Chris, just want to say, as a 75 yr old retiree, your videos are a great reprieve from the fake news, and disgusting political chaos and civil unrest. This country desperately needs more both feet on the ground young men like you. I've watched many of your videos and you have my respect for loving what you do and doing it extremely well. Thank you.
I just had surgery on my left knee 2 weeks ago and cant walk on it for 10 weeks..i know what your goin thru...im tired of being stuck inside the house 🏠 ..ive never been able to sit still for more than a hour or so...so this sh*t really sucks 😕
I used to work for my families excavating company, and when we closed down in 2010 we only kept a few pieces of equipment and one was the old Case 1155E trackloader, and we still used it quite a bit up to that point. Also used it to help dig my basement this spring. Ours had 18in pads on it, and yes it will get stuck easy if you get on soft ground.
Every morning this week, I've driven past a 300'x300' site being cleared here in the UK. With three machines on the job, they've achieved less than half what you do in a day or so.
It took our local council over 5 MONTH!!!! to replace a culvert pipe under a main road with a steam running though it! Chris has knocked similar projects out in a day or 2. (minus putting the tarmac down afterwards)
Trouble is here in the UK they will have a 2 hour health and safety briefing every morning, strip search to make sure every part of their clothing his Hi viz orange. Then threw out the day endless people turning up with clip boards, telling them they are doing it wrong, the site will get closed down if the clip board sees any sign of a mouse. Then after dinner another Health and safety briefing. Wont be aloud to run the machines at school run time which will be 2 hour's twice a day. You get the picture. Nobody is allowed to go to work and just work anymore, always has to be an army of clip board holders waiting to pounce for the slightest thing.
In North FL we get rid of everything close to the house now days as well. The pines for sure.. if a hurricane doesn't cause damage or the cones, sap, needles lighting will. They are a lighting rod to destroy your electronics. Always enjoy your videos...
Man u get ur money's worth on a load of brush!!!!!. Wish i was closer I'd help u on off days. Great video man as usual!!!!!!. I love clearing like that , no saw
Chris. Your videos are great. I learn alot watching you and get some good laughs sometimes too. Just a thought maybe you could put a small sticker on the top left inside the windshield of what machine it is. 160, 220, 250 etc.. sometimes its tough to know what one it is. Thanks and keep up the great work.
The cable company here where I live ran a cable across the corner my side yard to a neighbor's house. I mowed around it for a mowing season and called them several times but they never would send anyone out to bury it. The next year, before the first mowing, I cut it at the pedestal and again at the property line. Went about my mowing with the neighbor raising hell. The idiots came out and patched it in above the ground again. The next week, I cut it again. It took cutting it 3 times before they finally came out and buried it.
The cable company ran the cable diagonally across my 2 acre lot. So far out of utility easement that utility markers never found it. Unfortunately for them they placed it where the detention pond was going. When I dug the pond I cut off the cable for a whole trailer park. They came and ran it above ground over our driveway. The second time someone's trailer hitch snagged it and dragged it up the road they finally buried it.
We had a dry summer in Pa. we didn’t have to mow the grass for a few weeks. I had Sumac and Locust sprigs popping up everywhere in my yard. So it not only happens in the Carolina’s. Nature will prevail!
That’s one thing I can see that the company could use. I’ve seen some of your videos where you just work your skid steer to death. , minor investment, with major reward. We bought a Cat 963D. It changed everything!!!!!!!!
I’m seeing a lot of old videos,,,,, didn’t realize the first one was you, 8 years ago, you said you were 20,it was a beaver dam busting video. I thought man that guy is good and he’s on a Volvo., almost as good as Chris and runs an excavator like Chris. , I laughed when you bounced out that machine 🇨🇱🇨🇱
You always use cement drain pipe is it required in your area or is what’s available? galvanized is used almost exclusively here in southeastern Wisconsin .
