Us dump truck workers like to keep the loader operator on there toes.... Really the loader operator always put the trucks where he wanted...be safe this weekend. ..
I worked for two years in a sand mine in Florida loading trucks everyday. Drivers are some of the most aggravating people you will ever work with in your life. I had some drivers that nailed it every time and some never cared to talk to you and get to know your loading style. I made sure they were loaded heavy on one side to make steering the truck all the more fun not to mention when DOT got them.
Hi Chris. Great vidz operator myself over in new zealand but originally from Scotland. Currently operating a Volvo 350d nice machine to operate comfortable and smooth great on fuel. Dumptruck drivers are like lost sheep they just follow the 1 in front buddy 😀. Take care keep up the great work and videos. Willie.
@@grassgobbler7214, that's way to far to haul all of that. It wouldn't be economically feasible. But, nice suggestion. I'm sure Chris is appreciative, and would thoroughly enjoy more of your incredible wisdom.
All the dump trucks around here in robeson county are contracting with the NCDOT. They just came by the house last week cutting down the shoulders of the road. Everyone was contacted trucks, motor grader and flaggers. Supervisor and belt loader was the only state employee.
STAY SAFE DURING THE STORM, CHRIS. Find high ground away from streams and rivers and have all your supplies handy (generator, flashlights, food, water, portable radio, gas, rain gear, rope for rescues.....).You know the drill, lol.
Great video! Truck drivers can never back in the same place twice! Lol their like lighting. Be safe with the hurricane coming in! Tarp up that 250! Thanks for sharing
I really like these loading videos it is very satisfying to watch. Can you show us the storm from your place just a short clip is cool? We don't get those Hurricanes in California.
Don’t go pickin on them dumbtrucks, it ain’t easy to turn around and backup with a slurpy between your knees, a hot sub on your lap, a mouthfulla food, the cb yappin and a cellphone at your ear! Been there .... done that . Lol
Cathy Blasco you think they’re going to put all that stuff down so that they can get out and clean their mirrors? Way too hard to do -at least it is for me but I’ll still moan about not being able to see at all when I’m backing up for the rest of the day 😂
Dirt is one commodity that does not follow the normal supply and demand economic models. There is an infinite supply (of dirt) which means it (dirt) should be uber cheap. However, if you want to buy some you have to pay through your nose to get it. If you have some to get rid of it (dirt) should sell at a good price. However, you will never find a buyer at any price. The only one who makes money dealing in dirt is the excavator. You pay him to haul yours out and somebody else pays him (the excavator) to have.it dumped at his place. Crazy.
you're not factoring in not all dirt is equal. some is unsuitable for most things, no one wants it. some is great fill, and costs to bring in. easy to sell. also, sometimes you need it gone NOW. no luxury to let it sit for a buyer, need to haul it out to complete the project. so many factors.
I live in Argentina, something far from there, and it's the same thing with dirt. If you are the owner of the dirt for you it will be a waste and for the machinery guy it will be a gift, which then can, sell
It aint to often you get to sell it to a customer as the same time your trying to get rid of it off another job. Once in awhile it happens but not often. I know been there done that excavation for 32 yrs and still ripping
if you can sell it on top of the truck as we say here, it's easy money, but as you say, it does not always happen, but you have to know that some materials are difficult to sell, and you have to store them and for that you need a specific place and everything that entails
Don't see trucks here in NZ with those funny looking trainer wheels, these days there is an extra load sharing axle because they allowed extra weight on the roads a few years ago. Great video bro
I've been enjoying your videos for years. Keeping you in prayers as Hurricane Flo moves into your area. The weather here in Groton/New London, CT coast has not been good with rain and rough seas. Best of luck!
With a 45 minute turnaround time. How many trucks do you need to keep busy? 15 maybe? Wonder if ole tall sides hauls mulch? I sure hope you and all your critters are safe during this hurricane. Keep us updated!
As somebody who works with truck drivers all day, almost everyday, operating a counterbalance, I can confirm that no two truck drivers are the same, even over the pond here in Blighty 🇬🇧
nice size bucket on that... usually run a 160 or 180 and takes about 12-14 buckets...have a hammerhead job upcoming.. looking forward to it... tearing up a runway then sampling ground water under it...
