Myself, as a professional excavator operator am truly impressed with his skills considering this is early model Hitachi with long stick controls. Very few realize the talent it takes to operate one of these machines. My hat’s off to you sir!
I agree with you . I used to in my early years operate these and other machinery before swivel sticks . It is an art that today some would be baffled , but we did it to put food on the table . Touche' sir for your professionalism !
@@reuben9213 So true. The first excavator I ever operated was a 418 P&H, four levers two foot pedals and had a straight pipe 6V 53 series Detroit in it. Honestly, when I had that machine throttled to max you could almost hear it running in the next county😂! No heat, no air conditioning, no stereo, ridged seat and couldn’t hear yourself think inside of it, but truly appreciated that old machine! I know exactly what you’re saying when you and I could confuse a lot of operators today. You and I built the roads that get the modern day operators to work on time👍😅
@@pvt.reefer6163 Poor? How do you associate being poor with what was the latest and greatest machinery at the time? I would guess you’ve never set in the seat of one much less posses the ability to comment on the complexities of how to build with it. Reckon you and the kids of today couldn’t start and operate an 1874 Ruston steam shovel? Or would y’all be confused looking for the key over the sun visor? Yeah, real men operated the equipment of yesteryear, you and the kids go fly drones.
@seventeen912 I guess it was great at the time. We had one of these in the back yard just for us kids to dick around with. We were building trails with it at 11 years old. Kids today for sure could operate the machinery of yesteryear. You equipment was operated by people too dumb to get an education. Since you had no education and could only operate rudimentary machines for money, you were probably poor.
To see a digger that you pulled out of the bush doing something truly heroic like this (instead of merely way cool) has got to be the most rewarding thing ever. You ought to be proud of that machine, that's for darn sure. You're a good fella, Marty.
Maybe it's childish but i like to think that those machines Marty saves are happy to be rescued and like to go on new adventures with marty when just everyone else abandoned them. Touches my heart just like old rescued animals finding their joy in the last Moments of their lives. Exept most of those machines will probably last longer than i will live. Im 25 btw. Thank you Marty for sharing your adventures with us, bringing Live to machines that served humans for decades and will probably be able to do that for a century. Greetings from Germany!
Marty! Try not to stick around in an area where you see water coming straight out of the side of the mountain like that. You can almost guaranty that the stability above has been compromised and you could get a slide at any time. Stay safe my friend!
HERE is The Savior HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH” YaH is The Heavenly Father YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins ** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER ** - Hebrew Book of Isaiah Isaiah 42:8 "I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. Isaiah 43:11 I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me. Isaiah 45:5 I am YaH, and there is none else.
Thanks for the update mate.. we’ve got friends in town who fortunately didn’t need evacuation, we’re unscathed as we live way north, but it’s been a massive downpour that will take years to recover from.. all the best Marty.
Wow that slip! Nice work clearing the culvert there Marty, it has been a sketchy week down here for sure. Our street turned into a river for a few hours but we were lucky to have no damage.
You're fortunate that you have fixed the machines needed for road work and you live on a mountain of the best road building material! Good luck and thanks for taking the time to make the video.
HERE is The Savior HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH” YaH is The Heavenly Father YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins ** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER ** - Hebrew Book of Isaiah Isaiah 42:8 "I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. Isaiah 43:11 I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me. Isaiah 45:5 I am YaH, and there is none else.
At 1:00 seeing the water pouring out of the ground like that... I don't think I would have stuck around to find out if it would slip. Stay safe, Marty.
One man band. Dude u can do anything! Makes you feel small seeing and watching all the damage right in your own backyard. Flooding is every other year around here. But once and awhile it just blows your mind. Great job taking videos while working. Ty
There was I thinking that you'd put all the rocks on the road as you pulled them out of the mouth of the culvert to give it a better surface and I didn't know how bad the mudslide was. I guess its not time to carry out work straight away after a major downpour. Interesting and informative - seeing this side of things does bring it home what life can be like in NZ. Good video.
Impressive amount of destruction . Glad you are ok . Looks like your driveway fared better than the main road there . Did your hydro plant weather this mess or is that going to need some repairs again ?
I at first thought it was Nelson, British Columbia, Canada due to the terrain and plant life.... I discovered Nelson/Marlborough is on the Southern island of New Zealand... what I refer to as the Canada of the Southern Hemisphere. The skill at which you use that shovel, I would not be surprised to hear that you can thread a needle with it! Floods are nothing to scoff at, the Fraser River flood of November, 2021 claimed five lives and caused untold misery and destruction... be safe, cheers from Canada.
Some years ago, there was a major flood here in Maine. It washed out roads and bridges and made a major mess of everything. Hoping you get cleared up quickly.
Great work yet again, all the salvage efforts certainly pay off in these times more than ever! You and your family stay safe and all the best in riding all that weather out Boss!!
Glad you got through with bugger all damage. The whole Nelson Marlborough region seems to have got pretty smashed. We have sent a few lines crews up there from down here in North Canterbury to help clean up.
It rains like that here in the south of Chile all the time but we have been getting rain like that for 1000 years so it rarely floods. Some valleys here get 8 feet of rain a year. Good to see you are ok. Jim
@@ionracer24 If you are in some of the valleys here along the Andes you will see that much rain. We are way way in the south in the Los Lagos Region and this area is a Temperate Rain Forest. It is cool and wet year round. 85 F would be a really hot day. We have seen 100F but that was only once or twice in 9 years. Snow only once in 9 years. Jim
@@fowletm1992 Yes weather travels from West to East. I guess the other way to look at it is that Marty gets the same rain we get a few weeks later. We actually live in a Micro Climate here in the micro. So because of the Humboldt Current and the Andes we see our area as a mixing climate where the warm moist air from the north and the cold dry air from the south pole mix. The Humboldt current moderates the climate so we do not see really hot and really cold and the Andes Mountain Range blocks the heavy moist air from moving east. So for instance in Argentina, directly east of me 50 to 60 miles, they are an arid area that sees very little rain. They rely on the snow melt from the Andes and not much rain. So we have a unique weather pattern but yes all weather travels west to east as the planet spins. Sorry to get so deep on this but my training in the U.S. Navy was weather related and I was an official weather observer for NOAH in the former USA. Also I had to continue my weather education as a Commercial pilot after my Submarine Service in the Navy. So I had to live and breath Weather for a good part of my life. Thanks. Jim
Great video, you guys down South had an enormous amount of rain there. Auckland was wet, but Nelson got absolutely drenched in water. Take care. A lot of damage with those land slides.
