Sure looks nice Chris. What a great project to do when it's wet as you get to instantly see the benefits of your efforts and watch the water run to you as you work. That rotating bucket is so perfect for this too! Nobody around here uses them much yet. Always enjoy the vids! Happy New Year!
There's a wrist attachment that would make that bucket even better but he needs a different controller and 2 more hoses. Oh and I'm so glad you were able to up load this vid I was getting really, bored on facebook ,you're the best.
That bucket attachment has payed for it self many times. Now the ditch looks better than the road. Matting cover is great make that old line disappear back into the dirt. Another happy customer. 👍💪🇺🇲💯
What a good job ! I saw a custom bucket built that was a flat bottom V and was used for these ditches. His worked along a road or across a field. I had the special detach ears made and created the bucket from AR400 sheet. AR500 is better but either will work. Wires are placed 20 ft and 10 ft under ground. I have phone at 10 and crosses power at 20. My flag guy showed me how it swooped up to the house from deep underground. My phone line crosses my road twice. What a pain. Water is placed at "7" so it was said. Crazy in yards and property.
With scalpel-like precision, you cut a ditch with a machine that could literally destroy the entire yard. A skilled craftsman in any profession is hard to beat.
Chris had his artistic skills working in this video...Details make for happy customers and references. One satisfied Customer can add 10-15 additional jobs in the future. Even drive-by customers. Great Job...lol
This homeowner should have called the county they live in and asked about them doing their job. I believe the county's responsibility. You however are doing a nice job. On second thought after seeing what a nice job you are doing the county or city whichever would have made a mess that the homeowner would have to of had to deal with and you were probably the better option. You ALWAYS do a neat job.
You are making a nice job of that ditch. At 10 minutes in i'm thinking that's how it probably was originally when the road was new. I have a friend out here in NZ that does drain and cable laying and general trenching. Where they say the cables/water/sewer pipes are can be totally different to where they actually are so you phone up and they come out and mark them and then sometimes they are wrong too.
I love how you used the bucket as a pointer lol...I always considered it an extension of your arm and hand 😂 I'm so amazed at how precise you are with these gigantic rough machines!! 👍🏻 I love watching you work! Sorry not sorry either lol ☺️👍🏻 keep 'em coming please!
Happy New year Chris, trouble is with utility service they won't dig deeper than they need to, if I had to put anything through a ditch it would be below its lowest point so it didn't get caught while cleaning out
At least where I'm at, the cable company won't do a locate for anything this isn't either their fiber backbone or the trunk lines feeding a neighborhood. Drops out to individual houses get cut all the damn time because they've decided it's cheaper to send a contract tech with a splice kit than it is one of the 2 techs for the entire region that they actually have trained to do locates properly.
Over here in the UK its the responsibility of the person excavating to check for utilities. You probably wont get liability insurance unless you have some form of locator/ scanner and in some cases proof that you've been trained to use them. The utility plans are available but will only normally show the mains. The connection pipes or cables to the property wont be shown.
Just curious. Who else watches watch wes work? I see alot of the same comments. I think your more precise with that machine than i could be with a shovel.
Do u watch any of hedblom video? That dude has a tilt /rotator on his and that guy is a bomb.they have had them across the big pond for years and it’s crazy. I always say to my grandson that he needs to go into this type of business because he is so good with video controls that he could pick it up fast
nice finish, Thats the sign of somebody that not only enjoys their work but also takes pride in it . Nice one Cris. (a side note: ) What's not to like,????
Did you ever dream that there would be this much interest in people watching you operate heavy equipment? 114,610 views as of this writing, and 385,000 subscribers. Very cool!
This is like painting ..... with mud, and you use a great, big, yellow machine as your brush. You, sir are as close to an artist with your medium as I have ever seen.
@@letsdig18 Lol, Nahh add another 1.5 weeks onto that and it would be typical. my friends place out in East Tx by a big local lake when they have power outages by tree's sometimes it takes 3 weeks.
