Dig out the nasty gray mud, spread out the pretty red clay, fabric, and stone, and POOF, it's a road! Magic! Always enjoy watching the whole process. Thanks, and Woof to Winston and the other dogs.
Just the process for a simple road. Much more to building roads than what he shows. But I agree, more people should learn about what goes into building and maintaining roads.
The first winter i lived in Greensboro NC it snowed 8 inches and we were out of school for a week! They dont get enough snow to justify purchasing snowplows and such. And Chris is well east of there(about an hour or so). It was glorious, from a Connecticut yankee teen’s viewpoint!
The Volvo dump truck must be one of the hardest worked & cost effective machines you have, as it appears on projects more often than not 7 when it does, it's rarely standing idle for long.
What kind of rock is that you use for road base all the time? It looks great! We don't have rock like that down here in Florida. They always bed our roads with limerock which does compact real good but kind of washes away real easy when it rains. Limerock only works well when it's covered by asphalt. If you try to just have a bare limerock road it ruts and rills and develops that washboard surface after driving on it a bunch and the rain causes massive pothole craters in random places. Wish we had rock like you got up there.
When this road is done, you should drive it in the pickup with a camera on the dash. Then play a split screen clip with that initial dozer tour you gave us of where the driveway was going to go
You never mention costs of job. I get that might be sensitive information and or depends on landscape and scope. But would be informative to know a rough estimate on what is being done. My dream of owning some land and a lake is far behind me. The idea of people buying land and then having one built is impressive. This person for Instance. I’m thinking that road alone costs as much as my home or more. A home that’s in supposedly wonderful California in “Surf City USA”. Means nothing to me. When are you going to start your project now the house is done?
Cost is more about covering expenses plus adding 10% (or so) for profit. Not sure what this would cost where he is, but in my area a job this size could easily stretch anywhere from about $60k to over $100k. But we would be doing more work too as we are considerably more wet and would have to stabilize the road bed differently.
Is there a sense of "touch" or "calibration" between the actual pressure the shovel and tongs produce and the hand controls in the cab? Or is that just something the operator learns over time ... after crushing a few culverts?
There is no feedback through the controls. Depending on what you're doing you can feel the impact of the bucket when it touches stuff or hear the hydraulic pump load. However if the resistance put up by what you're hitting isn't very high you could crush it and not realize till you hit the dirt
@@njonebale7889 not what I meant i was saying there is no physical vibration or resistance in the stick itself same amount of force to move the control
You can feel it, but you can't feel it. There is nothing in the controls that you feel. No vibration or anything like that. But you can feel how much the machine is working by how much input you give it.
I must say I’ve been watching some of your videos from 9 10 12 yrs. ago and how you’ve changed in them from beard and mustache,being slightly skinner,and you lost a lotta your Carolina twang,still sarcastic and try to tell like it is.come long way.p.s. Your uncle is same same just little older.lol.enjoying this project,lotta work.👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
Chris... When you get on a job such as this how do you go about planning it? I am sure the client has list of wants and needs and a budget. But like having to remove bad soil to get down to stable substrate. Is something like that figured into the bid cause you don't know till you start doing the job. It takes more time and effort. Just curious...
I was wondering the same thing. I’m not asking for specific amount. How is a job like that bid. By footage, ton, yard, distances from home so on and so forth.
Since watching Chris working plant its given me a desire to jump in one of those big Volvo earth moving trucks and help him. Then reality strikes home. I would slow him down. Nice work Chris.
And, the award for The Most Oddly Satisfying Scenes of Gravel Rolling Off a Moldboard goes to.... Please tell me why watching that is like a good bowl of comfort food!
Moving right along, road laying in nice Chris !! I can see why you fixed the little duck pond back to par, with that long of a trip just to get to the house , you are gonna need something to look at while coming an going !! lolol...Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Weekend and Evening....On to the Next !!
Singer questions from a guy trying to learn, why did you put dirt down then place the culvert instead of culvert then dirt? Also, is there any issue with expansion/contraction causing the road to rut with the clay you put down?
You saw how easy it was to dig it then lay the pipe,now imagine trying to get a good pack around it while grading in a long run of clay and not crushing the pipe. Part 2- Clay doesn't absorb much water compared to topsoil and such so it makes a good road base,and pond liner,and dam. But don't take my word for it,I'm just a damn dumb drywall finisher.
