I'm old enough to remember when Andrew didn't have a single piece of equipment with an enclosed cab......including that Hitachi excavator......come a LONG way......👍👍
I remember him saying in a video that he didn't like enclosed cabs that much. But it is handy while it's snowing, or if you're doing something really dusty.
I wish I could sneak over there and blast it for him, it's easier than you think. A small dose of ANFO would make that rock a lot more workable. That stuff is easy drilling also.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast he already had it blasted a couple months ago, just hasn't posted the video yet. You can see in his video before this one all the new space it created.
Millions of years have past since those stone saw daylight. Hydraulics and the determination of one person to create something that did not exist…. Is mind blowing. There is no higher learning than to create. Not university, not college, not even high school. Being a man whom see a vision and acts until its reality is why and explains the meaning of life. Cheers. Love your consistent progression.
Perhaps off subject but in 10,000 years the machines will have rotted into dust and the stone will still be here. All trace of our machines will be gone. Really makes me wonder how vastly ancient people moved multi ton stone and built they things they built. They moved stones that we cannot move today without our modern equipment! Yet they tell us people wearing sandals and pulling ropes did it. I’m not so sure about that. We may not be the first to have machines or some sort of technology to move around massive stone and earth
I am certain Andrew could get overgrown kids like me to pay HIM to run these machines and do his work if he marketed it as an playground for grownups! :D
Actually mowed a good portion of a Field for him using his Ford 1520 way back. Couldn’t finish when my wife became ill and called me home with her eventually having to be hospitalized. The tractor did overheat so I had to baby it. He eventually solved the issue in another video. He’s the real deal, just as he presents on his videos. Buy some merch from him and support his channel!
Watching your Timelapse’s of you digging it can be really easy to under appreciate just how much time and patience goes into one of these digs, and then you bring the footage back down to normal time and it really puts it into perspective just how much time you spend digging
Andrew I cant believe how far your channel has come, I havent watched any of your vids for a while due to real life and I just started watching again recently and see youre over 1 million subs now WOW!! that is awesome!! And to think I started watching your channel when you were clearing the lot for the container castle....whats that been like 4-5 years now? Man time flies lol and I wouldnt mind getting 40-50 tri-axle loads of that shell, that stuff makes awesome fill Congrats on the million sub milestone!! Now Im gonna be binge watching for a while to see what all youve been up too and what I missed lol
Yup, you love your big toys, & we armchair YT viewers love watching a young guy work hard, succeed & continue to work hard! Just love watching your channel...oh yes, thanks for telling us about your 'B' videos. Yes, retired guys like me watch everything you, Jesse Muller, Matt at Diesel Creek (& others) do...you guys are mighty fine! Love your style of no nonsense, let's get-it-done work. Andrew, very glad to see you get more equipment to do bigger jobs. Just love watching you knock out these projects. Your geology, Shale? Limestone? Granite? is definitely more challenging than what we have here in New Orleans area. Appreciate your 'can do' attitude & all the time you invest to make, position camera's, film, edit, voice over & real time commentary as you do these projects. All just great! Carry on Sir!👍👍👍🧑🔧🍷
I have a 10 ft deep, 500 ft long swale i would LOVE to have filled with this shale(i live at the other end of the limestone seam, in TN) but have no way to get it here!
I guessed it wouldn't be long before Andrew started to think about blasting those rocks in the hillside. Although it's fun & satisfying to watch the Caterpillar loader pry the giant rocks out of the hillside, blasting would be more efficient (because it appears there is a lot of rock in the hillside he wants to remove), & without the wear & tear to the equipment. But It looks like so much fun to remove the rocks with the loader! Great job, as usual!
Andrew, your lower road has a very long flat stretch followed by a steep stretch. If you raised the flat bit, you'd reduce the slope of the steep bit. You'd need thousands of cubic yards of material, but you've got that.
Thank You for taking the time to share what you do with us. The vast majority of us recognize that sharing is optional and a lot of work for you, and we appreciate it. Thanks.
Wow! You have been making awesome progress!! You moved a lot of rock! I thought some of those were stuck there. It shows experience, you worked around and under them and destabilized their foundation and them wiggled them out!
