Digging A Waterline For A New Construction Home

Digging a waterline for a new construction home and spreading dirt on the backyard. This was a house I dug the footings on and dug out the driveway. I have already dug the sewer line but they didn't know where the water meter was going. This is a different plumber than I usually work with and he likes jump in the ditch a lot lol. It's 3/4" pex sleeved in 1.5" pvc. We also run into a bunch of utilities that I briefly talk about, most are abandoned because of the 2011 tornado. Then I also have a little footage of spreading the dirt on the backyard and sides of the house. It was a bit muddy still but the homeowner is trying to get as much wrapped up as possible. Thanks for watching! #EliteEarthworks #Takeuchi #waterline

[@c50ge]

The neighbors dog was having fun trying to herd the bobcat, at the end of the day I bet he felt like he had a productive day

[@CaptKirk1701]

You the man at those yards!

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks man!

[@richyorozco7438]

Awesome Mr.Elite

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks 👍🏻

[@tbirdage]

You had the dogs pissed off lol

[@eliteearthworksllc]

🤣 yeah I did

[@lastgameplay]

The side notes was interesting

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thank you!

[@sonnyblazer5504]

And another gets done, mud or not. Good job and thanks. Sonny (CT

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks man!

[@timmymalone5444]

Good job fighting obstacles.👍👍

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks man!

[@timmyfrierson2684]

Great video Brandon and yeah I know what you gonna do with all those utility wires and cables but anyway brother you and your family y’all stay safe and keep the videos coming brother

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thank you! Yes they were fun enjoy digging around them. I may be a bit weird lol appreciate you watching

[@clydeacor1911]

Our cable lines use the power companies poles and hang them underneath the powerlines. You should have the neighbors pay you for walking their dogs.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Lol good idea I wore them out 🤣

[@mikenixon9164]

Nice job. Good video.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thank you!

[@michaelweatherhead9470]

Good thing you had fence between you and the attack dogs. Good job.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

🤣 no kidding they were crazy!

[@blackdogexcavator21]

Around here the cable company barely parts the grass to bury their cable. I've hit them while aerating a yard. Lol.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Yep that’s pretty much how it is here 🙄🤣

[@ConstructionMachineryChannel]

Where are you at? Im in Chicago and they don't bury it all, it's literally right under the sod!

[@eliteearthworksllc]

@@ConstructionMachineryChannel lol I’m in Missouri and it’s that way here a lot 🙄

[@geffadair]

I like how the power company locator shows up after you’re finished digging near the utility pole.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Lol yeah I guess they came back locate for the water company to set the meter 🤣

[@brianbaughan5683]

Nice job buddy as always

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thank you!

[@uggy7]

The neighbors dog likes you. Good job as always. 👍👍🇨🇮🇨🇦🐶❤

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Lol yes we are buddies now. Thank you!

[@georgeenriquez612]

Cool video! 😎

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thank you!

[@bourbonthebiscuit]

You can get things flat with that loader well done 👍

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks that’s about all I’ve done the last 20 years lol lots of loader work

[@joemascioni3101]

When you were backfilling, I was thinking...gee where is your compactor attachment? I no sooner got that thought out of my head and the words come up on the screen...hahaha. Our power company in this area requires 3" schedule 80 in the ditch with large sweeps on each end, and atleast 42" deep. with yellow "buried cable" tape 1ft to 18" above the conduit, as well as a 1/4" nylon rope in the pipe for them to pull their cable in.

[@littlefinkle7757]

We have to put red "danger" tape 12" above our electrical. And are only allowed those same 2 fittings. Neighboring county will allow us to bend the schedule 80 using a small amount of heat.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Lol yes I need one of those wheels 🤣 that’s pretty much the same here on the electric

[@pjs5191]

If they bury cable 6” I think I’ve hit the lottery. Usually they lay it down and slap sod over it here. Cable and electric are always shallow here and the things I worry about most because they’re always seeming to be sketchy. Had a job at a condo a week ago where the cable was literally laying on top of the ground and the condo is 10 years old 🙄.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Lol wow that’s crazy. We have a few cables like that places

[@DirtBrute]

Nice 👍. I like that you bring multiple buckets. !