I appreciate the comments, but I'd really love to hear from the guy who did the work why. I'm sure there's a good reason, I'm just curious what it was.
Only piece of equipment I haven't seen on this job is your Kubota tractor!!! Still trying to figure out where this road starts and where it is going to.
I did dirt work for over 30 years half of them as a superintendent. There are so few operators that can jump on 4 or 5 different machines in a day and be efficient. You do nice work. I would have liked having you on my jobs.
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What type of gravel are you putting down seems to have a lot of soil mixed in with it, here in Mississippi when we buy a load of gravel be it clay gravel or slag it is clean rock without any soil in it, just curious if this beds better or what the purpose is for the material you are putting down
How does Chris know the depth of the stone on top of the plastic? What depth is he shooting for? Does he stop and check a few places like farmers stop and check behind a combine or planter before doing the whole field?
when i was trained on heavy equipment some 40 years ago by 3 difference contractors, before i went to work in logging camps. i was always told. it you are running a track machine, if them tracks are turning, that blade better be working, undercarriages are not cheap.. that was drilled into me by all 3.. and as years went by, i sen why. how fast they wear, even on logging equipment, and big D7 and D8 building ice winter roads.. man did i ever get yelled at, if them track were turning and the blade was up, unless i was walking it to another job site. i broke my collar bone. on a 977 cat track frame bolt, nut, in a rock corrie. a 1" drive socket 1-7/8 snap tools on, a 1' power bar with a 10 foot pipe and 2 of use on the pipe trying to bake the nuts loss, the socket broke and that pipe hit my collar bone, it was all over.. never forgotten that. hell if i filled in holes were i dug out clay and filled them with mud or any other dirt, sand, i would have a man eating pit, or anything that walked or drove on it, this red clay, it like a cement swimming pool. it will hold water for ever that dont go up. when my well was drilled they went though 62 feet of red and grey clay, have never found a rock on the property with all the digging and buldozing, after the 62 feet of clay, the went though 12 feet of coarse gravel, then 17 feet of bed rock into an 18"b deep water vane, drilled down 8 more feet in to the bed rock for a sump
Thank you Chris for making videos everyday. It makes my day to watch what you can do with heavy equipment. You are so talented and skilled. Is there any heavy equipment you can't drive. Stay safe.
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Chris try rolling your moboard back a little bit more, your trying to lay material with blade on edge, it's better back, finish grade can use edge more vertical, shaves better. Roll back prevent blade fro hopping. Dose your moborad has hydraulic tilting system.??
Hey Chris, you guys have 3 blokes building this road whereas other road builders have 5or 6 some doing nothing . Always a pleasure watching the A team great work
Thank you for not putting crappy background music in your videos. Damn good operator and your videos are great. Great work!
As always - most impressed by Chris's abilities in all the plant equipment - and the speed of work done. A day's work is just darned impressive :)
Hi Chris.
Something soothing and hypnotic watching the motor grader blade roll that gravel. Love that view looking at the blade.
Dig out the nasty gray mud, spread out the pretty red clay, fabric, and stone, and POOF, it's a road!
Magic!
Always enjoy watching the whole process.
Thanks, and Woof to Winston and the other dogs.
Too bad it's a process most ordinary people know nothing abuot or appreciate.
Just the process for a simple road. Much more to building roads than what he shows. But I agree, more people should learn about what goes into building and maintaining roads.
@@mikel9567 I agree Mike, until I started recording road crews I didn't really know all that goes into building maintaining them.
My Canadian brain thinks that would be a hell of a road to plow in the winter. Then I remember where you are.
The first winter i lived in Greensboro NC it snowed 8 inches and we were out of school for a week! They dont get enough snow to justify purchasing snowplows and such. And Chris is well east of there(about an hour or so). It was glorious, from a Connecticut yankee teen’s viewpoint!
The Volvo dump truck must be one of the hardest worked & cost effective machines you have, as it appears on projects more often than not 7 when it does, it's rarely standing idle for long.
I’m really enjoying these 2-3 beer long videos!! 👍🏻
That road is so long PA DOT would give it a route number!
