Dig out the nasty gray mud, spread out the pretty red clay, fabric, and stone, and POOF, it's a road! Magic! Always enjoy watching the whole process. Thanks, and Woof to Winston and the other dogs.
Just the process for a simple road. Much more to building roads than what he shows. But I agree, more people should learn about what goes into building and maintaining roads.
I did dirt work for over 30 years half of them as a superintendent. There are so few operators that can jump on 4 or 5 different machines in a day and be efficient. You do nice work. I would have liked having you on my jobs.
Since watching Chris working plant its given me a desire to jump in one of those big Volvo earth moving trucks and help him. Then reality strikes home. I would slow him down. Nice work Chris.
Hey Chris, you guys have 3 blokes building this road whereas other road builders have 5or 6 some doing nothing . Always a pleasure watching the A team great work
Moving right along, road laying in nice Chris !! I can see why you fixed the little duck pond back to par, with that long of a trip just to get to the house , you are gonna need something to look at while coming an going !! lolol...Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Weekend and Evening....On to the Next !!
Drive way is looking good! You and Uncle John are a good working partners. You are so good on the equipment and he is good with the haul truck and dump truck .
The first winter i lived in Greensboro NC it snowed 8 inches and we were out of school for a week! They dont get enough snow to justify purchasing snowplows and such. And Chris is well east of there(about an hour or so). It was glorious, from a Connecticut yankee teen’s viewpoint!
The Volvo dump truck must be one of the hardest worked & cost effective machines you have, as it appears on projects more often than not 7 when it does, it's rarely standing idle for long.
When this road is done, you should drive it in the pickup with a camera on the dash. Then play a split screen clip with that initial dozer tour you gave us of where the driveway was going to go
Thank you Chris for making videos everyday. It makes my day to watch what you can do with heavy equipment. You are so talented and skilled. Is there any heavy equipment you can't drive. Stay safe.
Hi Chris, always awesome watch you and knowing your five steps ahead 😀 being one with the road 😁 I bet there are county roads shorter than that one . Stay safe and happy 👌 🇨🇦 Craig
What kind of rock is that you use for road base all the time? It looks great! We don't have rock like that down here in Florida. They always bed our roads with limerock which does compact real good but kind of washes away real easy when it rains. Limerock only works well when it's covered by asphalt. If you try to just have a bare limerock road it ruts and rills and develops that washboard surface after driving on it a bunch and the rain causes massive pothole craters in random places. Wish we had rock like you got up there.
Is there a sense of "touch" or "calibration" between the actual pressure the shovel and tongs produce and the hand controls in the cab? Or is that just something the operator learns over time ... after crushing a few culverts?
There is no feedback through the controls. Depending on what you're doing you can feel the impact of the bucket when it touches stuff or hear the hydraulic pump load. However if the resistance put up by what you're hitting isn't very high you could crush it and not realize till you hit the dirt
@@njonebale7889 not what I meant i was saying there is no physical vibration or resistance in the stick itself same amount of force to move the control
You can feel it, but you can't feel it. There is nothing in the controls that you feel. No vibration or anything like that. But you can feel how much the machine is working by how much input you give it.
And, the award for The Most Oddly Satisfying Scenes of Gravel Rolling Off a Moldboard goes to.... Please tell me why watching that is like a good bowl of comfort food!
How does Chris know the depth of the stone on top of the plastic? What depth is he shooting for? Does he stop and check a few places like farmers stop and check behind a combine or planter before doing the whole field?
I must say I’ve been watching some of your videos from 9 10 12 yrs. ago and how you’ve changed in them from beard and mustache,being slightly skinner,and you lost a lotta your Carolina twang,still sarcastic and try to tell like it is.come long way.p.s. Your uncle is same same just little older.lol.enjoying this project,lotta work.👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
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Only piece of equipment I haven't seen on this job is your Kubota tractor!!! Still trying to figure out where this road starts and where it is going to.
What type of gravel are you putting down seems to have a lot of soil mixed in with it, here in Mississippi when we buy a load of gravel be it clay gravel or slag it is clean rock without any soil in it, just curious if this beds better or what the purpose is for the material you are putting down
Thank you for not putting crappy background music in your videos. Damn good operator and your videos are great. Great work!
Something soothing and hypnotic watching the motor grader blade roll that gravel. Love that view looking at the blade.
As always - most impressed by Chris's abilities in all the plant equipment - and the speed of work done. A day's work is just darned impressive :)
Hi Chris.
Love the videos where Chris get to play on all the equipment. Coming along nicely.
Dig out the nasty gray mud, spread out the pretty red clay, fabric, and stone, and POOF, it's a road!
Magic!
Always enjoy watching the whole process.
Thanks, and Woof to Winston and the other dogs.
Too bad it's a process most ordinary people know nothing abuot or appreciate.
Just the process for a simple road. Much more to building roads than what he shows. But I agree, more people should learn about what goes into building and maintaining roads.
