Thanks for being creative when placing the camera outside of the machines. Keeping it fresh will always keep your viewers coming back. Thanks to you and Tim for inviting us into your day. Vancouver, Canada.
About 15 years ago I drove Haul Truck while living in Seattle, WA. I never thought I'd long for those days until watching this video. It didn't pay all that great but I really did enjoy the work! Thanks for the memories!
Chris, how deep will the pond be? I just discovered you tube the last couple of years. Sitting here this winter wondering why you are one of my favorites. Then I realized that you are doing on a large scale what I, my trusty square shovel, and wheelbarrow, have been doing since 1975 on my 3 acre farm. I have a 15x15, 4' deep pond that I dug totally by hand. Ditches, swales and garden beds....my shovel always starts! 70 this year and still starting new projects.
Definitely makes it aggravating when you want to finish a job but the weather makes it impossible. Hopefully it stays dry long enough to wrap this project up
Just think if you had the time to finish it before the two hurricanes and monsoon season we’ve been getting, it would about be running over by now. Thanks for the videos.
Hey Chris, watch out scratching froze ground with "sticks" in it. I've had em "sticks" break an take front windows out! Sucks, cause it cost you windows and underwear!!! 👍🏻🙂🇨🇦
@@letsdig18 you could of put for the title ... Getting rough on TIMMY pushing him on the job ,, lol not fun in the mud ,, i moved some clay by a barn was pushing the foundation over ,, plus ground water was coming in had a ramp to get in the ditch had too keep putting dry dirt on it to get out ,, the clay would pack then the due was enough water too make it slick ,, i have tires on my tractor ,,
Hey their Chris! Do you ever had or have a feeling sometimes, you are ganna back in to the track or that excervter.?..lol just saying, and my guess is that's probably a spring why the mud keeps getting wetter..
For communication between Chris and Tim consider one of the apps that turn your phones into walkie talkies, pick one of them, there are lots of them, Zello PTT Walkie Talkie is one of the apps that works for me.
More rain coming tonight. Hope you are well Chris. Greetings from Raleigh! Hard to believe how many subs you have now, congrats man! I assume this is up in Franklin Co ?
Sucked for me once. Left finger tips just caught safety (pilot shutoff) clicking controls off, Saving me from shovel walking ahead with 16" long through the cab on my lap! 🖐️👍🏻🙂🇨🇦 ( Try skating on ice up here in 🇨🇦)
Great video as always, the 250 is awesome! Just a quick question: would a bigger excavator be better for a job like this? Just wondering because it looks like a big project...
Chris have you ever tried the little walkie talkies like from Best buy or Walmart. I know it's not something that you use every day but would work good.
Can the bucket push the hydraulic thumb back? I guess what I'm asking is will it blow hoses or cylinders if youre not careful or does it have something built in to keep that from happening?
On all my other machines the thumb is set to be weaker so the bucket over powers it. This certain machine does not so you have to be careful not to bend or break the thumb cylinder
@@letsdig18 10-4. I'm with you they make a good product, but paladin is always so slow production wise I hardly ever utilize them for machines in our rental fleet.I mostly run ESCO buckets with solebee's thumbs.
Chris that Volvo haul truck sounded a little underpowered pulling that hill while loaded with only six or seven scoops. 😁 How many horsepower does it have ? Maybe y'all have it turned down for fuel economy ?
Treebutcher The ground is so soft here that chains wouldn’t do anything except get it more stuck. The way that North Carolina is we have a lot of that red goopy clay and when it gets wet it gets sloppy.
chris, i enjoy all your videos, but they would be so much better if we could hear you better. do you have a microphone that would help us hear you commentary
letsdig18 They do that when the batteries die. You should look into a local communication company. I’m sure if you name drop you can get the stuff cheap from them. Your local police department or fire dept contracts with a radio company see who they use.
u sit way to close to your work .. the further u stretch out the more power u have ... plus u back your trucks way to close ... to much stick in and out...
Iv always wondered, does the thumb curl up with the bucket on its own or do you have to retract it everytime you curl up the bucket. Great video. You can almost hear the power difference from the 160 to the 250!!!