And New Jersey permits licensing for 80 K GVW for the same sort of truck with only 4 axles ( and 12-14 tires ) ! Wish most of my loads ( in the same style truck ) were that light if it was a load count rate ! Most often I was at least 1K over 80 bushel and my personal high was 105 K on a 28.5 K tare .
Hehe. You mentioned that the drivers changed their orientation from side-on to facing away from you. I suspect that's because you were dropping dirt, rocks, logs on their tires. They don't like buying new tires!
Been waiting for this with that hurricane coming knew that you would want to get as much as you could out before it hit. The lost time with drivers not having a procedure for incoming and out going cost you 1 load as you filled at a rate of 2 minutes that's a lot of loads per day. Hope you will be safe in the up coming event look after yourself cheers NZ.
Mudflaps not required down there toward the bottom of the country or they just ripping them off when they dump? I work for a municipality and I thought I saw some confused drivers, but this wins.
Your what 150 miles from impact, be safe out there Chris. Last year Irma's eye went right over my house, did a good enough mess of my yard. Most of my Live Oaks leaves went missing, really looked like a war zone.
I haven't researched legal tonnage in Texas, but I just finished a demo yesterday...had one of the 40 yard dumpsters packed so tight it ended up right at 18 tons. Dang roll off truck almost couldn't get it off the ground. I'm sure he was at or close to the legal limit...but I'm not 100% sure.
Stay safe up there Chris! I dealt with Irma last year here in the Florida Keys. Sounds like y’all are gonna have it sittin over y’all for a few days. I’ll be watching for updates from ya.
You’d love working the Foxconn site in Wisconsin. They average a dump every 20-30 seconds. Call it the quad show. And a show it is. Then add about 20 haul trucks if not more, 30 scrappers and probably 20 dozers. It gets interesting. That’s just the start, suppose to double or triple those amounts.
Let's dig bruh i consistently watch your videos, i'm praying for yall all down there NC & SC where my bro is, along with other family members, you guys hold shit down before the military show up💪
When I was driving a quad I took 20 tons out where ever I went. Sand,asphalt,rock,dirt didn't matter to me. 🤷♂️. When sc was in a state of emergency because of a hurricane we was hauling 95,000 pounds of rip rap to fill in rail roads that washed out.
Chris, I would say that if all the drivers are from the same company and have radios they should use them so that they can maneuver and quadrant their movements in the area so they don't slow down the process
Demetres Robinson I understand that but the state is under a state of emergency and it’s right an harvest season I know for farmers all weight limits are waved. Didn’t know if it was for All trucks or not
I still understand your point, but that's just a private lake job. If they were using the dirt to let's say build dams and fill sandbags that'll be a different thing.
northstar2007 i know when we do it and send to a landfill we get weight records of every dump and use a conversion of 1.6 / 1.7 / or 1.8 tons per yard. Depending on the material. If he’s dealing with a pit or another source it’s by bucket volume and guessing a lot haha
Carson Schifsky not that i know more than anyone, but on a job like this with sediment you would need to dredge it out of the lake, move it to a location to dewater ( typically close to lake so water runs back into the lake) and then move it again to a location hard enough for a loader to operate and load a truck. Without getting stuck. A decent sized loader is around 6 yard bucket. With would take two buckets to load these trucks approx. how fast Chris is it is way more efficient to live load right from the lake. Hope that answered your question.
They Just showed it going more south, then west, Leaving a lot Less Rain now up in the RDU area, especially west of there like Nightendale... good luck.