I've been fighting my neighboors over noise complaints about heavy machinery for years now, finally the situation has improved...only to find myself at night watching noisy videos of a guy doing the same stuff....but in a much better, edited, fun and entertaining way
New subscriber here. Absolutely great equipment and videos!!! Awesome container castle too! Question: What is your end goal for the work there? Looks like a beautiful area!
Some time ago I watched a video by someone, who did a video about visiting andrew. He actually got to drive some of his machines in an "this pedal does that, this lever is for this and I wish you a lot of fun" like attitude
"I'm getting some rocks out of there but I really want to BLAST" LMAO Andrew you put out the best videos and I love your dry sense of humor, you're the best thing on CZcams. BTW I noticed the collection of Tonka trucks up on the wall every kids dream! Take care and happy holidays. Peace
That is great to watch, it is a mixture of knowing what you want to achieve but making it up as you go along. The rock you are digging looks like some form of layered soft slate.
Hey Andrew, I wish I could sneak over there and blast it for you, it's easier than you think. A small dose of ANFO would make that rock a lot more workable. That stuff is easy drilling also.
What gorgeous stone slabs!!! landscapers will be drooling. Thanks for entertaining me on a cold wet west coast day..... Your machinery handling skills are a treat to watch....
Andrew, please please please make a cave warehouse storage area, keep digging in the hillside then put in support pilars and concrete reinforcement ...
What a treat! I love seeing those huge rocks break apart in layers. I love the looks of that jet black shale. You should sell small stones for paperweights!
Hi Andrew, I love your channel. I was thinking that you showed earlier that in your area the stone was actually cut into slabs and sold as a kind of pavement or decorative stone trim. I would be fun if you would have a go at this yourself with stone from your property :)
Shale rock is very brittle, which is why it is not used in decorative stonework or pavement. It would break up into gravel with enough traffic and exposure.
Wasnt too long ago when you got the 977 and I thought it looked big. Now seeing your instagram post it looks so small. Your videos buying machines and working on them are my favorite, no matter the size of them. But I'm looking forward to seeing your video on the 988 and the d7 dozer! January 2022 I'll be starting a job at my local CAT dealership. My only experience is fixing cars and driving trucks, but your videos have given me the confidence to take on this challenge. So big thanks to you for your time and effort on these videos!
Hi Andrew you post interesting content ,Having a wide selection of plant in your fleet I think a rock crusher would be invaluable it would enable you to make your own roadstone and general fill for your own home plant site. Keep doing what you doing fasinating stuff in you videos..
About track pad grousers: The channel "The Jackson Brothers" has some videos on greatly speeding up welding new grousers on the track pads for their two D11s. They ended up using a clamp to hold seven welding rods at once and running around 350 amps if I recall right. In the videos they shared the evolution of their setup, what worked (and some attempts that did not quite work right) and a few tests to find the best current settings for a given number of sticks. The grousers on this girl look like they could generate more traction.
Have you ever considered to buy a rock crusher? I think it would make a great addition to your machine collection and you can use the gravel for your driveway pot holes maybe. Very nice video as usual with great edit and machine operating skills😎
I think a crusher is definitely what he needs since he does a lot of long driveways in that saugerties area. My boss rented or hired a machine to come and crush on a few different sites and we just got discount because we let operator use my boss' cx 160 case to load it but yes, you can adjust size of the stones and with all that room Andrew has a place to stockpile it.... ONE MAJOR PROBLEM, SHALE NO BROBLEM BUT ITS NOT MEANT FOR BIG TOUCH ROCK LIKE GRANITE ITS MAINLY TO CRUSH CONCRETE AND AN OCCASIONAL ROCK. ITS GOOD TO MAKE RCA. BUT HE USES 3/4 CLEAN ON HIS DRIVEWAYS
Great to finally see more of this work in what you had been wanting to do for some time, and BTW am enjoying the "B" roll videos, there is a lot of great stuff in some of those. thank you for sharing..
Old 988B was the first loader I ever really ran. It was a real hunk of junk but it had a rebuilt engine, trans, and torque converter so it was also an absolute beast. Still my favorite loader of all time.
