Last night for the first time watched you recover a small excavator swallowed by mud in a pond. I worked Commercial construction for 25 years , You Sir are one of a tiny handful of operators who are able to control your bucket precisely, I thoroughly enjoyed your video, Please Stay healthy Cliff
The storage locker business must be pretty lucrative, because the owner of this place has pretty much had you on an on-call basis for the number of times you have been back there since the initial clearing and grading.
I think they might be responsible if the contents of the containers are damaged. And/or nobody wants a locker that might get flooded if the company won’t pay for the damages.
I used to run a large self storage site, it can be very lucrative. All depends on the initial cost of land and the business model. Place I ran, the land was paid off 20 years ago and the land had appreciated in value at least double, so the income was pretty much pure profit after utilities and other expenses. Plus the knowledge the owners had they could cash it in any day they wanted and double their initial investment on the land. With self storage, you are basically a landlord of a piece of land with very high rental per unit area. The trick (like any business), is making sure you site the property where it is convenient (close) enough to a transient population, but still can be affordable enough to entice rentals. Place I ran grossed $20k a week on rent.
I am in no shape or form and operator. I've only gotten the opportunity to use these machines on a handful of occasions but I'm saying that because I can so greatly appreciate and love to watch this man's finesse with the controls. Just the way he can scrape and grade and just do what he does it's awesome I don't mind watching him for longer than I should lol
For some reason uncle John seems to me like he's the kinda guy that might leave a couple black marks pulling out from a stop sign on a Sunday afternoon while he's cruising around in a cammed up Nova with some Boston cranked up on the stereo.
My neighbors don't understand the concept of french drains. They just like to complain that their back yard is wet and blame it on my ponds which are all rubber lined.
Misread the logo on the boom for a second there and thought ‘damn is there anything Yamaha doesn’t make?’ This whole saga is a lesson in why getting good ground surveys before a construction is important.
For as big of job this was and all the work y’all put in to it.if it hadn’t been for the rain you probably would’ve not been back here until they were ready to start on more storage units.great video as always.seen your old helper around lately.👍👍👍😎😎😎
hey are you max macdonald the shaper? the best surfboard i ever had was made by max macdonald, it legit had magic built in it, it had a maple and mahogany baby swallow tail and mahogany fins, probably bought it back in the late 90’s, is this you?
I’ve been watching your videos for a while and I always say “dang that spot looks familiar”. We this mini storage one sealed the deal for me! Always nice to see some of your end results just by driving around. Keep up the good work!
Beautiful job in a tight area. Thank goodness you didn’t have any piping underground. I could hardly dig down 2 foot in the refinery without already having half a dozen lines to encounter. You are an amazing operator
Beautiful day no muddie mud today yea!!! Anyway keep up the traffic work Chris say hey tim for me or Jeson miss Timmie. Keep watching LetDig18 rocks...
The units that we rent are done differently and these look like they are going to be a continuous source of troubles. Why weren't they built up at least another 6". So that there could be a catch drain in front of all the units in concrete? How will there ever be enough drainage when these are lower than the surrounding ground?
The white clay looks a lot like the forgotten pond. That stuff could be used to line hazardous waste dump, almost impermeable. Never knew your mini had the pivot boom. Perfect application for it. Do some more videos of it if you get a chance. Awesome work as usual. 👏👏
Well, those clumps of clay shows how well you packed it when you were making the building pad, lol. Still amazes me how that place went from woods that were logged off, to a muddy mess when you cleared out the stumps, to what it is now.
In Northern Ohio we usually outlet a pipe with pvc or dual wall pipe so it is less likely to get crushed, and then make sure that there is an animal guard in there to keep them from trying to nest in there. You made it look very nice.
Im in South Africa and checkout all your videos Chris. Here in my country, probably five people would be employed just to stand around earth moving equipment pretending to look busy. Clearly there at you, one man or two men are perfectly willing to everything and i admire that everytime :-)
Oh those 'French Drains'. Here we have an invention by Henry Flagg French a Treasury Secretary under Grant. French wrote a book called "Farm Drainage" in 1859 and it is still the definitive book on drainage. Eaglegards...