You are doing great Chris and I’m glad you have Tim there to help speed up the work in progress and you are so right about the economy it really does suck nobody wants to work with you
I know you've talked about it before, but I still don't understand why you guys don't get quick couplers so you can change buckets, you could halve your load time on that kind of material. yeah, you get tippy with the bigger bucket, but only if you load over the side extended out nearly all the way, easy to adjust so that doesn't happen. To me not being able to change buckets for material and conditions is akin to buying a socket set without the 1/2 and 9/16 sockets in it....you guys should consider it
no, that doesn't matter, shouldn't be using thumb with muck bucket anyway. We have 5 excavators ranging from 90,000lb machines to 10,000lb, all have thumbs and all have quick couplers, and we have 2-3 buckets for each machine, yes, if you are doing lots of work with the thumb then use the bucket that it was fitted to, but other than that the cost of a quick coupler pays for itself in not much time, I guess that's why there are so many out there
Is that weight restriction all the time down there or do they have one in effect at this time?? If so why do they use dump trucks that can haul more. Sorry if it's a dumb question I'm not in the hauling business and don't know the regulations down there(michigan here)
22:52 'its like daycare' no Chris that is known here as the 'Minnesota triple yield' when you pull up to a 4 way stop sign intersection and the 3 cars already there are just sitting waiting for the others to go first
Great video as always (the commentary always cracks me up!) There's plenty of work like that here in Michigan, now if I could just get my CDL A instead of B...
I noticed that 1 truck had no mud flaps. (20,09 min mark) . I've had to replace 3 windshields ( $300.00 each) from these kinds of trucks over the past few years and theirs no way to make them pay for it. It should be illegal to load an un safe vehicle.
Hi what sort of gross weight do you get with 5 axles. UK 4 axles most dump trucks 32 ton, what is size of your voltorol looks very smooth, or is that you.
Two Volvo’s working side by side. You all are trucking today! Love the videos thanks phor sharing!
Best quote of the day. "Just get it close and I'll get it in there"
Us dump truck workers like to keep the loader operator on there toes.... Really the loader operator always put the trucks where he wanted...be safe this weekend. ..
I worked for two years in a sand mine in Florida loading trucks everyday. Drivers are some of the most aggravating people you will ever work with in your life. I had some drivers that nailed it every time and some never cared to talk to you and get to know your loading style. I made sure they were loaded heavy on one side to make steering the truck all the more fun not to mention when DOT got them.
Hi Chris.
Great vidz operator myself over in new zealand but originally from Scotland. Currently operating a Volvo 350d nice machine to operate comfortable and smooth great on fuel. Dumptruck drivers are like lost sheep they just follow the 1 in front buddy 😀. Take care keep up the great work and videos.
Willie.
Where do they take it to dump? Best of luck with the storm! Hope you all fare ok down there.
Your mammas house!!!
@@grassgobbler7214, that's way to far to haul all of that. It wouldn't be economically feasible. But, nice suggestion. I'm sure Chris is appreciative, and would thoroughly enjoy more of your incredible wisdom.
@@grassgobbler7214, lol!
All the dump trucks around here in robeson county are contracting with the NCDOT. They just came by the house last week cutting down the shoulders of the road. Everyone was contacted trucks, motor grader and flaggers. Supervisor and belt loader was the only state employee.
STAY SAFE DURING THE STORM, CHRIS. Find high ground away from streams and rivers and have all your supplies handy (generator, flashlights, food, water, portable radio, gas, rain gear, rope for rescues.....).You know the drill, lol.
Good to have a new video. Stay safe with the hurricane Chris! My brother and his family live over near Fuquay.
Great video! Truck drivers can never back in the same place twice! Lol their like lighting. Be safe with the hurricane coming in! Tarp up that 250! Thanks for sharing
I really like these loading videos it is very satisfying to watch. Can you show us the storm from your place just a short clip is cool? We don't get those Hurricanes in California.
Jeff Stewart or Michigan
I agree, with the sandbag idea. you need a big ol funnel and a couple good Ole boys to tie bags shut. You'll make a fortune
Thanks Chris, you and Tim Stay Safe 🙏
Don’t go pickin on them dumbtrucks, it ain’t easy to turn around and backup with a slurpy between your knees, a hot sub on your lap, a mouthfulla food, the cb yappin and a cellphone at your ear! Been there .... done that . Lol
TherealDeltaEcho Hello my fellow dumbtrucker
Spoken like a true trucky 😂😂
And dirty mirrors. LOL!
Cathy Blasco you think they’re going to put all that stuff down so that they can get out and clean their mirrors? Way too hard to do -at least it is for me but I’ll still moan about not being able to see at all when I’m backing up for the rest of the day 😂
Spoken like a true driver! LOL Fer sure! Fer sure!