Move those shipping containers, get into the hillside at the level of the soft layer under the bluestone, and undermine the big slabs of rock until they drop out of their own weight. Much faster than trying to lever them out, I think. No need to blast, the bluestone comes apart so easily under it's own weight.
I was just going to comment how the newer track loader was doing an excellent job! I guess it's time for a bigger one! Looking forward to seeing the next monster machine! Well done 👍
You know, at this rate you almost need a rock crusher or something, just to bust all the chunks up into gravel that you could dump on that crazy-long mountain road that keeps eating vehicles. xD
I was looking thru your playlists and videos trying to find something I hadn’t already watched several times. There wasn’t any. Glad to see this one today! It scratched my Camarata itch for now. Happy Holidays Andrew and Cody! Work safe.
Andrew consider yourself lucky having shale type rock. I live in Massachusetts where granite is the rock of choice and blasting is the only way to break it up.
Have you seen the expanding chemical method of breaking up rock? Bentonamit and Dexpan are two such products. Mixed wit water and poured into pre-drilled holes, they exert very large expansion forces in the rock. There are CZcams videos about them.
@@russnixon6020 Dexpan is the poor mans alternative to blasting. If you have to split a rock, drill holes in a row 2 inches apart using feathers and wedges will take care of that.
He's down around the Catskills, so he has that type of rock. In northern NY, up in the Adirondacks, it's quite different -- most of what's up there is quite hard. It's like the Mohawk River is a dividing line.
Hi Andrew. I think such a mission can not be accomplished easily and successfully without using a hydraulic rock breaker that splits rocks as if they were made of glass. We are eagerly looking forward to seeing it added to your inventory of attachments. Congrats in advance.
What would be really interesting ( for me ) would be if Andrew did a video on the geological makeup of the hill/mountain he is on, plus the history of previous industries that occupied the site/area, such as maybe slate mining or something. The hill "looks" really unstable shale type stuff, with the odd granite big boulder looking stuff, all held together with mud. I'm interested in the history of the site and how/why Andrew came to choose/own it. Maybe such a video already exists that covers some of that? If so, could someone add the link please. Many Thanks.
I like these rocks how they separate as almost perfect flat slabs, could be used for a variety of purposes if you have a property with some land, or some construction
Wow Andrew that's some work there. Great teamwork. You'll need a massive steel warehouse soon for all the equipment. You should build a Diesel Creek container workshop but twice the height
That video reminded me of my Volvo EC55 and the work I put down at a friends place. Stone upon stone upon stone, and without a hammer, a large job for that smallish machine. I wore the far left tooth on the bucket a lot, picking at the stones, but eventually had to give up. He just has to get a larger tool for those stones, and my excavator was sold. I got more for it than I gave anyway, so I was happy, although I miss the hours I spent tinkering with that machine. New belts, buckets and bright LED's all around made it a very useful machine.
I would’ve thought you’d flip over the large flat chunks onto their rounded side so they wouldn’t dig up your driveway every time you cross it. Love the content my guy. 💪🏼
@Andrew-Camarata I was imagining a stepped terrace could be beautiful using the large smooth stones as your face of each step and stepping the hill side back as you cut it giving you a way to safely shore the hill from slumping in the future when it gets oversaturated and has less support then it did previously. Unless you are shoring it with piles and or placing pins or similar back into the hillside. I would hate to have your hard work get knocked over or undone because of a landslide. Check out the OSO landslide in WA state( I know your condition is much different but still interesting)
As a Landscaper who specializes in pond, water features, etc., I am drooling over those rocks. We have quarries here in the PNW where I get rock from, but the prices have skyrocketed in the last 20 years! I bet Andrew can’t stand them rocks!
Andrew gets a call from the government department responsible for land maps in his area. Could you please stop removing mountains, as we can't keep up with re drawing the maps due to change in elevation levels when they're gone !
Andrew! Awesome video as always, for my next machine i really wanna buy a tracked loader. But sadly where i live "Estonia" there is zero old school tracked loaders around :( At least i can see these beast of machine from your channel. Thanks again!
Yes! More parking space for more equipment! Enjoyed the video!!
Love your vids!
@@bulkhak1 Thank you very much!!
