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Digs the hole then jumps in and cleans it himself!!! I salute you

Man I miss running excavator and building with concrete . Nothing like the smell of concrete in the morning

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did you plug the holes where the plastic pipe came out ?

Fiberglass Cab on the Van. Who makes it?

It's bad enough you doing this crocs, but using a rock as a hammer is just showing off. good work. I am a do a 2 foot tall by 8 in wide probably 40 ft long at my place, Ima mount a gate on top of it...all custom no less. great example and thank you...I think you can use this same concept to install a pool also.

Thats a P.L. ambulance. If it came from Maine you prob got from sugerloaf. Would be a yellow sticker in door jamb. I prob built that in mid 2000s

Cribber here. Simple but effective.nice job man

Great job! were doing the same in the Philippines.

This section coild b water storage?

You should use icf forms. Hundred times easier and faster. But a very good job.

Just in the middle of building our house in S/W France, love your videos, learning a lot. Thanks for taking the time to post them 👍

Great job, I learnt a lot, thanks for sharing

The automatic transmission disengaged the driver from the driving experience.

Do you have a link to where you purchased the new plate or a price?

11.12 you have a Dr working for you?! Stethoscope around neck!!😂😂😂

Your lungs like breathing fresh clean air… I know it was a hot day and a mask won’t be comfortable with such a luxuriant beard, but please protect your lungs (and eyes) while spraying!!

Lol right when I stopped watching this I went on marketplace and found this truck for sale. I'm in MA so I guess ur close enough to come up in my marketplace.

Good looking bed but I would advise 1 thing for your next truck that you build on. I pull a lot, and I mean A LOT. For the last 20 or so years, everytime I put a gooseneck setup on a truck, rather than setting that ball directly over center like everyone seems to like to do, I move mine 6" ahead of the rear axle center. You'ld be astonished at how big of an improvement that 6" of movement makes for pulling. 95% of trailers out there can handle that additional 6" without any clearance issues for the bed. But if you are making a flatbed yourself and it looks like it could be an issue, you can either dovetail the back end of the bed or you can just lop off 6" of the bed's length. Either of those sacrifices is well worth the price for what moving that ball 6" forward will give you.

very nice video. gives me a lot of help. i am building a 28x28 garage under a ocean house on pilings. contractors here wants to build the retaining wall from wood vs the concrete footer and wall you did. so i am going thru the process to price out both ways and see which one is cheaper. a few questions: 1. threaded rod and pvc pipe diameter used? 2. my wall is only 3 feet high so i guess i should cut the 4x8 sheets down to 3x8 so can finish top surface? how do you decide the amount of rebar for footer, wall and slab? if this is just code, is there a good place to find this online? thanks again.

So.... there's no rebar in the foundation horizontally- as soon as that settles, there's gonna be huge cracks up the walls, not to mention the L bend in the rebar is needed to give the vertical wall stability. You can't just stick a straight section of rebar into some wet concrete and expect it to have any kind of lasting stability-

It seems like concrete makes wood brittle. Are you sure about reusing this on your roof?

11:40 distances

I would have used all that wood to pour concrete deck with permanent supports underneath. Could have been a really nice crawl space for extra storage or mini rootceller

WOULD THE DRIVE SHAFT PARKING BRAKE CAUSE A JERKING MOTION AND A ABS LIGHT WHEN BROKEN OR OVERLY WORN?

Great PRO EXCAVATOR WORK-a skill level I can only dream of. And not worried about much frost too---Wow

@33:47 $6000 parts and labor or just parts or just labor?

Y'all did Great in a half hour. Better Tamper than most contractors too. 😂

Subscribed, amazing l learnt a lot on this one🫡

That first run of Concrete looks a little too wet, maybe a 7-8 slump? 1:06:58

Love the form system. Thank you for sharing it.

Weekend Part-time Busser at the local diner and full time Qualified and Certified Fabric Sofa Repairman here in my city, just wanted to say you did an excellent job, definitely up to my standards. Will just suggest maybe chamfering the corners and at the beginning, soaking down the substrate for the footing before the concrete was poured in. Will help prevent the ground from sucking all the moisture in that footing.

Okay, picking and flipping that frame with the skidsteer is probably the safest way I've ever seen someone on CZcams do that. Very smooth and safe on your own that way. The forks inside the rails, the strap tension inside the cab. Great work.