LOL!
any chance of a cleaning vid of the entire fleet
What kind of rock is that you use for road base all the time? It looks great! We don't have rock like that down here in Florida. They always bed our roads with limerock which does compact real good but kind of washes away real easy when it rains. Limerock only works well when it's covered by asphalt. If you try to just have a bare limerock road it ruts and rills and develops that washboard surface after driving on it a bunch and the rain causes massive pothole craters in random places. Wish we had rock like you got up there.
Doesn't get any better than lime rock properly compacted. Best roads on Earth are in Florida.
No advice or recommendations to offer. No remote diagnosis based on the sounds coming from your equipment. Just like to watch a craftsman at work.
But what about the right outside tooth on the bucket.....it’s worn 4mm more than the other teeth!!!😱
Excellent positioning of the camera on the grader , it’s a simple looking machine but it’s so effective in the right hands .
That customer should be real happy with that road. It looks great.
Love the videos where Chris get to play on all the equipment. Coming along nicely.
Another excellent video bro and looking not half bad with what you have done so far. Keep safe up your way.
I like watching a Road Grader. If only you could grade a mountain road, that has inclines.
..lookin' good, nice job, even without a big-ass fire..lol..stay safe and enjoy...
Hi Bob.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast ..hey..
You’ve got the road building thing down to a science 🤓 lol nice work 👍🏻
When this road is done, you should drive it in the pickup with a camera on the dash. Then play a split screen clip with
that initial dozer tour you gave us of where the driveway was going to go
You never mention costs of job. I get that might be sensitive information and or depends on landscape and scope.
But would be informative to know a rough estimate on what is being done. My dream of owning some land and a lake is far behind me. The idea of people buying land and then having one built is impressive. This person for Instance. I’m thinking that road alone costs as much as my home or more. A home that’s in supposedly wonderful California in “Surf City USA”. Means nothing to me. When are you going to start your project now the house is done?
Cost is more about covering expenses plus adding 10% (or so) for profit. Not sure what this would cost where he is, but in my area a job this size could easily stretch anywhere from about $60k to over $100k. But we would be doing more work too as we are considerably more wet and would have to stabilize the road bed differently.
You might have to put in a gas station half way if that driveway gets much longer
Good driving skills when dumping out
Nice work Chris you do amazing work with what you have for equipment🚜🚧👷
Is there a sense of "touch" or "calibration" between the actual pressure the shovel and tongs produce and the hand controls in the cab? Or is that just something the operator learns over time ... after crushing a few culverts?
There is no feedback through the controls. Depending on what you're doing you can feel the impact of the bucket when it touches stuff or hear the hydraulic pump load. However if the resistance put up by what you're hitting isn't very high you could crush it and not realize till you hit the dirt
Jonathan Wilson you can feel it, if you can’t you shouldn’t be the operator
@@njonebale7889 not what I meant i was saying there is no physical vibration or resistance in the stick itself same amount of force to move the control
You can feel it, but you can't feel it. There is nothing in the controls that you feel. No vibration or anything like that. But you can feel how much the machine is working by how much input you give it.
Appalachian Fire. you got it ! you must feel the force, harness the force...my young jedi operator!
I must say I’ve been watching some of your videos from 9 10 12 yrs. ago and how you’ve changed in them from beard and mustache,being slightly skinner,and you lost a lotta your Carolina twang,still sarcastic and try to tell like it is.come long way.p.s. Your uncle is same same just little older.lol.enjoying this project,lotta work.👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
We all get Older, and Wiser with time...😒 Well, not all of us...😄
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Darn nice lookin driveway! Mine is only 300 ft. but I wish YOU had put it in.
You need a new Tim or two!
you have a lot of toys to do your jobs done hihiihi
Chris your going to have to get a Mic, can't hear you. Thanks.
Chris... When you get on a job such as this how do you go about planning it? I am sure the client has list of wants and needs and a budget. But like having to remove bad soil to get down to stable substrate. Is something like that figured into the bid cause you don't know till you start doing the job. It takes more time and effort. Just curious...
I was wondering the same thing. I’m not asking for specific amount. How is a job like that bid. By footage, ton, yard, distances from home so on and so forth.
Reverse tailgating on a curve. 👍
Always luv your attention to detail. Great job
Since watching Chris working plant its given me a desire to jump in one of those big Volvo earth moving trucks and help him. Then reality strikes home. I would slow him down. Nice work Chris.
