I worked with Vern and my father worked with Vern for years. He is very knowledgeable and one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Glad to see your videos Vern.
Hi mate from Australia. I was a grader operator for 45 years I was old school string line and grade checker use to say to them hope those cans are full of zero. One old operator to another Happy Blading🇦🇺🇦🇺
Nice to see that there in America there is a grade crew. Here in Spain, as a motograder operator, you and your machine are the whole grade crew. You usually have the worst labourer of the construction site to discover the stakes and you will lucky if he speaks your languaje.
Hi Aberto, nice to hear from Spain. The grade crew is a very important part of street building. Most of the world, including "Standard General" are gradually transitioning to GPS grading. The grade crews will get smaller, and smaller. Thanks for the input, I hope you don't get too lonely on the jobsite.
Looks great! What I do is put a paint mark on my Blade at the desired depth, and run it to the curb works every time. Same with string. Almost like a hyper sonic laser just just by hand.
Yes, I do the same thing sometimes. I keep a "thick felt marker" in my grader. I use it to put a reference mark on the edge of the moldboard. Thanks for the input.
هاي امي 🙏👍😍❤❤🇩🇿🇩🇿Hi mom اعجبني عملك و كم اتمنى لو اجد عمل معكم انا عامل بسيط من الجزائر🇩🇿from Algeria I liked your work and how I wish I could find work with you. I am a simple worker
May I ask you. We have a blend we want to grade in gravel road but it has core stone mixed. Would the grader be able to spread and remove the core stone from the blend? I've learned a lot from you and other guys on how to operate. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
If you have mix of different size gravel, there is not much you can do with the grader to help the problem. I would suggest using a "drum packer" after you lay the gravel out. The drum will push in the larger stones. Good luck on your project.
Im pretty new with grader,working on cat 160H for 3 years,and my grader blade is in terrible condition,plate never changed for 20 years,cylinders almost all leaking oil,no parking brake,and lots of other things...im wondering how much often do u guys change your blade plates and when u decide its broke and useless,and snyone can solve why my psrking brake dont work,its leaking air all the time
A 160H is a nice machine, if they are well maintained. When you say "plate" I assume you are referring to "blade slides" I replace my blade slides (brass) every 3 months. If you have a constant air leak, it will eventually take out your compressor. Thanks for watching.
@@onlyamillionmistakesvernky7937 it leaks all the time,it's almost a year and half and I work without parking brake,and got lots of problems because I always have to find a secure spot to park my motor grader,and I have to pull down mine blade and it's bad for hydraulics and lots of other stuff....I didn't mean on blade slides I mean bottom of grader blade...do u change that or u put it somewhere on asphalt and try to fix curves on blade?
Little trick I learned if you put a boot on and you roll your blade back all the way your boot can ride right on the lip of the curb and you'll be able to stuff your curb perfectly to the lip without getting any Rock on the top of your curb then you just hit it with your roller usually it beats down about 17 hundredths.
Hi Winnie, it's a good question, it increases the percentage of grade near the curb and decreases the percentage of grade near the crown. They refer to it as a parabolic crown and it is only used in "street spec" but not in "highway spec" It makes the grading process more complex, so you may be right, about the "Weird" part.
@@winnie-zg7ur The funny thing is, before I started doing this channel, I didn't know that there are places in the world that didn't use parabolic crowns. I thought it was the norm.
Hi Gyanender, the company that I work for "SG" is transitioning over to grade control. SG owns two 140 M Cats, and a John Deere that could potentially use GPS grade control.
@ONLY a million mistakes: Vern Kyle Grade control is a lot easier eliminating ground staff but you are very nimble and good grader op, might be because of age and experience:)
Lol your comment about if the trucks all come in at one time, WE all know the drivers can only run in packs together 😂. At least in the states they do, kills me when you see them all coming and going together.. like women to the restroom
Its not just in the states, our turbanned drivers in Canada do the same usually half hr earlier than expected or at coffee time, if they are booked for 7 am and show up at 630 am i make them wait. Piss on them, do what you are told or go home.
This is a dumb way to put gravel down. Should use a large dozer with a spreader box. Gravel would be just about on exact grade and only require final finish grading.
