Love this driveway work is the best!

FUN video

Mad respect to this man, he used a rack, instead of a 300 dollar leaf blower. Thats the oldschool way.

Nice

Tough job, but I really appreciate your dedication to helping the customer.

Always going to have problems unless you bring in a lot of dirt and stone

Man you need to put in a rock base. Use rip rap rock or shale. Then add fabric and spread road grade gravel over that and you won’t have any problem after that. But looks good but looks is not everything. Keep up the good work

Great work!

I don't know where you are located. Looks like Florida. Obviously a different terrain than I'm used to. Help me understand the idea behind using sand as a fill or base material. I'm sure there is a reason behind it and obviously the sand is better than the muck you pulled out. But I've always heard "foolish man built his house on sand..." Overall looks like a solid driveway, especially after using fabric.

why not just carve out a deep small pond? install drain canals shallow towards the pond from all areas

🔥🔥🔥 HEY BROTHER YOU GOT AN EMAIL YOU CAN BE REACHED AT?

Nice. Should last a few weeks

do better

Bro is not Andrew Camarata

Palmettos everywhere. Anyone looking at getting some land should always be very observant when looking at properties for a homesite, for signs of water. It was clear there.

This property is not going to change into a dry crop of land, it's a lowland area and the worse thing you can do is place a mobile home on it, my parents and other people bought property in a low line area, my Dad delivered tons of dirt to our property, that was in 68 and to this day when it rain? You guessed it.

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Looking good

You could mix lime in that muck to help dry it out

Leave it alone till the ground drys up

too much talking do not recommend.

A fearless straight 10 out 10 all the way from suffolk England

Not sure what state you’re in but here in oregon we have lots of good basalt rock. So whenever we have swampy conditions like this we dig the slime off and put road fabric down. Then we put a good layer of 4” minus down or larger and compact it. Then we put a nice layer of 1” minus on top to cap it. Water can move through the 4” without compromising the road if you have a good base. Good ditches are key also key in a good road. There is a good free PDF book online about how to build and maintain dirt roads. Here is the link, or search gravel roads construction and maintenance PDF online. www.fhwa.dot.gov/construction/pubs/ots15002.pdf

You have to haul so dirt ole son

Why would anyone put a home were it will flood over and over. Will the insurance companies cover it.

Kind of an ideal lot for a mobile since they're always set 4-5 steps above grade/slab. Looks like it'll work out great.

Ouch! What a mess. This is the project you get in and loose sleep trying to figure out how to make it work. I like the idea to cut a little hole for the water to run into. Sure feels like you are building an enxpensive road through a swamp but sometimes you have to do what the budget allows for. How it holds up well! glad to see you put down fabric.

It was hard to watch you reaching over the table saw blade with your left hand, man! Be careful. 😬

Once it dries itll be good top soil

Looks like Florida.

Unless it’s your house and you don’t have any money then they’ve got to come up with the money to put a base in there. You just scraping mud around because they don’t have any money makes no sense. It’s very hard on equipment and it’s not really accomplishing a whole lot I guess, just my opinion.. And on top of that, it sets the standards that most people will work for nothing

Luv to see that, best sport ever for the little man 10+

Great job man and hats off to taking on that project . I like those kinds of challenges myself. As a soil tech told me once, " there os no such thing as BAD DIRT " . It's either too wet or too dry . You just don't want organics in your driveway or house/building pad . You did good man 👍

I do some of the same work. I saw some comments on 2 ditches and mixing the mud with the sand. In some places i have done the ground stays wet year round unless the ditch is deep but i noticed the ditch on the road that you couldn't go much deeper so that is out. And mixing mud with sand in a extremely wet soil usually don't work very well. A little too much mud and your sand is now a mud hole been there done that.

Great video

These jobs are challenging. This seems like it would be the perfect place for geotech fabric. I think it would tame this beast quick and for little $. It would be a plus to all your work. U.S. Fabric site had all the answers for me for free. I have land in the wetlands of Pamlico County, NC

Use a borrow pit go somewhere else on the property scrape off top soil down to clay dig out as much clay as you need with your hoe to make drive pad higher then backfill the borrow pit with the top soil/muck just talk to property owner to pick a spot they do not plan to build on etc

I would suggest running the much thru a furnace - heating and drying it artificially.

I would check into placing a layer of roadbed fabric and several inches of crushed rock on top to build up the road . Ultimately drainage must be established to get the water away from the living area. The road needs a crown with ditches to be able to dry out.

nice video

7 little guy stay at it safely.. your dad is the best I wish I had one of those when I was younger.

What kind of septic system will they be installing. It seems obvious that they will not pass a Perc test.

10 all day that's damn good seriously tell him to keep it up

10 all the way!

If you dig down do you reach sand cause I am thinking a French Drain

The stuff that you call muck is decomposed organic material you add sand to it and you will have really nice topsoil that drains

Rewatched again! Cant get enough of driveway work with the skid steer! Instant satisfaction to watch!

DRAINAGE.....water has no place to go. Bad for owners

Also you could have dug a borrow pit for material to raise the road and fill it in with the mud.

Check your grades and build a pond with overflow into drainage ditch to help leach the ground water out the soil. That would have given you the material to raise the road.