Some things I like about watching Chris operate is there is very little wasted movement, his methods are forward thinking, deliberate and he keeps his work area organized. It all makes what he does seem easy,. Not so much as others working in their giant mess all of the time even though it is entertaining!
I'm as into saving the trees as the next man, but there is something satisfying about the sound of tree trunks snapping with that Volvo bucket.still a child at heart!
@@enjoylife1176 In 1930 we also had a population of 1.7 billion now we have over 7 billion. In 1930 we also released about 3800 million tons of CO2 and now we release 32200 million tons of CO2. Just because we have more trees does not mean we have enough.
@@tommythetortoise5800 Discovery Channel had a segment on the oxygen level put out by trees. It was green house high, to the point of making too much carbon monoxide for our atmosphere. Now that was a shock. "They" want to dig out or burn the excess. I say wait. More houses will be built and more forest fires 🔥 will come, to do that work.
You always leave a neat jobsite. Great job done well. I bet the owner wished you could get that area dredged for the boat dock area. Always plenty of rules around water.
Happy Memorial weekend, when you drive the tracks nice you use your hands and feet different times to move them wasn't sure if a hand is just quicker sometimes or what. Thanks Chris
What will be used to control erosion? A rock wall? Cattails? Shade ferns? Enough sun for butterfly bushes? Interesting idea to go back and see. My family had reunions from the 1920's to 1970's, at a family 👪 lakeside home. There were steps down to waters edge, and boulders to hold back the land. Great fun for the cousins ( there were 13 siblings making at making 30 plus cousins ----- first through the seventh generation. I am of the 4th generation. My great grand parents had 13 children. The most children of cousins was four or less in the subsequent generations. Anyway, fun at the lake. Oh, the changes in clothing over the years! My grandmother wore a dress until her death at 84.
When I moved to Havelock, NC in 1994 after the base closings we were told that the air raid siren we heard was to call volunteer firefighters to the firehouse. Those guys were dedicated, even saw a guy in full bunker gear with a red light on his bicycle pedaling like mad on the way to the firehouse.
Funny , in Portugal ,we do the same , to call the volunteers firefighters . In my home town is : twice ,means ambulances , 3 x means local fire, x4 big regional fire . Once a day at 12:00 just to everyone know its mid day .
I love that crunching of those trees! That’s awesome! You always do a great job with the riprap Chris! Looks great!👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻 thanks for sharing my friend! Another great job! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Our dock in Cocoa Beach got the ole "boat self dredging". We have a Wellcraft St Tropez and we just tied it tight to the dock, put it in gear and idled up a few rpm's with the trim tabs all the way down. . Stopping and backing up a few feet at a time. Have about 8 feet of water under the boat now. LOL
When my water line broke, I was in the shower with soap in my eyes! Talk about moving fast, getting dressed with soap all over, and running outside to turn off the mainline!!!
The lot looks good and those white oaks trees are a pain to get them to fall where you want them to, with all the roots they have, but you made it work for you.
Some older towns still have the pull alarms on outdoor utility poles that work, and which are rigged to the bells in each firehouse. The volunteer firefighters and many of the businesses and residents have a code sheet handy, so when the fire bells ring (for example) 3 times, pause, 4 times, pause, 2 times, long pause, repeat, they look up "342" on the code sheet and know within about a 1 block radius where the call for service is, so that they can head there and help. The system worked quite well in the age before telephones and 911 dispatch were ubiquitous.
Up here you might have got the water line removing the tree but the new house corner wouldn't be within 20 feet of the property lines. No permanent construction allowed that close. On one hand I'd love a house on a lake, but only in a climate where it didn't freeze, BUT I'd try to buy up a lot of the land to both sides so the closest neighbor was out of sight...
I sure hope those oak logs are going to a sawmill to be cut into usable lumber. White oak is one of the finest woods for furniture and flooring. Valuable also.
Thats a nice lake for a houselot .nicely cleared Chris and the lakes edge with the riprap looks good too.nice launchpad cleared for a boat now and the view To the lake is awesome.👌👌.kool Video 😀
Not practical in most situations, but I saw where a farmer was doing some digging and wasn't exactly sure where a known water line existed. The plumber ran some sort of metal tape through it so the detector could find it.
Got a damn nice view over the lake once it was devegetated bro, our local fire dpt has an air raid siren but will only go twice unless they are calling in extra help it will go a couple of more times. Oh yes nice tidy job as always. Safe travels.