Dirt is one commodity that does not follow the normal supply and demand economic models. There is an infinite supply (of dirt) which means it (dirt) should be uber cheap. However, if you want to buy some you have to pay through your nose to get it. If you have some to get rid of it (dirt) should sell at a good price. However, you will never find a buyer at any price. The only one who makes money dealing in dirt is the excavator. You pay him to haul yours out and somebody else pays him (the excavator) to have.it dumped at his place. Crazy.
he has to pay for the machine some why
you're not factoring in not all dirt is equal. some is unsuitable for most things, no one wants it. some is great fill, and costs to bring in. easy to sell. also, sometimes you need it gone NOW. no luxury to let it sit for a buyer, need to haul it out to complete the project. so many factors.
I live in Argentina, something far from there, and it's the same thing with dirt.
If you are the owner of the dirt for you it will be a waste and for the machinery guy it will be a gift, which then can, sell
It aint to often you get to sell it to a customer as the same time your trying to get rid of it off another job. Once in awhile it happens but not often. I know been there done that excavation for 32 yrs and still ripping
if you can sell it on top of the truck as we say here, it's easy money, but as you say, it does not always happen, but you have to know that some materials are difficult to sell, and you have to store them and for that you need a specific place and everything that entails
Don't see trucks here in NZ with those funny looking trainer wheels, these days there is an extra load sharing axle because they allowed extra weight on the roads a few years ago. Great video bro
I've been enjoying your videos for years. Keeping you in prayers as Hurricane Flo moves into your area. The weather here in Groton/New London, CT coast has not been good with rain and rough seas. Best of luck!
Hello from Cromwell, Ct !
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With a 45 minute turnaround time. How many trucks do you need to keep busy? 15 maybe?
Wonder if ole tall sides hauls mulch? I sure hope you and all your critters are safe during this hurricane. Keep us updated!
Finally something good to watch.
As somebody who works with truck drivers all day, almost everyday, operating a counterbalance, I can confirm that no two truck drivers are the same, even over the pond here in Blighty 🇬🇧
It wouldn’t surprise me if Chris has used the haul truck and 250 to build a wall around his new grass and house
Praying for you and Tim and all in the Carolinas.
How are you keeping track of the yardage? you were not putting the same amount in each truck.
nice size bucket on that... usually run a 160 or 180 and takes about 12-14 buckets...have a hammerhead job upcoming.. looking forward to it... tearing up a runway then sampling ground water under it...
Nice to have help moving all this mud/sand/dirt . Beat the storm
And New Jersey permits licensing for 80 K GVW for the same sort of truck with only 4 axles ( and 12-14 tires ) ! Wish most of my loads ( in the same style truck ) were that light if it was a load count rate ! Most often I was at least 1K over 80 bushel and my personal high was 105 K on a 28.5 K tare .
Hehe. You mentioned that the drivers changed their orientation from side-on to facing away from you. I suspect that's because you were dropping dirt, rocks, logs on their tires. They don't like buying new tires!
Park your machinery on high ground and stay safe!
awesome video chris stay safe with the storm coming will be thinking about you
Been waiting for this with that hurricane coming knew that you would want to get as much as you could out before it hit. The lost time with drivers not having a procedure for incoming and out going cost you 1 load as you filled at a rate of 2 minutes that's a lot of loads per day. Hope you will be safe in the up coming event look after yourself cheers NZ.
Rookie question here:
How do you know how many yards/how much weight u putting in dump truck? Number of yards per bucket?
What do they do with all that soil? Who finds the tipping site?
Mudflaps not required down there toward the bottom of the country or they just ripping them off when they dump? I work for a municipality and I thought I saw some confused drivers, but this wins.
Chris , if there is so much of a weight restriction , why get quid axle dump trucks ?
Your what 150 miles from impact, be safe out there Chris. Last year Irma's eye went right over my house, did a good enough mess of my yard. Most of my Live Oaks leaves went missing, really looked like a war zone.
I haven't researched legal tonnage in Texas, but I just finished a demo yesterday...had one of the 40 yard dumpsters packed so tight it ended up right at 18 tons. Dang roll off truck almost couldn't get it off the ground. I'm sure he was at or close to the legal limit...but I'm not 100% sure.