Hey Chris, as handy as this set up is on the Yanmar....I have never heard you say if you have considered a RotoTilt? Steel Wrist/ Engcon. I know with your thumb set up on your Volvos it would not be an option but maybe for just one machine....?
My daughter lives over at Fayetteville, NC. Lots of rain. At least the dirt ain't hard as those rocks ya been pounding. It's a wonder you don't dream rocks. Eaglegards... 👍
Looks good! Have you ever thought about buying, or building, a skid steer size bucket that hooks on the blade of the mini? I have one, and it is really handy for moving materials on small projects where it doesn't make sense to have two machines :)
That road looks like it could use a good grading too. Someone's neglecting their job, which is normal for municipalities. They tend to let things go until it costs way more to fix it than if they had maintained it properly in the first place. Anyway, the ditch turned out great.
Chris, is that not the Townships job to maintain the ditches and keep them clean, where I live they come by at least every other year and do them on the roads.
In my area the state, county and towns all do the ditches, but they all went to the same school, dig-em-DEEP... When they get done her you could drop a full size pick-up in there and lose it...
Great job on explanation on how it's to be done. Are there any other tips you can share....like if there wasn't any water in the ditch how would you get the fall right? Again great video as always, stay safe in 2021.
Water.....probably one of the most overlooked aspects of any land home purchase by so many people these days. Pick the area you like, then wait for a big hard rain and go look at it again. You will see things you never knew. Guaranteed.... Water is an expensive element to control and fix when you have a problem. If people only understood how important something like a proper built ditch, with proper grade is. It can literally save you home and land. Elberta, AL says hello.
Looks great I have a similar job coming up in a couple of weeks and have to use the helac power tilt along with interchanging between it and my thumb and skeleton bucket... I just wish these bucket attachment manufactures put more thought into us operators when they build tilt attachments so you can still use the hydraulic thumb at the same time....my thumb doesn't line up with the power tilt installed because the attachment adds an additional 18" of length and distance away from the thumb therefore rendering it useless. BTW.. are those RR tracks in service ?
How do you charge on your job's like this one ? Is it a daily rate? I soon have to do some work on my property and have to run numbers what renting and all would cost and what someone who does it for a living would charge.
The state and local governments can't afford to maintain the roadsides as much anymore because the money they get goes to the road surface itself. This is because the federal government would rather fund BS like gender studies in Pakistan instead of giving states the money they need to maintain infrastructure. Shit rolls down hill.
Our politicians are just mobsters . Their are racketeering. Look how much money they have after so many years. On their pay. It doesn't add up. So where did the money come from?
You have a fantastic eye for grade and a skill that comes with years of experience. I admire your work.
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Sure looks nice Chris. What a great project to do when it's wet as you get to instantly see the benefits of your efforts and watch the water run to you as you work. That rotating bucket is so perfect for this too! Nobody around here uses them much yet. Always enjoy the vids! Happy New Year!
There's a wrist attachment that would make that bucket even better but he needs a different controller and 2 more hoses. Oh and I'm so glad you were able to up load this vid I was getting really, bored on facebook ,you're the best.
Very neat work Chris beautiful job Best wishes and a happy New Year from New Zealand regards from Les and Marie
That bucket attachment has payed for it self many times.
Now the ditch looks better than the road.
Matting cover is great make that old line disappear back into the dirt.
Another happy customer.
👍💪🇺🇲💯
There was a Kevin checking it out at the end of the video.
With all the rain you get, you will be getting a lot of drainage repair jobs. Good job!
Precision mud spreading right there. What with all the rain, you have to be precise. Practice makes perfect. Always a joy to watch.
What a good job ! I saw a custom bucket built that was a flat bottom V and was used for these ditches. His worked along a road or across a field. I had the special detach ears made and created the bucket from AR400 sheet. AR500 is better but either will work. Wires are placed 20 ft and 10 ft under ground. I have phone at 10 and crosses power at 20. My flag guy showed me how it swooped up to the house from deep underground. My phone line crosses my road twice. What a pain. Water is placed at "7" so it was said. Crazy in yards and property.