I believe he said he was gonna put in a new building but I'm not sure
How about a collaboration video with you two?
@@trendinvestor2893 "we're going to test that!", and proceed to test limits on heavy equipment
I'm old enough to remember when Andrew didn't have a single piece of equipment with an enclosed cab......including that Hitachi excavator......come a LONG way......👍👍
Same, I have a piece of his “100,000” subscriber track.
I remember him saying in a video that he didn't like enclosed cabs that much. But it is handy while it's snowing, or if you're doing something really dusty.
CZcams Revenue will make you a lot of Money to buy the things you want.
I remember when he would take abandoned lawnmowers and fix them up for resale.
Andrew: "I'm gettin some rock out, but...I really wanna blast."
Me: I can't wait for the next video!!
🤣🤣🤣 Me too !
He's pulling out car sized boulders I don't get it. Rock breakers littering the property are nowhere to be seen.
I'd drive down from Canada to watch that live .
I wish I could sneak over there and blast it for him, it's easier than you think. A small dose of ANFO would make that rock a lot more workable. That stuff is easy drilling also.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast he already had it blasted a couple months ago, just hasn't posted the video yet. You can see in his video before this one all the new space it created.
Millions of years have past since those stone saw daylight. Hydraulics and the determination of one person to create something that did not exist…. Is mind blowing. There is no higher learning than to create. Not university, not college, not even high school. Being a man whom see a vision and acts until its reality is why and explains the meaning of life. Cheers. Love your consistent progression.
Man.. that is great thought! I will keep in mind
There is no way better than to just get on the machine and learn to work it. I was in to heavy equipment for 10 years.
Perhaps off subject but in 10,000 years the machines will have rotted into dust and the stone will still be here. All trace of our machines will be gone. Really makes me wonder how vastly ancient people moved multi ton stone and built they things they built. They moved stones that we cannot move today without our modern equipment! Yet they tell us people wearing sandals and pulling ropes did it. I’m not so sure about that. We may not be the first to have machines or some sort of technology to move around massive stone and earth
@@JohnnyRebKy don’t forget, you said they. My reference was to the one or two who do what “they” only dream of in this case.
I am certain Andrew could get overgrown kids like me to pay HIM to run these machines and do his work if he marketed it as an playground for grownups! :D
Where do i sign up? :)
Shut up and take my money!
I know that's right
ME TOO ME TOO!
Actually mowed a good portion of a Field for him using his Ford 1520 way back. Couldn’t finish when my wife became ill and called me home with her eventually having to be hospitalized. The tractor did overheat so I had to baby it. He eventually solved the issue in another video. He’s the real deal, just as he presents on his videos. Buy some merch from him and support his channel!
Watching Andrew move some rocks and take a couple scoops out of that wall there
"Wall" I'd call that a mountain side!!
Watching your Timelapse’s of you digging it can be really easy to under appreciate just how much time and patience goes into one of these digs, and then you bring the footage back down to normal time and it really puts it into perspective just how much time you spend digging
Andrew I cant believe how far your channel has come, I havent watched any of your vids for a while due to real life and I just started watching again recently and see youre over 1 million subs now WOW!! that is awesome!! And to think I started watching your channel when you were clearing the lot for the container castle....whats that been like 4-5 years now? Man time flies lol
and I wouldnt mind getting 40-50 tri-axle loads of that shell, that stuff makes awesome fill
Congrats on the million sub milestone!! Now Im gonna be binge watching for a while to see what all youve been up too and what I missed lol
Out on the site today...Andrew is taking down a mountain!
The most epic AC statement yet: "We're moving some rock...but I want to blast" :)
💣💣💣
A 2 hour long video on this project wouldnt have been too long Andrew. You have done it before and I loved it.
I agree
Thanks, Andrew! Just watching all I can, enjoying every minute!