Ettera / Skid steer solutions sells the 5’ sickle attachment that is used on skid steer raptor boom system , the 5 foot sickle only is built to be used above and below water , below for cutting water grass’ along water ways , I bought the system but sold the wheel loader to use it on for now , its going to be my retirement thing after I retire from being a LANDLORD here in SE Pennsylvania Be well Chris
Hey Chris !!! In some communities,, that is the ""FIRE "" siren !! Hey are you already burning & DIDN"T tell them ahead of time ????? Just kidding ! ! HAHA WOW ,,did you bring back memories of years ago with the highway contractors with that water line break !!! Thanks !!! Great job & have a good weekend !!!! ""KEEP IT SAFE ""!!!!
You need a witch stick to locate unknown utilities. Get a foot long wire , bend one end , and lightly hold it in your fist. Slowly walk heel to toe until the long end finds the underground line. Pretty accurate if you can get the hang of it
i've run into many old septic systems well over 60 to 70 years old. Some just made out of rock piled on top of each other. Most not even documented. I made sure they were they were removed before i mentioned it to the city lol.
I needed to be 100% sure where my property lines were and so I hired a certified surveyor and he has insurance against any mistakes so I'm off the hook!
Chris you can locate a house waterline by physically hooking up to it with the gear from the basement or crawl space. Or valve before the house if its city water
Still no sprinkles ?- hard dry dusty clay and topsoil. Digging up water not so bad, digging up sparks - NOT good. That lake looks like it needs me in a boat or with friends on skis. Nice job and nice that you fixed the water line.
The first tree I took down with a mini-excavator, (5 ton) was a double-trunk white oak. I cut the 28" trunk because it was leaning away from the house, and I planned to do the dig-and-push method on the 22" trunk. After digging for an hour to break the roots, I had a 4 foot deep circle around it, and thought all the roots were cut. Ha! The tree snapped right off the side of the larger stump when I pushed it. Spent another hour digging to a 6 foot depth, all the way around the stump, breaking some huge, deep roots, and finally rolled it out of the hole. Couldn't lift it, and when I rolled it onto the blade, the blade wouldn't lift it, so I just pushed it into the woods.
Lol! I was looking at another guy running a Volvo in a video earlier. Personable enough guy, fun to watch but his work area was a mess. Kept thinking to myself... “Dont be too hard on him... he aint Chris”
Where I live they are trying to pass a bylaw that will stop anyone from taking trees down 2 inches and larger within 100 feet of the shore line. It will Als make it so you will need a permit to build anything within that 100 feet including a fire pit. The tree part is already passed
Well an auger on a tractor works well also. In my case, I put it thru a phone cable. Which both our plans, and AT&T's showed as an out of service line. It went out of service when I took out a 3' chunk of it. :-) 2 repairmen spent about 4 hours splicing it back together. And marking the plans as "Live phone cable." My neighbor was one of the two so he thanked me for the OT.
Not trying to be a d**k but...Memorial Day does not honor veterans. That's what Veterans Day is for. No, Memorial Day honors the fallen, the soldiers who died fighting for their country. It's an understandable mistake so pour a drink for someone you may have lost or just toast those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Have a meaningful and memorable Memorial Day!
Did you notice that when Chris is trying to push a tree over he physically leans forward as if to manually push it over. That there is funny no matter what you say!
I'm surprised that you can clear trees alongside the lake and install rocks on the shore. Here in Canada, you and/or the owner be fined severily plus ptting in trees as before. Ouch, expensive !
Chris is it allowed dig in the lake ? So a boat has a channel beside the dock. Those tree root balls must weight a lot if the Volvo has to really work to knock a tree down. You make short work clearing the lot. I was too fast because you answered my question.
Chris, why don't you use a brushcutting machine to deal with small trees and bush instead of burning or carting the waste away? I watch " Upstate Brush Control " videos and they mulch the waste. Just a suggestion.
Some things I like about watching Chris operate is there is very little wasted movement, his methods are forward thinking, deliberate and he keeps his work area organized. It all makes what he does seem easy,. Not so much as others working in their giant mess all of the time even though it is entertaining!
Agree, everything is calculated.
What a great guy and professional- fixed their (neighbor's incorrectly routed) errant water line.
You're a good man, fixing the neighbors water line even though it was over the line.
I'm as into saving the trees as the next man, but there is something satisfying about the sound of tree trunks snapping with that Volvo bucket.still a child at heart!
@@enjoylife1176 In 1930 we also had a population of 1.7 billion now we have over 7 billion. In 1930 we also released about 3800 million tons of CO2 and now we release 32200 million tons of CO2. Just because we have more trees does not mean we have enough.