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks man! Yeah just seems to make more sense. Appreciate you watching

[@DirtBrute]

@@eliteearthworksllc I have a small trailer no room . Is Weight rating is OK there’s just no deck space. . I need a bigger one soon

[@eliteearthworksllc]

That sucks you can write a check for them too so you don’t need money 😁

[@DirtBrute]

@@eliteearthworksllc Haha an iou. On a sticky note like in dump and dumper

[@eliteearthworksllc]

@@DirtBrute 🤣🤣 yep

[@jackhume4532]

That project looking good Mr Elite and will most definitely e fantastic when it’s finished, oh and we have just started the first day of the last month of this truly rotten year but just in case I forget I would like to wish you and your family a happy Christmas and wish your good self a productive 2021, TaTa till next time.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thank you! Yes that is great 2020 is almost over 😁 Thank you again and merry Christmas to you!

[@rickirelan8385]

We discussed that damn Beeeeeeeeeeeeppppppp,,,

[@eliteearthworksllc]

😁

[@R_R_R_R_R_]

It's like digging in the Land of Misfit Wires. Hope you all had a good T-Day.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

That’s for sure 🤣. I did thank you! Hope you had a great one too

[@daverobertson3519]

Nice job of grading!

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thank you!

[@janetolch8129]

You could have used Chrises compactor, has he is busy putting fires out 😂

[@eliteearthworksllc]

True 🤣 he doesn’t need it

[@martynwakeley5194]

You are getting good at this work. You smashed it Brandon

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks man! Appreciate you watching

[@billyshumate853]

Good job Brandon. Got all that done and even got the dog's to do their exercises. Take care and have a blessed week.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Lol thank you! Yes they were pooped out. Appreciate you watching

[@hphillips7425]

You blended that in good. I am surprised the dogs did not mess up you explaining the job at the end of the video

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks man! Haha no kidding they were crazy

[@cntslesfabrication]

It's sad it's taken this long to get theses home rebuilt since that tornado hit here in 2011

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Most are built back now we just have random lots that people are building on. Most everything was back in 5 or 6 years

[@keithdunlap2701]

I got to laughing at that Ol Dog there at the end, he wore himself out chasing you up n down that fence line....lololol Looks like it all turned out pretty nice !! Great Job.....

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Yeah he did he was pooped 🤣 Thank you!

[@kennymysak2079]

Looks like a fun little project. Keep up the great videos

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks man!

[@brianherron5400]

If you wasn't there those dogs wouldn't have nothing to do on both sides 😁. A fine job.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Lol that’s right 🤣. Thanks buddy

[@dansevern3291]

Nice job.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thank you!

[@sassafrasvalley1939]

Did it help having foremen on both sides running up and down the fence barking orders? Looks like wet topsoil will be the order of the day for the foreseeable future. I bet Diamond Grove is a mud hole. That exposed wire pic almost looked like a mesh. A couple of years ago I was trenching an electric wire along a path through a field. The owner said that it was open from the utility pole to the house. So, I started digging. The first obstacle was the old analog phone line about a foot from the pole. I cut it... turned out it was dead. About 50’ in, I hit a black PVC waterline. It was dry. About 10ft. I hit another dry one. Then I dug into a 12ga Romex line. It was dead. As I approached the house I hit another PVC pipe. It too was dry. Just as I turned my backhoe around to dig the last few feet at the house, I see a guy walking along my trench. At each wire and pipe he turns either left or right and studies something. I watch and wait. He keeps coming and walks up to me. What ensues is... A history lesson about the property. When he was a boy, some “rich guy” built a big house just to the side of the path through the field. However, there had been a fire and the property was dozed level and turned into a meadow. What I had uncovered was his yard sprinklers, yard light wire and horse trough line. What bothered him was that I should have uncovered the wire to the garage. I shrugged and told him that I only found the one wire that he said went to the yard light. He left and I continued digging. I called the owner, told him what happened and asked when the electrician would be by to install the line. He was totally unaware of the history... but asked me to come back the next day and dig the connector from the house to the septic tank. The next morning as I was unloading, the neighbor shows up with a forked willow branch. He asks for permission to look for the garage power line. I told him to have at it. The septic is on the backside of the house... as I was digging the neighbor shows up and says, “I found it.” I told him to hold on a little bit and I would dig it up for him. He said, “I already did.” Well, I shut the hoe off and followed him. He had dug a 2ft deep hole about 8” in diameter with a post hole digger and hit the wire on his first try. Now, Brandon I have seen a few people using divining rods before. (The well digger for the property next door to me used two bent clothes hangers with success.). But, I never heard of someone so confident that they would show up with a clam shell post hole digger and dig for an abandoned wire just to prove they were right. But, he did. There are things in this world that I’ll never understand... and sometimes memories lie along side those buried lines!

