I’m an excavator operator for the county road department where I live and I watch your videos every break and lunch of every day I work and I’m a firm believer there’s always room for improvement no matter how many years a person has under their belt. Watching your skills has helped me out on some jobs that I’ve done so keep up the good work!!! I run a 210G John Deere
You know that most people would have just smoothed that over a little and put some more stone over it. The fact that you took the time to fix it right speaks volumes for your integrity. I had already figured out the kind of man you are and this just reinforces my thinking. I always enjoy your videos Chris so keep doing what your doing.😎🇺🇸🐘
@@ConstructionMachineryChannel I think that's the reason he stays so busy too. I like to watch people do things the right way......even if it takes a little longer.
@@ConstructionMachineryChannel hey man I just subscribed to your channel and watched asphalt paving roads with cat paving machine. Which one of the men is you?
Really gotta say since day one that I started watching your channel that there’s no half assin nothing ! Right is right no matter what and whatever it takes it’ll be right when you leave a job ! And I’ve always really appreciated that about you Chris ! Can’t tell u how much I appreciate you and your work ethic !!
Every since I stated watching this channel, I've been impressed with Chris' work ethic and his amazing skill as a heavy equipment operator. Lately I've been saying that Chris is to piece of equipment what Picaso was to a paint brush. Can I get a yeah or an Amen on that!
Chris you have honor and pride in your work. Do you know how many contractors would have drove of and left that bad spot. God bless. You and your family 👪
You could tell that spot really bothered him...Most would throw some stone on it and smooth it out. That's the man I would want working on MY driveway!
Fortunately the driveway got mushy when you still have all the equipment there to fix it rather than later when you'd have to haul whatever you needed back to fix it again. It's also cool that you "over-fixed" it just to make sure you fixed it right.
The good thing about trucks and rubber wheels when making the road, if there is a soft place, they find it. Good video watching them every time you make a new one. Hello from Denmark
The woven "plastic" you use is called "worteldoek" in Dutch. It's used here in gardens to prevent roots to grow by shutting out light but it lets pass water. Greetings from the Netherlands, Harry.
The mark of a great business/tradesman is not whether they make a mistake but how they step up and preemptively fix it if they notice it has gone wrong. The difference between a labourer and a tradesmen is that a tradesman knows how to fix his mistakes. I hate having to go back and rework things I have finished too so I take great pains to make sure it's the best that it can be as I do it. No one can say though that they didn't make a mistake. If they claim it's perfect when it's clearly not then those are the type of people who never learn from their mistakes.
@@raywilson800 School of hard knocks and lessons learned from learning to run my own business over 40 years as a successful tradey. ;) It's not rocket surgery. Pretty easy to run a successful business. Quality, quality, quality. Be a realist not an optimist or pessimist. Learn to recognise opportunities and own your mistakes and fix em. Don't argue with the customer when you screw up which is inevitable. Never spend more than you earn. Never budget based on your best month.
@@philbox4566 I was an OTR/OO in the trucking business for 45 years and I too tried to operate on the same principle. I always tried to give 100% on every load I hauled. I'm retired now. Got COPD in 2015 and had to quit. Wish I would have taken as much care of my body as I did my work but you know what they say. Hind sites 20/20
Same fabric I use, best material for the money. They do make a lot of different types of fabric like natural or synthetic, woven or unwoven, felt, ect... when explaining to people on what it is I just tell them that it's basically like the weed barrier they can get from their lawn and garden department but heavier duty. Great video Chris!
I've driven most heavy equipment, never run a grader, watching the vid it looks like you're taking the crown and putting it on the shoulder. It's prob the camera, it looks strange. But who am I to doubt the MASTER. great video as always, have a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what a self motivated man looks like. Notice how he doesn't need constant supervision and you never see him leaning on a shovel with a disconnected look.
Had few of those pumping issues where stumps were in my driveway just dug it up with tractor loader and disc over it a few times over a few days to dry it out and box bladed it back in and added a few inches on top to drain the water off and has been fine sense! I really wish I had a couple of the machines you got! Also stand up thing to do putting in the effort to repair that in a good way! I wish more people would do quality work like that!
I used to work in the carpet tufting industry and that material is used on carpet tufting machines for holding tufts. It then goes to a backing plant where expandable foam is added. This make your dirt cheap carpets... Using it in this situation is a cheaper alternate to rip-wrap fabric. Works just as well but a fraction of the cost.