Great way to start 2021 with a letsdig18 video, great job Chris, can't wait to see more
Had to dust off the spider webs on the mini, It was feeling neglected.
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Happy New letsdig18
Happy New Year Winston!
Happy New Year Erbody
Happy New Year to all from North Wales in the UK.
Thank you and to you also from Denmark
Poland joins the wishes
Have a good one all!
From South Wales (UK) this time. 👍
Steve Cobb happy new year
@@tommyrasmussen1180 happy new year
With scalpel-like precision, you cut a ditch with a machine that could literally destroy the entire yard. A skilled craftsman in any profession is hard to beat.
It's a gentle enough slope to ride the mower through there. Well done Chris.
Chris you are not only a great operator but you do your jobs like an artist
Tonka operators with advice. Chris knows what he is doing.
Excellent work as usual Chris.
You know as a retired grade checker.....I want to say "THAT LOOKS DAMN GOOD " !
Great ditching work Chris, the rotary bucket is very handy!! Hope you and David are well, happy new year to you both .
Chris had his artistic skills working in this video...Details make for happy customers and references. One satisfied Customer can add 10-15 additional jobs in the future. Even drive-by customers. Great Job...lol
Awesome job Chris! You are a master at what you do God bless you
The story of Chris' life.... playing in the mud..... Nice job Chris
This homeowner should have called the county they live in and asked about them doing their job. I believe the county's responsibility. You however are doing a nice job. On second thought after seeing what a nice job you are doing the county or city whichever would have made a mess that the homeowner would have to of had to deal with and you were probably the better option. You ALWAYS do a neat job.
You are making a nice job of that ditch. At 10 minutes in i'm thinking that's how it probably was originally when the road was new. I have a friend out here in NZ that does drain and cable laying and general trenching. Where they say the cables/water/sewer pipes are can be totally different to where they actually are so you phone up and they come out and mark them and then sometimes they are wrong too.
Nice rainy day project. Had moving water to show the level so that must have helped.
What a difference! Water be flowin' freely now. 😎😉👍 Thanks for videotaping from different locations, i.e, YanMar cab, ground level.
I love how you used the bucket as a pointer lol...I always considered it an extension of your arm and hand 😂 I'm so amazed at how precise you are with these gigantic rough machines!! 👍🏻 I love watching you work! Sorry not sorry either lol ☺️👍🏻 keep 'em coming please!
Happy New year Chris, trouble is with utility service they won't dig deeper than they need to, if I had to put anything through a ditch it would be below its lowest point so it didn't get caught while cleaning out
That ditch is awfully close to the road , surprised there isn’t more of a berm ! 🤔
At least where I'm at, the cable company won't do a locate for anything this isn't either their fiber backbone or the trunk lines feeding a neighborhood. Drops out to individual houses get cut all the damn time because they've decided it's cheaper to send a contract tech with a splice kit than it is one of the 2 techs for the entire region that they actually have trained to do locates properly.
Could you not buy/ hire a scanner?
@@johnb8956 You could, but for liability's sake nobody is going to outside of some corner cases.
Over here in the UK its the responsibility of the person excavating to check for utilities. You probably wont get liability insurance unless you have some form of locator/ scanner and in some cases proof that you've been trained to use them. The utility plans are available but will only normally show the mains. The connection pipes or cables to the property wont be shown.
@@sandy1653 yeah true
@@ajc7166 I’m from the UK too, and have known a few people use them, hence my original comment
Great skills on the excavator! Ground looks good sir!
Just curious. Who else watches watch wes work? I see alot of the same comments. I think your more precise with that machine than i could be with a shovel.