Wow! Another extreme rainy season for you. Please be careful! Hope you and your family are safe and have what you need until the roads open up again, and you can get into town. Thanks so much for sharing. We’re actually having a bit of a drought here in Upstate New York. Not like California of course, and we’ve had a shower here and there, but for here it’s a bit dry. Just a light rain for a day would help the farmer’s crops. Thanks again for sharing. Big request, if you would please have close captioning it would help a great deal. Thank you.
Heart goes out to you Marty watching the TV1 News and seeing what you are copying with. Often had flooding of the Matai when we were in the Sounds on holiday during the 70s (even in summer!) but these once in a 100 year floods seem to be coming around too often! Great rescue - well done. Hope all our friends in the area have survived okay!
The "100 year flood" or "XX year flood" title given to these types of events is actually a bit of a misnomer. I believe the XX Years actually refers to a certain pre-decided flood-height. It's not actually that the statistical probability has been calculated and determined that X level of flooding will happen once every 100 years, its just saying that a flood that reaches X height/level is called an XX year flood.
Good project for the excavator would be build a thumb on the boom, maybe even a no hydraulics needed adjustable unit. It would help you out a ton when trying to move stuff like trees/logs. Living in a rain forest in Alaska I know the struggle all to well. We get on average 12 feet (3.65 m)of rain a year.
Wow this was a very impressive video and I doubt it even does it justice compared to the severity and how it looked in real life. The power of mother nature never ceases to amaze me, glad you and your family were okay.
Newzealand and australia are suffering though a la Nina weather pattern, so we are getting a deluge of wet weather, where as the northern hemisphere is in drought
Scientists been telling us for a looong time this is (more extreme weather) coming, here it is. Funny all the dumb pricks who are surprised by it, people who listen to politicians with an opinion over an expert. Anyway droughts suck more than floods I reckon so all the best
Brilliant piece of work. But don't forget that all those trees and shrubs help to stabilise the land in the first place. Maybe some gambion cages would help?
Bloody hell mate - isn't this your second "hundred year flood in the past 6 months. You keep an eye out as hillsides that saturated can come down all at once.
There's another channel I watch who complains about how often an "idiot with an excavator" damages the culvert when clearing the end. I think he'd be very impressed with how careful and precise you are.
Stay safe Marty, glad to see the old equipment you’ve recovered is paying off for you. Amazing amount of rain you guys get down there! sort of understandable with all the mountain range you’re living in. I always get a chuckle when I see you driving on the wrong side of the car. 😂 as always your videos are great. Mike from Montreal.
Looks like that pipe is flowing at near maximum capacity... Maybe it should be two or three parallel pipes. If each pipe is set about 2/3 higher than the pipe below it then the base pipe will get proper flow and the 'overflow' pipes will only get flow when the level rises... this should keep everything clear and clean. Good flow in a pipe keeps it clear of silt. Some sort of trash rack might keep the logs from jamming it up!
Oh dear, theres all the water we're missing in Central Europe and its already the second flood this year in NZ. Stay save Marty, all best wishes to you and your family!
This Jaffa is feeling bloody sorry for the level of wreckage down the other end of the county. I learned all about what a flash flood feels like last year out here in NorWest Auckland but it's nothing compared to the massive costs & amount of work needed in repairs by the look at the level of damage in your neighborhood... Glad you are OK great to see your 'vintage' gear doing awesome work in time of need Matt!
WOW! You could send some of that rain my way, we are in a drought. The brook behind my house has dried up. I've lived here since 1960( Gloucester, Ma USA) and that has never happened! I use that brook as an emergency water source for my koi pond since city tap water would kill the fish. I do have a 55 gallon rain barrel which feeds the pond with its overflow, when it does rain. I'm about 3 days away from tapping into the reserve to bring the pond level back up. Best Regards , Jay
We in Britain have just had a heatwave of almost unprecedented length and you guys are getting the rain we haven’t gotten. It must be heartbreaking for all involved my thoughts are with you 🏴
@@ewanstewart8011 If Scotland was in the Southern Ocean it'd be surrounded in winter sea ice right down to northern England! South Sandwich Islands is the closest place in terms of latitude comparable you'll get, i think.
Yank here from Philadelphia. Ever since I began watching the "Dr. Blake Mysteries," my exclamation to things like your driveway is "Bloody Hell!" And then again at 12:34.
Reminds me of 2000. We had severe flooding in the UK and the millennium Scout camp we were attending took a lot of damage. They said it was a thousand year storm. We had a further 3 such storms over the proceeding 18 months.
1)With similar track culverts at risk from trees/ wood debris, we used to put in two or more pipes. If the main central pipe got blocked there were one or two more pipes at the side of the culvert to keep the water flow off the track. 2) A fair bit of finger pointing at the forestry slash (logging residue material) causing problems (during flood events in recent years) and will take a lot of effort to clean up. Are there any areas around Nelson where different methods have been tried to reduce the cutover material left or 'filters' to keep the logging slash on the slopes?
@Marty T You call it "our shared access driveway". I'm many miles away from you in Florida so I am in no way familiar with how things work in New Zealand in general, or rural New Zealand in particular. Is this a case of "your property, your problem" or is it more a matter of you being in a sparsely populated area and government prioritising effort in places with bigger, denser population, i.e. the government road crews would eventually fix the problem, but only after the road had completely washed out, leaving you and your neighbors stranded for many weeks?