That clay you are digging into says it all. No wonder they are having moisture problems. I've got some clay in my own backyard. After winter, it stays somewhat wet for a while, but once it dries out, it becomes rock hard and water just flows on top of it.
Man, that jobsite has come a long way, I remember when you started there, it was a total mess !! lolol... You guys have put in a lot of work there on that one. It all has turned out really nice though !! Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening...On too the Next !!
Man, you were working danged close to that black fence on the first trench. Very skilled. You run some good sized machines and obviously the Takeuchi has its limitations, but that little dude really seems like it really keeps you in sandwiches.
I thought two french drains was overkill, until I saw you digging out that solid clay. That's some nasty ground to deal with ground water, it doesn't seep in, it just saturates and the water runs on the surface. At least now it'll find it's way under the gravel to the drains.
Well Chris hopefully this will fix it up this time because I know y’all been back-and-forth over there Dealing with a drainage problem. But anyway brother another great video and you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming
I never understood why lemons give thumbs down and limes give thumbs up.Well you can't make Lemonade with lemons ,but you sure can make Margaritas with limes... Cheers Chris.
I slipped and fell on the way to the excavator today and broke my arm. So I can’t work fore a while. But I can always look at Chris working. When I miss the sound off the excavator.
@@JohnLaco Same here when a farmer decides to put in "drainage tile" for a field. Then go out with a big machine that cuts open a slot, lays in rolled plastic pipe and closes it back up.
Nice work once again. Although, I would have recommended smooth pvc as it is more durable and drains much quicker, it is more expensive but worth it in a very wet condition.
With the high number of projects and videos that are on this channel, I am guessing that would be a huge undertaking. Another suggestion might be just making a playlist that covers each year separately, or even two playlists for each year splitting it up into 6 month segments.
@@randywilson6869 I have about 4 guys part time unless I get back into commercial work I plan on keeping it that way much less head ache easier to manage work flow etc. And your equipment doesn't get killed by people that don't care for it.
That clay ain't got nothing on the London clay in my back garden. The stuff sticks to your shovel and won't come off without being wiped off. Dug a 2ft deep trench in it with a shovel and eventually a hand trowel and swore I'd never do it again.
Design flaw. There's never time and money to do it right but always time and money to do it over. Drainage seems to always become an issue that isn't properly addressed in the planning stage.
drainage always seem to be an afterthought. designers pressured to maximize every square inch to capitalize space profitability yet managing drainage is backburned 'it'll be fine' mentality
Man no wonder it was holding water that has to be some of the most solid clay junk I’ve ever seen coming out of that trench. Not a chance water is soaking into that stuff. Haha
Look good, Pretty costly mistake by the storage place on initial build, having to go back and redo this portion of it, at least its not much more than this area.
I said in the last video at this storage place...they should have paved it. This swampy mess certainly makes me think that even more. Looks like there is runoff from the hill as much as ground water. I wouldn't store anything at that place
Uncle John is always helping
Hard working team
A good worker is always moving, even if it's just to pick up a grade stick.
Last night for the first time watched you recover a small excavator swallowed by mud in a pond. I worked Commercial construction for 25 years , You Sir are one of a tiny handful of operators who are able to control your bucket precisely, I thoroughly enjoyed your video, Please Stay healthy Cliff
The storage locker business must be pretty lucrative, because the owner of this place has pretty much had you on an on-call basis for the number of times you have been back there since the initial clearing and grading.
I think they might be responsible if the contents of the containers are damaged. And/or nobody wants a locker that might get flooded if the company won’t pay for the damages.
@@FishFind3000 I agree.
I used to run a large self storage site, it can be very lucrative. All depends on the initial cost of land and the business model. Place I ran, the land was paid off 20 years ago and the land had appreciated in value at least double, so the income was pretty much pure profit after utilities and other expenses. Plus the knowledge the owners had they could cash it in any day they wanted and double their initial investment on the land.
With self storage, you are basically a landlord of a piece of land with very high rental per unit area. The trick (like any business), is making sure you site the property where it is convenient (close) enough to a transient population, but still can be affordable enough to entice rentals.
Place I ran grossed $20k a week on rent.