Yup, you love your big toys, & we armchair YT viewers love watching a young guy work hard, succeed & continue to work hard! Just love watching your channel...oh yes, thanks for telling us about your 'B' videos. Yes, retired guys like me watch everything you, Jesse Muller, Matt at Diesel Creek (& others) do...you guys are mighty fine! Love your style of no nonsense, let's get-it-done work. Andrew, very glad to see you get more equipment to do bigger jobs. Just love watching you knock out these projects. Your geology, Shale? Limestone? Granite? is definitely more challenging than what we have here in New Orleans area. Appreciate your 'can do' attitude & all the time you invest to make, position camera's, film, edit, voice over & real time commentary as you do these projects. All just great! Carry on Sir!👍👍👍🧑🔧🍷
Hell yeah Andrew. Keep throwing it over the side and you will get so much more usable property. Making your own mountain into your very own plateau
I have a 10 ft deep, 500 ft long swale i would LOVE to have filled with this shale(i live at the other end of the limestone seam, in TN) but have no way to get it here!
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy watching you chipping away at that wall. That’s good thing todo.
I appreciate that you let us hear the sounds of the work more than the music. You strike a good balance between the two. Thanks
I guessed it wouldn't be long before Andrew started to think about blasting those rocks in the hillside. Although it's fun & satisfying to watch the Caterpillar loader pry the giant rocks out of the hillside, blasting would be more efficient (because it appears there is a lot of rock in the hillside he wants to remove), & without the wear & tear to the equipment. But It looks like so much fun to remove the rocks with the loader! Great job, as usual!
All of the dreams I had playing with my Tonka trucks as a kid are brought to reality on your channel. Love the old iron.
Andrew, your lower road has a very long flat stretch followed by a steep stretch. If you raised the flat bit, you'd reduce the slope of the steep bit. You'd need thousands of cubic yards of material, but you've got that.
But steep hills are more fun!
@@MarkRose1337 He's got a second, steeper mountain for having fun.
@@hermitoldguy6312 Yeah, but that one breaks everything 😂
@@MarkRose1337, that's the whole point, so Andrew can rebuild them things in his image. 😇
In the video you can see the front end loader going down the driveway next to the castle. I think Cody was driving. Lol
Thank You for taking the time to share what you do with us. The vast majority of us recognize that sharing is optional and a lot of work for you, and we appreciate it. Thanks.
Wow! You have been making awesome progress!! You moved a lot of rock! I thought some of those were stuck there. It shows experience, you worked around and under them and destabilized their foundation and them wiggled them out!
" i really want to Blast" I can see it coming....Learning the blasting trade, drilling, packing and then, Fire in the Hole.... Lets go Andrew...
I agree, I was gonna comment the same.
Ahhhh... I didn't even get that far in the video yet commented about it.
DIY blasting. The Final Frontier. Literally.
Well how long until Andrew has a full blown mining operation going? 😄
I saw a blasting drill in the background of one of his previous videos
I've been fighting my neighboors over noise complaints about heavy machinery for years now, finally the situation has improved...only to find myself at night watching noisy videos of a guy doing the same stuff....but in a much better, edited, fun and entertaining way
Years later still love your channel Andrew...never miss it.
New subscriber here. Absolutely great equipment and videos!!! Awesome container castle too! Question: What is your end goal for the work there? Looks like a beautiful area!
Either the wheel loader is haunted, or Andrew had somebody else driving one of his machines during this video. Very exciting.
Some time ago I watched a video by someone, who did a video about visiting andrew. He actually got to drive some of his machines in an "this pedal does that, this lever is for this and I wish you a lot of fun" like attitude
This is his CZcams
czcams.com/users/CerebralAilment
yeah at 6:12 you can see the ghost
Andrew's probably driving both
Boo
"I'm getting some rocks out of there but I really want to BLAST" LMAO Andrew you put out the best videos and I love your dry sense of humor, you're the best thing on CZcams. BTW I noticed the collection of Tonka trucks up on the wall
every kids dream! Take care and happy holidays. Peace
Was it just a joke? I thought maybe a foreshadowing
At that point I wanted to do it, I did it though, it worked great
@@AndrewCamarata Andrew with the TNT 😦
@@ballgoodrape i'm guessing ANFO or dynamite but I'm no expert. Hopefully we will see in a future video
@@AndrewCamarata gonna need to see proof :D
As always. Impressed with your. Skill on operating all your equipment. Thanks for sharing. Texas Dan.
That is great to watch, it is a mixture of knowing what you want to achieve but making it up as you go along. The rock you are digging looks like some form of layered soft slate.