@@MartyT Can they come in and fine you or make you redo things if they aren't happy with they way you've done things by claiming that you're damaging the watershed?
Pretty nasty hydraulic jump coming off the back side of that cleared culvert. Impassible to fish. not sure if the stream is perennial or intermittent but would be good for habitat connectivity in the future if that was connected.
Great piloting. Not that you need it, but would it help to mark the culvert openings with tall poles so you know where not to dig when clearing them out next time?
Same where I'm at out on the Mojave desert. Roads to Death Valley are all out and have been for a week or so now. Not sure when any of that will be working again.
aloha Marty sorry to see you fighting the rain so soon after the one a couple of months ago. I could tell it's pretty bad don't usually ever hear stress in your voice but I could tell this week was a really tough one. My kiwi friend was just telling me Nelson area was having a 100 year flood and I said wait didn't they just have a 50 year flood a couple months ago sure but this one was worse. Checked to see if you had posted a video and sure enough I can see what you're going through again. Stay safe and glad to see your culvert work earlier had made an impact but this looks to be a real mess for awhile.
Over 3 days in the Nelson area some places recorded over 1 meter of rain, 40 inches with even more around MT Taranaki at 1200mm 47 inches, Drought what drought, not in NZ
Right away i was thinking about 2 things : The ground is over saturated with water ,and Marty lives on the hills. It did give me chills for sure. I hope everything is okay with you and the family. See, it pays off to have your own earth removal tools, you can do your own ditch maintenance 👍 You could probably clear the mud off the highway too with your bulldozer, but in that case ,you'd deserve to get paid for it. People around the world, the climate is changing. Hold on to yer butts, mother nature is going agro on us all now.
We caused this climate change, by the year 2060 we will have 4 degree warmer weather whether we like it or not, nothing we do now can change it, we already have 2 degree warmer weather and we already see the worst of it past 3 years, heat records all over the world, monster rain seasons, clouds over pacific carrying more rain water than all fresh water reserves in the entire world combined and hurricanes far larger, quicker and deadlier than ever and more common too! The worst thing is, if we do not stop our pollution, we will have 6 degree warmer weather in 2060, by then the ocean will be so acidic all life in it will start to die out, by 2100 there wont be very much that can survive in the ocean anymore and the ocean starts evaporating causing even greater greenhouse effect. Here the entire coast of Mediterranean will turn into deserts which will grow very large, most likely covering Spain, then large portions of France and Balkan. Turkey will also be under huge desertifications, most of northern Africa will become unihabitable all the way down to the centre of Africa. If we keep cutting down our forests and jungles specially in Brazil and the massive forest fires in Africa, Australia etc are not kept under control we will see new deserts form in these areas, there will even be a huge desert in USA as the forest fires will become more and more common place. And if you think I am bullshitting, look up the 4 degree and 6 degree future, all the computer models from 1980s has basically been proven correctly, scientists warned us of climate change as early as 1850, and yet did we listen? No. In fact, Capitalism will destroy us all, an unlimited growth system in times of crisis is not the greatest ingrediencies put together.
@@SMGJohn This planet of ours has gone thru several extreme heating periods, followed or preceded by several ice ages. Now the problem is, that we humans are making this natural cycle much quicker with our added air pollution. I have said for years, that likely Spain and the central Europe will turn into a desert. The water that is in the clouds, will just move to other areas now. Some areas might actually get rain, like Sahara desert. It just seems that the worst heatwaves are concentrated on that Central Europe area. Also Spain has notified the whole EU that they cannot be the greenery of the EU, since Spain is running out of groundwater. We will learn the ghastly details as we get into this new era of scorching heat. These things are not 100%. North of Africa might get even worse, or it might start flooding, due to the rain water just migrating there on a more permanent basis. Humanity will eventually have to think about building villages, towns and cities undergound. That would be the logical next step. War for water will come next. There will be migration waves like we've never seen before. We will do what we can now, and see where it takes us. Humanity will stand or fall, together. None of us is ready to let go, of their every day modern comforts. So we are all in this together, guilty as hell. Even without capitalism, this planet would've still heated up, just much slower. In the end, people would've still suffered. Capitalism or not, this cycle has happened before many many times, and will continue to happen ,until the sun finally runs out of hydrogen, and burns up the earth completely as a red giant.
these are normal weather incidents...flooding is part of the earth's system..lol you think this is news? weather changes over time that isn't a man made event that is Nature part of life to live here can you change anything? no...do you believe the BS Science your told??? lol...yes... there will be hotter times..colder times... and nothing you do will change it... the rest of the world does nothing to change pollution and burning ...yet a small percentage are told we have to do something??? we already did our share... go tell asia and africa and south america to help out?? the climate change bs is about profit...profit for a few who scare the weak minds.... part of living here is to Live...not be Scared of what we can't control.... there is no actual solution to what they scare you about...there is no real Science....to their Science.... just idiots scared and repeating the propaganda.... will we destroy our world..yeah..but not how you think..it is by War....not Climate Change....go hide and worry..lol...you'll see the next deadline pass as i have since they started this crap in the 1980's.... 10 years left..12 years left....always the same threats..works on the sheep...
A lot of slash there Marty in the pile of mud. My sister lives in Tolaga Bay and there is a river through their farm which gets choked with slash in heavy rain.
Wow that's an impressive example of convert design. It would cost way way too much to upsize the pipe but I wonder if having multiple inlets could help speed up the intake-velocity of what you already have installed. In my collection of YT videos in my Drainage Playlist it has some inlet configuration models that demonstrate possible ways to improve flow.
Wow! Hope all is well! We haven't had rain here in months. Our grass literally turns to powder when you step on it. The corn is like 3 feet tall and tasseled and cobbed out. Really scary! Be safe around the high water!
