I used to do stuff like that when I was a kid, connecting mud puddles it was always fun watching water flow/run. I still do it but with a shovel or my boot heel
I love your videos of the swampy mess and the pain dredging they are so informative plus I like to see what kinda predicament you get into and how you get out
I've never had the opportunity to run any equipment like yours, but sure enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing them. Hope there will be a follow up to this one.
Nice video on draining the swamp. Sometimes I get guys who don't know what they're talking about trying to bag on me if I get stuck in saturated red clay, kind of like the spot you had to assist your machine out! Great video thanks man, and thanks for the tip on making small piles along a ditch, learned something new again :-)
Chris , your videos are great . Colorado digging is different we do basements and everything has to be deep cause of frost . Keep up with good videos . Neil Strong Golden Colorado
I had a job with the same problem it turned out there was two springs on top of the hill we made a pond and had to dig a swell for the pond to drain it was a mess for a while but now it's a good place to fish
The videos are so mesmerizing. I cant quit watchin them. It's rather relaxing to me. The hydraulic sounds and with ya explaining and narrating as you go puts me in a tranquil state. Like I could crash watchin it but at the same time,, ya cant. Cuz ya wanna see the outcome of it all. Pretty dam cool.. lol. Great vid man. Thumbs up to ya. Keep makin more cuz I just scribed yur channel.. thx, Rob...
That low spot is where they had the hog pens a long time ago; err, maybe. Would be nice to go back in time to an old farm like that and see what happened to cause that or if it was already there.
@KenDroid66 WTF does that have to do with anything? FYI..it's not that they want open borders. They want to control the border using smarter methods than just a damn wall! Until EVERYONE is willing to put boots on the ground (walls without guards are useless. Ask Israel or any prison warden how well they work without guards) walls are nothing but a dog-n-pony show. What I'd like to see is to put several thousand ETS'ed Army 11B's to work. It'll create jobs and give a guy something to do when he gets out of the Army (or Marines. I was in the Army. I have no idea what the Marines MOS for infantry is) with a pretty much useless skill. Yes. I'm liberal Army Vet with a gun case full of firearms and a few large bore (a .45 and one .50 cal) airguns as well. What you THINK you know about liberals is wrong...well, except for maybe the group in California. I want clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean food supply...CLEAN is the operative word. Something conservatives fight CONSTANTLY against. Edit: If it were up to me I'd make mandatory military service a requirement of EVERY American. No DD-214, no voting or gun rights for people claim they deserve them simply for being here (legally). 2 years as an 11b (which could be served guarding our border) should do the trick.
@@phillipzx3754 Indeed . . . can't have a scrawny-bony-backside, when you carry around a Y U G E set of steel-balls everyday! {{wink}} #BallsOfSteelTRUMP #Trump4EVA
The berm is from the piles and stumps pushed to the side when the land was cleared. We have it here too. Over enough decades it spreads and drops some but it’s still there.
I live here in the North Carolina and in my county since sunday weve gotten 6 inches and today is wednesday. Im selling my car and truck and buying a nice john boat
this is how the heck I feel about my clay soil swamp in my back yard. been collecting neighborhoods of leaves to put down trying to be frugal and resourceful to dry it up. Fires in California, river rain on the east coast.
Yup it will work....water flows down hill. .....So as long as your trench is lower, all the way to the end ...... lower than the lowest water depth it will drain out. ...... but never forget the trench must never along it's length be higher than the very bottom of the waters depth, or you you will just be creating a canal to the spot that that is the same level of the lowest part you dug when they become equalized in depth. (sorry I tend to get long winded.) lol@me
letsdig18 that’s what the humidity has been here in the mornings till about noon then it drops a few degrees. Yours has to be worse cause we haven’t had the rain that you have
Hey man, love your vids.. Hilarious. I got caught up watching some your grader vids from years ago. I've only been a sub for a couple of months so I got plenty to catch up on. I got a question though… on a motor grader. What is the reason for the front wheels to tilt to one side or other? Forgive me if I sound like i sound like a rookie, I guess thats cuz I am. Thanks man. Down here in louisiana.
Our host is NOT saying "SWELL" . The word is SWALE. ( it was used as a last name in the movie 'Dragnet' - with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks....so I looked it up)
if the ground is dry under the wet surface.. i wonder if you could dig small areas out in low spots thru the material that won't let it get to the perk thru to allow it to recharge the ground water.. or do you think it will just spread out in the upper layers and make a deep deep mud hole.. might be interesting to dig a trench down and examine the layers..