@@tommythetortoise5800 Beside all that. We need more trees now to cut more trees down later
@@tommythetortoise5800 Discovery Channel had a segment on the oxygen level put out by trees. It was green house high, to the point of making too much carbon monoxide for our atmosphere. Now that was a shock. "They" want to dig out or burn the excess. I say wait. More houses will be built and more forest fires 🔥 will come, to do that work.
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I am so happy I grew up in more lenient times ... we dredged and dug a deep hole off the end of our dock. Made the best damn fishing hole on our lake.
The lake I lived on sound a sirens right before it released water from the dam leting people down stream to take to higher ground..
Our greatest fear, a neighbor moving in next to us.
I am continually amazed at how small that big bucket looks. Dang good sized tree.
You always leave a neat jobsite. Great job done well. I bet the owner wished you could get that area dredged for the boat dock area. Always plenty of rules around water.
Enjoying watching tress falling down in all n all project is meticulously clean when it is done
Chris, that’s a beautiful house site! Thanks for sharing. Kevin
YOU ARE THE MAN ,,, EVEN HELPED FIX THE WATER PIPE GOOD JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I enjoyed watching you clear this block and waterline, so meticulous and careful..
Awesome job and your cool for getting the next doors water back running
You are a busy man and very skilled with equipment , Thanks for the great videos stay safe
Happy Memorial weekend, when you drive the tracks nice you use your hands and feet different times to move them wasn't sure if a hand is just quicker sometimes or what. Thanks Chris
I’d patch into the water line, bury it up and tell them everything’s alright … 🤣🤣🤣🤣 👍👍👍
What will be used to control erosion? A rock wall? Cattails? Shade ferns? Enough sun for butterfly bushes? Interesting idea to go back and see.
My family had reunions from the 1920's to 1970's, at a family 👪 lakeside home. There were steps down to waters edge, and boulders to hold back the land. Great fun for the cousins ( there were 13 siblings making at making 30 plus cousins ----- first through the seventh generation. I am of the 4th generation. My great grand parents had 13 children. The most children of cousins was four or less in the subsequent generations.
Anyway, fun at the lake.
Oh, the changes in clothing over the years! My grandmother wore a dress until her death at 84.
When I moved to Havelock, NC in 1994 after the base closings we were told that the air raid siren we heard was to call volunteer firefighters to the firehouse. Those guys were dedicated, even saw a guy in full bunker gear with a red light on his bicycle pedaling like mad on the way to the firehouse.
Funny , in Portugal ,we do the same , to call the volunteers firefighters . In my home town is : twice ,means ambulances , 3 x means local fire, x4 big regional fire . Once a day at 12:00 just to everyone know its mid day .
I love that crunching of those trees! That’s awesome! You always do a great job with the riprap Chris! Looks great!👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻 thanks for sharing my friend! Another great job! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Lived in a small town where the fire department had a siren that would sound off everyday at noon and whenever their was a fire.
Thanks for the great videos. Watching the work of a professional operator is very enjoyable and informative for me
What a beautiful day with view of a lake. No mud, no rocks no bad also.
Our dock in Cocoa Beach got the ole "boat self dredging". We have a Wellcraft St Tropez and we just tied it tight to the dock, put it in gear and idled up a few rpm's with the trim tabs all the way down. . Stopping and backing up a few feet at a time. Have about 8 feet of water under the boat now. LOL
Great time of day when your video's pop up.
Agree 100%!!!
That’s when you hope the survey crew marked the property right.
I love watching you work you have the biggest machine and they can dig. Keep the videos coming I enjoyed
At least the neighbor was not in the shower with shampoo in her hair. Have a good weekend. Thanks for sharing your week!
When my water line broke, I was in the shower with soap in my eyes! Talk about moving fast, getting dressed with soap all over, and running outside to turn off the mainline!!!
Great job Chris!!! 👍
Great job, shoreline looks fantastic!
Another awesome video Chris man you and your family and John and his family y’all have a blessed weekend and will see you Monday
The lot looks good and those white oaks trees are a pain to get them to fall where you want them to, with all the roots they have, but you made it work for you.
Thanks for fixing the neighbor's waterline!
Happy Mermorial Day thank you to all that have served.
Beautiful lake!!
Beautiful lot !!
right up until a few yrs ago our volunteer fire department still used a air raid siren for emergencies
Some older towns still have the pull alarms on outdoor utility poles that work, and which are rigged to the bells in each firehouse. The volunteer firefighters and many of the businesses and residents have a code sheet handy, so when the fire bells ring (for example) 3 times, pause, 4 times, pause, 2 times, long pause, repeat, they look up "342" on the code sheet and know within about a 1 block radius where the call for service is, so that they can head there and help. The system worked quite well in the age before telephones and 911 dispatch were ubiquitous.