Here in the UK we're set for a third consecutive heatwave predicted, we broke our record at over 40c and have had weeks where it's been 35c consistently every day. France, Spain and Portugal have had wildfires the likes of which haven't been seen in generations, the Loire and Rhine rivers are damn near running dry. This year was a guidestone on the path forward, scary stuff.
Thats all true, but the wildfires in Portugal we had worse and they are not weather related, they are corruption related!!! Since the airplanes and helicopters for fire fighting become private instead of the Air Force we started to have way more fires.... There had been some people caught in arson!! The weather does not help but people dont too
I was waiting for you to put up a video. In fact I almost emailed to ask if you had things under control. It's mostly OK on our side. The council declared a State of Emergency, but I think that was mostly for out in the sounds. I have to do a big loop to get to Blenheim, and this is the third time my road has been closed by flooding, but I can at least get to the shops. Yesterday was strange because it was a lovely sunny day and 19°, but the floods were worse! That water coming out of the hillside would worry me Marty. That's a slip waiting to happen. Are you OK for provisions?
Marty be safe in all your endeavors keeping your family and friends above water!! We're getting "rain" here but nothing torrential like you have. (Coastal South Carolina)
the "100 year floods" are happening more and more not because of "climate change" but because we have more roads, stores and houses covering the land that would normally absorb the rain water but no longer can because of the before mentioned structures
Oh Marty not again 🤦♂️ Just seeing some pictures in Oz of what you’ve been facing over there. Wow, so much rain. Thinking of you, your family and residents of the greater area. Please take care, stay safe and keep dry!
I don't believe a word about these 100 year events, since talking to one of the site managers on the Ekofisk oil production platform off the west coast of Norway. He said their platform was originally designed to cope with a 100 year wave but after they had 3 of those in a 6 month period, they had to put in fillets on the platform legs, to raise the base of the the platform by 18 feet. This operation cost $600 million. It also allowed for the legs sinking into the sea bed. Hope for the best, plan for the worst - good luck Marty.
Myself, as a professional excavator operator am truly impressed with his skills considering this is early model Hitachi with long stick controls. Very few realize the talent it takes to operate one of these machines. My hat’s off to you sir!
I agree with you . I used to in my early years operate these and other machinery before swivel sticks . It is an art that today some would be baffled , but we did it to put food on the table . Touche' sir for your professionalism !
@@reuben9213 So true. The first excavator I ever operated was a 418 P&H, four levers two foot pedals and had a straight pipe 6V 53 series Detroit in it. Honestly, when I had that machine throttled to max you could almost hear it running in the next county😂! No heat, no air conditioning, no stereo, ridged seat and couldn’t hear yourself think inside of it, but truly appreciated that old machine! I know exactly what you’re saying when you and I could confuse a lot of operators today. You and I built the roads that get the modern day operators to work on time👍😅
@seventeen912 damn, you were poor af. Kids toys are more complicated than these. Any 9 year old with a drone could operate this no problem.
@@pvt.reefer6163 Poor? How do you associate being poor with what was the latest and greatest machinery at the time? I would guess you’ve never set in the seat of one much less posses the ability to comment on the complexities of how to build with it. Reckon you and the kids of today couldn’t start and operate an 1874 Ruston steam shovel? Or would y’all be confused looking for the key over the sun visor? Yeah, real men operated the equipment of yesteryear, you and the kids go fly drones.
@seventeen912 I guess it was great at the time. We had one of these in the back yard just for us kids to dick around with. We were building trails with it at 11 years old. Kids today for sure could operate the machinery of yesteryear. You equipment was operated by people too dumb to get an education. Since you had no education and could only operate rudimentary machines for money, you were probably poor.
To see a digger that you pulled out of the bush doing something truly heroic like this (instead of merely way cool) has got to be the most rewarding thing ever. You ought to be proud of that machine, that's for darn sure. You're a good fella, Marty.
You earn a well deserved place in the Post10 hall of fame! Stay safe! Thank you for making these videos.
But he don‘t like people whit excavator🤣
But he would love the whirlpool. Not to mention the exit of the culvert.
@@howardsen666 Actually, I think it's incompetent operators he hates 😆
@@michiganengineer8621 that‘s right „an idiot with an excavator“ 😅
Definitely wasn't a beaver making this clog!
Maybe it's childish but i like to think that those machines Marty saves are happy to be rescued and like to go on new adventures with marty when just everyone else abandoned them.
Touches my heart just like old rescued animals finding their joy in the last Moments of their lives. Exept most of those machines will probably last longer than i will live. Im 25 btw.
Thank you Marty for sharing your adventures with us, bringing Live to machines that served humans for decades and will probably be able to do that for a century.
Greetings from Germany!
Marty! Try not to stick around in an area where you see water coming straight out of the side of the mountain like that. You can almost guaranty that the stability above has been compromised and you could get a slide at any time. Stay safe my friend!
That's what I was thinking, It could go at any point.
It's called a (slippery back.)
I believe that is what's called soil liquefaction? Practical engineering has a few interesting videos on the subject.
That was the feeling that I got too when I saw that water coming out of the side…..
you"re right. anyone that sees that anywhere in California is probably seeing their last sight of anything.
When I heard about all the rain and flooding I wasn’t surprised to see all work you would have to do. Be safe Marty and your family
HERE is The Savior
HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH”
YaH is The Heavenly Father
YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING
YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins
** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER **
- Hebrew Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 42:8
"I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
Isaiah 43:11
I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me.
Isaiah 45:5
I am YaH, and there is none else.
Thanks for the update mate.. we’ve got friends in town who fortunately didn’t need evacuation, we’re unscathed as we live way north, but it’s been a massive downpour that will take years to recover from.. all the best Marty.
Wow that slip! Nice work clearing the culvert there Marty, it has been a sketchy week down here for sure. Our street turned into a river for a few hours but we were lucky to have no damage.