Wait!!!!! Stop the project!!!! Its a “Vernal Pool” Lol Good job👍🏼 Here In California we’d get shut down on a project like that....even if it was man made or by default farming practices. If there was any standing water around anymore even in the delta....cuz they are drying up our state to take even more control.
In the UK in the middle ages they dug depressions into the chalk on top of hills, then lined them with clay to provide a water reservoir for the plants and the cattle. I hope that will not now become the start of a dust bowl. Is that clay showing through at time 4.05?
Just be careful, in some states you have to have a permit to drain or alter an established “wetland”. The land owner may have had one but I didn’t hear you mention it. My area is very strict about this stuff.
Finally! a man that KNOWS how to run a trackhoe! great to see someone that can talk and WORK at the same time! great job, sir.
All your veidos are always informative and funny to watch thanks for all the good content
I used to do stuff like that when I was a kid, connecting mud puddles it was always fun watching water flow/run. I still do it but with a shovel or my boot heel
Best man with a trackhoe I ever saw.
Was it just me or does this seem like every little boys dream.
Yeah, Id rather spend my money on an excavator than some sports car. Way more fun to move dirt.
Honestly I'm 19 and I would happily quit college and do this shit for a living
I've done that and still drive trucks.Both were child hood dreams.I enjoy it.Seems boring but it's not.
@@fender10g these men are on more then college jobs an there college only lasts anywhere from 3days to 3months for an international operators license!
I love your videos of the swampy mess and the pain dredging they are so informative plus I like to see what kinda predicament you get into and how you get out
I've never had the opportunity to run any equipment like yours, but sure enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing them. Hope there will be a follow up to this one.
that boy goot !
Why is the video so satisfying. Good job man!
Nice video on draining the swamp. Sometimes I get guys who don't know what they're talking about trying to bag on me if I get stuck in saturated red clay, kind of like the spot you had to assist your machine out! Great video thanks man, and thanks for the tip on making small piles along a ditch, learned something new again :-)
Looks like a pond project in the future. Ha !!! Laughed at the title of the video. Clever.
Great video! I love the perspective.
Chris , your videos are great . Colorado digging is different we do basements and everything has to be deep cause of frost . Keep up with good videos . Neil Strong Golden Colorado
FINALLY someone’s draining the swamp!!!
He has equipment and people he can trust ...
*Shrek wants to know your location*
I had a job with the same problem it turned out there was two springs on top of the hill we made a pond and had to dig a swell for the pond to drain it was a mess for a while but now it's a good place to fish
The videos are so mesmerizing. I cant quit watchin them. It's rather relaxing to me. The hydraulic sounds and with ya explaining and narrating as you go puts me in a tranquil state. Like I could crash watchin it but at the same time,, ya cant. Cuz ya wanna see the outcome of it all. Pretty dam cool.. lol. Great vid man. Thumbs up to ya. Keep makin more cuz I just scribed yur channel.. thx, Rob...
That Volvo is running like a dream it seems! ...:)
That low spot is where they had the hog pens a long time ago; err, maybe. Would be nice to go back in time to an old farm like that and see what happened to cause that or if it was already there.
Great video Chris thanks for sharing have a great day
Good idea on draining that swamp before EPA declares it a wet land and tells you that you can’t touch it.
You will have to restore that wet land highly illegal what your doing you fines will be enormous
@KenDroid66 Ya. Odd how liberals want to conserve and the conservatives want to pillage.
@KenDroid66
WTF does that have to do with anything?
FYI..it's not that they want open borders. They want to control the border using smarter methods than just a damn wall! Until EVERYONE is willing to put boots on the ground (walls without guards are useless. Ask Israel or any prison warden how well they work without guards) walls are nothing but a dog-n-pony show.
What I'd like to see is to put several thousand ETS'ed Army 11B's to work. It'll create jobs and give a guy something to do when he gets out of the Army (or Marines. I was in the Army. I have no idea what the Marines MOS for infantry is) with a pretty much useless skill.
Yes. I'm liberal Army Vet with a gun case full of firearms and a few large bore (a .45 and one .50 cal) airguns as well. What you THINK you know about liberals is wrong...well, except for maybe the group in California.
I want clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean food supply...CLEAN is the operative word. Something conservatives fight CONSTANTLY against.