Why did I need this to be 3 hours long?
Yeah, I really would've liked to see that 988 and koehring excavator being used
I would think he is going to make multiple videos but I was expecting the same thing
I'm waiting for Andrew to tunnel into his rock hillside and make a real man cave!
Hey Andrew, I wish I could sneak over there and blast it for you, it's easier than you think. A small dose of ANFO would make that rock a lot more workable. That stuff is easy drilling also.
I was going to comment, “Time to call Demolition Dave” but you beat me to it.
That would make some dang good road base. Amazing how tough some equipment is. That rock is rough on 1
What gorgeous stone slabs!!! landscapers will be drooling. Thanks for entertaining me on a cold wet west coast day..... Your machinery handling skills are a treat to watch....
Santas gonna struggle with Andrews new D11 Bulldozer :)
This is a great channel noting toxic just enjoying the build and machienery
Andrew,
Thank you for the high quality video. It is appreciated. So many channels just upload 1080p, but your video quality is fantastic.
The value of that bluestone down south would make you feel like your digging gold
When I saw the front end loader come into the picture I was like damn! He taught Cody how to drive!!
Your D-7 tracked loader is beautiful. So much better than a wheeled loaded and the paint looks great,
I used to do a lot of drilling /blasting..that’s definitely right up your alley!..nice work with the small equipment
Merry Christmas to all the Camaratas from the Lonneke family of Virginia and Black Lab, Dexter!
Keep up the wonderful vids!
Very nice of you merry Christmas to you and your family from East Coast of England 🇬🇧 near whitby
And more good wishes from Virginia!
Andrew, please please please make a cave warehouse storage area, keep digging in the hillside then put in support pilars and concrete reinforcement ...
That would be awesome. Also, would keep the equipment out of the rain. The main supports would of course have to be containers...
Just like they do in Missouri and Kansas!!
I'm so excited cause AC is almost craziest enought to make it happen. I'm just gitty at the thought...
Limestone maybe but this shale can be a little unstable .
What a treat! I love seeing those huge rocks break apart in layers. I love the looks of that jet black shale. You should sell small stones for paperweights!
Are any of the big boulders worth saving? Seems like they would make a great retaining wall
Hi Andrew, I love your channel. I was thinking that you showed earlier that in your area the stone was actually cut into slabs and sold as a kind of pavement or decorative stone trim. I would be fun if you would have a go at this yourself with stone from your property :)
Shale rock is very brittle, which is why it is not used in decorative stonework or pavement. It would break up into gravel with enough traffic and exposure.
Those are big enough pieces to be rearranged into natural retaining walls.
I agree, there was many counter tops harmed in the making of this video. I believe that Andrew said that it was called blue stone in a previous video.
"Ya know, I really want to blast" - OH YES PLEASE!
Wasnt too long ago when you got the 977 and I thought it looked big. Now seeing your instagram post it looks so small. Your videos buying machines and working on them are my favorite, no matter the size of them. But I'm looking forward to seeing your video on the 988 and the d7 dozer! January 2022 I'll be starting a job at my local CAT dealership. My only experience is fixing cars and driving trucks, but your videos have given me the confidence to take on this challenge. So big thanks to you for your time and effort on these videos!
Hi Andrew you post interesting content ,Having a wide selection of plant in your fleet I think a rock crusher would be invaluable it would enable you to make your own roadstone and general fill for your own home plant site.
Keep doing what you doing fasinating stuff in you videos..
About track pad grousers: The channel "The Jackson Brothers" has some videos on greatly speeding up welding new grousers on the track pads for their two D11s. They ended up using a clamp to hold seven welding rods at once and running around 350 amps if I recall right. In the videos they shared the evolution of their setup, what worked (and some attempts that did not quite work right) and a few tests to find the best current settings for a given number of sticks. The grousers on this girl look like they could generate more traction.
Being his friend must be awesome. Imagine hanging out all day playing with those big toys.
Now those are some big rock's, but I guess digging the side of a mountain will do that. Thanks for another great video, appreciate it. God bless.
It’s really great that you had a little help running the loader on this project .
