Excavator Dredging Out The Cow Pond

[@jhayward1940]

Job security. Dig it out of the bottom, haul it back up hill and wait for it to wash back down. I love it.

[@michaelridenour8054]

Lmao 🤣

[@scrasebridge]

The calm and repetitious enthusiasm of the bucket speaks volumes.

[@johnapel2856]

I guess I've been watching your videos long enough where it bothers me to see big sticks in what you load into the truck. I kept expecting you to grab them with the thumb and toss them aside. Enjoying this series of videos. Thanks.

[@andrewcooper8980]

I think it’s really cool when you stick a couple of stumps in the ponds for the fish

[@HughzieTube]

The rawwww of that haul truck never gets old.

[@regsparkes6507]

That Volvo 200 is certainly a worthwhile investment. The bucket/loading capacity make the Truck efficient as well, great job!

[@TLaneyful]

Had a tree fall after a storm a couple days ago. During the cut up, the only thing on my mind was I wish chris was here with his toy to make my day better :- )

[@southernhomesteadtransformatio]

I would helped you out :-)

[@TLaneyful]

I'm only 23 hours from you..get to tracking :-)

[@southernhomesteadtransformatio]

@@TLaneyful LOL, I better get a move-on ;-)

[@arkansas1336]

It's fun watching a task being performed by someone that knows how to make it happen!

[@vhostovich]

Perfect way to describe Chris.

[@vaanes]

I work 10 hours a day for an excavation company, then I come home and watch videos of you moving dirt. I think it's safe to say I like excavation.

[@csnelling4]

😆😆👍🇬🇧

[@rodneystewart8958]

Don't feel like the lone ranger

[@lifeofaaronjonez3660]

Get out and actually live your life.

[@briangardiner1015]

I noticed to cows checking out your work at the end of the video. Did you get a hoof up in approval? Love the vids keep them coming.

[@trcmustang]

Thank you for the different camera shots. Good to see the work being performed from different angles. Keep it up Chris and Timmy Thanks again.

[@TonyGeneseo]

Damn I love watching u work on ponds !! Always love everything else too but just something about watching you deal with these ponds and every aspect about it !! Keep on diggin Chris !!

[@budoray]

Dude can pick up a toothpick from the ground. Mad skills.

[@michaeldavid2320]

you can always tell when the video is after lunch cause he picked up a tooth pick there as well : )

[@TheOtherBill]

The soda cup in the cupholder.

[@k2crasher]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6KWh5eAZ82ZntU if you haven't seen this one, it's one of my favorites

[@W94urndks9urneos]

The way he works the entire arm of the machine it almost looks like it’s a human arm with a bucket on the end. Very skillful

[@DIRT-BOSS]

Pond master! Never two the same! Thanks Mike

[@glenporter614]

Something ridiculously satisfying about watching this.

[@grahamefreestone5309]

8:10 You sure do keep your machines nice. Very clean and well serviced. Also love the sound of the haul truck. 👍 🇬🇧

[@gslenaway]

Do you find yourself working the controls in your sleep?

[@etsyjancoup6995]

That haul truck has a cracking wee note when she's loaded!

[@nick-mv3co]

That's one of the nicest excavators I've seen man it's on 🔥🔥

[@darwinluker9583]

You're all I ever I really like the way you run your excavator I've been watching you for quite a while now and you're a good guy on a machine I ain't never seen nobody quite like you and I appreciate all your videos

[@letsdig18]

thank you!

[@hailofaguy]

That A30D is such a great asset.

[@Drizz52]

Your operator skills are as fluid as the mud you're working in.

[@DEDBRD-di4yj]

Its not wet until the Truck is up to the hubs in ruts and its locked in 6x6 snaking back and forth!

[@donbraden8533]

Good to see Christine again see loves to chomp on the ponds 😎👍👍

[@nielsp914]

That dump truck view looked cool, kinda like watching a muddy turd roll out, LOL

[@vhostovich]

So glad the owners decided to ask you guys to dredge the pond.

[@markpip999]

Great video as per usual, can I ask a question about bucket choice. I’m not sure if you have a quick coupler but Why don’t you change to a wider larger capacity bucket with cutting edge when you are moving soft clay as you are in this video you can change back to digging bucket or root spike as needed.

[@jonschneck4559]

no bucket coupler, they have only one bucket per a excavator

[@fredoropesa4939]

You have the best videos I can watch them all day that’s right I do

[@johnbeck9997]

Chris I always want every pond to be 20' deep.

[@mischef18]

Variety is sure the spice of life with your videos bro, never really two days the same.

[@letsdig18]

we are always doing something different

[@alexosborne5629]

Three yards a scoop.... not just soil.... does that make it a giant poop scoop????