Saw the flooding on the news here in Australia and thought of you in Nelson. Glad all are safe 👍
Thanks mate, yes sounds like Nelson is a real mess. A house slid down the hill and parked in the middle of the road in Rai Valley .
@@MartyT 😳 scary stuff man
I was wondering how you would make it with all the flooding going on. Looks like the last cleanup you did a few months ago helped a lot.
Same spot no?
@@OboteOjok Yes sir
"hundred year" floods every few months...
You're fortunate that you have fixed the machines needed for road work and you live on a mountain of the best road building material! Good luck and thanks for taking the time to make the video.
I definitely think the work you put in after the last flood has paid off... glad there's minimal damage to your driveway
HERE is The Savior
HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH”
YaH is The Heavenly Father
YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING
YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins
** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER **
- Hebrew Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 42:8
"I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
Isaiah 43:11
I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me.
Isaiah 45:5
I am YaH, and there is none else.
At 1:00 seeing the water pouring out of the ground like that... I don't think I would have stuck around to find out if it would slip. Stay safe, Marty.
Great! Another high quality content video! Looks scary though. I hope you and the family is safe. Saving that digger from the forest really paid off.
One man band. Dude u can do anything! Makes you feel small seeing and watching all the damage right in your own backyard. Flooding is every other year around here. But once and awhile it just blows your mind. Great job taking videos while working. Ty
There was I thinking that you'd put all the rocks on the road as you pulled them out of the mouth of the culvert to give it a better surface and I didn't know how bad the mudslide was. I guess its not time to carry out work straight away after a major downpour. Interesting and informative - seeing this side of things does bring it home what life can be like in NZ. Good video.
Love the way you rejuvenate the old abandoned machinery and put it back to work! Awesome job sir!! 👍❤️👍
Impressive amount of destruction .
Glad you are ok .
Looks like your driveway fared better than the main road there .
Did your hydro plant weather this mess or is that going to need some repairs again ?
The turbine stopped at one stage with a partially blocked intake so I put on a smaller jet, running sweet now
Better than searching piles of driftwood for the remains of your powerplant , for sure .
@@robertcolinshepherd electric.
@@robertcolinshepherd Marty turned an old washing machine and number 8 fencing wire into a hydro-electric power plant that allows him to be off grid.
I’m glad you asked this because I was wondering the same thing.
I at first thought it was Nelson, British Columbia, Canada due to the terrain and plant life.... I discovered Nelson/Marlborough is on the Southern island of New Zealand... what I refer to as the Canada of the Southern Hemisphere.
The skill at which you use that shovel, I would not be surprised to hear that you can thread a needle with it!
Floods are nothing to scoff at, the Fraser River flood of November, 2021 claimed five lives and caused untold misery and destruction... be safe, cheers from Canada.
Thanks for taking the time to film for us Marty. It’d be the last I’d think of when facing some time critical works.
I second that!
Some years ago, there was a major flood here in Maine. It washed out roads and bridges and made a major mess of everything. Hoping you get cleared up quickly.
100 year flood for the second time in a year! 🙏Keep yourself and family safe and well. 👍🏴
But wait... there's more.
@@aserta 😱
thank goodness for generous, giving people that do these kinds of things for FREE!
You make our world safer and better!👍🇺🇸🙏
I actually sat there at home on Friday listening to the rain slam down and thought, "I bet Marty's out playing in the rain again"
Amazing! Making your skills for repair of equipment all the more valuable and interesting to watch! ❤️
That's really great how ur so equipped and able to address these serious situations such as u do.
It must b a comforting feeling, way to b.
Did you see the video of where he got the excavator?
@@KayAteChef yes I did, and it makes me think y isn't a lot more heavy equipment rescued like that?
Not to mention how impressive he is.
100 year flood.
Mrs. T- "Thank god he has content for the next month and no more tractors"
love from Canada
Great work yet again, all the salvage efforts certainly pay off in these times more than ever! You and your family stay safe and all the best in riding all that weather out Boss!!
Thank you Marty for, telling us your situation and sharing the video!Yes, please be safe!!!
Glad you got through with bugger all damage. The whole Nelson Marlborough region seems to have got pretty smashed. We have sent a few lines crews up there from down here in North Canterbury to help clean up.
Classic Kiwi understatement 'what a bloody mess'! Couldn't sum it up any better mate. Keep safe and dry.
It rains like that here in the south of Chile all the time but we have been getting rain like that for 1000 years so it rarely floods. Some valleys here get 8 feet of rain a year. Good to see you are ok. Jim
You guys get the same system that pass over Marty
Just a few weeks later
@@ionracer24 If you are in some of the valleys here along the Andes you will see that much rain. We are way way in the south in the Los Lagos Region and this area is a Temperate Rain Forest. It is cool and wet year round. 85 F would be a really hot day. We have seen 100F but that was only once or twice in 9 years. Snow only once in 9 years. Jim
@@fowletm1992 Yes weather travels from West to East. I guess the other way to look at it is that Marty gets the same rain we get a few weeks later.
We actually live in a Micro Climate here in the micro. So because of the Humboldt Current and the Andes we see our area as a mixing climate where the warm moist air from the north and the cold dry air from the south pole mix. The Humboldt current moderates the climate so we do not see really hot and really cold and the Andes Mountain Range blocks the heavy moist air from moving east. So for instance in Argentina, directly east of me 50 to 60 miles, they are an arid area that sees very little rain. They rely on the snow melt from the Andes and not much rain.
So we have a unique weather pattern but yes all weather travels west to east as the planet spins. Sorry to get so deep on this but my training in the U.S. Navy was weather related and I was an official weather observer for NOAH in the former USA. Also I had to continue my weather education as a Commercial pilot after my Submarine Service in the Navy. So I had to live and breath Weather for a good part of my life. Thanks. Jim
Great video, you guys down South had an enormous amount of rain there. Auckland was wet, but Nelson got absolutely drenched in water. Take care. A lot of damage with those land slides.