Glad you explained about the layers… I always seem to be hoping for more narration as what your doing and why, especially at the castle location
Have you ever considered to buy a rock crusher? I think it would make a great addition to your machine collection and you can use the gravel for your driveway pot holes maybe. Very nice video as usual with great edit and machine operating skills😎
That was my thought too! :D
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I think a crusher is definitely what he needs since he does a lot of long driveways in that saugerties area. My boss rented or hired a machine to come and crush on a few different sites and we just got discount because we let operator use my boss' cx 160 case to load it but yes, you can adjust size of the stones and with all that room Andrew has a place to stockpile it.... ONE MAJOR PROBLEM, SHALE NO BROBLEM BUT ITS NOT MEANT FOR BIG TOUCH ROCK LIKE GRANITE ITS MAINLY TO CRUSH CONCRETE AND AN OCCASIONAL ROCK. ITS GOOD TO MAKE RCA. BUT HE USES 3/4 CLEAN ON HIS DRIVEWAYS
HOLY MOSES....moving a mountain ....JUST LIKE ANDREW.....more please!!! cant get enough of this channel....go Andrew!!
Great to finally see more of this work in what you had been wanting to do for some time, and BTW am enjoying the "B" roll videos, there is a lot of great stuff in some of those. thank you for sharing..
That boulder at 5:33! wow! Awesome! =)
Old 988B was the first loader I ever really ran. It was a real hunk of junk but it had a rebuilt engine, trans, and torque converter so it was also an absolute beast. Still my favorite loader of all time.
I'm guessing you're trying to make more level ground, but would the jack hammer not be good to use there?
Yes, the jack hammer would split those rocks up nicely into manageable pieces..
that was kind of what I was thinking, the hammer would make the job go faster.
Nice one! Looking forward to a walk around tour once it’s done!
Andrew: "I really want to blast"
Everybody: "We want to see you blast" :-)
More than a million subscribers! Congratulations! More cool videos for all of us!
Move those shipping containers, get into the hillside at the level of the soft layer under the bluestone, and undermine the big slabs of rock until they drop out of their own weight. Much faster than trying to lever them out, I think. No need to blast, the bluestone comes apart so easily under it's own weight.
I was just going to comment how the newer track loader was doing an excellent job! I guess it's time for a bigger one! Looking forward to seeing the next monster machine! Well done 👍
I legitimately thought I was going crazy when I saw two machines moving at the same time.
This is such relaxing content!
You know, at this rate you almost need a rock crusher or something, just to bust all the chunks up into gravel that you could dump on that crazy-long mountain road that keeps eating vehicles. xD
CAT 988 is one of the best front end loaders of it’s time.When i was hauling coal from strip mines in pa , 988’s were the king of the coal pits .
That's a nice CAT 977 track loader! Love the sound! That's tough rock there, but that loader is giving it its best effort. Wonder how a 983 would do.
I was looking thru your playlists and videos trying to find something I hadn’t already watched several times. There wasn’t any. Glad to see this one today! It scratched my Camarata itch for now. Happy Holidays Andrew and Cody! Work safe.
Andrew consider yourself lucky having shale type rock. I live in Massachusetts where granite is the rock of choice and blasting is the only way to break it up.
Have you seen the expanding chemical method of breaking up rock? Bentonamit and Dexpan are two such products. Mixed wit water and poured into pre-drilled holes, they exert very large expansion forces in the rock. There are CZcams videos about them.
@@russnixon6020 Dexpan is the poor mans alternative to blasting. If you have to split a rock, drill holes in a row 2 inches apart using feathers and wedges will take care of that.
He's down around the Catskills, so he has that type of rock. In northern NY, up in the Adirondacks, it's quite different -- most of what's up there is quite hard. It's like the Mohawk River is a dividing line.
Hi Andrew. I think such a mission can not be accomplished easily and successfully without using a hydraulic rock breaker that splits rocks as if they were made of glass. We are eagerly looking forward to seeing it added to your inventory of attachments. Congrats in advance.