Amazing that everything has to be quick and dirty when done by some people. Seeing the stuff left behind is really just incomplete crap. Way to go on your job
Legal or not, I have learned that the cable/internet companies are extremely unregulated. They could leave the cable on top of the yard and likely nothing would happen to them. If something happened to the cable they would simply have to come back out and reconnect it. When you do the "Call before you dig" thing, that company alerts all the service companies who are supposed to come out and mark their own lines. Well, around here, the only company that does it is the power/gas company. The internet/cable companies don't bother and will just come out and replace any lines that get cut. They basically hedge their bets on nothing occurring instead of spending a little bit for somebody to mark lines. I found this all out after my line got cut and than the neighbors got cut. They can also literally not care much about your lawn either. They don't really have to rehab anything. The only thing keeping them in check is customer word of mouth. If they did lousy work and left everyone's easements a mess they would obviously get less customers wanting their service. But yeah, all that crap has very few regulations keeping them in check.
Those looked like Scotch Pines. Usually planted for chrismas trees/ Generally onc ethey get to a decoent specimen size the bugs attack and you have dead trees
When the person selling the lot puts it on the market, would the value be affected by the need to clear it? OK, it only took two days, but that will still have come to some money. I guess the point I am getting at is would pay a land owner to bush wack the land once a month or so? It would come down to whether you had the equipment to do it yourself.
Do you recommend the concrete culverts over the hdpe or does it matter? And thank you, cable guys, for your crap installations. Doing an estimate today and they ran the line on the surface until they got to the property edge then they buried it 2" deep. So the area I need to clear has cable lines laying on the surface! 🤬 And FYI to the tree huggers. . .established lawns are far more beneficial to the environment than grub and trees.
when the cable line is so far back ,, not in the right away area it's fair game in my book to remove it ,, lol might get in trouble but it's not where it should be ,,, just like a gas line if it is not where they say then it's not my fault ,, great work Chris ,,, keep the videos coming out ,, how is the pup doing ? don't have him in the machine with you yet ??
Another great video Chris, I hope y’all find another man to replace Tim because I know that’s a lot of work to do by yourself but anyway brother you and John and yawls family y’all stay safe have a blessed day man
Do you have something you dont like against Volvo’s line of minis? Or Is yanmar that good of a mini that you just aren’t interested in changing brands?
Jake Jack Volvo does have good bigger machines but Yanmar is a great, lower cost mini. I’ve got an 80 and it’s a solid machine. Figured I’d give my two cents. Chris gets so many comments, it’d be hard to answer em all
You don't touch pasture for 5 years down in the deep south and you'll have a gum and privet hedge waste land. And patches that want grow that will be 10 ft tall with briars.
My theory is that the lot's been cleared before, but nothing was done with the site, and it grew back. Now they're going to put in new houses, which won't sell with the corona recession...
Chris, just want to say, as a 75 yr old retiree, your videos are a great reprieve from the fake news, and disgusting political chaos and civil unrest. This country desperately needs more both feet on the ground young men like you. I've watched many of your videos and you have my respect for loving what you do and doing it extremely well. Thank you.
I am senior citizen and retired, I really enjoy watching your videos of you operating your equipment and working on different projects.stay safe .
Sitting here in the hospital after surgery enjoying another letsdig18 video. Keep up the great work, you make all operators proud
I just had surgery on my left knee 2 weeks ago and cant walk on it for 10 weeks..i know what your goin thru...im tired of being stuck inside the house 🏠 ..ive never been able to sit still for more than a hour or so...so this sh*t really sucks 😕
It does look better with the hill cut down. Got to love those quick little jobs
You definitely made quick work of that lot Chris, you do good work, clean work. Thanks for sharing bud, appreciate it.
Living on the outskirts of Phoenix, seeing all those trees is amazing.
I used to work for my families excavating company, and when we closed down in 2010 we only kept a few pieces of equipment and one was the old Case 1155E trackloader, and we still used it quite a bit up to that point. Also used it to help dig my basement this spring. Ours had 18in pads on it, and yes it will get stuck easy if you get on soft ground.
Every morning this week, I've driven past a 300'x300' site being cleared here in the UK. With three machines on the job, they've achieved less than half what you do in a day or so.