On the pond you repaired that would not hold water does it hold water now
Be safe man. We'll miss you posting for a few days. Hopefully there isn't too much flooding
What's avg cost for removal per yard ?
Stay safe up there Chris! I dealt with Irma last year here in the Florida Keys. Sounds like y’all are gonna have it sittin over y’all for a few days. I’ll be watching for updates from ya.
You mentioned things being busy, what rate do they get for the trucks?, stay safe
That's a grate long video Chris and a understand the point of consistency u work faster and don't have to think so much about stability
You’d love working the Foxconn site in Wisconsin. They average a dump every 20-30 seconds. Call it the quad show. And a show it is. Then add about 20 haul trucks if not more, 30 scrappers and probably 20 dozers. It gets interesting. That’s just the start, suppose to double or triple those amounts.
Chris why do you load trucks more towards the tailgate. I have always been tought to load up close to the dog house.
Let's dig bruh i consistently watch your videos, i'm praying for yall all down there NC & SC where my bro is, along with other family members, you guys hold shit down before the military show up💪
When I was driving a quad I took 20 tons out where ever I went. Sand,asphalt,rock,dirt didn't matter to me. 🤷♂️. When sc was in a state of emergency because of a hurricane we was hauling 95,000 pounds of rip rap to fill in rail roads that washed out.
Chris, I would say that if all the drivers are from the same company and have radios they should use them so that they can maneuver and quadrant their movements in the area so they don't slow down the process
Correct me if I’m wrong Justin but I thought weight limits were exempt in a state of emergency?
That's not an emergency
Demetres Robinson I understand that but the state is under a state of emergency and it’s right an harvest season I know for farmers all weight limits are waved. Didn’t know if it was for All trucks or not
I still understand your point, but that's just a private lake job. If they were using the dirt to let's say build dams and fill sandbags that'll be a different thing.
Trucks being used for recovery and prep get the exemption.
Put the dirt in sand bags lol
Amazing to see teamwork = dreamwork !!
How do you keep an accurate tally on your yardage out? do you use the buckets measurement or the trucks overall yardage capacity to judge it?
northstar2007 i know when we do it and send to a landfill we get weight records of every dump and use a conversion of 1.6 / 1.7 / or 1.8 tons per yard. Depending on the material. If he’s dealing with a pit or another source it’s by bucket volume and guessing a lot haha
Good luck with the hurricane coming in, you never know what they will do, been through several of them here in Texas. I Enjoy the videos.
here in Mo. that truck is only 3/4 full . Damn that must be irritating
Around here the largest adult day care is the oil field. It looks like it could be dump trucks there.
I've towed tri axles in new jersey that were pushing 100k ons. Its definitely a lot different hauling up here
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When i lived in monroe nc i didnt miss those damm hurricanes when i was lived,down there we got hit by Hugo run fir the hilks tks,gary
23 minutes in... it took me a second "There may be more than just coke in here..."
You plan on hauling the equipment back off to your place, or are you gonna leave it all set at the job sites?
That’s the driver calling you to ask how to back up the truck 😂 😂 lol
A question for someone who knows more then me... would it be more Efficient to rent a giant wheel loader to load out these trucks on a job like this?
Carson Schifsky not that i know more than anyone, but on a job like this with sediment you would need to dredge it out of the lake, move it to a location to dewater ( typically close to lake so water runs back into the lake) and then move it again to a location hard enough for a loader to operate and load a truck. Without getting stuck. A decent sized loader is around 6 yard bucket. With would take two buckets to load these trucks approx. how fast Chris is it is way more efficient to live load right from the lake. Hope that answered your question.
Load just as fast with excavator
They Just showed it going more south, then west,
Leaving a lot Less Rain now up in the RDU area, especially west of there like
Nightendale... good luck.
Didn't the NC governor declare a state of emergency. And suspend weight limits on commercial trucks. Or was that just for farm trucks.
Be careful Cris,hope we dodge the flooding rain here in WNC,Mountains n lots of rain don't mix!