Imthe same way- sometimes ya just gotta know your limitations, right?
good evening Chris, with as long as that road is doe's it have two zip codes?
And, the award for The Most Oddly Satisfying Scenes of Gravel Rolling Off a Moldboard goes to.... Please tell me why watching that is like a good bowl of comfort food!
It’s amazing to see ,how strong that culvert pipe becomes, once compacted in
It will probably be a nice driveway,
with a pond and the forest around.
Moving right along, road laying in nice Chris !! I can see why you fixed the little duck pond back to par, with that long of a trip just to get to the house , you are gonna need something to look at while coming an going !! lolol...Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Weekend and Evening....On to the Next !!
How much of a lift at once?
250 on full power! Why you have positioned the pipe after the spreading of the dirt? 🤔
Singer questions from a guy trying to learn, why did you put dirt down then place the culvert instead of culvert then dirt?
Also, is there any issue with expansion/contraction causing the road to rut with the clay you put down?
You saw how easy it was to dig it then lay the pipe,now imagine trying to get a good pack around it while grading in a long run of clay and not crushing the pipe. Part 2- Clay doesn't absorb much water compared to topsoil and such so it makes a good road base,and pond liner,and dam. But don't take my word for it,I'm just a damn dumb drywall finisher.
I’m assuming he built the road to the sub grade he wanted to make sure the T.O.P wasn’t high than road top
Because the haul truck and dozer would have squashed the culvert pipe, or at least dislodged it.
I appreciate the comments, but I'd really love to hear from the guy who did the work why. I'm sure there's a good reason, I'm just curious what it was.
Good evening Chris you have a great crew, beautiful job spreading stone going backwards and you do amazing work. Thank you for sharing
I don’t think Wooten or barn hill with a crew of 20 could do a better job than y’all’s two man crew can do
Never figured out why it's called a borrow pit when I've never seen anybody put the dirt back once they are done using it.
Should be called a Steal Pit= more accurate
Only piece of equipment I haven't seen on this job is your Kubota tractor!!! Still trying to figure out where this road starts and where it is going to.
He used it to grade out his parents driveway a few months back.
It is a Kioti, not Kubota :-)
Always a great job with good equipment, good help and knowing what the hell your doing, my opinion, which is 72% for a Monday morning.👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Ahhh! It’s grader-relaxation time✌🏻 so satisfying!
The sound of Volvo earth moving equipment is like ASMR to my ear holes.
Hey Chris sounds like your grader could use some power service or fuel filters. Road looks awsome.
Great work on the road and the drainage pipe. Thank you for sharing the job with us.
Why didn't you put the pipe in before building up the road. Seems counter productive
There's dip in that section. The pipe would have been to deep, plus its best to cut a pipe into compacted clay for future washout.
You must have a solid foundation first, just like building anything, even though its all ground, what is there to start with is not considered solid
He bug back down to the original soil thats why I don't get why he didn't just lay the pipe first.
@@kam2371 True, tough once placed the solid "fresh" product is packed around the pipe ( with the bucket) then "re-graded" smooth over the top of it
Then why not just pack the original soil then lay the clay over that
I did dirt work for over 30 years half of them as a superintendent. There are so few operators that can jump on 4 or 5 different machines in a day and be efficient. You do nice work. I would have liked having you on my jobs.
Looking great Chris. That's going to be a really nice area to drive through and that little pond is a nice touch!
your facinating to watch chris... your doing what it would normally take 10 people to do
Besides John and Chris I haven't seen the third guy all summer what happened to him?
Tim left for a better job earlier this year. It was explained in one of the animal hospital video's
Gee Chris , Volvo ought to bring you a brand new blade to demo dont you think?
How much does a road like this cost? Seems like an expensive upkeep as well.
I take it that the fabric is supposed to help prevent pot holes? Great video as always, cheers :)
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Good job from one road builder to another, for only 2 guys you guys do a good amount work
Other than the sound of the equipment doing their various tasks...it's quiet time today & that's 👌
I always like the way the grader sounds
I have not seen a better operator than Criss and I was with jungle eaters in vietnam 120 D7 8 9 cats lets dig I hate mud !!
What type of gravel are you putting down seems to have a lot of soil mixed in with it, here in Mississippi when we buy a load of gravel be it clay gravel or slag it is clean rock without any soil in it, just curious if this beds better or what the purpose is for the material you are putting down
Usually appreciate all the camera views but the one from underneath makes me carsick.