@@mikel9567 I agree Mike, until I started recording road crews I didn't really know all that goes into building maintaining them.
I’m really enjoying these 2-3 beer long videos!! 👍🏻
Excellent positioning of the camera on the grader , it’s a simple looking machine but it’s so effective in the right hands .
Chris, I wish every contractor took the pride in their work that you do. (most do) Every job you do looks fantastic when you are finished.
That customer should be real happy with that road. It looks great.
Great work on the road and the drainage pipe. Thank you for sharing the job with us.
Good evening Chris you have a great crew, beautiful job spreading stone going backwards and you do amazing work. Thank you for sharing
I did dirt work for over 30 years half of them as a superintendent. There are so few operators that can jump on 4 or 5 different machines in a day and be efficient. You do nice work. I would have liked having you on my jobs.
Looking great Chris. That's going to be a really nice area to drive through and that little pond is a nice touch!
It’s amazing to see ,how strong that culvert pipe becomes, once compacted in
Since watching Chris working plant its given me a desire to jump in one of those big Volvo earth moving trucks and help him. Then reality strikes home. I would slow him down. Nice work Chris.
Imthe same way- sometimes ya just gotta know your limitations, right?
Mighty fine work going on there!
Thank you for sharing your day.
Always luv your attention to detail. Great job
I am happy to see the stone being spread out while dumping...great!
Glad to see that you used the fabric. It’s so future proof. And the fabric is ‘dirt’ cheap and the road will be there for a long long time.
Nice work Chris you do amazing work with what you have for equipment🚜🚧👷
0:05 wow, look at that red hue dirt, it's really pretty!
Hey Chris, you guys have 3 blokes building this road whereas other road builders have 5or 6 some doing nothing . Always a pleasure watching the A team great work
It's so cool to watch how little your hands move to operate the 220, phenomenal job sir, looks amazing
your facinating to watch chris... your doing what it would normally take 10 people to do
Ahhh! It’s grader-relaxation time✌🏻 so satisfying!
Moving right along, road laying in nice Chris !! I can see why you fixed the little duck pond back to par, with that long of a trip just to get to the house , you are gonna need something to look at while coming an going !! lolol...Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Weekend and Evening....On to the Next !!
Good job from one road builder to another, for only 2 guys you guys do a good amount work
Another excellent video bro and looking not half bad with what you have done so far. Keep safe up your way.
Drive way is looking good! You and Uncle John are a good working partners. You are so good on the equipment and he is good with the haul truck and dump truck .
You’ve got the road building thing down to a science 🤓 lol nice work 👍🏻
My Canadian brain thinks that would be a hell of a road to plow in the winter. Then I remember where you are.
The first winter i lived in Greensboro NC it snowed 8 inches and we were out of school for a week! They dont get enough snow to justify purchasing snowplows and such. And Chris is well east of there(about an hour or so). It was glorious, from a Connecticut yankee teen’s viewpoint!
looking awesome Chris
Very Cool Camera location under the Excavator. Very Cool seeing the Cog Wheel Rotate around.👍
I can see your reflection in the cab on the gears that spin around moving the blade!
The Volvo dump truck must be one of the hardest worked & cost effective machines you have, as it appears on projects more often than not 7 when it does, it's rarely standing idle for long.
Another very productive day. Well done Chris.
Great video. Wish I could have seen the roller finish the job.
When this road is done, you should drive it in the pickup with a camera on the dash. Then play a split screen clip with
that initial dozer tour you gave us of where the driveway was going to go
I like watching you put culverts in, like this job! Really good video Chris! Looking good brother! 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you Chris for making videos everyday. It makes my day to watch what you can do with heavy equipment. You are so talented and skilled. Is there any heavy equipment you can't drive. Stay safe.
Great work! 😊👍 I get tired quickly when I hear work noises. 🤭
02:04 a.m. in Germany. Bedtime. Good night! 😴
It will probably be a nice driveway,
with a pond and the forest around.
Hi Chris, always awesome watch you and knowing your five steps ahead 😀 being one with the road 😁 I bet there are county roads shorter than that one . Stay safe and happy 👌 🇨🇦 Craig
Always a great job with good equipment, good help and knowing what the hell your doing, my opinion, which is 72% for a Monday morning.👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Darn nice lookin driveway! Mine is only 300 ft. but I wish YOU had put it in.
..lookin' good, nice job, even without a big-ass fire..lol..stay safe and enjoy...
Hi Bob.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast ..hey..
Its looking AWSOME!!!!!
Other than the sound of the equipment doing their various tasks...it's quiet time today & that's 👌
I always like the way the grader sounds
You’re like a surgeon with the Volvo Chris, the best operator I’ve ever seen brother!
Another great video Chris you and John y’all stay safe and keep them coming
Always interesting Chris thanks for sharing 🇦🇺
Hi Kerry.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast
Hi Dave see you soon 😁
Yes, let's get to work.
Reverse tailgating on a curve. 👍
Nice views under the grader!
