Directional Boring Under my Creek for RRHQ Utilities

Ever wondered how directional boring actually works? Check out how Kirby Cable brought me a water line directly into my basement from over 400' away and was able to pull me a 3" conduit all in a days work without breaking a sweat or disturbing my lawn. Underground boring is a pretty amazing process and the only way I was efficiently getting water, power, and internet to the shop from my house on the other side of a creek and thru some woods!
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[@ebroydell]

You can tell when professionals have been doing their jobs for a while, they make it look easy when it is not. Great job.

[@RRBuildings]

Agree Kirby was awesome

[@TheWilber09]

Incredible how accurate they can be.

[@Anteater6788]

When the Dakota Access Pipeline crossed our farm I talked to one of the guys that helped with the bore under the Mississippi River, he said it was a 3 mile long bore and when the bit came out the other side it pushed the survey stake out of the ground.

[@RRBuildings]

I believe it

[@DrMJJr]

Holy hell…That’s wild

[@JoveMalcolm]

Thank you for asking how it turns and pushing a little bit for an actual answer. I have seen dozens of videos of directional drilling and no one has a straightforward answer to that question.

[@callummaas997]

Same here. Just finally understood from this video

[@95dodgev10]

That has always drove me nuts. Even on how its made they're basically like "theyre sorta built like this and here's a finished hole"

[@comingtofull-ageinchrist6736]

The only issue inspectors have with us in Oklahoma as far as electrical conduit in the same ditch is when it comes to gas lines. It has to have a 6” separation with 2” of concrete. I don’t think you have anything to worry about with your water line and electric conduit being in the same pipe! My opinion as a licensed electrician, Kyle!

[@leomorrill1835]

I used to be a service tech for RDO Vermeer and not just their HDDs but a lot of the machines Vermeer manufacturers are truly incredible feats

[@docproc8508]

Man I learn more stuff watching you guys than I ever did in college. Directional boring is amazing and Pete and his crew are awesome. Great job.

[@aaronmdjones]

That is by far the most amazing piece of machinery I have ever seen. I am speechless.

[@willb3018]

A few year back Verizon was installing fiber optic in our neighborhood and had something similar. As they went down the street they were tunneling under all the driveways. It is amazing. Now I have better understanding of how it was done.

[@MustardMade]

Kyle this might be one of my favorite videos because it is so interesting. You guys present this in such a relatable way, I love how the dude explained how it works and you were like, yeah but how does it really work again? lol my thoughts exactly, you could have a network tv show but please never leave youtube.

[@freddien7]

Another aspect of building we sometimes forget!!, Water, and Electrical into the building from a Power source.!! Great video, Good advert for the Boring firm. Thanks Kyle. Always keep the wife Happy.😁😅.

[@DMAX-tp4pc]

Hey thank you so much for asking him all these questions!!! I finally understand how the hell they do it! Thanks for putting it out there💥

[@chriswilliams6022]

This is mind blowing to me. Ive wondered for a long time how the process worked, and now my questions are answered! I understand it but cant believe it. Thanks!

[@lmartinez300]

Great informational video. I’ve seen seen directional drilling rigs pulling conduit for fiber, didn’t know you could use them for water lines.

[@WombleUK]

That is seriously impressive & unbelievable how accurate. So reassuring when you get a contractor turn up & not be at all phased by anything & just know they can deal with anything that occurs.

[@gwshute]

Make sure you have separation between power conduit and communications conduit. If not, you will have interference issues with internet/telephone communications due to RF frequencies caused by power (magnetic fields). BTW, great job on showing and explaining the process. Best in Show award for this video. Thanks

[@michaelwpaulin4876]

That was frickin’ amazing!! I knew about pipe push under roads and such but I had no idea this was available. Very cool!

[@paulcochran1721]

Great episode - Thanks for showing us the process!

[@mikeinmaryland]

Trades working together. Nothing better… great video.

[@chaseweeks2708]

Gonna have to keep this in mind when I pull the trigger on building the retirement compound and garagemahal. Looks a lot faster and more flexible than trenching the services in.

[@RRBuildings]

So fast and clean

[@scotthager8691]

That’s awesome thanks for showing us great option

[@dougdiplacido2406]

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing. Glad you had great weather for the project.

[@DonDow-ue8xd]

thanks guys for doing this , so cool to see.

[@rsbracer]

Great job showing how this process is done

[@BangerFleet]

That really is some magnificent deep dirt you’ve got there. We have about 1” sprinkled on top of granite ledge.

[@tysleight]

I grew up in an area that was an alluvial fan ( 6 inch round river rock 500 feet deep) I had to move to understand that you dig with a shovel not a pick. I still send my Dad pictures of 100 feet of trench without a rock in it .

[@lisawallace3124]

that good Midwestern Black Dirt! Such an underrated resource!

[@dirkbrouns5293]

Never knew how this was done, really cool to see. 👍🏻

[@alexhernstrom6752]

Incredible to see Kirby out on a job and get you guys taken care of! Hello from Vermeer Midwest!