Wow! Another extreme rainy season for you. Please be careful! Hope you and your family are safe and have what you need until the roads open up again, and you can get into town. Thanks so much for sharing. We’re actually having a bit of a drought here in Upstate New York. Not like California of course, and we’ve had a shower here and there, but for here it’s a bit dry. Just a light rain for a day would help the farmer’s crops. Thanks again for sharing.
Big request, if you would please have close captioning it would help a great deal. Thank you.
Heart goes out to you Marty watching the TV1 News and seeing what you are copying with. Often had flooding of the Matai when we were in the Sounds on holiday during the 70s (even in summer!) but these once in a 100 year floods seem to be coming around too often! Great rescue - well done. Hope all our friends in the area have survived okay!
The "100 year flood" or "XX year flood" title given to these types of events is actually a bit of a misnomer. I believe the XX Years actually refers to a certain pre-decided flood-height. It's not actually that the statistical probability has been calculated and determined that X level of flooding will happen once every 100 years, its just saying that a flood that reaches X height/level is called an XX year flood.
Good project for the excavator would be build a thumb on the boom, maybe even a no hydraulics needed adjustable unit. It would help you out a ton when trying to move stuff like trees/logs. Living in a rain forest in Alaska I know the struggle all to well. We get on average 12 feet (3.65 m)of rain a year.
"average 12 feet (3.65 m)of rain a year." Holy cow ! 😱 Do you get as much as damages??
Wow this was a very impressive video and I doubt it even does it justice compared to the severity and how it looked in real life. The power of mother nature never ceases to amaze me, glad you and your family were okay.
Holy Moly! Isn't this the SECOND major flooding you've had this year? (Where I am, we're in a widespread drought...)
Newzealand and australia are suffering though a la Nina weather pattern, so we are getting a deluge of wet weather, where as the northern hemisphere is in drought
Climate change sucks :(
Scientists been telling us for a looong time this is (more extreme weather) coming, here it is. Funny all the dumb pricks who are surprised by it, people who listen to politicians with an opinion over an expert. Anyway droughts suck more than floods I reckon so all the best
@@squidiz496 This has all happened before.
@@ferrumignis Exactly
Brilliant piece of work. But don't forget that all those trees and shrubs help to stabilise the land in the first place. Maybe some gambion cages would help?
Bloody hell mate - isn't this your second "hundred year flood in the past 6 months.
You keep an eye out as hillsides that saturated can come down all at once.
There's another channel I watch who complains about how often an "idiot with an excavator" damages the culvert when clearing the end. I think he'd be very impressed with how careful and precise you are.
Glad to see your on it Marty, it's a mess here in Nelson 👍
When I saw this was front page news in Canada, I wondered how you were making out with things. Good thing you got the tools to handle it!
Someone needs a much bigger culvert! Looks like a great deal of fun to use that equipment :)
Has anyone noticed the adverts are getting longer/more frequent.
I appreciate you being careful with the culverts and not the "idiot with an excavator!"
Post10 would be proud!!!
Am amazed this came again so soon , your efforts on the last go-round have allowed you to at least keep some access going on your shared road .
Stay safe Marty, glad to see the old equipment you’ve recovered is paying off for you. Amazing amount of rain you guys get down there! sort of understandable with all the mountain range you’re living in. I always get a chuckle when I see you driving on the wrong side of the car. 😂 as always your videos are great. Mike from Montreal.
Looks like that pipe is flowing at near maximum capacity... Maybe it should be two or three parallel pipes. If each pipe is set about 2/3 higher than the pipe below it then the base pipe will get proper flow and the 'overflow' pipes will only get flow when the level rises... this should keep everything clear and clean. Good flow in a pipe keeps it clear of silt. Some sort of trash rack might keep the logs from jamming it up!
Oh dear, theres all the water we're missing in Central Europe and its already the second flood this year in NZ. Stay save Marty, all best wishes to you and your family!
Is the road possible again now Marty? - four months on? Did any of the actual road itself get washed away?
Yes thankfully it is now passable, we had a couple of culverts blow out on the driveway but this one survived
@@MartyT Have a good year.
Stay safe above all else Marty. Glad to see you still up and going. I’m sure there will be more videos of you helping others. 👍
This Jaffa is feeling bloody sorry for the level of wreckage down the other end of the county. I learned all about what a flash flood feels like last year out here in NorWest Auckland but it's nothing compared to the massive costs & amount of work needed in repairs by the look at the level of damage in your neighborhood... Glad you are OK great to see your 'vintage' gear doing awesome work in time of need Matt!
Your neighbours are so lucky to have you Marty.
WOW! You could send some of that rain my way, we are in a drought. The brook behind my house has dried up. I've lived here since 1960( Gloucester, Ma USA) and that has never happened! I use that brook as an emergency water source for my koi pond since city tap water would kill the fish. I do have a 55 gallon rain barrel which feeds the pond with its overflow, when it does rain. I'm about 3 days away from tapping into the reserve to bring the pond level back up. Best Regards , Jay
We in Britain have just had a heatwave of almost unprecedented length and you guys are getting the rain we haven’t gotten. It must be heartbreaking for all involved my thoughts are with you 🏴
Your heat wave is just a hot summer in Gisborne. We get 40 degrees usually 1 or 2 days a summer
@@mattyallen3396 Nice. We’ve never had 40 ever before in the UK until recently
Yeah but Gisborne is at latitude 38 London is at latitude 52. That’s like having 40 Celsius on Campbell Island!
@@crookedpaths6612 I’m in the far north of Scotland 🏴
@@ewanstewart8011 If Scotland was in the Southern Ocean it'd be surrounded in winter sea ice right down to northern England! South Sandwich Islands is the closest place in terms of latitude comparable you'll get, i think.
