NO STUNT DOUBLE HERE, Dirt, Rock, Excavator and Tractor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Today I answer a bunch of comments and, spread rock and top soil around the new building with the Kubota KX057-4 Excavator and MX 5400
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We live in Western Pa. and Have around 100 Acres of Land, About 1/2 is ours the rest is my moms, We have 4 kids and one grandchild, 3 Golden Retrievers and one Cat. We enjoy working on our property and making improvements. We sell firewood and soon will be selling hardwood lumber.
Good life lesson hidden in here. I caught Mike realizing even though he thought a flag or marker around the conduit riser wasn’t necessary, Melissa knew him (and most men) would eventually forget about it. Rather than dismissing her thoughts as unnecessary, he realized she was probably right and even if he didn’t think she was, he made her feel like her opinion was valued and appreciated. Might not be as idealistic as described but he certainly caught him self going down a hole and attempted to make it right. Props to you!
The joy of having all the right equipment!
The only thing I can think of for me that proved useful when doing a new build was to add an outdoor hydrant. we put one in by our well and ended up putting our garden beside it. surprising how useful it is. If tractor or side by side gets caked with mud, I can pull out to the hydrant and wash it off in the yard rather than in the garage and have that going down the drains or on the driveway. If it is near the pool, you could use it to wash off feet and hands from fresh grass clippings before a kid jumped in and added all the debris to the pool.
Good info on the outdoor hydrant!
Mike for your cistern I would suggest Key Precast and Septic on Rt 68 between Butler and Chicora. As for filling the Cistern use Fox Water Service, your going to use them for the pool anyway once Ken gets started on it!!!
Great use of the grading bucket. They can be really handy! Our daughter had her reception on our property last August, never enough hours in the day getting ready for that. When you have that Father-Daughter dance, you won’t remember one second of the time it took to get the place ready. Have a blessed year!
After 20 years operating my own landscape/irrigation business, I've had several shovels that looked like you "fav" shovel. Not very many though that were used by employees...for some reason theirs always had a defective handle and broke. Where I grew up, we called that a "south Georgia backhoe". If you didn't know where the start button was for it, we didn't have any use for you on our crew.
Great video. You probably know Tractor Supply has 3k & smaller tanks. I bought ours from Ferguson Plumbing Supply & it was $3800 1.5 years ago here in Hilo. Rumor has it one company has bought up the HDPE tank business nationwide so prices are much higher now. I was told to figure $1 per gal. Here in Hawaii many homeowners use Galvanized tanks with a cover, but I opted for the closed tank due to rodents, snails...getting into the tank & polluting the water. Our area of the Big Island does not have public water, we all use rainwater catchment systems. We get 85” of rain annually in our area so water is usually not an issue. You could supplement your well water use as well, if needed. Water delivery for County water is $250 for 4,000 gals here.
Good luck in your search, it will help to have your own extra water supply, adding to a self sufficient aspect.
you should read the book Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks
You and your wife are going to make this place so nice with the pool and all your daughter is not going to want to leave. My son stayed around til he was forty.
Again Mike Nice Work Keeping The Project Moving In The Forward Motion!!👍👊
Your grandmother looks like she's a big help
HI Mike. We put up a 40 x 70 similar to yours in 2016. Used the geotextile with 2-3" of 2a and it's amazing. Run bobcat, excavator. 2950 degrees. Eat. Nothing has hurt it yet. Let's hope the weather holds.
Good morning from sunny S.E.Ohio. Mike I like your well thought ideas. Enjoy your vids. Tell Hunter good morning.
Again.........you are crushing it with the drone footage.....big thumbs up
Good morning to all the Morgans. No need for a stunt double, Mike can do it all. Have a day!
Mike, what a lucky man you are. Beautiful wife and beautiful dirt! Can it get any better?
I live in Southwest Ohio. I am not a contractor. Whenever I helped my Dad build something, He always said we had to dig below the “frost line” which I believe is 32”. We always go to at least 36”.
Looks like a great place for a wedding you should be alright on water if it freezes that deep your not going to be the only one with problems didn't see the supervisor today
Mike, having the right tools sure makes the work a lot easier
Good morning Morgan’s! Making nice progress on the road. Longer days are sure helping get the work done. Have a day!
With the right equipment you can accomplish a lot in a short time. It really helps when the weather cooperates 😀. Stay safe.
I used railroad ties for my retainer wall. We drilled 1.5 inch holes at each end and pounded conduit rods to keep them in place. It has worked for 20 years.
Getting pretty good with that grading bucket, nice feather touch on the topsoil.
Good morning from a rainy NC. The really severe stuff went about 20 miles S of us, but have we ever got some heavy rain!