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Wow that is crazy I’ve seen or heard of that either. Pretty wild how people can remember that stuff. When my grandpa was alive he would record everything we did developing the property my parents and them built on. He filmed the water line install even step off the paces and recorded the depth. In the last 15 years we have fixed the waterline 3 times and every time I watch his videos and can walk to the exact spot where it tee’s or turns dig down 30” and boom there it is. I thought he was crazy when I was in my early teens now I’m amazed how smart he was.

[@sassafrasvalley1939]

@@eliteearthworksllc I worked in huge Corporate Factories fo over 45 years. Each of them had blueprints and engineers that kept them up to date. Unfortunately, changing from hand drawn prints to CAD, turnover in engineers and baling wire & bubble gum fixes conspired to make the blue prints nearly useless. Every time there was a new project... some forgotten change or old remains got in the way. Perhaps they should have hired that old neighbor to bring his willow diviner and keep them on track. Kudos to your granddad for being smart before it was cool!

[@jensruppert1860]

Good job, Brandon. Thats really a mess with all these cables in the ground, we do have in addition gas lines running under the roads. That makes it even more interesting when you have to dig next to them😄 @12:24 another hint for Mrs. Elite about getting a compaction wheel under the Christmas tree?

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thank you! There was a gas line there too but it was by the curb. Yes hopefully she got the hint 😁

[@littlefinkle7757]

Cool video! There's not a pop quiz tomorrow on the history lesson is there? If so I request an "open" you tube one 😛 lots of rock in that ground!

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks 🤣 yes we could definitely do that

[@michaelhuhn532]

I was thinking the same thing about needing a felco roller. Nice work as always

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Yes it can’t get here soon enough lol. Thank you

[@michaelhuhn532]

@@eliteearthworksllc Sweet, i didn't realize you ordered one. Please do a review, because i am interested in one also

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Will do man they told me 4-5 weeks 😏 I’ll forget I ordered it by the time it shows up 🤣

[@Spaude123]

that line would freeze in no time were im from lol. at least 6-7 feet deep in MN.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Wow I bet that is true but it’s freakin cold where you are at lol

[@RobKeenan826]

With all you've got going on on your end my friend, we can deal with the beep on our end👍🙃

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks buddy! 😁👍🏻

[@drewgardner81]

I really need an 18 inch bucket. Lol.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

It’s handy. I feel like you could really benefit from a hydraulic coupler 😁

[@drewgardner81]

@@eliteearthworksllc most definitely. Maybe on a new 370 one day. Lol

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Yes now your talking 😁

[@scruffy6151]

👍👍

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks

[@MyTractorGuy]

You edited that bucket turn around. LOL! That usually makes me cuss so I could understand why. 🤣 Fantastic job as always. I love learning from you guys. BY THE WAY, 6"??? I'm lucky if Spectrum/Time Warner goes 2! 🤣

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Lol I got a phone call while I was switching it. Thank you! Yeah 6” was probably a bit generous on the cable.

[@iansmartel5473]

Surly if it is in a tornado belt area, all services underground not so much utility damage to repair.

[@sparky178]

Do you have a cup of coffee and change buckets first thing in the morning to wake you up? 🤔😆

[@eliteearthworksllc]

I do 🤣 nothing starts the day better

[@DC-1]

41st thumbs up......YEAH!!!! 😂😂

[@mrs.eliteearthworks]

HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@DC-1]

@@mrs.eliteearthworks Hellooooooo!! 🙋‍♂️

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Thanks buddy! 😁

[@rhacker3058]

That dirt is awful black to be that far south, it's usually red as roses

[@eliteearthworksllc]

I’m in Missouri it’s still black here but we are almost to the red 🤣

[@rhacker3058]

If that's the water line, it's awful shallow?

[@eliteearthworksllc]

It’s 30” deep code is 24” here our frost line is like 16”