@@crazyjdkid I know that part. I just didnt know if he curled the bucket up with out operating the thumb if the bucket would push the thumb hard enough to colapse the cylinder on the thub of if the thumb would automatically fold up.
Both, and really in most of the trades. The schools all push the mantra that working with your hands is a bad thing and that everyone should go to college and get a degree. In many schools there isn't even anything left in industrial arts or shop classes.
Really liked the truck ride..... You're right when you said it was a beautiful pond site. Can just see a great big ol home up on that hillside. Will it be a "home place" or a farm pond ? Can you move more dirt with the truck or say a couple of scrapers?
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Thanks for being creative when placing the camera outside of the machines. Keeping it fresh will always keep your viewers coming back. Thanks to you and Tim for inviting us into your day.
Vancouver, Canada.
My observation in the past is, that only about 30 days per year are perfect/workable conditions for doing dirt work.
Good luck this year!!!!!
About 15 years ago I drove Haul Truck while living in Seattle, WA. I never thought I'd long for those days until watching this video. It didn't pay all that great but I really did enjoy the work! Thanks for the memories!
excellent Chris on the whole movie thanks for taking the time to edit and post to us to watch.
Chris, how deep will the pond be? I just discovered you tube the last couple of years. Sitting here this winter wondering why you are one of my favorites. Then I realized that you are doing on a large scale what I, my trusty square shovel, and wheelbarrow, have been doing since 1975 on my 3 acre farm. I have a 15x15, 4' deep pond that I dug totally by hand. Ditches, swales and garden beds....my shovel always starts!
70 this year and still starting new projects.
Great video as always. My fiance got me a Letsdig shirt today for my birthday! Looking forward to wearing it tomorrow.
Having the road wide enough to split the ruts helps. Sometimes that takes moving too much dirt, sometimes it's worth it.
Definitely makes it aggravating when you want to finish a job but the weather makes it impossible. Hopefully it stays dry long enough to wrap this project up
watching your videos reminds me of the joy I had as a little boy, digging in the dirt with my Tonka backhoe
Great video. Thanks for the effort. God bless and peace from Virginia. 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜
The haul truck makes an impressive racket, more thrash!
Truck stick, loading dirt, getting the heating fixt from the truck, nice again Chris 👌
Just think if you had the time to finish it before the two hurricanes and monsoon season we’ve been getting, it would about be running over by now. Thanks for the videos.
Always a way around a problem when ya have the right gear. Great video too.
Can you stand buy the bucket so we caan tell the size of it
That Volvo dumper has a nice ROARR to it, when put to work 👍🏻
Another great video 📼
Great POV on the dump truck working.
Looks like fun .
Mud pies .
Need a couple more haul trucks though.
It rained all day today in Alabama, it's on the way to you!
The wider tires that are made for your type of truck would a big help in the mud.
Thanks for the video.
Hey Chris, watch out scratching froze ground with "sticks" in it. I've had em "sticks" break an take front windows out! Sucks, cause it cost you windows and underwear!!! 👍🏻🙂🇨🇦
And again another great job and video
Nice shot on the front of the bed 👍
Keep up all the good work love your vedios stay safe GODSPEED ONE
Just love to here that engine sound from the dumper
love your videos keep up the good work. from over the water in britain
Digging up Minnesota right now and our frost is 2ft thick. Running a yanmar vio 25. Open rips. Subzero temperatures all day and night.
The thin layer of mud thawing out on the frozen ground is slick as ice itself. Gets me every spring, lol. End up on my ass every year at least once.
Should get some of your beaver pals to dam that little drain properly for you ...
I love the sound of the truck it’s music 🎵 to my ears 👂🏻 lol 😆😁😄😃😀🤣😂😅😜😝😛🤪🤩
I would unplug that back up beeper.
Holy crap, shove a rag around that backup alarm...
I can't back up without looking behind me . could never drive the big stuff and missed out on that experience .
Nice bright, clear and sharp video Chris. What camera are you using. Thankyou
At first I was like... Why are you tracking with your coffee in the bucket? 😂😂
Mud, mud, mud. Welcome to our weather in the PNW...