Mighty fine work going on there!
Thank you for sharing your day.
Sure doesnt take long to put a polish on that grader blade !
I am happy to see the stone being spread out while dumping...great!
I would have dug the trench out then put in the culvert then put down the clay. Digging up something you just laid down is not cost effective.
How does Chris know the depth of the stone on top of the plastic? What depth is he shooting for? Does he stop and check a few places like farmers stop and check behind a combine or planter before doing the whole field?
Might seem boring to you since you do it everyday but would like to see the roller work. thanks like the videos
Man you run thoses machine like did all your life .
I can see your reflection in the cab on the gears that spin around moving the blade!
I have never understood why the culvert goes in so late in the construction area. why not put it in first?
Is that water proof plastic or does water pass through it?
With all due respect i was jus wondering where was the water cart and vibrating roller bit to lock it up
looking awesome Chris
Great video. Wish I could have seen the roller finish the job.
I’d like to work for you because you are a good and smart and wise on a machine
Man y'all got some nice equipment. I bet y'all r never out of a job
Someone should make a simulator for the novice...
That motor grader makes life pretty easy
You look like you are sitting in a easy chair when you operate.
Question, are the curves in the road to tight, just curious.
It's a long driveway, but still a driveway.
Yes, let's get to work.
What is the grey product be used on top of the clay for road surface?
It always seems the culvert goes in after the road. Wouldn't it be easier to put it in before U get the road hard pack in place
probably to do with road height ,to get it done then see where the culvert needs to go
Its looking AWSOME!!!!!
when i was trained on heavy equipment some 40 years ago by 3 difference contractors, before i went to work in logging camps. i was always told. it you are running a track machine, if them tracks are turning, that blade better be working, undercarriages are not cheap.. that was drilled into me by all 3.. and as years went by, i sen why. how fast they wear, even on logging equipment, and big D7 and D8 building ice winter roads.. man did i ever get yelled at, if them track were turning and the blade was up, unless i was walking it to another job site. i broke my collar bone. on a 977 cat track frame bolt, nut, in a rock corrie. a 1" drive socket 1-7/8 snap tools on, a 1' power bar with a 10 foot pipe and 2 of use on the pipe trying to bake the nuts loss, the socket broke and that pipe hit my collar bone, it was all over.. never forgotten that. hell if i filled in holes were i dug out clay and filled them with mud or any other dirt, sand, i would have a man eating pit, or anything that walked or drove on it, this red clay, it like a cement swimming pool. it will hold water for ever that dont go up. when my well was drilled they went though 62 feet of red and grey clay, have never found a rock on the property with all the digging and buldozing, after the 62 feet of clay, the went though 12 feet of coarse gravel, then 17 feet of bed rock into an 18"b deep water vane, drilled down 8 more feet in to the bed rock for a sump
Looking good👍👍😀🍁
As always ..a great video!!! can we get a 10+ year review of the dozer? Finally order my T-shirt!.. Thanks Chris!!
Dude is like an artist with a brush with that excavator
The red dirt is loam, not clay
Thank you Chris for making videos everyday. It makes my day to watch what you can do with heavy equipment. You are so talented and skilled. Is there any heavy equipment you can't drive. Stay safe.
Supr job good dozer and Volvo lache pas!
0:05 wow, look at that red hue dirt, it's really pretty!
Good job 👍🏻 What is the black fabric that you spread and what's the purpose of it?
It keeps the stone from squishing into the red clay.
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@@sandybarnes887 thank you :-)
I believe it will rain in NC from now on LOL! Great Job on the road build and culvert installation!
I like watching you put culverts in, like this job! Really good video Chris! Looking good brother! 👍🏻👍🏻
Chris try rolling your moboard back a little bit more, your trying to lay material with blade on edge, it's better back, finish grade can use edge more vertical, shaves better. Roll back prevent blade fro hopping. Dose your moborad has hydraulic tilting system.??
Great work! 😊👍 I get tired quickly when I hear work noises. 🤭
02:04 a.m. in Germany. Bedtime. Good night! 😴
Hey Chris, you guys have 3 blokes building this road whereas other road builders have 5or 6 some doing nothing . Always a pleasure watching the A team great work