I am in no shape or form and operator. I've only gotten the opportunity to use these machines on a handful of occasions but I'm saying that because I can so greatly appreciate and love to watch this man's finesse with the controls. Just the way he can scrape and grade and just do what he does it's awesome I don't mind watching him for longer than I should lol
For some reason uncle John seems to me like he's the kinda guy that might leave a couple black marks pulling out from a stop sign on a Sunday afternoon while he's cruising around in a cammed up Nova with some Boston cranked up on the stereo.
It’s another time the engineers ‘It’ll be fine’ turned into ‘I thought that might happen’.
My neighbors don't understand the concept of french drains. They just like to complain that their back yard is wet and blame it on my ponds which are all rubber lined.
Misread the logo on the boom for a second there and thought ‘damn is there anything Yamaha doesn’t make?’
This whole saga is a lesson in why getting good ground surveys before a construction is important.
its good to see John , and no dump truck to be seen !! Lol. I spoke too soon , it took over 1/2 way in , there it is
For as big of job this was and all the work y’all put in to it.if it hadn’t been for the rain you probably would’ve not been back here until they were ready to start on more storage units.great video as always.seen your old helper around lately.👍👍👍😎😎😎
love the different camera angles it gives viewers different perspectives or what's going on
*I love the sound of gravel in the morning, feels like-victory.*
Big fan of Shaun’s too - just what I was thinking. ;)
Congratulation on The Worst Excavator Recovery. One million views in a few days you rock
Very impressive, 1 hour forty minutes to get it out.
hey are you max macdonald the shaper? the best surfboard i ever had was made by max macdonald, it legit had magic built in it, it had a maple and mahogany baby swallow tail and mahogany fins, probably bought it back in the late 90’s, is this you?
@@njonebale7889 Not me
9:45 The Mating Dance of the Yellow Billed Yanmar 🔥🔥
I’ve been watching your videos for a while and I always say “dang that spot looks familiar”. We this mini storage one sealed the deal for me! Always nice to see some of your end results just by driving around. Keep up the good work!
Beautiful job in a tight area. Thank goodness you didn’t have any piping underground. I could hardly dig down 2 foot in the refinery without already having half a dozen lines to encounter. You are an amazing operator
Beautiful day no muddie mud today yea!!! Anyway keep up the traffic work Chris say hey tim for me or Jeson miss Timmie. Keep watching LetDig18 rocks...
its nice to have a helper who knows what he is doing and what you are doing. noone gets hurt that way.
The units that we rent are done differently and these look like they are going to be a continuous source of troubles. Why weren't they built up at least another 6". So that there could be a catch drain in front of all the units in concrete? How will there ever be enough drainage when these are lower than the surrounding ground?
Man, now that is some CLAY for you! I’d hate to have hand dug that!
I love the technical term- it's just nasty dirt!
Sums it up perfectly
Fascinating watching teamwork and efficiency. Love these videos! So therapeutic.
I need this done for my entire house... 🤣
Another great job done. Chris ! Well done.
Gate City Foundation Drainage would not be happy with that corrugated pipe for a French drain!
Exactly - I was thinking about what Shaun would be saying - and where is the water going to go once it’s collected buy these french drains? ;)
Lots of comments about the excavator recovery... That was the first of the Letsdig18 videos I happened upon. I've been hooked ever since...
The white clay looks a lot like the forgotten pond. That stuff could be used to line hazardous waste dump, almost impermeable.
Never knew your mini had the pivot boom. Perfect application for it. Do some more videos of it if you get a chance.
Awesome work as usual. 👏👏
The Tonka drivers are out in force. Everyone of them has advise. 👍👍
NICE JOB CHRIS. ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO LIKE ALWAYS.
Well, those clumps of clay shows how well you packed it when you were making the building pad, lol. Still amazes me how that place went from woods that were logged off, to a muddy mess when you cleared out the stumps, to what it is now.
Love seeing the skid work!
love the sound of gravel being graded out weird but true lol. Good job Chris!
Not weird at all. I love the sound of concrete being poured!
@@ConstructionMachineryChannel phewwww glad I’m not alone 😆😆😆
@@dirty.diggers Not at all alone.