Great video! Always enjoy watching!
That motor grader makes life pretty easy
Dude is like an artist with a brush with that excavator
I believe it will rain in NC from now on LOL! Great Job on the road build and culvert installation!
Great job. Wish I could smell the dirt!
Hey Chris sounds like your grader could use some power service or fuel filters. Road looks awsome.
should set up like concrete , i remember putting in roads like that for temporary access for new sewer lines . in Ohio . great work you did .
Looks great Chris! 👍🏻👍🏻
Looks fantastic Chris.😀.nice job👍👍.keep Up the good work😀
Good driving skills when dumping out
The sound of Volvo earth moving equipment is like ASMR to my ear holes.
any chance of a cleaning vid of the entire fleet
That road is so long PA DOT would give it a route number!
LOL!
These videos prove how good Chris is on every machine. He's the guy everybody would love to hire, but can't find.
This man is one out of a thousand. Only to say that he is a rare beed ! Talent and top notch work ethics. This young man has a great future.
@@marcryvon yeah, he does alright for himself. Genius operator.
Enjoying the show
What kind of rock is that you use for road base all the time? It looks great! We don't have rock like that down here in Florida. They always bed our roads with limerock which does compact real good but kind of washes away real easy when it rains. Limerock only works well when it's covered by asphalt. If you try to just have a bare limerock road it ruts and rills and develops that washboard surface after driving on it a bunch and the rain causes massive pothole craters in random places. Wish we had rock like you got up there.
Doesn't get any better than lime rock properly compacted. Best roads on Earth are in Florida.
I love that grader camera angle!
I like watching the culvert settings
Lotta good work
@ 20:55, just love watching Chris laying precision culvert.
Looking good👍👍😀🍁
I like watching a Road Grader. If only you could grade a mountain road, that has inclines.
Excellent...
Is there a sense of "touch" or "calibration" between the actual pressure the shovel and tongs produce and the hand controls in the cab? Or is that just something the operator learns over time ... after crushing a few culverts?
There is no feedback through the controls. Depending on what you're doing you can feel the impact of the bucket when it touches stuff or hear the hydraulic pump load. However if the resistance put up by what you're hitting isn't very high you could crush it and not realize till you hit the dirt
Jonathan Wilson you can feel it, if you can’t you shouldn’t be the operator
@@njonebale7889 not what I meant i was saying there is no physical vibration or resistance in the stick itself same amount of force to move the control
You can feel it, but you can't feel it. There is nothing in the controls that you feel. No vibration or anything like that. But you can feel how much the machine is working by how much input you give it.
Appalachian Fire. you got it ! you must feel the force, harness the force...my young jedi operator!
Nice job!!👍👍
Clicked on this to see what you were doing with the TL12v2,that is a machine I really like
Nice work
thanks for sharing the video
The owner must be super happy that he does not have to pay for all of that clay. It would get a lot more expensive if it had to be trucked in.
That truck driver is also his weight in gold. A driver able to spread load backward on a turn is rare around here.
And, the award for The Most Oddly Satisfying Scenes of Gravel Rolling Off a Moldboard goes to.... Please tell me why watching that is like a good bowl of comfort food!
Love the sound of the Volvo humm
Might seem boring to you since you do it everyday but would like to see the roller work. thanks like the videos
NICE JOB WELL DONE LIKE ALWAYS.
How does Chris know the depth of the stone on top of the plastic? What depth is he shooting for? Does he stop and check a few places like farmers stop and check behind a combine or planter before doing the whole field?
You might have to put in a gas station half way if that driveway gets much longer
Supr job good dozer and Volvo lache pas!
Dang I love watching your work! I hate mud work though, I still watch, but I hate the mud.. LOL
I must say I’ve been watching some of your videos from 9 10 12 yrs. ago and how you’ve changed in them from beard and mustache,being slightly skinner,and you lost a lotta your Carolina twang,still sarcastic and try to tell like it is.come long way.p.s. Your uncle is same same just little older.lol.enjoying this project,lotta work.👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
We all get Older, and Wiser with time...😒 Well, not all of us...😄
🎃☠️🕷️🕸️👻
you have a lot of toys to do your jobs done hihiihi
I take it that the fabric is supposed to help prevent pot holes? Great video as always, cheers :)
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Only piece of equipment I haven't seen on this job is your Kubota tractor!!! Still trying to figure out where this road starts and where it is going to.
He used it to grade out his parents driveway a few months back.
It is a Kioti, not Kubota :-)
good evening Chris, with as long as that road is doe's it have two zip codes?
Never figured out why it's called a borrow pit when I've never seen anybody put the dirt back once they are done using it.
Should be called a Steal Pit= more accurate
What type of gravel are you putting down seems to have a lot of soil mixed in with it, here in Mississippi when we buy a load of gravel be it clay gravel or slag it is clean rock without any soil in it, just curious if this beds better or what the purpose is for the material you are putting down
Looking good
Do a good job 👍