I've mentioned here before I worked on a road construction crew as a summer college job in the mid 60s. I was used to moving our big Cat grader around the job site. One day the operator wanted to know if I would move the Cat a couple of miles away to a new location. LIKE, YEAH!!! So I had this machine on the open road and was approaching a wide boulevard turn. I canted the front wheels over as far as they would go and took the turn around 30 mph! Good god, all the wheels were ripping the stone off the asphalt all the way around the turn. I was a little worried that the boss would see the black tire path and say something like, "We're trying to build roads here, not rip them up!" But nothing ever came of it; heck I was 18!
Since I was a young child and continuing today I love seeing grading, excavating, dump trucks etc doing what they do. I’m sixty six now and just love watching you do your thing Chris. Awesome job!
I operated a grader exactly once in my lifetime, I felt like a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. Man, there's a lot going on on those things. It's a short list of things I cannot do but grader is right up there with bricklayer. My hat is off to you, nice job. Best regards from Indiana.
I worked with a grader operator and he could scrap the blue paint off the tops of grade stakes. He was an unbelievable operator. His Cat had six bald tires completely filled with water to take out any harmonic motion in the blade. He was one can short of a six pack, but no one could come close to him on that machine.
Brings back memories, I worked for my dad building haul roads for the army years ago , I would push soil off ground with p65 komatsu dozer then we had two excavators one side of road just digging out chalk and placeing to construct a road across fields , then I would level chalk and my dad would use grader to build crown and then stone up over chalk then all soil went into chalk hole . So finish job each day , we need more operators like you Chris, 👍👍🇬🇧
Untill I started watching your channel and seeing you operate a grader, I had no idea how much the operator is constantly adjusting the controls. A lot more to it than it appears at a distance. Thanks very much for sharing Chris, thoroughly enjoy, especially when you go through the explanations like you did here.
The motor grader is cool! You operate a lot of different equipment and they are all cool in their own way - we don't see the grader often but it's cool!
Like it when you explain the why when your doing it. With the camera looking directly at the blade then the light comes on in my head, that's why. Great video.
Love the shots of the grader blade doing it’s job.Such an informative and interesting way to show how a grader actually works.Thanks for sharing this Chris.
Reminds me of my childhood days in the 60s watching the road work department doing road maintenance work going in our small town. It was all gravel roads back then, dusty during the dry season and quiet slippery during the wet season but it was fun...
Greetings from our family in Alaska! There is nothing quite like a well maintained dirt road. Especially when the neighbors are great people, contributing equally to keep it maintained!!
I have to agree with some of the other posters, watching the stone roll off the moldboard is just mesmerising. Some of the townships up here have motor patrols to keep their roads up, but here in the big town they're used to plow snow. Do a way better job then a plow on a tandem. Chris running the Motor grader and the two big cats are my favorite videos!
Hi from uk chris👋👍 3 machines 1 man 1 uncle john 1day 1time every year and only 1 ld18 👌💪 if any one else had this job this drive would of grew wider by 10ft but because its you it just stays the same but better every time you leave 👍👌 thanks for your time and be safe see you soon 👍👋
It's nice to keep learning about the life of a road, and this aspect was just as interesting as the last time. (county road extension/widening). I am starting to understand it a bit now, catching my self guessing what's coming next each pass. Thanks for explaining this stuff as well as you do Chris. Some of it really is sticking now. Be well. ;)
I said it before… you have an impressive eye for grade line Chris! And let me add a good feel for material volume control too. Could give a description of the grader controls sometime when you’re operating it. You are so quick and incremental that it’s difficult to relate your hand movements with grader movements.
I always liked running a grader. I never ran enough to get good at it but I could rough things in so the skilled guy just had to touch up. I'm sure those folks look forward to seeing you come rolling in with your equipment. Beautiful job on the road. Cheers Terry
Another great video bro, I see what you mean about a different tire on the front of the grader you mentioned to Matt about. I never noticed before and still been none the wiser. That road only needs maintenance every 2 years that say a lot about the way you guys looks after it. Private roads here need constant care to stop potholes getting out of hand. Safe travels
It looks really nice. Those customers will be very pleased. Most people don't know of just how much time is saved when u have someone like John letting the gravel out the way he does it.