Chris,
How much dirt will have to be moved? Looks like a huge job
14k yards roughly
@@letsdig18 damn yall will be there a while esp if it don't dry out
@@letsdig18 you could of put for the title ... Getting rough on TIMMY pushing him on the job ,, lol not fun in the mud ,, i moved some clay by a barn was pushing the foundation over ,, plus ground water was coming in had a ramp to get in the ditch had too keep putting dry dirt on it to get out ,, the clay would pack then the due was enough water too make it slick ,, i have tires on my tractor ,,
I do like watching that 250 dig. That's what it loves.
Does the swing noise that loud on all excavators
Hey their Chris! Do you ever had or have a feeling sometimes, you are ganna back in to the track or that excervter.?..lol just saying, and my guess is that's probably a spring why the mud keeps getting wetter..
Have you looked at the Volvo skid we are looking at them what do you think of them
Is this one the excavator that you recently bought with the tinted windows or is this a different one
Nathan Mullaney this is The newest one in the fleet
Hypnotic video . Cool.
Dammit like you mean it!
For communication between Chris and Tim consider one of the apps that turn your phones into walkie talkies, pick one of them, there are lots of them, Zello PTT Walkie Talkie is one of the apps that works for me.
More rain coming tonight. Hope you are well Chris. Greetings from Raleigh! Hard to believe how many subs you have now, congrats man! I assume this is up in Franklin Co ?
This up towards mebane
@@letsdig18 cool. I built a house in Mebane many moons ago...beautiful property
I used to live in Raleigh but now I moved to florida. Very pretty up thare. Also has anyone heard of flowers plantation?
Why don't you and Tim have a set of radios? I understand having one in every machine would be a waste but some portable ones could come in handy.
Does that Volvo have electric swing? Or is the brake making me think that? Full buckets 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 awesome
Sucked for me once. Left finger tips just caught safety (pilot shutoff) clicking controls off, Saving me from shovel walking ahead with 16" long through the cab on my lap! 🖐️👍🏻🙂🇨🇦 ( Try skating on ice up here in 🇨🇦)
Chris you and Tim need two way radios 😊
worst part Chris, is it is going to rain again tonight...heavy they say
You should get radios to communicate to tell him to move up and all
Yep.i remember that job site you have definitely have had your share of rain in your state and then some 🤨
Great video as always, the 250 is awesome! Just a quick question: would a bigger excavator be better for a job like this? Just wondering because it looks like a big project...
Do you not like having CB's in the equipment? Seems likr it would be convenient
You need a old Mack dump truck with over tire tracks , Right Track System
Is drainage available?
Man I really like those volvo machines and I'm a CAT guy...
Meow!
just dont get the excavator stuck lol
why not? he still has the dozer to pull it out ... after that he's out of options though
Think about how wealthy you would be if you had a market for mud.
Man your mud is RED! Cleaned some belly plates out with your mud! LoL 👍🏻🙂🇨🇦😈
Do you wish the truck had a tailgate?
Well at least you have been keeping the hours low on the 250! Lol
Chris have you ever tried the little walkie talkies like from Best buy or Walmart. I know it's not something that you use every day but would work good.
Have a pair in the machine and they won't work lol
@@letsdig18 Got walkie talkie apps installed on your smartphones?
@@letsdig18 .. check their fluid levels, make an oil change, grease the fittings and replace the batteries occasionally :-)
hand held cb radios that plug into the 12 volt port...
Use your cell phones??
What’s up with the track loader ?
havent figured it out yet
Gold!!!!!!!
Don't know about your area, but me end of NC bout to get more Rain tonight.
Can the bucket push the hydraulic thumb back? I guess what I'm asking is will it blow hoses or cylinders if youre not careful or does it have something built in to keep that from happening?
On all my other machines the thumb is set to be weaker so the bucket over powers it. This certain machine does not so you have to be careful not to bend or break the thumb cylinder
@@letsdig18 is it a setting or a valve you can adjust or is it something that comes factory on the thumb?
Chris, Just curious as to why you went with CP bucket / thumb combo over alternatives?