Paid by the hour not the job.....
It took our local council over 5 MONTH!!!! to replace a culvert pipe under a main road with a steam running though it!
Chris has knocked similar projects out in a day or 2. (minus putting the tarmac down afterwards)
Trouble is here in the UK they will have a 2 hour health and safety briefing every morning, strip search to make sure every part of their clothing his Hi viz orange.
Then threw out the day endless people turning up with clip boards, telling them they are doing it wrong, the site will get closed down if the clip board sees any sign of a mouse.
Then after dinner another Health and safety briefing.
Wont be aloud to run the machines at school run time which will be 2 hour's twice a day.
You get the picture.
Nobody is allowed to go to work and just work anymore, always has to be an army of clip board holders waiting to pounce for the slightest thing.
Chris gets it done!!!
@@yorkshirerich2970 excessive idiot proofing theas days
That’s amazing that a nice house next to where you’re clearing the lot has such a shabby looking yard. Be careful out there. 👍☕️🍀
Your whistling has my husky doing a mean head tilt, lol!
Demo By Dustin Awwww!
In North FL we get rid of everything close to the house now days as well. The pines for sure.. if a hurricane doesn't cause damage or the cones, sap, needles lighting will. They are a lighting rod to destroy your electronics.
Always enjoy your videos...
Looks like your new bucket works well in the small trees
Man u get ur money's worth on a load of brush!!!!!. Wish i was closer I'd help u on off days. Great video man as usual!!!!!!. I love clearing like that , no saw
Chris. Your videos are great. I learn alot watching you and get some good laughs sometimes too. Just a thought maybe you could put a small sticker on the top left inside the windshield of what machine it is. 160, 220, 250 etc.. sometimes its tough to know what one it is. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Best ending ever with the whistle lol great video like always
Your two cents is worth whole lot,compared to some of the other contractors,when you show what they do,no comparisons.😎😎😎👍👍👍
2￠ minus all the inflation over the past 100+ years.
Tom Swindler fact
Sweet new video, I really enjoy watching what new tasks an project's
The cable company here where I live ran a cable across the corner my side yard to a neighbor's house. I mowed around it for a mowing season and called them several times but they never would send anyone out to bury it. The next year, before the first mowing, I cut it at the pedestal and again at the property line. Went about my mowing with the neighbor raising hell. The idiots came out and patched it in above the ground again. The next week, I cut it again. It took cutting it 3 times before they finally came out and buried it.
Which company??
That's Gold Larry, Gold !!
@@ronsmith1364 At the time it was Charter now called Charter/Spectrum.
Good job.
@@larrykeenan598 ty
The cable company ran the cable diagonally across my 2 acre lot. So far out of utility easement that utility markers never found it. Unfortunately for them they placed it where the detention pond was going. When I dug the pond I cut off the cable for a whole trailer park. They came and ran it above ground over our driveway. The second time someone's trailer hitch snagged it and dragged it up the road they finally buried it.
We had a dry summer in Pa. we didn’t have to mow the grass for a few weeks. I had Sumac and Locust sprigs popping up everywhere in my yard.
So it not only happens in the Carolina’s. Nature will prevail!
yup same thing happens here in Texas with mesquite trees and those will spread like wildfire and have some nasty thorns.
ive always wondered you are constantly glancing to the left even if your working alone is it because your automatically planning the swing
Always looks nice and clean when a job site is done. Then the crab grass takes over.
George Tucker every time
Looks good very well done
Great video Chris hope you have a great weekend
Nice quick job Chris. 👏👏👏👍🇬🇧
If you were to ever get a loader would you go tracked or wheeled?
Enjoyed the video bro, that section came up right nice with the foliage taken off. Ya''ll stay safe
Nice quick clean work, good job bud!.
Wow, really enjoy your videos, you are a true professional!
Bam !! Bam !! In an Out , gotta love those quick jobs make a little a $$$$$ on those ....lolol....Great as always Man !! Have a Great Evening...
What no mud. Chris you made quick work of clearing that lot. I think you can find a better bone for Wintson.