*I love the sound of gravel in the morning, feels like-victory.*
Good morning sir ☕🚬.
Oh well. If it's not boulders, it's water or mud.
It goes in circles all the time. Keep up the good work.
Our French Drain is 5’ wide, 4’ deep, 110’ length with pipes/socks, large rock fill. Works Great. 👍
That Clay holds water.
Love the new camera angle in the skid steer. Looks like it could have been a right claggy mess without them new drains.
Just thinking the same he's getting good
Man you do an amazing job from start to finish👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
It's 11 pm in Germany and here it comes the new video from the NC digging gang! 😆
Welcome Germany keep watching leading 18.Texas 4:19here Texas 🇨🇱 ⭐
@@gerardocabrera3787 Gerardo, you're a funny guy! 😄 Muchas salodus!
It's 5:30 in USA
22:45 Dublin Ireland. Sure what would we be watching. Men are easily entertained the world over
Everything is always tidy at the end. That's pride in a different way.
"I grade it out, that's what I do!"
In Northern Ohio we usually outlet a pipe with pvc or dual wall pipe so it is less likely to get crushed, and then make sure that there is an animal guard in there to keep them from trying to nest in there. You made it look very nice.
I feel like I should clock in
Awesome job Chris
Wow Amazing Working, Awesome Beutiful Place, Nice Video Brother, Keep it up Brother 😘
Great videos, always learning tips and tricks from you. Keep then coming 👍
Great video Chris love them!!!
Im in South Africa and checkout all your videos Chris. Here in my country, probably five people would be employed just to stand around earth moving equipment pretending to look busy. Clearly there at you, one man or two men are perfectly willing to everything and i admire that everytime :-)
Oh those 'French Drains'. Here we have an invention by Henry Flagg French a Treasury Secretary under Grant. French wrote a book called "Farm Drainage" in 1859 and it is still the definitive book on drainage. Eaglegards...
I did not know that
Enjoyed this bro it made for great viewing. safe travels
Now you won't get any rain! LOL
That clay you are digging into says it all. No wonder they are having moisture problems. I've got some clay in my own backyard. After winter, it stays somewhat wet for a while, but once it dries out, it becomes rock hard and water just flows on top of it.
Looks great.
Well that's another good job 👍👍👍
Nice work both of you 👍👍
that skid steer is worth every penny you paid for it.
Man, that jobsite has come a long way, I remember when you started there, it was a total mess !! lolol... You guys have put in a lot of work there on that one. It all has turned out really nice though !! Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening...On too the Next !!
Love the videos! Keep em up👍
Good job.
Thanks for the video.
It’s always funny to advise a client about problems that could occur due to the terrain.
Nice video.looks awesome all graded out like that. Top Top 😀
Nice job.
hey chris got all my merc it made great crismise gifts you get rain like i get snow every other day cheers nelson ont canada
Wow very good, Nice vidéo 👍👍
nice french drains!
Ooo thats some gumbo sticky looking clay. I didnt know you could get pre-socked pipe. ( dont get out much) pretty handy. Nice work bud.
Man, you were working danged close to that black fence on the first trench. Very skilled. You run some good sized machines and obviously the Takeuchi has its limitations, but that little dude really seems like it really keeps you in sandwiches.
I thought two french drains was overkill, until I saw you digging out that solid clay. That's some nasty ground to deal with ground water, it doesn't seep in, it just saturates and the water runs on the surface.
At least now it'll find it's way under the gravel to the drains.
Well Chris hopefully this will fix it up this time because I know y’all been back-and-forth over there Dealing with a drainage problem. But anyway brother another great video and you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming
Imma speak for Chris and say I wish I had the big azz bucket on the skidsteer.
I must say Letsdig 18 ..we do a excellent Job!! Cheers!!;-)! ..Tight ,Clean !!;-)!
I would have backed the skid steer in then you don’t have to swing around the cab. Good work
I never understood why lemons give thumbs down and limes give thumbs up.Well you can't make Lemonade with lemons ,but you sure can make Margaritas with limes... Cheers Chris.
I slipped and fell on the way to the excavator today and broke my arm. So I can’t work fore a while. But I can always look at Chris working. When I miss the sound off the excavator.