Hello everyone! 🙋♀️ As always, you did a good job Chris! And with the different camera settings you are always very close. Thanks. 😎👍 Goodbye all until the next video and have a nice weekend. ☺️💜
Case n Point on the "Fabric"!! lol...Just after you explained what it's for and does, you cut out that little section...lolol.... It's all laying in Nice Chris !! Great as always, Have a Great Evening !! On to the Next....
Thank you for explaining the fabric you use. Colin and I enjoy all your videos. So much work involved. If your not in this field of work, you don't really think about it sometimes. We have certainly had our eyes opened . It's getting colder here in Ontario Canada. Keep safe.
I live in So. Cal. on a cul-de-sac. The city contracted with an asphalt company to remove the asphalt, road base and start from soil. I’m NOT any type of engineer or road building expert but after they got down to the dirt road bed, they took compaction samples, then compacted the dirt, laid base, compacted that, then paved. It has been about 7 years and the asphalt is cracked to the point where all this started. Many years ago, I was watching an asphalt paving job at a hospital I worked at. The inspector was on site and kept telling the man on the roller to slow down. The inspector told me that when you roll hot mix asphalt too fast, the hot mix will swell up in front of the roller drum and cause the mix to have cracks in it. While I was watching them pave my street, I noticed the man on the drum roller “seemed” to be going too fast and leaving the telltale cracks in his wake. Nobody seemed to care and now we have a cul-de-sac street that looks like a freeway map of Los Angeles county with all the cracks in it. Thanks Chris for being a conscientious contractor. Your videos show your character and your customers appreciate your attention to detail. Wish the rest of your industry did the same.👍👌🇺🇸
34:11 Placing a pipe under the road, has additional benefits . Animals can use it for cover, when predators are after them. i.e. Rabbits can hide in the pipe, when a hawk is after them. Mice can hide in the pipe, when an owl is after them at night. A DUI Driver can (attempt) to hide in the pipe, when hiding from the police! =P
Swing batter batter swing lol one point you had the piece of pipe in the bucket and looked like a bat lmao .Keep up the good work love watching your videos .be safe out there and keep up the good work ✌️✌️👍👍👍👍
Looking good Chris I like that drive through the woods! Guess what I heard today, another low pressure system out in the Caribbean and they have it charted to head towards Louisiana! Seems like we can’t get a break brother! Two back to back hurricanes and the city looks like a war zone! Good video brother! 👍🏻👍🏻
I watch him close to make sure he's talking to the camera and not his self. I think that soft spot had him buffaloed. I thought he was gonna leave the excavator when he heard that mysterious crack.
Just got time to watch this before I turn in for the night. The clocks go back an hour tonight here in the UK, the start of daylight saving, so I lose an hours sleep and I need to be away early-ish tomorrow.
@@THEFatherW No. You set the clock back. It is fall back, spring forward. 10 now becomes 9 so you need to stay awake an extra hour until the clock says 10. Except for possibly screwing up your metabolism nothing really changes. I'm one of those people who think daylight saving time is possibly one of the stupidest things ever invented.
@@ArnieD17you're right I should have gain an hour except I needed to be up at stupid o>clock plus 1 No mucky Donolds for brekie for us boys. It will take me the week to get used to this.
I hope the owner has a good chain saw and a front end loader cause when one of those Carolina nor easters comes through and lays some of those big pines across the road they will be trapped...
Much like house wrap and very tough to tear, hence fabric and not plastic. Awesome video! 💪👊🇺🇸 we call what you call ABC, crush & run. It packs very well for a base layer.
At least there is a soft spot, I feared from the previous videos that Chris would be Mister 100% perfect. This small soft spot makes you even more human😀
Great videos. Hard for some to understand how much work goes into something that to some seems so simple. My grandfather was a road/highway/freeway builder so I can understand the work that goes into it.
A professional job as always, much respect to the man. Does anyone know if there's an update as to what happened to the big rock in the animal centre pond.
Awesome videos and they’ve helped me out several times. I just subscribed. 1 question... What’s the name of fabric do you use under roadways? I’ve never seen it used before. Thank you in advance!
Nice job👍 when you put the culvert pipe in is there a reason why you dug the trench from the road why not dig across the road wouldn't you be able to make a lot tighter neater Trench?
How much of a run off either side will you do to take off the water from the driveway.., and will you make a channel either side to drain off the water? Or will it soak away
The best machine for finding soft spots was a Cat 12 or 14 grader the back wheels would find the soft spots while trimming the sub grade to make ready for proof rolling
Did you do a penetrometer test on that soft spot.My father was a surveyor and used this instrument on subdivision roads to make sure the road stood up to a compact test.