To damn close to other houses. I want 20 acres around me so I dont have to put up with any assholes. Lol
Great video Chris like ur videos very much.
1256.64 acres in all if 20 acres to nearest house sounds good I would sugest a moated zombie fence a must have option to add for the best privacy.
@@agentx7138 Yes, a moat is essential. Preferably stocked with piranha.
Love the little video .man .
The tracks on that Case look like racing slicks, but maybe they're just worn all but smooth.
Jim's videos just getting broke in 😂
How do you git that to come out of the truck with the tailgate up
Great videos. Random question how much does a house lot cost down your way. I saw the for sale signs was wondering what land cost.
That’s one thing I can see that the company could use. I’ve seen some of your videos where you just work your skid steer to death. , minor investment, with major reward. We bought a Cat 963D. It changed everything!!!!!!!!
You are right about the good sites are already taken , Grading and installing Utilites have become almost a mission impossible job !
Eddie Morton Tap Man true story
I totally agree with your two cents
I’m seeing a lot of old videos,,,,, didn’t realize the first one was you, 8 years ago, you said you were 20,it was a beaver dam busting video. I thought man that guy is good and he’s on a Volvo., almost as good as Chris and runs an excavator like Chris. , I laughed when you bounced out that machine 🇨🇱🇨🇱
Carl Kayser it’s crazy to watch people grow up in here!!!
I see a lot of pasture land let go and growed up around my area
According to a Certified Arborist, the “Sweet Gum” Tree would be his # 1 Choice to Remove. 👍
I like your videos and watching you operate the excavator I also have right at 8 years of operating heavy equipment
How do you bid or get the house lot work?
Great work as usual man.... That first few loads ..try loading them trees and shrubs without a thumb attachment it's not fun 🤣
You always use cement drain pipe is it required in your area or is what’s available? galvanized is used almost exclusively here in southeastern Wisconsin .
Awesome video as always Thumbs Up My Friend
Nice Job Chris
How are the lot boundaries marked on a job like that?
Amazing that everything has to be quick and dirty when done by some people. Seeing the stuff left behind is really just incomplete crap. Way to go on your job
Thank you.
I'm sure when the cable company comes back to "bury" that line, they will probably run it through the culvert pipe!!!
Is that even legal
Miss ur videos hope we see more soon I’ve watched everyone u heard put up lol
Good one 👍
Legal or not, I have learned that the cable/internet companies are extremely unregulated. They could leave the cable on top of the yard and likely nothing would happen to them. If something happened to the cable they would simply have to come back out and reconnect it. When you do the "Call before you dig" thing, that company alerts all the service companies who are supposed to come out and mark their own lines. Well, around here, the only company that does it is the power/gas company. The internet/cable companies don't bother and will just come out and replace any lines that get cut. They basically hedge their bets on nothing occurring instead of spending a little bit for somebody to mark lines. I found this all out after my line got cut and than the neighbors got cut. They can also literally not care much about your lawn either. They don't really have to rehab anything. The only thing keeping them in check is customer word of mouth. If they did lousy work and left everyone's easements a mess they would obviously get less customers wanting their service. But yeah, all that crap has very few regulations keeping them in check.
Right up the middle of the road!!!
Nice video but I would have liked to see more of the driveway install and the dirt moving. Guess you can only show so much in 15min. Nice work..
GOOD VID. Thanks for C.C. Means a lot to hearing impaired !
Was hoping see the process of the driveway being put in for this video
Those looked like Scotch Pines. Usually planted for chrismas trees/ Generally onc ethey get to a decoent specimen size the bugs attack and you have dead trees
I demand more Winston content...PLEASE 😁
Ya, what she said!
You are so rude
James gilpin I said PLEASE 🤷🏼♀️😂
Will it still sounds rude because you're like I demand
James gilpin I’ll text Chris and apologize for trying to be funny in his comments section 😁
those trees look way older than 5 years since the biggest ones are how long the land has been fallow. I would guess 8-10 years
skid steer looks better than the last time we saw it
Witch excavator would you get slightly above 10K 10-15K maximum weight 2,5 6 tonnes?