Yank here from Philadelphia. Ever since I began watching the "Dr. Blake Mysteries," my exclamation to things like your driveway is "Bloody Hell!" And then again at 12:34.
Reminds me of 2000. We had severe flooding in the UK and the millennium Scout camp we were attending took a lot of damage.
They said it was a thousand year storm. We had a further 3 such storms over the proceeding 18 months.
I have lost count of the number and rapidity of 100 year weather events we have had in the UK in the past few years!!
1)With similar track culverts at risk from trees/ wood debris, we used to put in two or more pipes. If the main central pipe got blocked there were one or two more pipes at the side of the culvert to keep the water flow off the track. 2) A fair bit of finger pointing at the forestry slash (logging residue material) causing problems (during flood events in recent years) and will take a lot of effort to clean up. Are there any areas around Nelson where different methods have been tried to reduce the cutover material left or 'filters' to keep the logging slash on the slopes?
Why arent there any drain holes in the bucket?
Because there aren’t any? Next
There are buckets that come with drain holes but they're not common
@Marty T
You call it "our shared access driveway". I'm many miles away from you in Florida so I am in no way familiar with how things work in New Zealand in general, or rural New Zealand in particular. Is this a case of "your property, your problem" or is it more a matter of you being in a sparsely populated area and government prioritising effort in places with bigger, denser population, i.e. the government road crews would eventually fix the problem, but only after the road had completely washed out, leaving you and your neighbors stranded for many weeks?
It is a privately owned driveway so our problem, council don't want to know about it, yet they fleece us for rates 3 times a year
@@MartyT Can they come in and fine you or make you redo things if they aren't happy with they way you've done things by claiming that you're damaging the watershed?
They could try, but I have filmed before and after and it clearly shows I have improved the road so they would be foolish to
I bet the Mrs. won’t give you too much grief now about all the equipment you’ve dragged home.
STAY SAFE Marty, this brings back memories of what we copped earlier this year & we are still cleaning up after it. Northern Rivers NSW Australia.
That’s a great job 👏, nice to see the rescued digger earning its keep! 👍
Machinery in skilled hands is always a good watch especially with decent editing. Stay safe mate, UK
Pretty nasty hydraulic jump coming off the back side of that cleared culvert. Impassible to fish. not sure if the stream is perennial or intermittent but would be good for habitat connectivity in the future if that was connected.
Last year's culvert upgrades have paid off big time, Marty!
Yeah that water gushing out from the hill is not a good sign, saturation was at its limit there and hill slippage very possible
Great piloting. Not that you need it, but would it help to mark the culvert openings with tall poles so you know where not to dig when clearing them out next time?
I hope you all stay safe. Will be thinking of you all. Please when you can post an update. Cheers
Skillful maneuvers !! What.kind of culvert is it ? Is that some kind of french drain ?
My god! This is a Post 10 heaven!
Same where I'm at out on the Mojave desert. Roads to Death Valley are all out and have been for a week or so now. Not sure when any of that will be working again.
It seems like New Zealand can’t catch a break from the record breaking floods this year.
I know Australia is very vast. How long is your driveway? It always seems like you travel a great distance
post 10 with an excavator
😂
He wouldn’t be an “idiot with an excavator”. “Look at the damage!!!!”
😂😂😂
😂😂 Post 10 is the GOAT!! 🐐
@@TAndreMotorsports a
aloha Marty sorry to see you fighting the rain so soon after the one a couple of months ago. I could tell it's pretty bad don't usually ever hear stress in your voice but I could tell this week was a really tough one. My kiwi friend was just telling me Nelson area was having a 100 year flood and I said wait didn't they just have a 50 year flood a couple months ago sure but this one was worse. Checked to see if you had posted a video and sure enough I can see what you're going through again. Stay safe and glad to see your culvert work earlier had made an impact but this looks to be a real mess for awhile.
Keep us updated Marty and stay safe
Over 3 days in the Nelson area some places recorded over 1 meter of rain, 40 inches with even more around MT Taranaki at 1200mm 47 inches, Drought what drought, not in NZ
Right away i was thinking about 2 things : The ground is over saturated with water ,and Marty lives on the hills. It did give me chills for sure.
I hope everything is okay with you and the family. See, it pays off to have your own earth removal tools, you can do your own ditch maintenance 👍 You could probably clear the mud off the highway too with your bulldozer, but in that case ,you'd deserve to get paid for it.
People around the world, the climate is changing. Hold on to yer butts, mother nature is going agro on us all now.
We caused this climate change, by the year 2060 we will have 4 degree warmer weather whether we like it or not, nothing we do now can change it, we already have 2 degree warmer weather and we already see the worst of it past 3 years, heat records all over the world, monster rain seasons, clouds over pacific carrying more rain water than all fresh water reserves in the entire world combined and hurricanes far larger, quicker and deadlier than ever and more common too!
The worst thing is, if we do not stop our pollution, we will have 6 degree warmer weather in 2060, by then the ocean will be so acidic all life in it will start to die out, by 2100 there wont be very much that can survive in the ocean anymore and the ocean starts evaporating causing even greater greenhouse effect.
Here the entire coast of Mediterranean will turn into deserts which will grow very large, most likely covering Spain, then large portions of France and Balkan.
Turkey will also be under huge desertifications, most of northern Africa will become unihabitable all the way down to the centre of Africa. If we keep cutting down our forests and jungles specially in Brazil and the massive forest fires in Africa, Australia etc are not kept under control we will see new deserts form in these areas, there will even be a huge desert in USA as the forest fires will become more and more common place.
And if you think I am bullshitting, look up the 4 degree and 6 degree future, all the computer models from 1980s has basically been proven correctly, scientists warned us of climate change as early as 1850, and yet did we listen? No. In fact, Capitalism will destroy us all, an unlimited growth system in times of crisis is not the greatest ingrediencies put together.