Man, you really want to coach our friend Matt on his Christine grader. You make it look easy but looking at ya operating your's, and reading comments below, it sure is a lot engaging job ! Kudos to you Chris ! 👍
I think, for me, the camera mounted underbelly and watching the mouldboard doing it's job is most interesting. I notice / hear that engine is running very 'sweetly', nice bit of work Chris.
The stone your using looks like #53 limestone packs about like concrete but does need a good base. Back in the 70's I lived on a farm and had a drive that was close to 1/2 miles hauled a ton of stone. I would have hired you if you were old enough.
I used to run an old 112 Cat grader grading our access road and truck parking area, what wrist busting old brute compared to your machine....awesome job !!!
Love when you give commentary and explain what it is your doing. It would be nice to know where your looking and what your feeling for while operating the equipment especially the motor grader.
Always looks oh so much better when it’s all slick up. Nice job young man. You know if you hadn’t mentioned that right front tire on the grader being different I would probably never noticed it, as they say, if it works, don’t fix it. Thanks for the ride along.
Beautiful area where u are working. Enjoy watching u work the grader controls, very coordinated as lots to operating it. Thank u so much for video, and God's blessings.
Yeah, I remember last time, when you done this one Chris. Nice change of pace, got ya out of the nasty ass mud, and trees for a min. anyway !! lolol.... That little Grader of yours does a pretty damn good job , Ya know it......Well, Have a Great Holiday Weekend Chris !! "I bet you work though"....lololol... Take a day anyway Man, throw some steaks on the grill , have a couple cold ones, and enjoy that Beautiful New Home ya got !! lolol... Have a Great Weekend, and Evening !! And, On too the Next.....
Could you imagine if you didnt have the road grader and had to do that job with the skid steer it still would look great alot of different in man hours though super nice job Chris 😎👍👍
Very relaxing to watch the blade close up. How does this work: if their is a pothole or washboard in the road that the front wheels ride over, isn’t the blade going to move up and down too? So how does a washboard gets smoothed out?
We use to have gravel streets and the county never got it right. They scraped it at an angle straight across from one side to the other. It made all of the snow and rain run into our driveways and yards
We found out that crushed concrete works great too for road fixing. It is a little cheaper if you can get it too. Those sandy Easter Carolina gravel roads sure need a lot of attention.
Used to ride along with the grader operator back in Mt View Arkansas. It was a summer youth job where we usually cut weeds with a weed wacker of walked along behind a truck shoveling asphalt patch into potholes. There were a lot of potholes in Mt View. And quite a few miles of dirt roads that needed to be dressed after every heavy rain. It was better riding in the grader than cutting weeds. Every once in awhile we’d catch a submerged boulder which would bend the mould board back until it either scraped the top off the rock or jumped over it. Either way the whole grader would jump off the ground and slam back down. Pretty scary the first few times. Great times.
Should have guessed it wouldn`t be long after running Christine that you want to get on your Fiat-Allis. It wasn`t pond work and definately not digging mud- but a nice looking 'country road'.
Chris someone in Acworth Georgia has a boneyard of vintage equipment for sale. it’s posted on the Facebook marketplace. look like an old vintage motor grader and an old vintage Cat Dozier parts only its on blocks Some type of old vintage drum tamp attachment. Probably all scrap metal but I don’t know. it’s a big Motograter
Uncle John does a nice job spreading that stone and you do a nice job grading. Two of the best working together you can't beat that
Thanks for explaining the WHYS and WHEREFORES of what you're doing, Chris. 👍
It means a lot in these videos. 😉
I've mentioned here before I worked on a road construction crew as a summer college job in the mid 60s. I was used to moving our big Cat grader around the job site. One day the operator wanted to know if I would move the Cat a couple of miles away to a new location. LIKE, YEAH!!!
So I had this machine on the open road and was approaching a wide boulevard turn. I canted the front wheels over as far as they would go and took the turn around 30 mph! Good god, all the wheels were ripping the stone off the asphalt all the way around the turn. I was a little worried that the boss would see the black tire path and say something like, "We're trying to build roads here, not rip them up!"