Guess you are not experienced, We used spreader boxes for both gravel and crushed stone. You can't believe how much time was saved fine grading because of the spreader boxes attached to dozers that placed the exact amount of material needed.@@justinmcginnis8732
I worked with Vern and my father worked with Vern for years. He is very knowledgeable and one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Glad to see your videos Vern.
Good to hear from you Justin, I hope "Fort Mac"
is treating you well.
Hi mate from Australia. I was a grader operator for 45 years I was old school string line and grade checker use to say to them hope those cans are full of zero. One old operator to another Happy Blading🇦🇺🇦🇺
Well nice to hear from Australia, 45 years is long time, I'll bet you have some stories.
Nice to see that there in America there is a grade crew. Here in Spain, as a motograder operator, you and your machine are the whole grade crew. You usually have the worst labourer of the construction site to discover the stakes and you will lucky if he speaks your languaje.
Hi Aberto, nice to hear from Spain. The grade crew is a very important part of street building.
Most of the world, including "Standard General"
are gradually transitioning to GPS grading.
The grade crews will get smaller, and smaller.
Thanks for the input, I hope you don't get too lonely on the jobsite.
Thank you for your time my teacher
Did it for 40 years as owner operator in Greece and 5 years i canada 🇨🇦 the grader operator is very good old-school greetings from.canada
Thanks for the input Leo, and I salute you.
Huge help just starting to run a greater so I’ll be watching all your videos
Hi Kevin, glad the videos are helpful.
Looks great! What I do is put a paint mark on my Blade at the desired depth, and run it to the curb works every time. Same with string. Almost like a hyper sonic laser just just by hand.
Yes, I do the same thing sometimes. I keep a "thick felt marker" in my grader. I use it to put a reference mark on the edge of the moldboard.
Thanks for the input.
I love your videos. So much skill & talent
Hi, Seabass1, Thank You for watching!.
So Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️ Good Job 💐💐💐
Ash-phalt
Nice technique! New learner at a new job.
Great operating sir!
Love this please please keep it up, the kids need this!!!!
Sometimes I think of the young people on the crew as the kids, thanks for commenting.
Wheres the water truck?
Best way. No video game motor grader and no lazer. Very cool
هاي امي 🙏👍😍❤❤🇩🇿🇩🇿Hi mom اعجبني عملك و كم اتمنى لو اجد عمل معكم انا عامل بسيط من الجزائر🇩🇿from Algeria
I liked your work and how I wish I could find work with you. I am a simple worker
Hei guys i am a new grader oparator this is amazing i hope 1 day i will oparating lyk this guy its woooow❤❤❤
Thank you for the compliment.
Excellent job.
May I ask you. We have a blend we want to grade in gravel road but it has core stone mixed. Would the grader be able to spread and remove the core stone from the blend? I've learned a lot from you and other guys on how to operate. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
If you have mix of different size gravel, there is not much you can do with the grader to help the problem. I would suggest using a "drum packer"
after you lay the gravel out. The drum will push in the larger stones. Good luck on your project.
@@onlyamillionmistakesvernky7937 thank you very much. I appreciate your insight.
Im pretty new with grader,working on cat 160H for 3 years,and my grader blade is in terrible condition,plate never changed for 20 years,cylinders almost all leaking oil,no parking brake,and lots of other things...im wondering how much often do u guys change your blade plates and when u decide its broke and useless,and snyone can solve why my psrking brake dont work,its leaking air all the time
A 160H is a nice machine, if they are well maintained. When you say "plate" I assume you are referring to "blade slides"
I replace my blade slides (brass) every 3 months.
If you have a constant air leak, it will eventually take out your compressor. Thanks for watching.
@@onlyamillionmistakesvernky7937 it leaks all the time,it's almost a year and half and I work without parking brake,and got lots of problems because I always have to find a secure spot to park my motor grader,and I have to pull down mine blade and it's bad for hydraulics and lots of other stuff....I didn't mean on blade slides I mean bottom of grader blade...do u change that or u put it somewhere on asphalt and try to fix curves on blade?
