come Mike, thanks for watching !
Another great site video, thank you for your time and effort making these videos!
No problem Dominic, great to have you here watching !
Quite the job. Nice finish.
What a job,cant imangin doing that job without those machines.Pool was really built well.
I find it funny hearing you call it "pulverized black dirt" we call it "Top Soil" Tomato-Tomaato
Tomato, potato.
That backup alarm all day would drive me crazy. OSHA may require it but still. Anyway this satisfied my machine video fix for today. :)
I never worked in this industry but I did work in manufacturing for 40 years, now retired. Until I read you comment I didn't notice that back up alarm. You learn to tune it out if it is something you work around everyday. I know I did, you know what 'noise' you should be hearing and ignore it, it's just those other noises that get your attention real quick.
Yeah, I think you do learn to tune it out but not after a few breakdowns. I know a guy was in a gehl and could not turn it off. looked far and wide on the inter webs and found zip. got so frustrated at one point he said he thought about taking a hammer to the speaker. Department of mental health and osha better have a sit down
Game Ville you just cut one of the wires
FishFind3000 lol yeah but it wasn’t his machine, and the owner mandated the beepers stay functional
The reason for the alarm comment... machinery has been running on my property for a few days. The operators are wearing ear protection, me the homeowner is not. Looking forward to their departure but the beeping will be buried in memory for awhile.
Another reason I like your videos Mr Stan...its not full of F bombs or any other cussing. It like Rated G, for all the family to view. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for sharing your info on demolition of the pool thanks again 👍
No problem Lloyd, thanks !
He's bringing it back to the original grade of the yard
That “hockey mask” is so important for safety sake. A guy local got killed a month ago because a sheet pile fell into the cab and crushed him
Yes please! More job site videos!
Thanks Rick!
Hockey mask on the front 🤣 your funny, must have high water tables there is my guess for the extra support walls, my buddy back in the 80's worked for a company that did pool installs in Winnipeg, we have lots of land that was formerly marsh or swampy and they use to install these extra footings or walls to keep the pools from heaving during the warm months of heavy rainfall, the customers would always cringe when the installer told them this and said it was allot of extra work and money, great video Stan
That's 21 minutes I won't get back!
I come for the music but stay for the entertainment!
Well thanks for being here !
Awesome sums it up god bless you and your family
Thank you Thomas, you too!
So nothing was “found”. Gotchya
cool
Thanks Don!
That Tonker toy would never get my swimming pool up. 😆 2'6" thick side concrete re-enforced with rebar. Bottom 3' thick with rebar. Living close to swamps wanted something that couod not be popped out of the ground if empty during a rain event.
More job site videos please👍👍👍👍👍
Good job guys love your work 👍👍✌️
Thank you, more to come !
Craziest thing I ever found while excavating a site was a zeppelin anchor. Yup... that’s right a friggin air ship anchor.
30 ft long 10 feet high by 8 ft wide, reinforced, poured concrete block.
Stan You solid tires do not flex. The flex in the regular ties increases the area of the tire's foot print. That area difference is why the solid tires have less traction.
Man quit it with the clickbait, I thought you found Hoffa
Great video! Love to see more just like it!
Thanks Fredda!
Enough of the negative comments. Move landscape videos. Very interesting and helpful for the DIY's.
Thank you!
Who remembers the videos he did on those roll out mats and here he is using ply wood ???
roll-out mats don't turn corners well
Great
Video
Thank you!!
That’s a big pool to dig out
Topsoil!
Man that was theraputic to watch. I bet even more so sitting in the volvo.
Thanks and glad you liked it !
I run a new case 310 at work you can get a lot done in a hurry and it’s a very smooth working machine
The courting ritual of the Mechanical Bobcat
Just rock ‘n’ roll with that ASV Finish the job in a timely fashion seriously
Stan, I know you’ve been doing a lot of marketing and product videos. Your job site videos got me hooked on your channel, and I’d love to see more.
Thanks Joshua, I appreciate your feedback!
Then they tell ya its life time of a bee :)))
Another Great video more site jobs please
Thanks Alun!
To get better finesse with your volvo skid steers talk to your dealership about adjusting your hydraulic settings. The one that my dealership has for shop use had the same issue before they fine tuned it and now it runs very smooth
Tracks are the best and easiest on the operator
Almost bought a jcb/Volvo machine love the side entry
I love little jobs like that . I'd bring a little excavator tho. Rubber tire skidders are so 90's lol
HELLO, from chihuahua mexico, if you put more site jobs is important for knowledge, we love all your videos, GOD bless you and your family.
Hello and thanks for watching , glad the vids are helpful!
This life is amazing, I follow your channel and I was amazed when I saw you and wranglerstar I follow his channel to, GOD bless you.
A Volvo and a ASV, interesting combo. Tracks seem to work so much better. We have a 259d cat and i just kept seeing how much faster it would of took that pool down simply with tracks and extra pushing power. The anti stall in cat and kubota skids is worth having.
Solid wheels are for solid ground
The ones I see are for heavy loads on a poured solid concrete slab with debris around.
He is leveling out the over fill from when they dug the pool. All the dug out dirt goes around the pool edge to create a level base for a patio around the pool
Always when you are going to dig, have a rock clause, a surprise clause like footings and a liability waver in case you hit a utility.
