Cutting In A Ditch With The Takeuchi TB260
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2021
- Cutting in a ditch with the Takeuchi TB260 along the track. This was the area where I thinned out the trees and is still a low point so I'm going back and grading a ditch to help the water drain out of the area and hopefully some day get it dry out. The track guys haven't showed up yet so I thought it was a good time to get it done. Thanks for watching! #EliteEarthworks #Takeuchi #cuttingaditch
Nice work. Drainage ditches are always a PITA.... Good luck bud. Thanks
Thank you! Yeah they can be tricky especially when there’s not much fall. Appreciate you watching
You made that look wheelie wheelie swail there B-man!!! lol.
🤣🤣 thank you!
Big improvements every video 💪🏼
First time I emailed Brandon I said you need grading bucket. I'm so used to Gradall with grading bucket. Said now you need tilt
Chief, cook and bottle washer! Quite the challenge they've handed him. In one regard, it's a feather in his cap of the confidence they have in him and on the other, hard for him to call all the serious shots!
Take care DIRT BOSS - good to hear from you! Sonny
Thank you! It finally feels like it’s shaping up lol
I don't know how you do it, but despite all the challenges, you keep making it all come together day by day. Looking forward to seeing the tracks go down and for some of that water to GO AWAY and leave you alone! Thank you for all the great videos.
Thank you! Sometimes it feels like a lit of back and forth lol! I’m excited to see the track as well. I’m hoping to get back there Thursday and see an update. I’ll share a picture or something in a post. Appreciate you watching
See grading bucket is the trick. Looks great Brandon
Thank you! Yeah the grading bucket is great
I own a 60 and I love it, I tear out a bunch of concrete everyday, five days a week. It’s Three years old but it still like brand new, we also own a 40 we use for Concrete as well. I have found there isn’t anything thing Machine can’t handle. I ordered a 90. That piece of Iron should be here next month the sale guy is saying. I bought all four Takeuchi from Alta Rental and Sale I fella by the name of Jason Glass I fast talking salesman but he is good and has a ton of contacts and he know what he is doing they are located I know in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky. A few other states as well but I just don’t know. I just came home from East Tennessee visiting Family but we work on AutoZones all over Ohio and West Tennessee also Dollar Generals all over Michigan and Indiana.
Nice the 260 is a great machine so is the 290. Both are very quick smooth machines sounds like you keep them busy 👍🏻
Coming along! Looks good.
Thank you!
Nice job on shaping that ditch.
Thank you! Should really help out
Glad they have all the confidence in your abilities and decision making on this project. Your head has worn many hats on this one, for sure. You've got a real LOT of TH-cam comments from those (like you) in the business and showing support your way. Quite the project you've grown into but NOTHING YOU cannot handle. Stay safe, Be well! & Hug the family! Sonny
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words! I agree definitely worn many hats and I’ve had a lot of help from a lot of great people.
Track road turned out nice. Hope that ditch works out. Nice job!
Thank you! It’s starting to look like something lol
Really starting to take shape. Nice job. Good video.
Thank you!
Looks great Brandon
Thank you!
great job buddy and great video as always 😎👊🏻👍🏻i love how you look at your saw after you cut the pipe like did i break my saw lol 🤣😂😅 i see you always accidentally hit the thumb button on your excavator lol 🤣😂😅 love the music at the end
Thanks man!
@@eliteearthworksllc you are welcome buddy 😀
Nothing wrong with little water sitting in the ditch, will seep in eventually.When grass start growing in the ditch, people won't notice that sitting water even.😁
Very true 😁👍🏻
Doing well Brandon, not easy when it’s flat as a pancake!! Keek up the good work buddy! All the best from Graham 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍👍
Thank you! Yeah it makes it a pain for sure. Appreciate you watching
Enjoy watching the progress
Thank you!
Should work pretty good. If you want to you can send that rain here to North Carolina we need it. Take care and have a blessed week and see you on your next vidja.
I would love to send it your way 😁 Appreciate you watching
@@eliteearthworksllc Actually we got a little bit enough to settle the dust.
everything looking great !!...thumbs up
Thank you!
Very nice job
Thanks you!
Great job, most people think it’s just trenching when ditching. It’s very challenging to get a ditch right without much fall in elevation.
Thank you! Yes it is very tricky. Appreciate you watching
Great job keep it up
Thank you! I appreciate that!
Looks good, more improvements always helps 👍
Thank you! Yes the more I can do to drain this place the better.
Back in the mudd 👍🏻🇺🇸
🤣🤣 yep I just can’t get away
Digging an effective ditch on ground that flat is no easy task. Yours turned out good though. Keep up the great work buddy.
Thanks man! Yeah it’s a pain and tedious lol
Go for it.
Thanks!
Nice work man! Everything is coming together it looks like. 👍
Thanks man! It’s slowly getting there
No problems, Brandon. You have 1/16th inch per foot to the invert which is far from flat. 🤷♀️
That is true it does have decent fall it’s just so soft it’s tough to grade smooth hopefully now it will dry some and I can touch it up.
