Building A House Pad

[@KenWhiteConstruction]

right on! another great video

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Ken White Construction thanks buddy! Getting ready to watch your last two 👍🏻

[@waynetharp]

Scratch...Scratch...Nice work as always!👍

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Wayne Tharp thank you! Yes lots of scratching lol

[@josephboley]

Hello there Mr and Mrs Elite earthworks. Hope you both are doing very very well. Great video as always. Thanks for the awesome video. Take care. ✌👍

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Joseph Boley doing good! Hopefully all is well with you!

[@southerndirt9589]

Nice job 👍👍👍

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Spradlin Excavation thanks buddy

[@arkansas1336]

Great action.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

arkansas13 thank you!

[@iwandeegenaars1552]

Nice working

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Iwan Deegenaars thank you!

[@cookiesservices4552]

Brandon love your vids don’t have a lot of time to watch these days keep living the dream bud 👍🏻

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Cookies Services I understand that! Good to hear you are busy though and thank you very much!

[@Jamie_Lynn07]

Rain rain go away Mr. Elite can't get his work done dang it! ☔

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Mrs. S.O.T. Metalworks lol no kidding!

[@richardmcdaniel93]

Good work. Looks like the new machine is working out well for you.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Richard McDaniel thank you! Yes it’s doing great! Pretty much became my primary machine

[@silvergrizzly316]

With the limited space, I'd say you did an absolutely AWESOME job!! 👍👍☆Jay☆

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Silver Grizzly thank you! I’m hoping I don’t have to put in that yard 🤣

[@iwandeegenaars1552]

Nice video

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Iwan Deegenaars appreciate that!

[@dalepremo3695]

Well, the little step pyramid is coming along nicely. Next thing you know, Elite Earthworks is going to be handing off to Elite Sewerworks!

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Dale Premo lol I think I would rather dig sewers the pads aren’t as fun

[@mlhrepairsllc6942]

Nice job

[@eliteearthworksllc]

MLH Repairs LLC thanks man!

[@mlhrepairsllc6942]

@@eliteearthworksllc absolutely, I use your videos to relax after a long day. Something about machine operating smoothly. Jason in that Kubota skid steer just made me want to go back to work

[@eliteearthworksllc]

MLH Repairs LLC glad to hear, I feel the same way I could watch them all day. And Jason has a way of doing that 🤣

[@mlhrepairsllc6942]

@@eliteearthworksllc lol 😁

[@sassafrasvalley1939]

Sometimes... 20 percent chance turns into 20 percent of the time it’s raining. Nice work wit both rough ins. PS. Perhaps a polarized lens would count the glare? You can test using your sunglasses.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

William Harris I guess so. It did help cool it off it was miserable before that.

[@CanalDaCarregadeira]

Good job my friend, I'm a machine operator in Brazil.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Canal Da Carregadeira thank you! Cool always neat meeting operators all over the world!

[@marvincarvin1846]

At 9:27 Brandon captures the Flag(pole)! You win!

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Marvin Carvin 🤣 yes!

[@DC-1]

Good thing you have the enclosed cab...now you can play candy crush in the rain. 20% chance of rain is dead on accurate..makes you wonder how they keep their jobs 🙄😂

[@eliteearthworksllc]

D C yeah I was glad that day and yes it’s crazy they can keep their jobs 🤣

[@mrs.eliteearthworks]

D C Maybe they meant there was a 20% chance it WOULDN’T rain 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

[@DC-1]

Mrs. Elite Earthworks i was thinking that....they can constantly be wrong and always have a job. Truly a scam job. 🙄😉

[@jasonwilson2927]

Try using a 4-1 combo bucket on that loader it will cut your grading time by 2/3 once you learn how to use it..I bench and balance 6 pads per day

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Jason Wilson I knocked around the idea of getting one

[@jasonwilson2927]

@@eliteearthworksllc you will find that when open the bucket about 6-8 inches it will work like a box blade ..it will down the high spots with the dozer blade fill the bucket and drop the dirt in the low spots and that's moving forward and when reverse the front cutting blade on the clam can cut and fill the same way so every move you make you and grading ..also you can pull large amounts of dirt back ..I love the time saver you have to lift and roll your bucket to dump at ground level all you do is open the bucket to empty ..I swear after you get use to it you will be doubling you production ..just don't pick up concrete and other materials that will warp it

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Jason Wilson I just worry I’ll wear the bottom out too soon here with all the rock. I’m getting around 2000 hours on a tooth bucket now. I just bought that excavator two weeks ago so maybe one of these days I’ll try one. I’ve got by with a tooth bucket for 19 years 🤣

[@jasonwilson2927]

@@eliteearthworksllc all the cutting edges are replaceable ..and time is money .. I promise you on my reputation you will complete jobs and 2/3 are half the time than with a GP Bucket just make sure you grease every day and the best buckets I've used is of course a bobcat brand bucket and a construction attachment brand bucket they are made here in North Carolina

[@jasonwilson2927]

@@eliteearthworksllc where are you located

[@mrs.eliteearthworks]

Glad you didn’t melt 😘

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Lol me too!