I’m an excavator operator for the county road department where I live and I watch your videos every break and lunch of every day I work and I’m a firm believer there’s always room for improvement no matter how many years a person has under their belt. Watching your skills has helped me out on some jobs that I’ve done so keep up the good work!!! I run a 210G John Deere
You know that most people would have just smoothed that over a little and put some more stone over it. The fact that you took the time to fix it right speaks volumes for your integrity. I had already figured out the kind of man you are and this just reinforces my thinking. I always enjoy your videos Chris so keep doing what your doing.😎🇺🇸🐘
He does things the right away, that's why so many people like watching him work.
@@ConstructionMachineryChannel I think that's the reason he stays so busy too. I like to watch people do things the right way......even if it takes a little longer.
@@raywilson800 I agree with you, I don't mind either as long as things are done right.
@@ConstructionMachineryChannel hey man I just subscribed to your channel and watched asphalt paving roads with cat paving machine. Which one of the men is you?
@@raywilson800 Haha, none of them. I'm the guy holding the camera 👍🏻 Thanks for watching and subscribing, appreciate that.
Geotextile woven road fabric is good stuff when needed ! Definitely works 💪🏼
Really gotta say since day one that I started watching your channel that there’s no half assin nothing ! Right is right no matter what and whatever it takes it’ll be right when you leave a job ! And I’ve always really appreciated that about you Chris ! Can’t tell u how much I appreciate you and your work ethic !!
Every since I stated watching this channel, I've been impressed with Chris' work ethic and his amazing skill as a heavy equipment operator. Lately I've been saying that Chris is to piece of equipment what Picaso was to a paint brush. Can I get a yeah or an Amen on that!
Chris you have honor and pride in your work. Do you know how many contractors would have drove of and left that bad spot. God bless. You and your family 👪
You could tell that spot really bothered him...Most would throw some stone on it and smooth it out. That's the man I would want working on MY driveway!
Fortunately the driveway got mushy when you still have all the equipment there to fix it rather than later when you'd have to haul whatever you needed back to fix it again. It's also cool that you "over-fixed" it just to make sure you fixed it right.
The good thing about trucks and rubber wheels when making the road, if there is a soft place, they find it. Good video watching them every time you make a new one. Hello from Denmark
The woven "plastic" you use is called "worteldoek" in Dutch. It's used here in gardens to prevent roots to grow by shutting out light but it lets pass water.
Greetings from the Netherlands, Harry.
The mark of a great business/tradesman is not whether they make a mistake but how they step up and preemptively fix it if they notice it has gone wrong. The difference between a labourer and a tradesmen is that a tradesman knows how to fix his mistakes. I hate having to go back and rework things I have finished too so I take great pains to make sure it's the best that it can be as I do it. No one can say though that they didn't make a mistake. If they claim it's perfect when it's clearly not then those are the type of people who never learn from their mistakes.
Those sound like pretty wise words.
@@raywilson800 School of hard knocks and lessons learned from learning to run my own business over 40 years as a successful tradey. ;) It's not rocket surgery. Pretty easy to run a successful business. Quality, quality, quality. Be a realist not an optimist or pessimist. Learn to recognise opportunities and own your mistakes and fix em. Don't argue with the customer when you screw up which is inevitable. Never spend more than you earn. Never budget based on your best month.
@@philbox4566 I was an OTR/OO in the trucking business for 45 years and I too tried to operate on the same principle. I always tried to give 100% on every load I hauled. I'm retired now. Got COPD in 2015 and had to quit. Wish I would have taken as much care of my body as I did my work but you know what they say. Hind sites 20/20
Same fabric I use, best material for the money. They do make a lot of different types of fabric like natural or synthetic, woven or unwoven, felt, ect... when explaining to people on what it is I just tell them that it's basically like the weed barrier they can get from their lawn and garden department but heavier duty. Great video Chris!
I've driven most heavy equipment, never run a grader, watching the vid it looks like you're taking the crown and putting it on the shoulder. It's prob the camera, it looks strange. But who am I to doubt the MASTER. great video as always, have a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I raise the road up and slightly angle it. I try not to do much crown because it's hard to grade and maintain it later on
This is what a self motivated man looks like. Notice how he doesn't need constant supervision and you never see him leaning on a shovel with a disconnected look.
Had few of those pumping issues where stumps were in my driveway just dug it up with tractor loader and disc over it a few times over a few days to dry it out and box bladed it back in and added a few inches on top to drain the water off and has been fine sense! I really wish I had a couple of the machines you got! Also stand up thing to do putting in the effort to repair that in a good way! I wish more people would do quality work like that!
I used to work in the carpet tufting industry and that material is used on carpet tufting machines for holding tufts. It then goes to a backing plant where expandable foam is added. This make your dirt cheap carpets...