What a shame that you cannot take 10-15 scoops out to make his dock area more useful. Damn regulations. Great job Chris.
Up here you might have got the water line removing the tree but the new house corner wouldn't be within 20 feet of the property lines. No permanent construction allowed that close. On one hand I'd love a house on a lake, but only in a climate where it didn't freeze, BUT I'd try to buy up a lot of the land to both sides so the closest neighbor was out of sight...
I sure hope those oak logs are going to a sawmill to be cut into usable lumber. White oak is one of the finest woods for furniture and flooring. Valuable also.
Thats a nice lake for a houselot .nicely cleared Chris and the lakes edge with the riprap looks good too.nice launchpad cleared for a boat now and the view To the lake is awesome.👌👌.kool Video 😀
Not practical in most situations, but I saw where a farmer was doing some digging and wasn't exactly sure where a known water line existed. The plumber ran some sort of metal tape through it so the detector could find it.
Air raid siren............cause Chris is da bomb!
😁😁👍
Great job Chris those were some huge trees
Another fine job done Chris and John.
No dredge lake? Bummer. You could have made that a deep water area in a heartbeat.
Beautiful lake nice view.
Got a damn nice view over the lake once it was devegetated bro, our local fire dpt has an air raid siren but will only go twice unless they are calling in extra help it will go a couple of more times. Oh yes nice tidy job as always. Safe travels.
Great operation as always. Seen you take down thousands of trees, cant remember a bust hose. No mean feat.
That's two trees and no timber, Happy Memorial Day, hope you take some time off.
never herd of a house being aloud to be on the property line . here it's 20 ft off side lines 10 on rear and 45 ft on front.
Lake lots aren't big enough for that.They have different laws
Ettera / Skid steer solutions sells the 5’ sickle attachment that is used on skid steer raptor boom system , the 5 foot sickle only is built to be used above and below water , below for cutting water grass’ along water ways , I bought the system but sold the wheel loader to use it on for now , its going to be my retirement thing after I retire from being a LANDLORD here in SE Pennsylvania Be well Chris
Air Raid? Trees are about to fall! 💥
Awesome that you fixed the leak for next door.
Hey Chris !!! In some communities,, that is the ""FIRE "" siren !! Hey are you already burning & DIDN"T tell them ahead of time ????? Just kidding ! ! HAHA WOW ,,did you bring back memories of years ago with the highway contractors with that water line break !!! Thanks !!! Great job & have a good weekend !!!! ""KEEP IT SAFE ""!!!!
Monthly tornado warning test.
“Guess we’ve got an air raid going on”. 🤣
The attitude of everyone that lives in tornado prone areas. We hear sirens and go watch the skies.
Monthly test. No biggie.
It's a fire whistle going off.
You need a witch stick to locate unknown utilities. Get a foot long wire , bend one end , and lightly hold it in your fist. Slowly walk heel to toe until the long end finds the underground line. Pretty accurate if you can get the hang of it
The ultimate crappie bed (snicker) shove it in the lake , but what a beautiful location.
Happy Friday, Chris! I'm going on vacation tomorrow!!! WOOOO!!!!
Thanks for the video .
Looks like you are back at LKG!..I say that because what you only could clear at the water..have a great Memorial Day weekend 👍
i've run into many old septic systems well over 60 to 70 years old. Some just made out of rock piled on top of each other. Most not even documented. I made sure they were they were removed before i mentioned it to the city lol.
When they were put in the city wasn’t even there, i’ll bet!
Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Holiday Weekend Man !! On too the Next...
I needed to be 100% sure where my property lines were and so I hired a certified surveyor and he has insurance against any mistakes so I'm off the hook!
Another job well done! You are the shiznit Chris!!!!!
That air raid siren means Dirt Perfect and Logger Wade are about to invade your property.
bahahaha
The pipe scores on uploads this week are Capt Kleeman 0, DP 1, Letsdig 1.
may have been tornado...
Chris you can locate a house waterline by physically hooking up to it with the gear from the basement or crawl space. Or valve before the house if its city water
That only works on copper or galvanized, if it’s PVC or PE it won’t work unless there is tracer wire
Still no sprinkles ?- hard dry dusty clay and topsoil. Digging up water not so bad, digging up sparks - NOT good. That lake looks like it needs me in a boat or with friends on skis. Nice job and nice that you fixed the water line.