Edit: If it were up to me I'd make mandatory military service a requirement of EVERY American. No DD-214, no voting or gun rights for people claim they deserve them simply for being here (legally). 2 years as an 11b (which could be served guarding our border) should do the trick.
@J.R. Spingly ..........Really? Where?
Stfu Douchbag
Cameron's like 'I wonder what happens if I cross his line?'
Not a wasted movement. And he's a pro with the foot pedals too. I love watching it done so well. Cool videos.
Your one helleva trackhoe operator!!
What our ancestors could of accomplished with therse machines let alone the water born disease deaths prevented. Love the videos.
Never disappoint. Pleasure to watch
This guy knows how to use that equipment . Great job!
Can you dig a much wider trench from the US Capital building to the Potomac river??? 😆
Now that was funny, good one
Trump's ass is too wide to fit regardless of the width.
kclm7 .. why pollute the river
👍👍👍👍
@@phillipzx3754 Indeed . . . can't have a scrawny-bony-backside, when you carry around a Y U G E set of steel-balls everyday! {{wink}}
#BallsOfSteelTRUMP #Trump4EVA
Chris you are just like a little kid, playing in the creek, except you have a lot bigger shovel.
honestly, your commentary is the best "they didn't believe me when i said there was a swamp on a hill"
Those Volvo Excavators sure have a smooth bucket operation.
That is a mess for sure, Would be a great place for a nice stock pond, especially if it is spring fed...
16:37. " See how wet this is, it's like liquid. " LMAO. Nice skills, smooth and steady.
What an awesome career! So cool
That looks like so much fun. :)
Good job! Thanks for the video.
I can’t get over how much water is there, it looks like river!
thank for taking us along we like your machine bob ross from lonely corners
Interesting. Please keep us posted on how this works.
That was fun to watch. Thanks man
The berm is from the piles and stumps pushed to the side when the land was cleared. We have it here too. Over enough decades it spreads and drops some but it’s still there.
This looks insanely relaxing. Just digging a ditch with an excavator (or whatever it is).
Swamp On The Hill sounds like a great folk song.
You're one hell of a operator.
Seems like it will never dry. Even the spots that have already been cleared are still soaked. Is the whole property in a valley or something?
Relaxing job :)
Whatbutton did you press on the right side of the right lever when you started?
Jesus, it's a good thing you are a good listener!!
WOW, Chris, That was a craptastic mess
that's so cool great job
fell like i should head out thru there with the log trucks thats dryer than my haul rds & landings lol !
I live here in the North Carolina and in my county since sunday weve gotten 6 inches and today is wednesday. Im selling my car and truck and buying a nice john boat
spence spencer poo
spence spencer i
Have you found a replacement for the 290?
How's the top of your hill after we're got all of this rain these past 2 weeks I love here in Wendell too
Unlike some other people, when Chris says he's gonna drain the swamp, he does. In about 18 minutes to boot.
hell yeah!
To be fair, this method of drainig is a lot easier than other ones ;-)
Trump 2020!
How many people you think fit in a bucket? 3?
The Metal Butcher the DC swamp is the hardest swamp to drain
You need to work around sinking Creek Ky, quicksand on hills.
51 truck loads, 33 tons loads of rip rap to fill a ten by ten foot hole.
Watching this is oddly satisfying.
Same problem in DC. A Swamp on top of the Hill. They need you in Washington to help drain the Swamp!
just curious, why not dig it in from the dry end first? I do see by the roots and scrub pile that this is reclaimed land.
was there some sort of a spring up there or just a clay aquaclude?
Can you upload some after videos, that show what it looks like a month or so after?
Wow, what a mess. Well done.
All that talk about draining the swamp; this guy literally got that job done. Good job!
take a drink every time he says swamp on top of the hill.... I passed out after 8 min LOL
this is how the heck I feel about my clay soil swamp in my back yard. been collecting neighborhoods of leaves to put down trying to be frugal and resourceful to dry it up. Fires in California, river rain on the east coast.