Your decision to switch to the excavator with the grading bucket turned out to be a good one - things moved pretty quickly and the result was close to final finish quality. Probably a testament to operator skill though - I’d probably have had to stay with the tractor! Your drone shots on that were great.
Howdy Hunter!
I watched video 39, 2017......screaming fox.....never heard that before........but what was really interesting, was the change in your woods, forestry mower, mulcher, cutting down trees, mini cabin, etc., you have been busy.......really fun looking back.....keep up the really good job......thank you!!!
That 4 foot bucket will be on that machine a lot. Good purchase!
Mike I have always thought that you could double for Bruce Willis but with your skills I would bet money that Bruce Willis couldn't double for you. Nice having your boss give her approval. Have a great day guys.
Just thought of one advantage of an extra-wide road around the building is extra parking for events such as a wedding.
4th of July party also !
You only have to go around 2 ft to get well below the freeze line. Lived in Alaska for a while, all utilities were 10 ft deep.
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I love the land plane. Gotta get one fore my long gravel driveway. Not a hope of spreading any topsoil where I live' eastern Canada, still snow on the ground and frost under that. It'll be at least 5 or six weeks.
💥 I often wonder what people think when they drive by your place. 😂
*Keep on tractoring!*
True...and we do hear about Neighbor Cliff but never the neighbor next to the new shop. Go figure. Tim
Hello Mike, I put in a 2,000 gallon cistern from Key Precast in Butler
last fall. Not sure I how they compare on price. Your project looks great. Are Malissa and the girls participating in the Open?
Nice Mike.. 3" PVC sleeve for a 1" water line. Melissa taught you well.
I finally decided to comment on your skill level operating the excavator - you handle it like it is attached to your body - unbelievable and amazing. Also applies to your other equipment.
Thanks
Make your own tank out of wood. Very common in New York sky line. One day your son will be building a sugar shack. He should come help log and mill and also build his channel. It's fun to see the growth.
hey Mike you could get 2 45 elbows for the down spout and small section of pipe and bury the whole drain except the very end and cover the drain up just a suggestition
Mike, we tinker with some videos, which gives me mad respect for the awesome songs you always pick out. Don’t know how you do it sometimes. Thumbs up from So Oh!
I agree...and my favorite of the songs he has included in videos is “Beg Borrow or Steal”. Tim
Mike, check out Dean's Water Service in Washington, PA for your water storage tank and other supplies. It is right off the Jessop exit off Route 70 west.
Suggestion... The side with the steep bank you mentioned a retaining wall. There not really appealing... So I was thinking a step down built from rail road ties. Then a ship load of flowers on every level. Or straw berry's would do great. Melissa could make shortcake all summer and make it a part of her channel... Just a thought....
When you showed moving gravel with the MX 5400 it appeared you don't have a cutting edge on the bucket, wondering why you wouldn't protect the bucket. Also regarding your cistern, I would consider checking out an area that has just hooked up to town water and there may be a good deal on a used one. It's not like they wear out.
Enjoy your show. Have a wooded acreage of our own and can relate to a lot of your projects and issues.
Give Wilson building supply in Meadville Pa a call on the septic tank. They have lots of them on their lot. Only an hour away from you north.
I just got my excavator Monday. The thumb isn’t in yet but I’ve been digging tree stumps out. I’m sure mike is the reason I’m doing this !!
I got a Takeuchi TB 235-2 cr. I have a Mx Kubota with grapple already.
I live in southwestern pa.
STUNT DOUBLE...LOL Very entertaining all the projects you do on your place. Thanks for sharing! Also, really enjoy equipment reviews and seeing the fam.
Nice touch with that excavator bucket. looks great
Kinda jealous Mike, we had 7" of wet snow in southern MN, on monday, our mud season started over, splitter, atv,and skid loader, sitting still for another week
Everything is looking good Mike. Three foot is plenty deep around here in our area. Can’t wait to see the final product. Love the drone shots I need to get mine out more often. Keep up the good work!
I agree. I’d be surprised if we’ve needed deeper than 18 around here for 30 years. Mine is three feet and more but if I was someone digging by hand, it ain’t seeing no three feet. As a snowmobiler and winter enthusiast, I wish three feet plus was necessary, but as someone who pays close attention to how “bad” winter is, I’m disappointed often enough that I would trust two feet even. Love the machines. Boys don’t grow up, their toys just get more expensive and their sand boxes get bigger👍😂
New paint job on the house next door!
Consider putting the water line for public waterline threw the building to extend to the house in the future !