Great video Chris 🇺🇲
great job buddy and great video as always 😎👊🏻👍🏻
It's nice that the property line stake happened to be right by the waterline break.
The first tree I took down with a mini-excavator, (5 ton) was a double-trunk white oak. I cut the 28" trunk because it was leaning away from the house, and I planned to do the dig-and-push method on the 22" trunk. After digging for an hour to break the roots, I had a 4 foot deep circle around it, and thought all the roots were cut. Ha! The tree snapped right off the side of the larger stump when I pushed it. Spent another hour digging to a 6 foot depth, all the way around the stump, breaking some huge, deep roots, and finally rolled it out of the hole. Couldn't lift it, and when I rolled it onto the blade, the blade wouldn't lift it, so I just pushed it into the woods.
Sirens in Tezas and Oklahoma is a tornado is possibly close, get your butt under the dirt. Great videos sir.
Love the great content you put in to all your videos great work The job looks nice and tidy👊
Lol! I was looking at another guy running a Volvo in a video earlier. Personable enough guy, fun to watch but his work area was a mess. Kept thinking to myself... “Dont be too hard on him... he aint Chris”
You need to have a crappie fisherman come by and take that giant brush pile and sink it somewhere in the Lake!
Sounds like a Tornado Warning Siren. Stay safe and have a great weekend.
Chris, how’s Winston? As always, strong work your doing.
I bet Winston is living his best life. :)
I've asked multiple times and never get a reply.
@@marciam6224 Winston, like Chris's other dogs, is home lounging on his leather furniture... resting up so they can ignore him when he gets home......
@@ogreatmaster8334 🤣🤣😂😂
Remind the property owner to add an air raid shelter.
Where I live they are trying to pass a bylaw that will stop anyone from taking trees down 2 inches and larger within 100 feet of the shore line. It will Als make it so you will need a permit to build anything within that 100 feet including a fire pit. The tree part is already passed
Ahhh, the lake!
3:20 those white roots will get you every time. Sneaky little buggers.
Good work fixing the water line. Neighborly, on behalf of your customer.
Backhoes are the best finder for anything underground.
Well an auger on a tractor works well also. In my case, I put it thru a phone cable. Which both our plans, and AT&T's showed as an out of service line. It went out of service when I took out a 3' chunk of it. :-) 2 repairmen spent about 4 hours splicing it back together. And marking the plans as "Live phone cable." My neighbor was one of the two so he thanked me for the OT.
Let me go ahead and say Happy Memorial Day Weekend to everybody. Be Safe.
Not trying to be a d**k but...Memorial Day does not honor veterans. That's what Veterans Day is for. No, Memorial Day honors the fallen, the soldiers who died fighting for their country. It's an understandable mistake so pour a drink for someone you may have lost or just toast those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Have a meaningful and memorable Memorial Day!
Great vlog 👍
Or it could be a bad weather siren oh, you know we have those around in North Carolina.
Thanks Chris, hope you take a day off to relax this weekend. Haven't seen Winston or the moo cows in a while if you get the bug to film.
Especially the cow named August, But I'm partial to him/her !!
I like the name August also, my grandpa's name.
@@pol5507, Thanks, I'm the 3rd, so Dad and Gramps was an August also.
Did you notice that when Chris is trying to push a tree over he physically leans forward as if to manually push it over. That there is funny no matter what you say!
Brilliant 👍
It's been a lot hot... Hoping for some rain this weekend.
Exciting to watch!!
I'm surprised that you can clear trees alongside the lake and install rocks on the shore. Here in Canada, you and/or the owner be fined severily plus ptting in trees as before. Ouch, expensive !
Time is Money. It’s Obvious you’re Well Orchestrated and Fine Tuned Operation w/Solid Equipment.
😂😂 one of the tree roots started spraying water, that cracked me up
Sounds like a fire siren at the beginning.
Chris that's very nice job
Chris is it allowed dig in the lake ? So a boat has a channel beside the dock.
Those tree root balls must weight a lot if the Volvo has to really work to knock a tree down.
You make short work clearing the lot.
I was too fast because you answered my question.
Surprised the setback is that close in our it's 15feet
hmm, Dirt Perfect hit an unmarked waterline in his video this morning as well.
It's a conspiracy!!!
Yea, but that was like 2 months ago....
@@jgwjr1 so, letsdig and dirt conspiring to post similar events on the same day is still possible. :p
Chris, why don't you use a brushcutting machine to deal with small trees and bush instead of burning or carting the waste away? I watch " Upstate Brush Control " videos and they mulch the waste. Just a suggestion.