I think you helped a lot of people with this bud! Great Job!. I read below you used 6 ft thd rod, so 2 ft length was enough to get the nuts and washers on? I might be using this instead of stap ties as well for a garage project.

Nice job. Looked like you vibrated a lot. Is there something you could have done to not have any bubbles? Different mix?

I'm gonna say it used to be a Crestline ambulance

I'm looking at a cutaway van to tow a 5th wheel. I'm having trouble finding info on GVWR compared to trucks and chassis cabs, probably because everybody (including Ford) just assumes a van will only be used for a bumper pull trailer. I'd be interested in any info you have on the comparison between a van chassis and a truck chassis. I would think the van would actually have a higher axle rating, since the van is designed to carry weight rather than tow weight.

I need to see a lot more of these home-made plywood wall forms.

Is there a concern to have a cold joint between the footing and stem wall? I was thinking water can seep into rebar if it cracks at the joint.

Sweet looking place man. Great size for a comfortable family home. Wicked garage too! I’m curious why you did Zip on the exterior. You might have mentioned it but I didn’t catch it

First 100% understand that man you have all my respect for undertaking this vsstcally by yourself for the first time, no help, tight budget, (your words) and not all the proper tools to make certain your walls were spot on. That said after starting a Timberframe build plan found I was $200K short so weighed out ICF for the walkout and log or timberframe on the main and 2nd floors. In the end I decided to ICF the basement and 1st floor however we have a “castle” round staircase on the SW corner of the house 2 story’s tall that once I got into the mechanics needed to do it all with rebar and banding the Foxblocks or Nublovks (which ever brand you want) it’s just a PITA and found a guy to pour our 60x90 basement old-school for half the price of Foxbocks and my GC as I started as the GC but my back blew out and has fusion surgery 2 weeks after they poured the basement and was racing the weather here in the Rockies and they framed 2800 in 2x6 exterior and 2x4 interior in a month for $44K. I now have the stone and stucco guys on-site after we did windows. My question is would you go this route again? Why 4”? With what I’m guessing is 12,000 lbs in trusses with a single 2 story pole? I hope you ran it by an engineer? (Only seen this video so no clue if you’ve finished and all is well - but I have watched prolly 100 ICF videoes over the past 2 years and one day I was sold the next day I wasn’t. My stucco/stone guy saved the day by charging only $3 ft for 1” cut stone (not fake just that thinner. Some places charged $44/ft! And all in on stucco that was gonna be either cedar shingles or wood siding he did for $7/foot. That’s the price of STL tone alone and came out 10x better than I first thought as the original plane was all stone 2 stories but was overkill. The stucco looks better and compliments the stone colors perfectly so happy with that. After he does 2 indoor fireplaces and a half wall out front he’s done and we’ll be airtight once the roof is finished. Then work on the interior over the autumn and fall. Do I. Wish I’d gone If? Can’t say I am. Blow outs are too common and y tray should sub the setup (plum and leveling) and pour to guys that have done hundreds. Yes I’m screwed on insulation but not a fan of SIP panels and tracing a leak post build is near impossible so we went with TNG and Timberframe on the center section of the house. Easily the most expensive part of the build vs the kitchen on the left wing and beds ajd bath on the right. It just worked out best that way as the house anchors off the center Timberframe. But that third cost more than the other 2/3rds. So go figure. Anyway. I tip my hat to your ingenuity and fortitude but between this build and the “castle” video where a guy built 186 half moon Foxblovks by hand. I’m like I can do this in word at half the cost and a 1/10th the time. He’s still plugging away after a year. But looks amazing so credit to him for his hard work but my god hand form half circle forms and rebar plus it’s like 4 stories? He’s a glutton for punishment! I’ll see in other videos if you’re done yet. Peace.

Great video my man! New subscriber!

Thanks for de video. I am going to make a wall like that this year. Your video helps me a lot. Kind regards from the Netherlands.

I’m watching and laughing bc I been there and I feel for you

Lmao. Your mud flaps were supposed to go behind your wheels

I love the back gable roof. Looks awesome!

Hi Good job on this « box » 👍 It will probably resist to the end of the world 🤣

Great job on everything!! Two questions about the footing you poured though. Why no keyway? Helps a lot with horizontal pressure from backfilling and also makes water intrusion harder. Second was the rebar just laying on the ground? I couldn't tell from video angle, but if its just on the dirt it wont help much! Not criticism, just curious, video and job was great to watch

Why no steel in the foundation?

Amazing video. First time viewer.