But nothing ever came of it; heck I was 18!
Fun stuff!
Since I was a young child and continuing today I love seeing grading, excavating, dump trucks etc doing what they do. I’m sixty six now and just love watching you do your thing Chris. Awesome job!
I operated a grader exactly once in my lifetime, I felt like a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. Man, there's a lot going on on those things. It's a short list of things I cannot do but grader is right up there with bricklayer. My hat is off to you, nice job.
Best regards from Indiana.
I worked with a grader operator and he could scrap the blue paint off the tops of grade stakes. He was an unbelievable operator. His Cat had six bald tires completely filled with water to take out any harmonic motion in the blade. He was one can short of a six pack, but no one could come close to him on that machine.
Hello Bill, I have done stone masonry and brick setting and there's no way I could do what Chris just did. It's fun to watch though.
May I add drywall taper and plasterer? The easier some trades look, the harder they are to master!
@@dansbrown1313 as we all live vicariously through Chris's l33t skillz ;)
Lol. Busier than a one-armed paper hanger.
Brings back memories, I worked for my dad building haul roads for the army years ago , I would push soil off ground with p65 komatsu dozer then we had two excavators one side of road just digging out chalk and placeing to construct a road across fields , then I would level chalk and my dad would use grader to build crown and then stone up over chalk then all soil went into chalk hole . So finish job each day , we need more operators like you Chris, 👍👍🇬🇧
Untill I started watching your channel and seeing you operate a grader, I had no idea how much the operator is constantly adjusting the controls. A lot more to it than it appears at a distance. Thanks very much for sharing Chris, thoroughly enjoy, especially when you go through the explanations like you did here.
Same!!!
There is a lot you have to do constantly and on a Cat M series its all in 2 joysticks with lots of thumb buttons and twisting of wrists ha ha.
I really love the camera position under the grader, you can see what your trying to achieve with the camber in the road. Great video Chris.
The motor grader is cool! You operate a lot of different equipment and they are all cool in their own way - we don't see the grader often but it's cool!
Like it when you explain the why when your doing it. With the camera looking directly at the blade then the light comes on in my head, that's why. Great video.
Love the shots of the grader blade doing it’s job.Such an informative and interesting way to show how a grader actually works.Thanks for sharing this Chris.
Boy John is damn good at spreading stone with his truck, saves you a lot of work love the videos keep them coming.
It's these small jobs that put the food on the table. Always enjoy the the simplicity in making a rough road smooth again.
Reminds me of my childhood days in the 60s watching the road work department doing road maintenance work going in our small town. It was all gravel roads back then, dusty during the dry season and quiet slippery during the wet season but it was fun...
In your Bidnez, it’s ALL about Equipment, Equipment, Equipment. Efficiency is Everything since Time is Money. 👍
My wife thinks I'm nuts watching this stuff, But ya just gotta appreciate talent when you see it !!!
I honestly think Chris could ice a cake with some of his equipment.🤔🤔🎂
I don’t know why, I really love watching the grading & rolling😊 Great job Chris. Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰
You do great work w/ gravel roads, they always look amazing when done right & the water run off is pitched correctly!👊💪
Greetings from our family in Alaska! There is nothing quite like a well maintained dirt road. Especially when the neighbors are great people, contributing equally to keep it maintained!!
@Text me on telegram 👉@letsdig18 were you responding to me?
I have to agree with some of the other posters, watching the stone roll off the moldboard is just mesmerising. Some of the townships up here have motor patrols to keep their roads up, but here in the big town they're used to plow snow. Do a way better job then a plow on a tandem. Chris running the Motor grader and the two big cats are my favorite videos!
That looks like a super nice area to live. Love all of the trees and green grass.
Hi from uk chris👋👍 3 machines 1 man 1 uncle john 1day 1time every year and only 1 ld18 👌💪 if any one else had this job this drive would of grew wider by 10ft but because its you it just stays the same but better every time you leave 👍👌 thanks for your time and be safe see you soon 👍👋
Thanks for more good memories Chris! 76-80 my job in the Army ! Grader &dozer Still love grading dirt
It is always a pleasure watching you work...pretty cool to see you running Matt's old Galion at the show...