Do u watch any of hedblom video? That dude has a tilt /rotator on his and that guy is a bomb.they have had them across the big pond for years and it’s crazy. I always say to my grandson that he needs to go into this type of business because he is so good with video controls that he could pick it up fast
To add to the list, there's Petr Šmotek who does more Public Works stuff instead of the private jobs we see from Chris, Wes, Mustie, Mike, etc.
When I saw that cable come up out of the mud, I was waiting the whole rest of the video to see if Karen showed up.
nice finish, Thats the sign of somebody that not only enjoys their work but also takes pride in it . Nice one Cris. (a side note: ) What's not to like,????
Did you ever dream that there would be this much interest in people watching you operate heavy equipment? 114,610 views as of this writing, and 385,000 subscribers. Very cool!
This is like painting ..... with mud, and you use a great, big, yellow machine as your brush. You, sir are as close to an artist with your medium as I have ever seen.
Done an Done !! "Mud" !! There i said, it for ya ...lolol... Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening, On to the Next !!
Technically it wasn't Carolina liquid earth, but damn it wasn't too far from it! Nice job Chris.
you make the mini excavator look as fluid as those boston dynamics robots.
You are a true artist with that bucket grading the mud I think you could ice a cake with the excavator
You do amazing work Chris
Very nice!!! You cleaned that out perfectly!!!!!
Hey Chris, you just explained it, it looked like yo hit that wire twice, Have a good one!!
Dam....I was watching some guy on TH-cam clearing a ditch and all of a sudden my cable went out...😂
🤣🤣🤣
damn they should have it fixed by next saturday
@@letsdig18 Lol, Nahh add another 1.5 weeks onto that and it would be typical. my friends place out in East Tx by a big local lake when they have power outages by tree's sometimes it takes 3 weeks.
@@letsdig18 yes but someone over 18 must be there between noon and March to let them in 🙈👍
Hey Chris, as handy as this set up is on the Yanmar....I have never heard you say if you have considered a RotoTilt? Steel Wrist/ Engcon. I know with your thumb set up on your Volvos it would not be an option but maybe for just one machine....?
Another nice job Chris!
🔥🔥🔥SOMETHING ALWAYS SATISFYING ABOUT A FRESHLY CLEANED OUT DITCH LINE... FINE JOB CAPTAIN✌️
Sure tidied it up too bro. Made for a cool little video as well. Safe travels in 2021
you sir are a magician with that machine.
SALUDOS CHRIS , NICE JOB WELL DONE LIKE ALWAYS.
Like the little job Chris and it's nice one too .
Great job there Chris looked great
Time to seed some rice how much rain do you people get east coast weather
Nothing like a well defined “ditch” 😂. Good Project!
Another GREAT FINISH.
My daughter lives over at Fayetteville, NC. Lots of rain. At least the dirt ain't hard as those rocks ya been pounding. It's a wonder you don't dream rocks. Eaglegards... 👍
Very wet now in NC. But you didn't get the black ice or?
Looks good! Have you ever thought about buying, or building, a skid steer size bucket that hooks on the blade of the mini? I have one, and it is really handy for moving materials on small projects where it doesn't make sense to have two machines :)
The final trim is always first rate.
Nicely done in such poor working conditions. 3rd wettest year ever at RDU . Hoping for no snow this winter , ground is wet enough.
We just took another 5" down here in dallas. I'm starting to think snow would be better
Nice job Chris from a wet silted mess to a masterpiece you sir are a master of the craft of excavation
Chris the master of mud!
You don’t normally do any work around Train Tracks so hopefully we get Lucky🍀with a Train.😬👍
That road looks like it could use a good grading too. Someone's neglecting their job, which is normal for municipalities. They tend to let things go until it costs way more to fix it than if they had maintained it properly in the first place. Anyway, the ditch turned out great.
Chris, is that not the Townships job to maintain the ditches and keep them clean, where I live they come by at least every other year and do them on the roads.
That would be nice! Our county won't come out until the road washes out. We only have repair workers instead of County maintenance workers.