Call Miss Utility even if you think there is no way there is something buried.
Years ago builders dug a pit in the backyard and buried every piece of garbage from the build.
I've seen four building lots go useless because under them was an old garbage dump nobody knew about. I jackhammered blue granite for two weeks when we hit a boulder which the geologists said extended a quarter mile under a dense established neighborhood so we couldn't blast. These guys are so clueless I wouldn't let them mow my lawn! Apparently the "big" thing they dug up was their ego...
That space would have made a great rec pond. Can you imagine what you could have done with that much space. Your crews are the best!
I like the single boom. I don't own one yet.
I'm getting older and I don't like climbing over the bucket. I've slipped off the bucket twice in the ice. It hurts to land on your head!
Just stepping into the side of the machine is awesome!
Although those tires are questionable
Great video, I see what you mean by the no flat tires getting not much traction
Yep, thank you!
I like the tele-handler with the demo grapple.... always wanted to try one. We have many attachments where I work including tilt rotators, but we don't have any tele-handlers yet.
We got a jcb with tracks. I'm not a fan of the controls. Takes a minute to get used to the one arm. Love being able to get out when the bucket is up.
He is saving the top soil
More job site videos !!
Thanks Scott!
JCB has a single arm skidsteer and never had a issue with it. And way safer to get into than the double arm skidsteer
The lifetime warranty on the single boom is great if you buy it new. What I just learned is that you should NEVER buy a used Volvo. Even if it is 3 months old, as 2nd owner, you lose if that boom breaks. Metal is just like a person, the older it gets the more it fatigues and each time it is used that boom is closer to breaking. A mono-boom is exposed to different stresses that a dual boom does not see. I have been on job sites with JCB units that have single arms. The Telehandlers usually are not exposed to the abuses a skid loader takes and the buckets are centered on excavator booms. I know that Volvo makes great equipment but if the entire machine has the same warranty as the boom? No more auction buys for me, no matter the hours.
Somebody selling a use Volvo is either incompetent at business and its maintenance is suspect or isn't listing what $6k part broke in the advert.
More site videos!
Thanks Tony, more to come !
I feel like im you right now stan, besides the stress and pay lmao
this is why when you hire someone to do a job for you some times you get lucky and can save money but its insurance to hire some one with experience an knowlege of what you can run into . like you knew what the concrete supports where.
How do you like The Beak for tear out? Looks extremely stout and very handy to me.
Using a Minnie Excavator bud is the only way to go. Along with a Hammer for your machine. I just dont feel like you can keep a stable load with that single arm, but proof in the the pudding as they say, great job bud.
In that first camera angle I thought the beak had a jackhammer with it but it is only a hydraulic connector
More jobsite videos and show all the way to the end of the job please! Also show how you bid every aspect of it and how much it would cost to do something like this please!
Thanks for the input Chris!
That's no answer.
Love the job site vids keep ‘em up
More to come G K, thanks !
Volvo makes a lot of good things, I think a testament to that is the Sledge (can't wait to see that again), but that loader seems a lot more limited than say the ASV
Unplug that backup alarm before I lose my mind.
OSHA violation.. BIG NO NO..
My first thought was that the "surprise" was going to be an abandoned sewer tank and/or leaching field?
Luckily there were nether. ;-)
neither
Ever tried a 4 in 1 Bucket it would do the work of both those attachments on one machine in this case
Darn that thing is strong lifting that much Crete woweww
Real nice machine I love running this type stuff special now that I gotton older my back ain't what it use to be to be in feild setting up finish stuff.
I'm still looking for the something big is it a flying saucer, a tank, a pile of body's?
Same
he loves his keates
Love this type of video I get to learn so much that I usually would have no clue about because I am not in the industry
Awesome Ben, glad to hear that !
MORE JOBSITE VIDEOS!!!
Ok Aaron, thanks !!
The frame of the single-boom skidders is actually stronger than the duals because of the off-balance transfer - at worst you get a little extra wear on the front right kinda like how you get extra wear on your front left on cars from hard right turns. The simplification of hoses and control valves combined with the better protection the hydraulics have inside the boom *and the benefit that telescoping capacity brings you on the ones like the JCB* far outweigh the detriments (off center driver, elliptical wear on bucket bar bearings etc).
No surprise about using iconography, manufacturers of consumer electronics started doing that back in the 1980s. They do it to save costs on not having to create labels in multiple languages. Oh and by the way might I recommend your guys go and RTFM as it likely shows what all the symbols mean.
Yes, definitely more jobsite videos please!
Ok, thanks for watching!
Back grading to level yard an cut for drainage while sifting dirt
Oh one of those in ground aluminum pools. I filled one of them in once. It had an aluminum fence around it as well. We scrapped all that aluminum. Also I've been demoing concrete pools for years. I mean alot of them. I get it save / scrap the aluminum. Why are you guys not just demoing the concrete ones first and filling the bottom with the concrete?
He is separating the dirt from the organic material. He is also pulling the dirt that had been removed to make room for the pool back into the hole.
Saving top soil
You have to unscrew them and then taste each one so you know which kind of fluid it is! Come on get with the program😁
Top soil