Building a Road IN the Toe River ~ Green Mountain, NC

Connecting homes to a road. Whitson Branch Road being rebuilt in the Toe River on 10/30/2024.
This video contains all original footage documented in October of 2024 by Jeff Palmer.
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[@moparedtn]

That's incredible on many levels. God bless all of ya down there!

[@aaron-dd5zr]

So great to see progress. Hats off the all of the Dump Truck drivers. The overlooked underrated. The other hero’s. Truck on. Don’t tailgate them.

[@nononsenseBennett]

Some very impressive driving. Those rigs are amazingly compliant and powerful! WOW! Thanks to all those talented people bringing things back to normal.

[@Beckyjeaned]

Our infrastructure is amazing, given the 27Sept24 catastrophic flooding and what's happening now. Great news! Thanks for posting, Neighbor. (I'm in Unicoi.)

[@woodhonky3890]

Some serious rock truck wrangling!

[@Carolb66]

Totally inspired, great work guys. 😊👍

[@tcrobinson6798]

AWESOME WORK🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏

[@hbrws813]

Amazing!! Way to git r done, men!!!!

[@D10pete]

It is great to see some REAL equipment operators !!!!!!!!

[@AmericanGirl6128]

Thank Y'all so much...

[@Mapleleaffarm]

I have wonderful memories of tubing on the south toe river for several years. The destruction has been so painful to see. I think of all those impacted by this hurricane. Please know you are in my daily thoughts and prayers. Those rebuilding are awesome.

[@Deb-y2z]

Amazing equipment. I lived on that road around the peninsula for 12 years. I loved it there. It’d be nice to know how that section fared, between the rail crossings. Very nice to see reconstruction going on. Thank you!❤

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

I kept thinking they were going to tip over 😲 They are so good driving all those trucks and heavy equipment though. I can watch it for hours!

[@SecondGenClassics]

make it a series and ill keep watching more people will watch great job keep it up !!

[@jessicakirsh]

Well done!

[@tishkerrville8942]

Appalachians...the Real 🇺🇲 Patriots

[@JohnMurphy-dw6ml]

They should run the bulldozer across the river and flatten out the riverbed so it’s easier for the trucks to pass!

[@designsinorbit]

I've never seen anything like this...and just by chance came across it. Dang, Volvo!

[@carlbruhn1772]

Any idea who those guys are??

[@designsinorbit]

@@carlbruhn1772 I don't...but they are connecting cut off homes.

[@carlbruhn1772]

@designsinorbit They are obviously very skilled and have access to large quantities of diesel. Very impressive.

[@lucmarchand617]

We do this on pipelines job couple time in winter western canada Greenpeace once they went insane yup.Thanks again 😊

[@tomt9543]

@@carlbruhn1772Branch Civil Engineering. Highway builders

[@johnmccracken6521]

Bravo🎉👏

[@steveharkins279]

Outstanding

[@karenwoodward7291]

Thanks.

[@Spikedgriffon]

Wow! That’s a slow tedious process. But getting it done

[@realeyes5875]

mad skills!!

[@ben31tube]

Crossing rivers and streams the old-fashioned way! Fording.

[@stevepax2809]

that volvo is some truck

[@sharonbowen4327]

Who needs the government when we have people like these !!!

[@danlowe8684]

In some places, slides buried the rail line twenty-eight feet deep. In the 1917 book The Floods of July, 1916 - How the Southern Railway Organization Met an Emergency, published by Southern Railway to document the event, it was estimated that a total 826 miles of track was washed out of service.

[@designsinorbit]

@@danlowe8684 I might need to buy that book. Thanks!

[@hippiemiller]

That's the cleanest that equipment has ever been 😂😂

[@ericfielding2540]

No bridge, no problem, just drive across the river if you have a truck that can handle it.

[@Deano_K5MPG]

Awesome video! Wish you could do a flyover Pigeon Roost

[@mwb9196]

If the Roman’s could do it so can we.

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

why not level the bottom of that crossing ?

[@cbeuning]

Because they do not need to. Every load is needed for the new road, not damaging river habitat.

[@Jose-od8ld]

​@@cbeuningthe river habitat was hurt when everything floated down the river. A couple of loads in the river to level out and speed up the process isn't going to hurt anything. They can dig it back out when finished.

[@Iwillnotbepushed]

Are these the West Virginia miners?

[@designsinorbit]

@@Iwillnotbepushed I wasn't able to get to them to ask.

[@MindFusion-ij1xl]

Only saying this to ask, not criticize: Why not put a couple loads in the holes where they cross the river, they could move three times faster without the wear and tear? Not enough to slow the river, just fill the deep areas like the title says- a "Road in the river". ?

[@cbeuning]

The hard turn into the river on both sides means that no, filling in the river would not speed things up. Plus they need every load for the new road

[@MindFusion-ij1xl]

@@cbeuning Stellar reasoning!

[@radarksu]

Yeah, build the road in the river, right where the old road washed away. Certainly it won't be a problem the next time.

[@brianbirchfield2087]

Why don't they use those huge mining dump trucks with the giant wheels?

[@Messicrafter]

Those giant trucks don't fit in this area and would cause more damage anyways

[@drsoot9760]

The rigid haulers aren’t designed for rough terrain. The articulated trucks are made for any type of terrain.

[@billmyer2990]

IS THAT FEMA DOING WORK OR WHO STATE .

[@dottier3145]

And why do they want a road down there. Inquiring minds!

[@JackDogSteve-jr9js]

Didn't understand that at All !

[@lucmarchand617]

If Greenpeace saw Volvo on river one more storm in washington dc for fish yup.Well at least volvo keep truck under clean keep dust down road yup.😊

[@frankblangeard8865]

Building a road IN the river. Isn't that pretty much what they did before the flood. What could go wrong?

[@als8518]

i think its an access rd to repair railroad, a

[@TreeLBollingTreeMan]

So do nothing and remain cutoff? What is your short term fix and long term solution? If you lived in these mountains you would know there's a choice of mountain top, mountain side and mountain bottom land, which is where the people live and usually has a waterway running through it.

[@designsinorbit]

@@als8518 That's what I thought too. But they are just building the same road that was there before. Getting it done quick to connect homes that are cut off.

[@TreeLBollingTreeMan]

@@designsinorbit I traveled the old road back when I transported CSX train crews and yes they're pretty much limited to the old road bed as to where a road can be constructed.

[@dalebyrd5391]

This is one of many temporary roads being built to allow access to cut off homes. No the original road was not that low to the river. They are using the only option they have for now. Please grow a brain before posting.

[@jrae6608]

Is this for mining.

[@brucezimmerman9451]

Repairing access roads after storm/flood damage.

[@dalewatson2705]

Don't let the EPA see this, those environments will have a hissy fit

[@cbeuning]

Who do you think is paying for this?

[@dalewatson2705]

​@cbeuning Fema not the EPA they would fine them if they saw a price of equipment in a river. This is an emergency, which is why this is allowed

[@Jose-od8ld]

They need to dump a couple of loads of that rock in the river and make the bottom smoother for the trucks. The river life has already been damaged so its not going to hurt anything. They can dig it back out when they finish crossing it. What will hurt the river is when the rough ride breaks a swing cylinder or a boulder cracks the rear end housings and dumps gear oil in the river.

[@JimmyGerald]

Wow Guys you really got a road coming along the River soon be all the Mountain Community acces in and out I know Everyone Greatly appreciates all the long hauling hours you guys do ,you guys are really rocking it ?..💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