Mike I'm sure you've heard this several times, but you can ask Jimmy Mak the Plumber, your water line for western Pa should be 6 inches lower then the deepest recorded frost line for this area. Western Pa. is 36 inches deep on the frost line so you water line should be at a minimum of 42 inches deep. The last time we had a winter cold enough to freeze water service lines was 2013-2014, our winters are pretty mild compared to what they were years ago. While you have Jimmy on the phone ask him what "Loam-A-phobia" is...... lol
The road around the building is looking great. It bring off the beauty of the building.
Looking good Mike!!! I agree about the triaxle. Even if he could make it around the back of building, the ruts around the back would ruin the road and you basically would be back to square one due to the axle drag tearing into road bed. Stay safe and warm and " Have A Day "
Yeah and if you live in Texas you can just put it 6" under the ground and let it freeze. Over kill Is the way to go when installing your utilities, Electric water and heat and don't forget backup, You do not want these to fail.
Tractor Supply has a 3,000 gallon, black polyethylene tank for $1,900 in Northern California. If you find one for less, I'd love to know, because I'm in the market. Oh, and though we get a couple feet or more of snow every winter here in the mountains, our water lines are less than a foot deep. It just doesn't get that bitter-cold.
Spend plenty of time with a shovel.......reminds me of a time when I was a teen.... my dad is left handed, I’m right handed.... he handed me a shovel and gave me some instructions what he wanted me to do.... I told him, “dad, I think it won’t work.” He asked, “what do you mean?” .....I said, “this here is a left handed shovel.” You can imagine his look at me! Wow! Immediately I started doing what he wanted me to do! While saying....”sorry, it was only a joke!”
If people would watch every video they would not ask all these questions. Mike knows wat he is doing.
Your doing a hell of a job Mike!
That retaining wall will make an exciting vid someDay. Can hardly wait! 😂
Great video, thought that was the perfect match of action shots with the right amount of talking blended in.
With the number of viewers you have there's bound to be skeptics. Ever see a boat, RV, Motor Home etc, sit in a yard and some years not get used at all. When you get a piece of machinery it GETS used. Used in many ways even I wouldn't have expected. At 74, I've seen alot. I like the look of wood. I actually love wood. I worked in a furniture factory because I love the look and smell of wood. Have you considered maybe using old railroad ties to frame your back area? I think they look good especially if landscaped with, well, you name it.
You make it look easy bud ! It takes a pro , witch takes time to do it right. !
Great job Mike and Melissa, really looks good. You have your plan laid out and getting it done as weather permits! Thanks for sharing with us. Fred 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋🙏🏻🙏🏻
The frost line here in South Carolina is 4 inches. Pennsylvania is 44. Maine is 74 inches. Keep in mind this is just the frost line. Not code on how deep you bury the pipe.
Mike, your ability to judge/feel grade is very impressive.
Hey Mike if you're not careful you will run out of grass to mow. LOL! Can't wait for the inside work.
Mike it might be cheaper to purchase 3 or 4 smaller tanks and hook them up together. Look at that option too!
Before I forget - outstanding photography! Things are coming along nicely. Thank you for doing the questions and answers. I wish I could bring by a dozen donuts & some coffee so we could talk - for a minute or two because you are having too much fun working 😆. Marcus from Chesapeake VA.
Mike, check with April Wilkerson. She just installed a 3 K gallon tank. Don't know the cost. April has her own channel and is very informative.
Thought I was watching let’s dig18. Nice work with that excavator!
Great video Mike, all I can say you do great work with all your equipment. Oh you mentioned being a blaster for over 20 years, I say when you saw people in my profession show up (surveyor) you thought hurry up in get out of my way..lol Don’t know how many times our crew was told hurry up and get..lol we knew they where kidding tho.. have a great day and God bless.
Electrical lines and plumbing lines here in Florida and Jacksonville has to be three foot deep minimum some areas here in Florida has to be six to eight foot deep it all depends on where you at so pretty pretty reasonable
Nice job Mike Hi Melissa have a great day love from TEXAS
Good morning from SE Louisiana 19 Mar 21.
All the right equipment makes for easy work! Keep on Morgans!!
Morgan property is where crushed stone comes to live...
Tons an tons of it guess he really hates mud
Mike has the stone yard on speed dial
Better to be looking at it, than looking for it. Re. Spare conduit.
Great Video Mike. That excavator sure seems to help out alot.
South Carolina a foot deep or less and I have never had a water line freeze.