Using it in this situation is a cheaper alternate to rip-wrap fabric. Works just as well but a fraction of the cost.
Hello everyone! 🙋♀️ As always, you did a good job Chris! And with the different camera settings you are always very close. Thanks. 😎👍
Goodbye all until the next video and have a nice weekend. ☺️💜
Root matter in the bed clay.. pain in the ass. Looking forward to seeing the road done. Looks like a great layout.👍
It's nice to see a person who has good work ethic and Care's about the quality of work that stand by.
Case n Point on the "Fabric"!! lol...Just after you explained what it's for and does, you cut out that little section...lolol.... It's all laying in Nice Chris !! Great as always, Have a Great Evening !! On to the Next....
Thank you for explaining the fabric you use. Colin and I enjoy all your videos. So much work involved. If your not in this field of work, you don't really think about it sometimes. We have certainly had our eyes opened . It's getting colder here in Ontario Canada. Keep safe.
I like how you made laying that clay out so fast. It's going to be a nice drive!
This project is quickly coming to the end. You guys did quite the job. Remember back when you arrived on site.
I live in So. Cal. on a cul-de-sac. The city contracted with an asphalt company to remove the asphalt, road base and start from soil. I’m NOT any type of engineer or road building expert but after they got down to the dirt road bed, they took compaction samples, then compacted the dirt, laid base, compacted that, then paved. It has been about 7 years and the asphalt is cracked to the point where all this started. Many years ago, I was watching an asphalt paving job at a hospital I worked at. The inspector was on site and kept telling the man on the roller to slow down. The inspector told me that when you roll hot mix asphalt too fast, the hot mix will swell up in front of the roller drum and cause the mix to have cracks in it. While I was watching them pave my street, I noticed the man on the drum roller “seemed” to be going too fast and leaving the telltale cracks in his wake. Nobody seemed to care and now we have a cul-de-sac street that looks like a freeway map of Los Angeles county with all the cracks in it. Thanks Chris for being a conscientious contractor. Your videos show your character and your customers appreciate your attention to detail. Wish the rest of your industry did the same.👍👌🇺🇸
You stand behind your work that’s good .
Good stuff, brother. Looking forward to the next video.
Project is really taking shape now.
Your a Professional in many Different Ways. Absolutely Love Camera placement on Equipment. 👍
The Word “Conscientious” is Chris’ Middle Name. It’s Obvious the Type of Human Being he is.👍
I agree
Beautiful job as always.👍👍👍😎😎😎
Great video bro and yes lucky the mushy bit was now and not after you had all the gear moved off to another project. Keep safe up there
Looks good Chris, good work, thanks for sharing as always, best content on YT
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@@husineka3823 ohh what?
Driveway is looking fabulous. You always do a great job.
Would be cool to see before and after. Lots of hard work. Great job as always.
34:11 Placing a pipe under the road, has additional benefits . Animals can use it for cover, when predators are after them. i.e. Rabbits can hide in the pipe, when a hawk is after them. Mice can hide in the pipe, when an owl is after them at night. A DUI Driver can (attempt) to hide in the pipe, when hiding from the police! =P
Let me guess..you know from experience?..😁
DUI Driver can attempt to hide, that's Gold Jerry, GOLD !!!
Looks fantastic!
Chris with all of his toys out to play with. Great job. Thanks.
I was just bragging on your skills this week. I added in you workmanship to. Always a pleasure to see someone do a great job.
Swing batter batter swing lol one point you had the piece of pipe in the bucket and looked like a bat lmao .Keep up the good work love watching your videos .be safe out there and keep up the good work ✌️✌️👍👍👍👍
Turning out to be I nice long driveway 😎👍👍
Nice job there Chris. Perfect. 😀👍👍
ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO CHRIS 😊
Looking good Chris I like that drive through the woods! Guess what I heard today, another low pressure system out in the Caribbean and they have it charted to head towards Louisiana! Seems like we can’t get a break brother! Two back to back hurricanes and the city looks like a war zone! Good video brother! 👍🏻👍🏻
Maybe enough wood was left and it was rolling around under the dirt making the clay move around when truck with stone went over it. Sounds good to me.
We call it textile in northern Canada!enjoy your vids!
Yelling at yourself, ok. Yelling back? Not ok.
I watch him close to make sure he's talking to the camera and not his self. I think that soft spot had him buffaloed. I thought he was gonna leave the excavator when he heard that mysterious crack.
Just got time to watch this before I turn in for the night. The clocks go back an hour tonight here in the UK, the start of daylight saving, so I lose an hours sleep and I need to be away early-ish tomorrow.
you gain an hour of sleep mate! Cheers!