Hopefully watching Chris' videos will accelerate your recovery. Get well soon!
I used to remember calling these a weeping drain system... ahh how times have changed
Still called that. Depends where you are. We still call it "weeping tile" in Canada. Even though it hasn't been a "tile" pipe for years haha.
@@JohnLaco Same here when a farmer decides to put in "drainage tile" for a field. Then go out with a big machine that cuts open a slot, lays in rolled plastic pipe and closes it back up.
Isn't it named after a person whose surname was or is "French"?
Nice work once again. Although, I would have recommended smooth pvc as it is more durable and drains much quicker, it is more expensive but worth it in a very wet condition.
Well that was easier than the way I did 100 ft in my back yard with a trenching shovel in clay 😅
I feel you. I have 175' of french drain to dig by hand and I'm not looking forward to that (I'm 65)
Been there too
From Cheshire northwest England 👍
When you get a chance, create playlists for all the different projects.
With the high number of projects and videos that are on this channel, I am guessing that would be a huge undertaking. Another suggestion might be just making a playlist that covers each year separately, or even two playlists for each year splitting it up into 6 month segments.
Perhaps he can ask someone he knows to help with that?
For all of his videos? He only has 13 years of them to sort...
Does John know what he’s doing in that skidsteer
at least he is trying.
@@anthonyanderson1954 I know I was only joking
I miss Tim in those vids...
I wonder why they don’t hire a helper
@@randywilson6869 I have about 4 guys part time unless I get back into commercial work I plan on keeping it that way much less head ache easier to manage work flow etc. And your equipment doesn't get killed by people that don't care for it.
What was the reason to scrape the old gravel off after you dug the trenches rather than before?
That yanmar looks like a nice little machine. Plenty of attachments and plenty of power, how do you like it?
Looks like you're digging pottery clay. That stuff looks very goopy and sticky! 😁
When I saw the first scoop I said no wonder it does not drain. Looks like that stuff would make a good lake bottom.
Much of NC looks like that especially as you go West from Raleigh. Really most of the US south looks like that in the piedmont regions.
That clay ain't got nothing on the London clay in my back garden. The stuff sticks to your shovel and won't come off without being wiped off. Dug a 2ft deep trench in it with a shovel and eventually a hand trowel and swore I'd never do it again.
I wished that I could get those kind of pipes here in my country
Just asking in a poor drainage situation like that wouldn't crushing stone work better than gravel because gravel continues to compact?
Nice! 👍
Hi All from North Wales in the UK
Hi Steve
@@billymallon1743 Hi Billy how are you?
@@stevecobb6001 really good today thankfully the fu@ker is at my throat the last two days
@@billymallon1743 ??
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Design flaw. There's never time and money to do it right but always time and money to do it over. Drainage seems to always become an issue that isn't properly addressed in the planning stage.
drainage always seem to be an afterthought. designers pressured to maximize every square inch to capitalize space profitability yet managing drainage is backburned 'it'll be fine' mentality
Probably didn't have the money, and this is "maintenance", so possibly tax deductible.
Man no wonder it was holding water that has to be some of the most solid clay junk I’ve ever seen coming out of that trench. Not a chance water is soaking into that stuff. Haha
Just an advice. Also, You should put gravel under the pipe of the french drain
Great videos as always with in death information as always uk
In death?!😵😳😁
Nice mini
buen trabajo
Hows the storm pond looking there that you put in a while back
Look good, Pretty costly mistake by the storage place on initial build, having to go back and redo this portion of it, at least its not much more than this area.
So how well did the catch sump bay / over flow work. Did it all wash out and plug up?
I said in the last video at this storage place...they should have paved it. This swampy mess certainly makes me think that even more. Looks like there is runoff from the hill as much as ground water. I wouldn't store anything at that place
loving the videos (from Bury Manchester England). Keepm coming!
Manchester? Give over...
@@ShalomBrother since April 1974, yes
Greater Manchester is the municipal area, East Lancashire in old boundaries. I am from West Lancashire, Up Holland.
@@davidcoulson1384 so we agree. conversation over. have a nice life.
I feel sure that some one mentioned in the original video that it could be a mistake to leave those downpipes open to the ground
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