[@RRBuildings]

Awesome!!! And awesome machine!!

[@petebird7171]

Really enjoyed that, very informative 👍👍👍👍👍

[@nickjewart9351]

Ive always wondered how these machines worked! Thanks for making this video!

[@davidwalker9188]

At one time I actually worked at Vermeer and I welded up the frames For the tracks snd undercarriage for some of their first directional boring machines before they had welding jigs. The track system is actually the same track system that was used on the t450 track trencher in the beginning I built it by hand with a tape measure and a blueprint the good old days

[@wardo17]

Awesome machine and technology

[@Riverguide33]

Very cool….they did a great job. 👍👍

[@overwatch2671]

Absolute Precision. That's freaking awesome

[@peteprior8896]

That is a great video very informative and educational

[@marcdesrosiers4312]

Great video keep them coming

[@jerrywilder9403]

Awesome guys

[@AfflictionSuzukiGsxrLosAngeles]

Awesome video

[@AaronHope_Sow]

Learned so much this episode Kyle. Thanks for sharing!

[@markgrassman6238]

So cool. I have seen those machines around but never really knew how they worked. Thanks for the great video.

[@austinadventure]

This was such a great video, thanks for taking us along!

[@dlfendel2844]

WONDERFUL...and, a side note--as YOU guys prove on every video, having great wonderful tools is swell, but it is the PEOPLE running them that make the difference! Thanks~

[@rayarnold8275]

Another great video love this channel.thanks for all you guys do.

[@scottm2828]

Amazing system

[@mattiecalnan_2972]

This is amazing wow makes it look so easy !!!!

[@robertrohler3644]

Thank you for sharing very educational.

[@woodnworks]

That was incredibly fascinating! Blows my mind how it works.

[@joemartino6976]

Impressive stuff. I witnessed this first hand last year when the city moved power lines from overhead to underground in our residential area with lots of very tall trees. The conduit was installed flawlessly as it moved under my paver driveway.

[@jasonrowe268]

Thanks for showing us how these work. Drive past them all the time and always wondered how they knew where it was going.

[@TheRooster1122]

KYLE ,,, Congratulations on your new amazing Shop my friend it is absolutely beautiful Wow.!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@jbweld138]

Great job.

[@ShouldersMoondog549]

That was a cool video!! I knew about the bore machines and that they can control the head but never knew how it worked!! Thanks!!

[@CrustyAbsconder]

That was an excellent video

[@SMITTY19722]

Pretty cool, never actually saw this procedure done and incredibly accurate.

[@MrThuggery]

WOW! Love tech! amazing vid boys.

[@betobsbf]

This is crazy! Awesome! The amount of work, time and money saved this way is insane!

[@PaulMikna]

It really is an engineering marvel that they can do this! I saw a pipeline company tunnel underneath a 4 lane road with a 20" water line. Simply amazing! Thanks for filming this up close!

[@geohac2456]

absolutely amazing.

[@thomaswassmund9376]

Very cool! Thank youo for sharing.

[@Z-Bart]

When I lived in Denver there was a company we used all the time. Concrete Coring Company. "Your hole is our goal" was on all their trucks.

[@astikennel]

This was mind boggling! Thanks for recording it, while I have seen machinery along the side of the road I've not had any opportunity to watch and certainly not ask any questions! I am absolutely going to do this when I rehab my house since the electric service is low and hangs over my backyard and I have to cut branches back all the time I'm so happy I found your channel a while ago and have been watching your builds.

[@skipflorey2511]

Simply amazing technology! Good to see the respect between the different “trade/speciality” folks.

[@robertlaird6746]

That was awesome!

[@lastcall2night]

Nice video!

[@matthewmiller9631]

I have seen a few videos like this but none have explained it as well. Tip o’ the hat to you sir!

[@brianmiller1580]

very interesting thanks for sharing

[@Overpar73]

Very, very interesting! Yes, it is amazing how precise they can get with all their piping and machinery! Everything is looking really amazing guys! We are going to be installing the epoxy coating starting Tuesday, the white interior steel looks amazing, the shop is really coming together!

[@uoobwatcher]

Absolutely amazing….

[@stuartstephens]

Thanks for the video, it's a good reference for the average person how directional boring is done. I've seen it done many times but it does still seem a little bit like magic. 🙂

[@bahopik]

Very cool video

[@machickman4041]

Awesome visualization of this process. Currently using directional boring on the wastewater treatment plant project I’m working on at work and I’ve never seen it performed before. Thank you.

[@timmernator1]

amazing machines...but the operators knowing what they are doing...its like they have a feel for it...we did a coffee shop way out in the middle of a parking lot at least 20 years ago...like a 300 yard run under the asphalt...pretty cool...great tutorial👍

[@RRBuildings]

You got that right!