@@THEFatherW No. You set the clock back. It is fall back, spring forward. 10 now becomes 9 so you need to stay awake an extra hour until the clock says 10. Except for possibly screwing up your metabolism nothing really changes. I'm one of those people who think daylight saving time is possibly one of the stupidest things ever invented.
@@ArnieD17you're right I should have gain an hour except I needed to be up at stupid o>clock plus 1 No mucky Donolds for brekie for us boys. It will take me the week to get used to this.
Looking great Chris 😀👍
Very nice job Chris
Really nice work 👌👌 Chris
Good looking road!
Great video and great work. Really nice road.
Watching your videos is oddly satisfying...
My afternoon go to !!Cheers!!;-)!
We would like to see more of your puppy , you had on a couple of your videos. So cute
Because his channel is about equipment.
@@briangardiner1015 LOL I know, but his puppy is cute.Have a great day.
Best skid steer view mount 👌🏼🙌🏼keep moving that dirt 🤙🏼
As always another good job
👍👍😀🍁
I hope the owner has a good chain saw and a front end loader cause when one of those Carolina nor easters comes through and lays some of those big pines across the road they will be trapped...
That's one long drive nice job 👍
Much like house wrap and very tough to tear, hence fabric and not plastic. Awesome video! 💪👊🇺🇸 we call what you call ABC, crush & run. It packs very well for a base layer.
We always proof roll the sub grade before we added fill on top to get rid of any soft spots
That crown is looking sweet brother
6oz filter fabric. Good stuff. I use in under paver patios for stability, like you’re doing here.
Nice work Chris 🇺🇲
Looking great
At least there is a soft spot, I feared from the previous videos that Chris would be Mister 100% perfect. This small soft spot makes you even more human😀
Lot of different machines you used there. Interesting to watch. From where did the gravel comes from ( distance of the quarry )? Cheers
Can't wait to see your new machine at work chris
Best I’ve seen!! Keep it up
Enjoyed that, thanks
Hi again from the UK!
Awesome video Chris
Always love the view of underneath the grader on the blade
Thanks for the down load the video Chris and have good day .
You got to love the Grader.
Been hoping to find a sequel to "TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP" where you prepped swampy property for long driveway
amazing job buddy 😎👊🏻👍🏻
Great videos. Hard for some to understand how much work goes into something that to some seems so simple. My grandfather was a road/highway/freeway builder so I can understand the work that goes into it.
Been waiting to see if ya were gonna throw a vid in tonight .awsome .godbless
Looking very nice.
Chris would be a good president. He builds strong roads. 😎
I like watching the video of the grader. I guess it takes a lot of grease on those gears. Thanks for the video!
Bell end up bell end up. The pipe monster will have a heart attack
That's what separates the men from boys, men say I missed a little but no worries I'll fix it now. Nice work Chris.
I reeeeeeaaally enjoyed the grader POV!!!!!
A professional job as always, much respect to the man. Does anyone know if there's an update as to what happened to the big rock in the animal centre pond.
10:35 I still think you should honk the horn before you run up to the dump truck haha
That fabric is known as 'terram' over here - widely used on railway formations.
Awesome videos and they’ve helped me out several times. I just subscribed.
1 question... What’s the name of fabric do you use under roadways? I’ve never seen it used before. Thank you in advance!
carpet backing...they tuft yarn into it making carpet...then they coat it with latex and jute or action back
"IT'S TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP" Where you had to cut considerable drain ditches in what at one time was going to be a subdivision. Anyway Great video's
Nice job👍 when you put the culvert pipe in is there a reason why you dug the trench from the road why not dig across the road wouldn't you be able to make a lot tighter neater Trench?
You never learn, it might be a North Carolina thing !
Carbon fiber sheathing is the fabric, same could be used with an adhesive to form fiberglass.
Love those closeup shot of fabric and excavated road bad spot.Any reason why those gravel are called as abc stone?🤔
good video
How much of a run off either side will you do to take off the water from the driveway.., and will you make a channel either side to drain off the water? Or will it soak away
The best machine for finding soft spots was a Cat 12 or 14 grader the back wheels would find the soft spots while trimming the sub grade to make ready for proof rolling
Did you do a penetrometer test on that soft spot.My father was a surveyor and used this instrument on subdivision roads to make sure the road stood up to a compact test.
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would love to see a split screen of your hands and the bucket . your so smooth with your movement ... please , please
Like Sina Drums. :) I bet she could run any equipment with her dexterity.
You can watch his finger tips cus that is what he uses.