Yea your about 1/2% fall. Don’t worry, the water over time will fill and cut any highs and lows. Only so much you can do with the terrain your given.
Weather can always be a heas ache Dat for sure as can trying to get water to move where y'all want it
Yeah it can be tricky for sure
Road looks nice!!
Thank you!
@@eliteearthworksllc You are welcome!
I was going to say chain your truck to the blade and leave it in neutral so you could push it along with you as you dig, but. lol
Lol good idea
You know what they ought to do? Put a pond on both sides of the track there! Maybe build a beaver lodge in the middle of one of them. Maybe on the other side alligators. Fake ones of course. The ponds might even attract ducks and geese.
The first great idea is free! The next one might come with a small fee. You're welcome!
That’s a great idea! Be the best thing to do with all that water for sure. 🤣 a small fee could be worth it at this point 😁
Over the last few years we havent gotten much for rain. I don't miss working with the mud, but we need the rain so ill take it lol
Yeah there definitely needs to be a happy medium
A swale is a lot better than a ditch... it’ll move more water and, you can keep the water further away from the roadbed. Don’t you think?
New company slogan: Elite Swamp Works... alligators or not... we’ll bust our a$$ to drain ‘em!
I went by tonight. They have a bunch of tracks down! Did you get any videos yet? I wanted to go by today and watch but, I had to pick up a new beagle.
I agree the swale with work better. 🤣🤣 that’s great! No I haven’t been down there I was planning on Thursday if it doesn’t rain. Ah cool good to hear what’s this ones name?
@@eliteearthworksllc She’s a shelter rescue...we’re calling her Shasta.
Cool!
Any idea on the name of the song at the end buddy? Been following you for awhile, awesome work brother! Love my taks as well! I have a couple of them. Best small machines on the market!
Pride before the fall by Ethan Meixsell I think I got it off the free TH-cam music site. Thank you! I love my Tak machines they are great!
Ohhhhh man!! If only one corner of the property had a big drop you could funnel everything to. They don’t want trees removed out in the middle but unfortunately it looks like the beginnings of a ditch system to take all the water away to a detention pond of sorts that will catch the heavy rainwater, but slowly drain off further on. The ditch system needs a point to keep flowing to thats low enough and far enough to take all that water right near the tracks away, but that land is so flat. It’s almost something that needs to be engineered (ugly words, I know,,,, $$$, time and changing decisions as you go,,,,, heh heh). Trees will have to come down in order to put this drainage system in!! Necessary evils. Hopefully the client sees it as such. They can’t half ass this one or they will be fighting wet railways and changing terrain underneath forever! Small piece of land that will maybe require miles of ditches to one or two drainage points a couple or even few hundred yards away. It can look good when done, but swaths of trees will need to be removed to install that,,,,,,
I’m no engineer, but I do know it takes a definite plan. We messed with guessing where to put ditches to remove water from some potential grazing land for probably 12 years and then I said screw it and brought an engineering firm in to help out,,,,,,. Well we filled in as many ditches as we created,,,. Once the work was complete we had an excellent plot of land! It was a little over 300 acres that went from worthless to very valuable. In our case we got our $$ back and then some when we sold the property plus the benefit and earnings that extra grazing land made us over the 20+ years we grazed it, hunted it etc. There was a nice, huge “natural” pond that formed in a low spot we sent the water to. It was fun riding dirt bikes on those ditch banks though!
How does that go, in for a penny, in for a dollar (dime)? Hahaha. Good luck on that one! Flashbacks to some sleepless nights and one whopping big gamble/loan!!! Hopefully there is a better solution to your situation, different terrain, different soils etc.
That sounds like it paid off for sure. Sometimes that’s the best thing to do money well spent, drainage issues can cost a fortune so it’s nice to not have to do them multiple times. Glad it worked out for you. Appreciate the comment and you watching 👍🏻
@@eliteearthworksllc - it was much more affordable to do a big project like that back then it seems as well. Yeah we did alright on that piece of land. It bordered the neighbour and he had been trying to buy it for years. Finally he threw a ridiculous offer at it. Prices were rising that fast at the time he felt he would still be to the good in 5-10 years if he paid 20% over market on it. He was right and I did better than I ever expected so a win/win situation. I was that lucky on all the land. Timing was good. In fact for those that bought the land,,,,, if I waited until this year for selling the land it’s conceivable that I would have made about $3 million CAD more! I couldn’t have ranched any more so it was the right time to go. I got lucky on the sale of my last acreage (21 acres) as well due to adding a 3 acre pond/lake. They just stocked it with trout this spring! See how it does. I have an open invite to fish the lake!! Wait for the fall feed fest the trout tend to do!! Haha.
I know you are busy Brandon. I understand if you don’t reply. Take care of yourself and that family of yours!!
You need 12” for 100 ft
That would be nice
What state do you live in
He’s in SW Missouri... this project is near Joplin in a small town called Diamond.
Missouri