[@user-vn6hi2bi3g]

I've been told that with larger boring machines (about double the size of the unit you used) that it's range can exceed 6000 feet between vaults (manholes). I watched a solar farm being built recently run 12 8" raceways about two miles to the new substation located below existing transmission lines for a new solar farm's output to tie into the electrical grid. when 8" pipes were pulled in they were done in three sets of 4 8" raceways each pull. Amazing tech developed by the oil industry for gas/oil wells for fracking and directional drilling thousands of feet deep running horizontally sometimes for miles. Great Video. Ray

[@hampyonce]

I spent a few weeks around one of these machines, installing data infrastructure, on Fort Jackson in 2011. Glad to see they are using them for more applications. I want to replace my water line without trenching up my yard and thought about trying this way. Probably cost double. Goid content as usual. Y'all kill it.

[@steveyoungs6588]

So glad you covered this in your build series. Like you Kyle, I have always wondered how they do that. Thanks for this and as always very informative the way you described it.

[@RRBuildings]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@OrangeismyNewGreen]

That was impressive 👍🏻

[@JJawsyW]

This is awesome.

[@brianmckee7470]

I feel compelled to comment on this video. How awsome. It was so cool to see how they do this. I had it done on our property a few years ago and was not able to see them do the work. All your videos are very informative, but this one may have taken the cake on something that most people had no clue how it actually was done. Great job Kyle

[@johnmarquardt1991]

Evergy replaced the underground power lines on my block last summer - my home is in the middle of the block - they 'drilled' the conduit lines in both directions from back yard - it took a couple of weeks. It was pretty amazing. The dug small holes in the back yards of other neighbor to reinforce that they were actually doing it correctly. It was pretty much one guy doing all the work.

[@blackbeard308]

My wife and I just went through the same shit about 2 years ago stressful man /but so werth it those guys deserve mad respect love the video RNR 👍

[@bjorn_moren]

Very cool. Didn't think this was possible to do.

[@AM-dn4lk]

Amazing technology.

[@marymigliore3396]

Very very cool !!

[@Nick-ee9jg]

Amazing technology ......... I was fortunate enough to experience the same process when they bored the loops for my Geo Thermal system. 400 foot loops and the bit came out of the ground a foot away from where it entered.

[@kevinorr6880]

It's like MAGIC!!

[@ethanorians]

I have saw so much directional boring done in the past two years and I'm sure it's only going to grow. This is the most efficient and least invasive way to dig and run utilities.

[@mattmarcoux2530]

That was very cool

[@2chipped]

Very cool technology! I installed fence for 15 years. I've cut electrical and plumbing many times . When 811 marks the utilities (gas Yellow,electric RED,fiber,coaxial, phone wire ORANGE and sewer GREEN) to the meter. Its very important to know anything AFTER the meter is not marked.

[@DsBTH]

thanks Pete and the Juice

[@darrenberry3456]

That was very interesting and how they can be so accurate in doing there boring.

[@RRBuildings]

Pretty crazy yes

[@JohnfromEngland]

In construction I. The UK that is known as a Dutch Sleeve and us used when changing cables on Big hoists or cranes making it easier to change without all the agro of getting cables twisted or on the wrong place

[@scottkailey1]

That was really cool, have always wondered how they did that.

[@zidi1982]

wow if it wasn't for this technology and this crew imagine how much work would that task will be.. days and days of hard work and i can't even see how you will go under the creek ... i am very much impressed

[@davelindgren5245]

Very interesting. Amazing how accurate it can be to come up in a 12 X 12 inch hole.

[@monochromatech]

made the wife happy that pete was able to punch it in your basement. man, im sorry that was uncalled for. great vid.

[@ohiostate1208]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@MikeHarris1984]

Practical Engineering did a very in depth video of how directional drilling works. I always wondered how they did that and he did the video and it is so simple of an idea, but so amazing of how accurate they can lay pipe blind underground withing digging anything up... I see the utility workers using directional drilling all the time to lay fiber (orange conduit) and other pipping and conduits and see a spot on the side fo the road and they will go up to a mile i've seen and then pop into a pre dug hole and push the conduit in, then move the machine to the new spot and start over and join the two spots when dont there and burry the small 1x4 hole. so much cheaper thenm digging up a mile of road, cutting, blocking traffic, digging it all up, laying the conduit/pipe, then burry/compact to city stds, then re asphault the roadway and fix any stripping and other damages and take a week or two, where directional drilling will get miles done in a single week.

[@fitzyholden1036]

Thats good looking soil. Grow anything there.

[@user-hc1lk8wf3u]

Loving the old wood handle post hole diggers

[@RRBuildings]

Not that old… just worn

[@user-hc1lk8wf3u]

@@RRBuildings can’t beat a good wood handle.

[@danielcarroll5389]

Amazing

[@MrMurph111]

Coolest Job Ever!!!

[@johnjacobs4207]

Glad to know

[@vanDeudekom]

Nice work From Kirby Cable. Nice to see the Dutch name on the machine 'Vermeer' . That is so Dutch, and we all know; if it ain't Dutch it ain't.......jep. BTW great HQ Kyle it looks fantastic.