@@SMGJohn This planet of ours has gone thru several extreme heating periods, followed or preceded by several ice ages.
Now the problem is, that we humans are making this natural cycle much quicker with our added air pollution.
I have said for years, that likely Spain and the central Europe will turn into a desert. The water that is in the clouds, will just move to other areas now. Some areas might actually get rain, like Sahara desert.
It just seems that the worst heatwaves are concentrated on that Central Europe area. Also Spain has notified the whole EU that they cannot be the greenery of the EU, since Spain is running out of groundwater.
We will learn the ghastly details as we get into this new era of scorching heat.
These things are not 100%. North of Africa might get even worse, or it might start flooding, due to the rain water just migrating there on a more permanent basis.
Humanity will eventually have to think about building villages, towns and cities undergound. That would be the logical next step.
War for water will come next. There will be migration waves like we've never seen before.
We will do what we can now, and see where it takes us. Humanity will stand or fall, together. None of us is ready to let go, of their every day modern comforts. So we are all in this together, guilty as hell.
Even without capitalism, this planet would've still heated up, just much slower. In the end, people would've still suffered.
Capitalism or not, this cycle has happened before many many times, and will continue to happen ,until the sun finally runs out of hydrogen, and burns up the earth completely as a red giant.
these are normal weather incidents...flooding is part of the earth's system..lol
you think this is news?
weather changes over time
that isn't a man made event
that is Nature
part of life to live here
can you change anything?
no...do you believe the BS Science your told??? lol...yes... there will be hotter times..colder times...
and nothing you do will change it...
the rest of the world does nothing to change pollution and burning ...yet a small percentage are told we have to do something??? we already did our share... go tell asia and africa and south america to help out?? the climate change bs is about profit...profit for a few who scare the weak minds.... part of living here is to Live...not be Scared of what we can't control.... there is no actual solution to what they scare you about...there is no real Science....to their Science.... just idiots scared and repeating the propaganda.... will we destroy our world..yeah..but not how you think..it is by War....not Climate Change....go hide and worry..lol...you'll see the next deadline pass as i have since they started this crap in the 1980's.... 10 years left..12 years left....always the same threats..works on the sheep...
A lot of slash there Marty in the pile of mud. My sister lives in Tolaga Bay and there is a river through their farm which gets choked with slash in heavy rain.
Floods are scary stuff. Glad you are ok
Post10 fan here, wow thats amazing work, what a massive flood!!! Thats Reed Timmer level flooding!!
Prayers are with you and your neighbors, Marty.
Wow that's an impressive example of convert design. It would cost way way too much to upsize the pipe but I wonder if having multiple inlets could help speed up the intake-velocity of what you already have installed. In my collection of YT videos in my Drainage Playlist it has some inlet configuration models that demonstrate possible ways to improve flow.
It's like the end of days, I take it this is not normal, I remember you fixing the culvert last year but this seems much worse.
Wow! Hope all is well! We haven't had rain here in months. Our grass literally turns to powder when you step on it. The corn is like 3 feet tall and tasseled and cobbed out. Really scary! Be safe around the high water!
Here in the UK we're set for a third consecutive heatwave predicted, we broke our record at over 40c and have had weeks where it's been 35c consistently every day. France, Spain and Portugal have had wildfires the likes of which haven't been seen in generations, the Loire and Rhine rivers are damn near running dry. This year was a guidestone on the path forward, scary stuff.
Thats all true, but the wildfires in Portugal we had worse and they are not weather related, they are corruption related!!! Since the airplanes and helicopters for fire fighting become private instead of the Air Force we started to have way more fires.... There had been some people caught in arson!! The weather does not help but people dont too
@@organiccold That's such a shame, my condoences to your country suffering the stupidity of individuals.
I was waiting for you to put up a video. In fact I almost emailed to ask if you had things under control. It's mostly OK on our side. The council declared a State of Emergency, but I think that was mostly for out in the sounds. I have to do a big loop to get to Blenheim, and this is the third time my road has been closed by flooding, but I can at least get to the shops. Yesterday was strange because it was a lovely sunny day and 19°, but the floods were worse! That water coming out of the hillside would worry me Marty. That's a slip waiting to happen. Are you OK for provisions?
Yes all good thanks, I managed to get to town for supplies
If you ever go to Skye in Scotland, this is what it looks like everywhere
I've been there years ago to see where my family came from.. McLeod is my middle name ;)
@@MartyT Well that’s an epic twist, well in brother! 🤘
Marty be safe in all your endeavors keeping your family and friends above water!! We're getting "rain" here but nothing torrential like you have. (Coastal South Carolina)
the "100 year floods" are happening more and more not because of "climate change" but because we have more roads, stores and houses covering the land that would normally absorb the rain water but no longer can because of the before mentioned structures
AND because of climate change.
Oh Marty not again 🤦♂️ Just seeing some pictures in Oz of what you’ve been facing over there. Wow, so much rain. Thinking of you, your family and residents of the greater area. Please take care, stay safe and keep dry!
Marty's in New Zealand, not Oz, I believe!
Great seeing that rescued excavator put to such good use. Bravo!!
I don't believe a word about these 100 year events, since talking to one of the site managers on the Ekofisk oil production platform off the west coast of Norway. He said their platform was originally designed to cope with a 100 year wave but after they had 3 of those in a 6 month period, they had to put in fillets on the platform legs, to raise the base of the the platform by 18 feet. This operation cost $600 million. It also allowed for the legs sinking into the sea bed. Hope for the best, plan for the worst - good luck Marty.
Glad you are safe
Wow! So nice you got all this equipment to maintain you roads!! Hope things slack off and give you a break soon!
Rambro is up there knocking a few clouds around i suspect 😀
Very cool video. Though I'm now wondering what the process is for fixing the soil and plants side of the terrain.
Stay safe guys!
Stay safe out there.
Wow thanks mate, very generous of you
@@MartyT Same with you fixing that road.