No burning on the lot and buried cable, it must be some type of a fancy neighborhood. Maybe Karen lives in the area.
Ignacio it was Karen for sure!!!
First machine I started on was a triple nickel case dozer
When the person selling the lot puts it on the market, would the value be affected by the need to clear it? OK, it only took two days, but that will still have come to some money. I guess the point I am getting at is would pay a land owner to bush wack the land once a month or so? It would come down to whether you had the equipment to do it yourself.
The deal with you is that you always look at it as working on your own property. That's why your jobs always look great at the finish.
michael mullins he never seems to fail
Migrating birds and wind carry seeds and drop them all over continuing Earths abundance.
Your 2 cents is worth a Million Dollars !!!
Great Friday have a new Letsdig18 video to watch
With all the trees you’ve taken down, we should call you Ranger Chris
Too short. We need at least 35 minutes to get our Chris fix!!
Hell yea, lmaoooo that’s what I’m saying to, lol.
NoMSGPlz true story
Here in New Brunswick 5 axle trucks are iliagal,,,no air lift a lowered
Make sure the skid steer don’t get muddy lol
Very nice .
Do you recommend the concrete culverts over the hdpe or does it matter? And thank you, cable guys, for your crap installations. Doing an estimate today and they ran the line on the surface until they got to the property edge then they buried it 2" deep. So the area I need to clear has cable lines laying on the surface! 🤬 And FYI to the tree huggers. . .established lawns are far more beneficial to the environment than grub and trees.
My Tractor Guy what’s up amigo?!
DigginLife21 hey man!!! Getting in my daily training videos of you, Chris and Brandon. 🤣
My Tractor Guy that’s a lot to be learned from both of ‘em
How dare you start work without me. Now I will be docked . LOL !
What ... no mud? Well, forget it - I'm not watching ..ha! 😎👍
That’s gravy right there old son.
And that's how poltergeist start LOL hahaha love you videos your channel is awesome
A1 as usual 👍
No offense to Josh at ''Stoneyridge Farmer'', but he needs you clearing his land big time !
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed!
What is the oddest thing you have dug up or found
He found a womans PINK/ PURPLE TOY in a old mobile home he tore down quite awhile ago..cringy as f***...🤣🤣😁😁
great job
when the cable line is so far back ,, not in the right away area it's fair game in my book to remove it ,, lol might get in trouble but it's not where it should be ,,, just like a gas line if it is not where they say then it's not my fault ,, great work Chris ,,, keep the videos coming out ,, how is the pup doing ? don't have him in the machine with you yet ??
Another great video Chris, I hope y’all find another man to replace Tim because I know that’s a lot of work to do by yourself but anyway brother you and John and yawls family y’all stay safe have a blessed day man
Awesome 👍👍
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Do you have something you dont like against Volvo’s line of minis? Or
Is yanmar that good of a mini that you just aren’t interested in changing brands?
Jake Jack Volvo does have good bigger machines but Yanmar is a great, lower cost mini. I’ve got an 80 and it’s a solid machine. Figured I’d give my two cents. Chris gets so many comments, it’d be hard to answer em all
What happened to the contractor that was at the mill
That's one high driveway
Must be a no burn zone.
Im a bit confused, do you own the company or do you work for someone just something you mentioned in the previous video about TIM.
You don't touch pasture for 5 years down in the deep south and you'll have a gum and privet hedge waste land. And patches that want grow that will be 10 ft tall with briars.
kb7722 true story
My theory is that the lot's been cleared before, but nothing was done with the site, and it grew back. Now they're going to put in new houses, which won't sell with the corona recession...
Where's Tim been? Havnt seen him in quite awhile??
good video
We have same kind clay around here they grow chirstmass tree
What's that weird clicking sound when the thumb is moving?
cable companies do a good job of messing things up
John Ditch every time
Have to count teeth on the thumb to see if you are doing company work or independent work!
That lot you could have pretty much done everything using DP's 140, just the blade on it.