Gotta love it you can always tell the drivers for the steering wheel holders. 😏
Glad it was you counting and not me. I got lost on every load. LOL
Not to sound stupid. Do you move your equipment to some place higher ground? Sorry for the stupid question.
Do they have a scale in the truck to let them know when they are at maximum legal capacity.
You are doing great Chris and I’m glad you have Tim there to help speed up the work in progress and you are so right about the economy it really does suck nobody wants to work with you
I know you've talked about it before, but I still don't understand why you guys don't get quick couplers so you can change buckets, you could halve your load time on that kind of material. yeah, you get tippy with the bigger bucket, but only if you load over the side extended out nearly all the way, easy to adjust so that doesn't happen. To me not being able to change buckets for material and conditions is akin to buying a socket set without the 1/2 and 9/16 sockets in it....you guys should consider it
They won't, means all his thumbs would be out of match with the buckets then too
no, that doesn't matter, shouldn't be using thumb with muck bucket anyway. We have 5 excavators ranging from 90,000lb machines to 10,000lb, all have thumbs and all have quick couplers, and we have 2-3 buckets for each machine, yes, if you are doing lots of work with the thumb then use the bucket that it was fitted to, but other than that the cost of a quick coupler pays for itself in not much time, I guess that's why there are so many out there
Is that weight restriction all the time down there or do they have one in effect at this time?? If so why do they use dump trucks that can haul more. Sorry if it's a dumb question I'm not in the hauling business and don't know the regulations down there(michigan here)
chris how bg is your bucket is it yard or yard in a quarter?????
Sending prayers for y'all and may God keep y'all safe
You ought to be hauling sand with that log truck of your buddy's.. Give him the idea lol
22:52 'its like daycare' no Chris that is known here as the 'Minnesota triple yield' when you pull up to a 4 way stop sign intersection and the 3 cars already there are just sitting waiting for the others to go first
Great video as always (the commentary always cracks me up!) There's plenty of work like that here in Michigan, now if I could just get my CDL A instead of B...
What brand of teeth do you run on your excavators. We run geith although they wear pretty quick. We are trying to find a better brand.
Outa just start filling up bags and put a sand bag stand out by the road. Prolly could sell em for the price of gold here in few days
We having the same problem we’re I am from hard to get trucks guess that a good thing a lot of construction work being done
up here in Wisconsin a lot of the dump trucks are running 22 ton lol
I feel your frustration! Stay safe....and good luck with the weather! ....13
Do you have the anti vandal plates for the machines to put up before the storm?
Need a traffic cop out there! Thanks for the video.
All the way over and up.... I laughed at that.
Hope Florence is easy on y'all. I survived Katrina. Good luck!
I noticed that 1 truck had no mud flaps. (20,09 min mark) . I've had to replace 3 windshields ( $300.00 each) from these kinds of trucks over the past few years and theirs no way to make them pay for it. It should be illegal to load an un safe vehicle.
Hi what sort of gross weight do you get with 5 axles. UK 4 axles most dump trucks 32 ton, what is size of your voltorol looks very smooth, or is that you.
Zzz relaxing and fun to watch at night 😬
Do they have excavators with build in weight/yardage calculators? I remember something like that on loaders.
Yes you can get scales in there to.
is there going to be a video of them taking the dirt to the other end.?
I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO CHRIS 😊
Damn... that is a weird truck that one with the high sides!! Easy to hit that box with the excavator. Lol
He might haul mulch with it also and needs the toppers to reach weight?
Why do y’all run those quads axle trucks? Mostly see dump trailers here
I have been watching your videos for a while. I enjoy them!
Where are you located?
Keep them coming.
How many trucks did u load that day
What could a dump truck like those normally carry without the limit?
Great video Chris thanks for sharing have a great day
What's the difference between a Dump truck driver and a refrigerator
The light turns on when you open a refrigerator
In Minnesota a quad is only legal for 18 ton on average
I this in raleigh? I'm still trying to figure out where this is.
I Enjoyed the video Chris ,stay safe my frend .
Hey Chris, some storm footage would be neat to see, supposed to be a wild one.. Stay safe, hope all turns out well for you. Thumbs up as always man!!
Why no cb radio to communicate with trucks?