TODAY IS FRIDAY MORN' MIKE JUST WATCHING YOU SPREAD THAT STONE AROUND THE NEW REC... BUILDING ----LOVE THAT EVER-GREEN TREE DOWN THERE BY YOUR MAILBOX==AM SURE GLAD SPRING IS HERE IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA ===I COULD NOT STAND ALL THAT COLD WEATHER YOU HAVE IN W--PA
BE GLAD WHEN YOU START ON THE SWIMMING POOL ===OOH ' YEA MIKE ONE MORE QUESTION===CAN YOU WALK AROUND THE NEW BUILDING ---BARE-FOOTED----NO SHOES ON ===HA--HA--I USED TO BUT NOT NO MORE ---LOL==
Hey mike! Been watching your channel since day one and what a long way it’s come! Watching you in this one and thinking a 3pt ball or pintle for the MX seems like it would be a great addition to the attachment fleet. That dump trailer seems like it could work like a big yard cart that could be loaded with the excavator? Just a thought
Frank from Ridge New York. Just a thought for if and when you get city water run another pipe from the utility room in new building under the concrete slab to the opposite side of the new building so you don't have to run a pipe around the building to get to your house. One tap at the street.
Starting to look grand now love a good topsoil to finish a job off nice make a nice front lawn that still thinking a nice rockery come flower bed border would soften that building right up though nice wavy line pretty much where the topsoil has just been spread would deffo add kerb appeal although where you are dont know who would see it
Looking good. I enjoy these types of videos. I am like grandson Ty, i love watching equipment when its being operated by someone who knows what they are doing. Stay well, stay safe and yall HAVE A DAY
I have a leveler like yours mine has cutting-edge on both sides of the mold board to save the wear on it when blading backwards
As you get older, you need to work smarter- not harder. When researching your storage tank- check on the price of two smaller tanks. I found it was cheaper for me as I could transport the smaller tanks with my trailer. The single larger tank needed to be delivered and the delivery was very expensive.
Aren’t ya just loving these longer days?
Sure am!
Mike, it appears your land plane could have a reverse cutting edge but doesn't currently.
I use a box blade with fwd and rev cutting edges. It works great but I like how the land plane lets go off the excess material.
Mike you are masterful with the excavator. It's like an extension of your hands.
Dude! You're like an artist using that excavator arm, painting top soil next to the rock road!
Shovels are like brooms.......
New ones sweep clean but the old ones know where the dirt is !!!!!
Great video !
Thanks Mike for the video .
Hi Mike love your show. A few points I noticed that you did not put down Electric and Water notice tapes about a foot down over the pipes. I thought the water trench would have been a good job for Melissa to practice on the excavator. You could have been what we call in the UK the Banksman guiding the dig.
You would have to put a filter screen on your down spouts for the gutters of the building, but during the wet season, you could use a cleaned out IBC tote at each corner of the building to gather water. That would give you a 2000 gallon collection capability. Cheaper than paying for it to be delivered. Then as they fill up just use the forks to bring it to your tank and fill it up. I use this method around my stables to supply all the water for my animals which at its peak is about 1800 gallons a month. Granted I have to use alternatives if we have an extremely long dry spell.
Interesting solution! Thanks for offering it. I guess you empty before those totes fill completely? Or does your fork loader have capacity to lift them? They’d weigh a couple tons if full, wouldn’t they?
@@johnsadler8637 The ones around my stables stay stationary because the gather enough and any excess I drain off. The others I will usually only let get filled a third of the way before moving them over to drain into other stationary ones. For example I have one near my strawberry gardens modified into a drip irrigation, so it doesn't move, I just take the couple fed by the house gutters and when they get to 1/4-1/3 full will drag them over and fill up the drip system tote. But yeah unless you have a heavy duty fork lift or skid steer your not moving them full. Might be easier to put the totes on upraised platforms (likely concrete) and run gravity feed lines to the main tank. Different ways to do it depending on your exact needs and purposes.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Pretty good system you’ve built.
@@johnsadler8637 Necessity is the mother of invention and it was very necessary to get rid of the 180$ monthly water bills, lol
I had a barn about that same size with 1/2 of the roof downspouts piped into a 750 gal tank and never ran out of water. That was in Ohio. I would think the rainfall would be similar.
Looking good mike. Well I know here in North Ga we only have to burie our water line at 16 in I do mine at 3 ft.
Nice to have two choices for equipment to use for one job.
Thank you for explaining, we all learn.
Looking good, Hope you enjoy your weekend. Jason
Here in South Carolina we call that stuff "Gravel" NOT stone!!
We do also in Wisconsin! But we do call the smooth stone, the stone that you put in flowerbeds.
think about power pipe out to your water tank for a pump to get water back into the building .
Good morning Hunter ;-) and family too ;-)
I like your new video today you did a really good jop it is looking so nice your shop good jop today looking good