What would be really interesting ( for me ) would be if Andrew did a video on the geological makeup of the hill/mountain he is on, plus the history of previous industries that occupied the site/area, such as maybe slate mining or something. The hill "looks" really unstable shale type stuff, with the odd granite big boulder looking stuff, all held together with mud. I'm interested in the history of the site and how/why Andrew came to choose/own it. Maybe such a video already exists that covers some of that? If so, could someone add the link please. Many Thanks.
if you wanna go exploring right now, the place is called "Catskill Mountains
" in NY
I like these rocks how they separate as almost perfect flat slabs, could be used for a variety of purposes if you have a property with some land, or some construction
Good work man! Love your videos
Wow Andrew that's some work there. Great teamwork. You'll need a massive steel warehouse soon for all the equipment. You should build a Diesel Creek container workshop but twice the height
Is there any risk of causing landslides when digging into the hillside in this type of terrain?
I was wondering that too - I thought that huge rock would fall down on him too
That video reminded me of my Volvo EC55 and the work I put down at a friends place. Stone upon stone upon stone, and without a hammer, a large job for that smallish machine. I wore the far left tooth on the bucket a lot, picking at the stones, but eventually had to give up. He just has to get a larger tool for those stones, and my excavator was sold. I got more for it than I gave anyway, so I was happy, although I miss the hours I spent tinkering with that machine. New belts, buckets and bright LED's all around made it a very useful machine.
Bro any thing you do is just the best to watch AC is the mans man
awesome. what are your plans for that space?
I would like to meet the welder who welded those shanks! Thanks for another good video Andrew!
I would’ve thought you’d flip over the large flat chunks onto their rounded side so they wouldn’t dig up your driveway every time you cross it. Love the content my guy. 💪🏼
Love your ideas bro.besides I'm glad your putting out vids .we enjoy your content and trial and errors cause that's life
@Andrew-Camarata I was imagining a stepped terrace could be beautiful using the large smooth stones as your face of each step and stepping the hill side back as you cut it giving you a way to safely shore the hill from slumping in the future when it gets oversaturated and has less support then it did previously. Unless you are shoring it with piles and or placing pins or similar back into the hillside. I would hate to have your hard work get knocked over or undone because of a landslide. Check out the OSO landslide in WA state( I know your condition is much different but still interesting)
“I really want to blast”. Uh oh, Andrew is about to kick it up a notch. 😀 Great video! Thanks!
Love it I would love to spend the day in that machine good job and keep up the great work
Merry Christmas Andrew and Cody ❤️
Watching you is a blast!
Andrew, please make a great big ROCK garden, it will be one of a kind. Love watching you, you do good work.
We always love some BIG equipment on a big job. Well done guys !
There's some nice building and landscaping/ facing stone there, you intend on selling it or using it?
Andrew just doesn’t know when to stop, does he? 😃🇺🇸
He will stop when the castle is on top of the mountain.
Hope he has a family someday
As a Landscaper who specializes in pond, water features, etc., I am drooling over those rocks. We have quarries here in the PNW where I get rock from, but the prices have skyrocketed in the last 20 years! I bet Andrew can’t stand them rocks!
Feast or famine.
Hi,that ledgevis splitting up nicely.That track loader is a beast.
Love your videos Andrew
In 80 years Andrew's grandchildren will still be battling with this mountain
He'll have the mountain flattened by then, and it will be on to the next job.
They'll be tearing down the mountain Andrew's building from this one.
I believe it is already flattened
Andrew gets a call from the government department responsible for land maps in his area. Could you please stop removing mountains, as we can't keep up with re drawing the maps due to change in elevation levels when they're gone !
He needs his own kids first
Very nice, good running machine. Tracks seem to be to tight, this can cause premature wearing of the bushings.
Looking out for more video's!
Andrew! Awesome video as always, for my next machine i really wanna buy a tracked loader. But sadly where i live "Estonia" there is zero old school tracked loaders around :( At least i can see these beast of machine from your channel. Thanks again!
Old soviet crawlers might be available...
It's always fun to see what you're up to, andrew.
First rock has face of an ALIEN!
Only thing that aliens are interrested by that who is this Camarata all are talking about in the galaxy
I saw it too
Boy this is fun. Some huge rocks in there. Amazing how some of them break apart. "I really want to blast". YES!!!!
wow, congratulations that crawler loader is a beast, better than the new ones. pity that we find few