[@arkansas1336]

@@eliteearthworksllc...I believe Mrs. Elite thinks you're really sweet...."You've got it made and don't know it!", a VERY NICE wife!!!!!!!

[@leifwilson7053]

You don't need to compact that fill? Where i live, that would have to be compacted and tested.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

They should make them here but they don’t. The footings have to be dug to virgin ground so I guess that’s how the justify it 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@leifwilson7053]

@@eliteearthworksllc That helps. Still leaves uncompacted soil under the slab to settle over time. Thanks for the reply.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Leif Wilson oh yeah it will still settle. They do stack 2 2x10’s and fill it will base rock and compact that then plumb it. Then pour the floor in a monolithic pour but still not great base material

[@arkansas1336]

@@eliteearthworksllc...Load your single axle dump truck 'to the max' and run over the fill 3-4 times (opposite directions), maximum compaction will be achieved, if moisture content is correct....(engineers usually didn't do a test when we compacted 'fills' that way). And if you're working by the hour, you and the truck earn the fees like you and your other machines and the builder gets a better product.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

arkansas13 that’s a great idea! It would definitely be compacted then. Thanks

[@farmingwithbryon9846]

Should have used a dragline it would have been way cooler. And it’s slopping to the left bottom corner of my watching devise here so that can’t be good

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Bryon 6180 🤣🤣 turn it upside down and it will be high in the right back corner

[@DC-1]

Bryon 6180 😂😂

[@DC-1]

Elite Earthworks LLC 🤔😂

[@mrs.eliteearthworks]

Bryon 6180 I think you’re on the wrong channel. Dragline comments are only made on BigDeal18’s channel 😉😂

[@NDB390]

Do they do a compaction test on the dirt ?

[@eliteearthworksllc]

NDB Brown no they don’t make them but they probably should. The footings have to be dug to virgin ground so I guess that’s how they justify using junk materials 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@CaptKirk1701]

Did it jar you a little when you hit that pipe? lol Looking good!

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Kirk Overly um yes 🤣 pretty sure I bent my bucket too

[@DC-1]

Elite Earthworks LLC i was thinking knocked a tooth off the bucket. Son of a 🤬🤬

[@eliteearthworksllc]

D C lol yeah it now bows in the center 🙄 got news is I just bought that bucket so I will only have to deal with it for next 2000 hours 🤣

[@mrs.eliteearthworks]

Elite Earthworks LLC this is why we can’t have nice things 🙄

[@DC-1]

Elite Earthworks LLC dammit!!! 🤦‍♂️😂

[@olnamgrunt9857]

Mercy another dab day lol

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Larry Ross lol oh yeah!

[@anthonyjcarolan3161]

You have done a lot of good 👍 work 💼 to building a new house 🏚 pad I love ❤️ your video 📷 the best way to get more followers on your video 📷 I can't wait for the next video 📷 #BuildingHousePad

[@eliteearthworksllc]

me In leather jacket and pants good thank you! Appreciate the comment as always

[@blackdogexcavator21]

I got a little worried at about the 2:30 mark while you were digging out that corner. I heard a metallic pop and thought you had either hit something in the ground or you had broken something on the new coochie, then I realized it was the guy on the lot next door shearing rebar. I though Mrs. Elite was not going to be happy if you had broken the new machine. Lol.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Blackdog Tractor/Excavator lol yeah he’s not as easy on his equipment

[@SkidderKev]

I think that little kubota was working faster then the coochie! Hehe

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Skidder Kev lol for sure it got it done 🤣

[@Kylemiller-uw9fn]

Hey man how's it going

[@eliteearthworksllc]

contry swag guy great how about your self?

[@Kylemiller-uw9fn]

@@eliteearthworksllc doing awesome

[@brianwebber7168]

✔

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Brian Webber thank you sir!

[@mrs.eliteearthworks]

Brian Webber ✔️✔️

[@rebekahthomas38]

About how long does one job take to finish?

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Just depends on the size of the pad and how out of level it is starting out

[@uggy7]

👍👍🇨🇦🐶

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Dermot Byrne thanks!

[@12vLife]

What's the highest house pad you ever seen? what the most aggressive grade off the pad you seen? I've seen some houses in Port Saint Lucie the other day where it seemed the house was on a 10' pad and the most aggressive pitch into a -5' ditch. Given how cheap fill is and it's always required it seems... Would you buy a non coastal lot at near free if lot had a 30x40 area in the center that was -3' under Base Flood elevation and FEMA Maps declared it (alone) a Flood zone where neighbors are high and are not. FEMA told me to just fill and send them a Elevation survey to change maps.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Yeah you could do that if you could build the area up high enough I think it will work. We have had some pads like that here. Best of luck

[@jasonwilson2927]

It's hard for me to watch you using that excavator.. me with a t595 and a 4-1 bucket I can work circles around you and someone else on your loader

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Jason Wilson you better bring you t870 if you want to try to dig through this stuff

[@jasonwilson2927]

@@eliteearthworksllc the T595 is a T590 with a T650 engine ..I used a T750 for a month and it didn't have the power and the quickness like the T595

[@barryhansen6854]

I hope my namesake doesn't rain on your parade too much?

[@eliteearthworksllc]

barry hansen lol no we’re good