@@onlyamillionmistakesvernky7937 and as a "newbie" I'm pretty good,I love to be precise and love to work in tight street or house yards...
Change the cutting edge before it starts burning off the bolts, @@hrv0.-
Nice work
Start at the curb, then you already have an established grade point then the quarters and crown then work your way to the otherside
done that kind of work all my life gonna hang up my hard hat next yr
I hope you enjoy your retirement.
@@onlyamillionmistakesvernky7937 thanks ! its been a great run
Thanks , great video
Esta calle es con bombeo , entonces es preferible comprobar en el centro
Good job
I need tension classis...with practical 😌 🙏
Good operator exelent
I love gredar. I am gredar operator in Pakistan i want to work ni Europe ❤
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Wow nicee
Dream job
Little trick I learned if you put a boot on and you roll your blade back all the way your boot can ride right on the lip of the curb and you'll be able to stuff your curb perfectly to the lip without getting any Rock on the top of your curb then you just hit it with your roller usually it beats down about 17 hundredths.
It sounds like you have worked in the industry for a while. Thanks for the input.
Nice I need practice & tecnic..I am graeder operator
A CLOUDY DAY....GRADER SHOULD HAVE THE WHITE LIGHTS ON.......
Why would they want a quarter crown in the road? Weird
Hi Winnie, it's a good question, it increases the percentage of grade near the curb and decreases the percentage of grade near the crown.
They refer to it as a parabolic crown and it is only used in "street spec" but not in "highway spec"
It makes the grading process more complex, so you may be right, about the "Weird" part.
I've never seen that in my state lol. It's always 2% crown for the most part
@@winnie-zg7ur The funny thing is, before I started doing this channel, I didn't know that there are places in the world that didn't
use parabolic crowns. I thought it was the norm.
@onlyamillionmistakesvernky7937 what state is that? US?
@@winnie-zg7ur The city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Don't you run grade control
Hi Gyanender, the company that I work for "SG" is transitioning over to grade control. SG owns two 140 M Cats, and a John Deere that could potentially use GPS grade control.
@ONLY a million mistakes: Vern Kyle Grade control is a lot easier eliminating ground staff but you are very nimble and good grader op, might be because of age and experience:)
@@Polysingh_ Thank you for the compliment, and yes. it may be the age, and experience.
Lol your comment about if the trucks all come in at one time, WE all know the drivers can only run in packs together 😂. At least in the states they do, kills me when you see them all coming and going together.. like women to the restroom
It sounds like you have seen a few things in life. The restroom analogy is interesting, there may be something to it.
Its not just in the states, our turbanned drivers in Canada do the same usually half hr earlier than expected or at coffee time, if they are booked for 7 am and show up at 630 am i make them wait. Piss on them, do what you are told or go home.
Stringline dosnt lie
A little slack can make it lie all day a rotating laser and a lenker rod you’re a one man show checking and the rod does the math for you
Great..
Bonsoir je suis Jean-Paul Netus opérateur depuis des années
Bomak 2019
😊Gps
garding ka tarika
Hello, I am a grader driver and I am 41 years old and I am looking for a job
Grader driver huh
Silandri bomak
This is a dumb way to put gravel down. Should use a large dozer with a spreader box. Gravel would be just about on exact grade and only require final finish grading.
Hey Larry , do you have a video of your dozer with a spreader box? can you share a link ?
@@svistcool Sorry, don't have a photo. We used a couple on the interstate many years ago. They work great, very efficient.
@@svistcool Found a youtube of a spreader box. th-cam.com/video/M6dsJs3Y3E8/w-d-xo.html
Theres a reason ppl use graders for stone and not dozers. If u were experienced u would know why
Guess you are not experienced, We used spreader boxes for both gravel and crushed stone. You can't believe how much time was saved fine grading because of the spreader boxes attached to dozers that placed the exact amount of material needed.@@justinmcginnis8732
It’s not ash phalt it’s asphalt
Its called asphalt not ashphalt. How long have you been doing this job?🙄
Ash fault 😂
sorry yours senting to sleep sound like the from Beavis and Butt-Head Teacher David Van Driessen
Good job