I really like their thumbs, so we have to use thier buckets so that they match when closed
@@letsdig18 10-4. I'm with you they make a good product, but paladin is always so slow production wise I hardly ever utilize them for machines in our rental fleet.I mostly run ESCO buckets with solebee's thumbs.
@@johnfoxcoats2722 yeah it took them like 2 months to make the bucket and thumb!
whats the bucket capacity?
Chris that Volvo haul truck sounded a little underpowered pulling that hill while loaded with only six or seven scoops.
😁
How many horsepower does it have ?
Maybe y'all have it turned down for fuel economy ?
Has any of y'all turned the bed over on the truck yet
"A Man of the Earth"
Can you put tire chains on the haul truck?
Those would be so dang expensive! Not to mention so heavy and a pain to put on. No one would be able to pick them up to put em on!
@@hotrodhog2170 I bet the excavator Chris is sitting could pick them up.
Treebutcher The ground is so soft here that chains wouldn’t do anything except get it more stuck. The way that North Carolina is we have a lot of that red goopy clay and when it gets wet it gets sloppy.
You guys need some CB radios in all your machines so you can talk to each other
Time to install a grave boat ramp.
As long as it don`t rain!lol!
I’ve managed to fit 48t of asdug on an A30 before pat it down pile it up 😂🙈
You need a 2 way radio for the haul truck and you're excavator's.
chris, i enjoy all your videos, but they would be so much better if we could hear you better. do you have a microphone that would help us hear you commentary
Down road they got metal plates so excavators Artic Trucks 60ton crane and all other machines Cars can drive on site and don't get Stuck
Rino handheld GPS in walkie talkies work awesome for construction just saying
I had a pair for jobs like this but they quit working
letsdig18 They do that when the batteries die. You should look into a local communication company. I’m sure if you name drop you can get the stuff cheap from them. Your local police department or fire dept contracts with a radio company see who they use.
Who’s Timmy Chris ?? Is he related to the family as well ??
Why don't you put your mats down on the haul road so you don't have the issue?
Kinda shocked you didn't take some of the red clay and pack it into those mud holes.
I did in another video
use the mats you used on LAKE JOB
All I can say is ramming speed. Momentum has been my friend in mud, which I hate.
Luv'd to meet ya! You in South or North Carolina, or Florida lol.. eastern Ontario myself
If you let me come and drive the haul truck I will work for free lol
u sit way to close to your work .. the further u stretch out the more power u have ... plus u back your trucks way to close ... to much stick in and out...
Is that a 4 ft. Bucket ?
I believe it could handle a bit larger one.
54"
@@letsdig18 I guess the machine is so big it just looks like 4ft.
My old 690elc JD has a 42" . I sometimes wish it was wider for small stuff.
Iv always wondered, does the thumb curl up with the bucket on its own or do you have to retract it everytime you curl up the bucket. Great video. You can almost hear the power difference from the 160 to the 250!!!
The thumb has its own hydraulic control.
no the thumb is not auto, you use a button or slider switch to operate the thumb separate
@@crazyjdkid I know that part. I just didnt know if he curled the bucket up with out operating the thumb if the bucket would push the thumb hard enough to colapse the cylinder on the thub of if the thumb would automatically fold up.
Jacob Blackburn yes it will push the thumb cylinder backwards if you curl the bucket up far enough. One of the small downfalls to a hydraulic thumb.
Is there a lack of machine operators there in the US? Just wondering cos I hear there is a lack of truck drivers.
Both, and really in most of the trades. The schools all push the mantra that working with your hands is a bad thing and that everyone should go to college and get a degree. In many schools there isn't even anything left in industrial arts or shop classes.
thank you for the reply
need yall some walkie talkies ..
Rain Rain go away come back again another day. when the job is done.
Have you though about putting down the large wooden mats to bridge the gap that you used on several pond dredging videos?
Austin Springer they would break under the weight of the haul truck if there’s nothing supporting them underneath
Really liked the truck ride..... You're right when you said it was a beautiful pond site. Can just see a great big ol home up on that hillside. Will it be a "home place" or a farm pond ? Can you move more dirt with the truck or say a couple of scrapers?
I think the scrapers would get stuck, yes there will be a house built on the hill overlooking the pond
Thanks for the video like it man .