I would not trust the township to do that nice of a job.
In my area the state, county and towns all do the ditches, but they all went to the same school, dig-em-DEEP... When they get done her you could drop a full size pick-up in there and lose it...
Nice job Chris.
You can tell family or friends you spent the day moving Slop & moving the same Slop again.😬👍
Happy New Year Chris
In Virginia we would have called in that day. Mighty wet. 😅
Great job on explanation on how it's to be done. Are there any other tips you can share....like if there wasn't any water in the ditch how would you get the fall right?
Again great video as always, stay safe in 2021.
Water.....probably one of the most overlooked aspects of any land home purchase by so many people these days.
Pick the area you like, then wait for a big hard rain and go look at it again.
You will see things you never knew.
Guaranteed....
Water is an expensive element to control and fix when you have a problem.
If people only understood how important something like a proper built ditch, with proper grade is.
It can literally save you home and land.
Elberta, AL says hello.
Can confirm don't ask me how I know
You say it’s a mess,but be honest that just gets your blood flowing,the challenge is on.yea.👍👍👍😎😎😎
Looks great I have a similar job coming up in a couple of weeks and have to use the helac power tilt along with interchanging between it and my thumb and skeleton bucket... I just wish these bucket attachment manufactures put more thought into us operators when they build tilt attachments so you can still use the hydraulic thumb at the same time....my thumb doesn't line up with the power tilt installed because the attachment adds an additional 18" of length and distance away from the thumb therefore rendering it useless. BTW.. are those RR tracks in service ?
New name letssmearmud18 another fine job working with slop
Of course this will only be worth it if the next house has a clear ditch too !! Still you should get that one as well Chris.
I love that mini.
Grandparents used to live just on the other side of the tracks there. I know that area lol.
It'll look great till some kid in a 4x4 says,"hey y'all watch this"
Check out the flex on my ram! Oh wait, this is different...
Mister George it’s a good operator 😉👌👌
A lot of jobs I see. And happy new year to all!
How do you charge on your job's like this one ? Is it a daily rate? I soon have to do some work on my property and have to run numbers what renting and all would cost and what someone who does it for a living would charge.
Chris check out the bucket that Andrew Camarata built for swells,I think you would like it.
"Honey, I'd like to go shopping tomorrow morning..." Aaaah, really can't, Hon. I've got a mud slicking job to do bright and early. Ya know...
Man construction companies where I live would kill to have operator like you
The Water seems to help you keep your Grade!
Great work! How was the phone line?
Would love to see you do a project for a railroad company
Great job as usual chris! 👌
Excellent finesse!
This is exactly why our Infrastructure is falling apart the Town or County roads dept. should be maintaining the ditches .
it's a county bullshit subdivision!!!! They don't even know it the road is there.
The state and local governments can't afford to maintain the roadsides as much anymore because the money they get goes to the road surface itself. This is because the federal government would rather fund BS like gender studies in Pakistan instead of giving states the money they need to maintain infrastructure. Shit rolls down hill.
Our politicians are just mobsters . Their are racketeering. Look how much money they have after so many years. On their pay. It doesn't add up. So where did the money come from?
In my area if that is a public road the town or county would be doing this job?
You make this look so easy🤓
Looks good Chris. Do you prefer the futerra blanket “saw dust matted together in a roll like you used instead of netted straw blanket?
Chris do you live and work in the rain forest,, and great job on the ditch cleaning
You need one of those ‘V’ shaped ditching buckets
Now they need to keep that ditch up... Clear it with a box blade every year.
Wet weather is good for business.
Another job well done,
If Chris is on the job, it's because " It's a mess"
Great ditch your hired!!
Happy new year
Nice work !!
Chris, Horry country just did the ditches around here. Let me tell ya, they need lessons from you, another great job by Mr Chris.
Is that the biggest articulating bucket for that machine? That thing is a tiny ice cream scooper Lol!