It's nice to keep learning about the life of a road, and this aspect was just as interesting as the last time. (county road extension/widening). I am starting to understand it a bit now, catching my self guessing what's coming next each pass. Thanks for explaining this stuff as well as you do Chris. Some of it really is sticking now. Be well. ;)
I said it before… you have an impressive eye for grade line Chris! And let me add a good feel for material volume control too. Could give a description of the grader controls sometime when you’re operating it. You are so quick and incremental that it’s difficult to relate your hand movements with grader movements.
Right on! Good follow up work. Makes the beginning of summertime just that more pleasant on a nice driveway and road!
I always liked running a grader. I never ran enough to get good at it but I could rough things in so the skilled guy just had to touch up.
I'm sure those folks look forward to seeing you come rolling in with your equipment. Beautiful job on the road.
Cheers
Terry
Another great video bro, I see what you mean about a different tire on the front of the grader you mentioned to Matt about. I never noticed before and still been none the wiser. That road only needs maintenance every 2 years that say a lot about the way you guys looks after it. Private roads here need constant care to stop potholes getting out of hand. Safe travels
Great looking job Chris👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
It looks really nice. Those customers will be very pleased. Most people don't know of just how much time is saved when u have someone like John letting the gravel out the way he does it.
This is a great how to video for Diesel Creek to watch me too I don't think I could do it Always a joy to watch the master of construction equipment
that is a very grader, works great. you did a great job.
We don't get the grader out too often and I always forget how good a machine it is. Top content as always mate 👍
Man, you really want to coach our friend Matt on his Christine grader. You make it look easy but looking at ya operating your's,
and reading comments below, it sure is a lot engaging job !
Kudos to you Chris ! 👍
Looks great Chris 🇺🇲 another job well done 🇺🇲
Man that little grader you got is awesome.
I wish I could find one at a good price.
This is exactly what I needed today-a relaxing grading video: ❤️
I think, for me, the camera mounted underbelly and watching the mouldboard doing it's job is most interesting.
I notice / hear that engine is running very 'sweetly', nice bit of work Chris.
The stone your using looks like #53 limestone packs about like concrete but does need a good base. Back in the 70's I lived on a farm and had a drive that was close to 1/2 miles hauled a ton of stone. I would have hired you if you were old enough.
I used to run an old 112 Cat grader grading our access road and truck parking area, what wrist busting old brute compared to your machine....awesome job !!!
It's a nice change of pace to see these smaller jobs, road looks good.
Love when you give commentary and explain what it is your doing.
It would be nice to know where your looking and what your feeling for while operating the equipment especially the motor grader.
Always looks oh so much better when it’s all slick up. Nice job young man. You know if you hadn’t mentioned that right front tire on the grader being different I would probably never noticed it, as they say, if it works, don’t fix it. Thanks for the ride along.
Good material it locks down solid.
You make it look so easy. I really like that.
You are so good at keeping that blade on point!!👍👍😎🇺🇸🇺🇸
As usual, you explain very well
what you do and why you do it.
Thanks for explaining what you were doing and why. Makes it more enjoyable when you know what's going on.
Driving and dumping a load from that truck is quite the skill!
Excellent description. Love the explanations. ❤️🇺🇸
Great job Chris, excellent crown, thank u
That mismatched front tyre...
...Reee...!!!!!! 🤣
I like watching the grader. All the levers and the blade. Doing that spreading. Like peanut butter and jelly!
Motor graders are a must on long roads, save so much time
Beautiful area where u are working. Enjoy watching u work the grader controls, very coordinated as lots to operating it. Thank u so much for video, and God's blessings.
I'm not sure you will get this as I'm not on telegram. Pls let me know. So enjoy ur videos!!!
Chris you are really talented with so many different machines. Your grader sounds like it is brand new.
another great job from the man of many talents
Showing what you see on the different paths is interesting. Always enjoy to see the different views on how you shape the road. Enjoyed!!
So glad were away from that sump clearing video and now we see your Road Grader back in action so I can set back and enjoy this.
i like the grader looks like fun to use in good weather that is. nice job. cheers.