Yup it will work....water flows down hill. .....So as long as your trench is lower, all the way to the end ...... lower than the lowest water depth it will drain out. ...... but never forget the trench must never along it's length be higher than the very bottom of the waters depth, or you you will just be creating a canal to the spot that that is the same level of the lowest part you dug when they become equalized in depth. (sorry I tend to get long winded.) lol@me
Now it looks like Venice :)
I'll send you some near triple digit temps from TX to help! 👌👌
ill send you some humidity I think it was 95% today it was miserable
letsdig18 that’s what the humidity has been here in the mornings till about noon then it drops a few degrees. Yours has to be worse cause we haven’t had the rain that you have
You can gladly take 50° of the 110° we've been having here in Az
John Pike I’m actually going to Arizona next week and not looking forward to the heat! Lol
Elite Earthworks LLC just remember while your here, you get to leave but we are stuck with it till October. 😊
Hey man, love your vids.. Hilarious. I got caught up watching some your grader vids from years ago. I've only been a sub for a couple of months so I got plenty to catch up on. I got a question though… on a motor grader. What is the reason for the front wheels to tilt to one side or other? Forgive me if I sound like i sound like a rookie, I guess thats cuz I am. Thanks man. Down here in louisiana.
if you are on a hillside you and lean them to help with traction or to help keep yourself angled from sliding down the hill
Do you have a video of what it looks like now?
That looks like a spring on top of your hill... doesn't take a big one if it's got a low spot on top. I bet it's been there for years.
I saw Maxine , Schumer, and Ryan
Adele Waldron shiffty shit was there too
Our host is NOT saying "SWELL" . The word is SWALE. ( it was used as a last name in the movie 'Dragnet' - with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks....so I looked it up)
Shrek's gonna be pissed.
Back home in South Georgia places like this you would find a water moccasin as big as your leg! It may be a spring ...?
and thats why I keep the door and window shut! lol
letsdig18 do you see snakes often in spots like this ?
Is once often? LOL
MyOLD36chevy depends. If I walk up on one hell ya. Now if I see them from a distance then I'm ok I know to look out and have my heat in my hand
I worked with a guy who said there are only 2 kinds of snakes Cobras and Rattlesnakes!
good work, good man!
In Minnesota you likely would need about a dozen permits to drain a swamp and have to dig a pond to make up for the water loss.
Screw permits to do things on your own land!
korbel dave you don't own the land, just rent it.
@@arlynsmith9196 the problem is you doing something to your "own" land could adversely affect someone else land by changing water flow etc
Fine job Mr. G. you are a Michael Angelo with the excavator, great work & video!
you are an artiste!
I want one of those!
hey that looks like my jobs only a little dryer lol !!!
Draining the Swamp! 😬 👍
Great finesse
if the ground is dry under the wet surface.. i wonder if you could dig small areas out in low spots thru the material that won't let it get to the perk thru to allow it to recharge the ground water.. or do you think it will just spread out in the upper layers and make a deep deep mud hole..
might be interesting to dig a trench down and examine the layers..
Just make another lake! 🤣🤣 🐠
You need to take your backhoe to Washington DC, and drain that swamp! I wish it was this easy.
Looks like you have a natural spring there on top of the hill.
it was created as swamp land as a nature reserve or a spring in there somewhere
Chris is this the same land you got your truck struck ? you are a trip and a good operator I enjoy your videos keep them coming
sure is
Wait!!!!! Stop the project!!!!
Its a “Vernal Pool”
Lol Good job👍🏼 Here In California we’d get shut down on a project like that....even if it was man made or by default farming practices. If there was any standing water around anymore even in the delta....cuz they are drying up our state to take even more control.
Great state to live in NOT!
Need drainage footage. The very reason I am here. Hah. More beaver dams!
Swamp on a hill has nothing on Perhaps the most perplexing ‘Chrisism statement ever:
“Look, the ground is dry under all this (water) somehow ....”
😂😂😂
In the UK in the middle ages they dug depressions into the chalk on top of hills, then lined them with clay to provide a water reservoir for the plants and the cattle. I hope that will not now become the start of a dust bowl. Is that clay showing through at time 4.05?
Hello. that machine you use seems to jerk you around some. Does you back hurt at the end of the day?
perfect rice paddy
Wow that area has been like that for quite some time keep use posted on this
No one will believe u got bogged on top of a hill. lol👍 😁👍
You can do a lot of damage in a short amount of time with that machine. Somehow this video puts it into a better perspective.
All that standing water, is there any skeeter's eating you?
what happened to this massive clearing project?
Just be careful, in some states you have to have a permit to drain or alter an established “wetland”. The land owner may have had one but I didn’t hear you mention it. My area is very strict about this stuff.
Wonder were the water went and if any one down the hill got flooded?