Spring time for roading maintenance, the old school Fiat grader is appropriate. 💪👀.
Yeah, I remember last time, when you done this one Chris. Nice change of pace, got ya out of the nasty ass mud, and trees for a min. anyway !! lolol.... That little Grader of yours does a pretty damn good job , Ya know it......Well, Have a Great Holiday Weekend Chris !! "I bet you work though"....lololol... Take a day anyway Man, throw some steaks on the grill , have a couple cold ones, and enjoy that Beautiful New Home ya got !! lolol... Have a Great Weekend, and Evening !! And, On too the Next.....
Could you imagine if you didnt have the road grader and had to do that job with the skid steer it still would look great alot of different in man hours though super nice job Chris 😎👍👍
As smooth as a baby's behind!
If anyone asks why the 2 front tires are different, tell them it's so the RF tire doesn't push the gravel out & the LF leaves a line to follow.
Wow !! An Uncle John job that didn't involve MUD !!
Love this job Chris and I remember it too .
the explanations / discussions were great. thanks
Smoooooth……..looks fantastic 👍
Manicuring like the professional you are.... :-)
When you roll it, roll up to the crown, not on top of it. Quarter crowns too. Love the videos!
I'm sure the turf tire on front is the special sauce! Pretty soon everybody is gonna be doing it.
That is a beautiful neighborhood you are working in.
Alice does a nice job. Perfect for a project like this !!
Very relaxing to watch the blade close up.
How does this work: if their is a pothole or washboard in the road that the front wheels ride over, isn’t the blade going to move up and down too? So how does a washboard gets smoothed out?
Love the grading process!
We use to have gravel streets and the county never got it right. They scraped it at an angle straight across from one side to the other. It made all of the snow and rain run into our driveways and yards
We found out that crushed concrete works great too for road fixing. It is a little cheaper if you can get it too. Those sandy Easter Carolina gravel roads sure need a lot of attention.
Nice little grader great job thanks for the videos. I ran a 780 champion for a couple of years and a small cat grader for a little while.
graders are one of my favorites
Thats a nice grader you have. Im not sure Ive seen it before.great job grading with it..I like building roads and crowning them. Its alot of fun..
Job well done 👏 ✔️ 👍
Nice work Chris, thanks for sharing take care stay safe and God bless.
Thanks for taking a little extra time to explain how everything ties in…
Well looks good as usual. Didn’t have to worry about the dust . That stone should set up good as wet as it looked
Used to ride along with the grader operator back in Mt View Arkansas. It was a summer youth job where we usually cut weeds with a weed wacker of walked along behind a truck shoveling asphalt patch into potholes. There were a lot of potholes in Mt View. And quite a few miles of dirt roads that needed to be dressed after every heavy rain. It was better riding in the grader than cutting weeds. Every once in awhile we’d catch a submerged boulder which would bend the mould board back until it either scraped the top off the rock or jumped over it. Either way the whole grader would jump off the ground and slam back down. Pretty scary the first few times. Great times.
I’ve seen a guy eat the windshield when he hit a stob while standing up plowing snow. That was ugly.
Nicely done narrative and video.
Greater work hands down my favorite lots of skill
Should have guessed it wouldn`t be long after running Christine that you want to get on your Fiat-Allis. It wasn`t pond work and definately not digging mud- but a nice looking 'country road'.
This is how a pro grades a driveway! 👍
By the way, my wife asked if we wanted to watch a movie tonight and I'm like "MOVIE? Why watch a movie when we could watch Chris. LOL
Awesome Chris ! Always love the grader videos.
Have a awesome holiday weekend Chris.
Looking great
Makes me want my Daddy's old Gallon motor grader. It was a small one probably the same size as the one you use.
Nice work Chris.
Enjoy your pursuit for excellence.
Chris someone in Acworth Georgia has a boneyard of vintage equipment for sale. it’s posted on the Facebook marketplace. look like an old vintage motor grader and an old vintage Cat Dozier parts only its on blocks Some type of old vintage drum tamp attachment. Probably all scrap metal but I don’t know. it’s a big Motograter
love to watch the grader at work