[@makingithappen9722]

I drove haul truck at a road building once in the 80's. It was the funniest driving job I've done.

[@samson1200]

Good work Chris. You have a. good eye for elevation.I hope the pond owners buy a lot of fish food if they do not have any vegetation to munch on.

[@frostgfx]

When I read Cow Pond, I'm teleported back to my youth... and a cow farm... with a cow pond, but it was full of the scrapings from the barn floor... Is this job the same thing?

[@willishiland6069]

Thanks for sharing! Stay Safe!

[@canvids1]

Chris your new machine is a monster picking up bucket loads wow. it sure can fill your Volvo truck up very fast. I so enjoy your postings thanks so much all the best.

[@rsmccary1]

As much as i am at work with you, i think you should put me on payroll. Thanks for letting us ride along.

[@BigDawgCleveland]

Man you guys have it made.... I would pay them.... just to be able to run an excavator! ha ha It looks so fun, and yet challenging! Watching him dig just calms my nerves? Thanks for taking the time to record Chris! You get paid to do that? WOW!!! 😁

[@jeramy2398]

You work enough manure into any soil it becomes good top soil. Unless southern cows are different they poop where they want and love standing in ponds on hot days and churn bottoms with hooves

[@davehoffman9767]

great Job Chris, I love it to when your in your funny mode!!!!

[@micah_lee]

Unless it is non native, “weeds” or emergents are better fish habitat than open water. And some emergents can grow in 4 feet of water they just have to be introduced (normally are introduced in the wild from water streams.)

[@micah_lee]

I guess non native can be fine in a closed system

[@wolfkremen]

like a gentle giant pushing the truck along

[@gabrielemartinelli2112]

Why did you make a pile and then load the truck from the pile instead of loading the truck with the material you were digging? I'm not an X operator, I just want to understand this cycle

[@robfraley4210]

AllRight... Your just showen oft here mang... 🤓. 3:56 Damn that place is going to have some neat areas when you’re done with all the little sections 😱🤭👍

[@ericlight7802]

Silly question, I noticed that the windows of the excavator are tinted...doesn't that make it difficult for people on the ground or around you in other pieces of equipment to see you when you need to interact with hand signals.... BTW, I love your videos, keep it up.....Thanks

[@letsdig18]

it does but not enough to bother me

[@kens.3729]

That’s going to be a Nice Fishing Hole on their Property. You make the work look Effortless. 👍

[@greghoffstadt667]

Nice vid as usual. Some mad skills not crushing that green bucket

[@randycharest4507]

I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO CHRIS 😊

[@williammatthews2948]

Volvo power rules the day.

[@jimcraig5208]

How are you liking the new bucket

[@juniorraines1042]

Great video Chris I am enjoying your channel keep up the good work

[@pneumatic00]

Really like the dirtcam @ 24:25!

[@kaiolsen3841]

Emptying the mud out of the rock truck looks like a big cow pie😂

[@quintinwilcox7617]

Would you mind explaining why you load the dump from back to front or where I can find your explanation. I know this time you’re “making a tailgate” but I notice that is the way you generally load trucks. Just curious to the reasoning behind your method. Great videos I always look forward coming home to see what you posted, love the ZX200 ran one the same for years, great old girl

[@weldonballard1348]

Also love the equipment

[@coadybarnum]

Another vote for the wheel loader 🖼

[@brianbaughan5683]

Your a excellent operator Chris, a lot of skill in what you do, I always enjoy the videos

[@floydfarms1578]

If that's topsoil in the pond then they are grazing the grass too close it sounds like. A good thick grass thatch or sod should prevent soil erosion. Of course I have no idea how long it took for that to fill in.

[@Jamieclarke88]

As always Chris nice work loved the different camera angles 👍👍🥤

[@darrellroeters4951]

Making Carolinas great one scoop at a time.

[@sambryant5662]

Since no one else has asked, is the 160 finally getting the windshield replaced? "Big Girl" sure is making quick work of dredging though. "She" probably would have been better on that big storm drain job, that is currently on hold, since "she" appears to have more reach than the 220.

[@beerenmusli8220]

Why is that she in " ?

[@letsdig18]

new glass tomorrow!

[@iamanidiotsavant]

Seems like you’re getting almost as much per bucket as the 290 used to without any of the instability digging off the side.

[@pettyfogger2305]

I think you could have gotten another quarter yard on the hood and inside the cab, Slacker!

[@jameslumley2463]

Do you ever separate and save the topsoil for finishing out the project or do you just mix it with spoil?

[@KB-gs8zi]

Hey Chris !!! Good job !! Saw some of ""ELVIS"S "" Friends going for water at the end of the video !! HA HA !!!

[@lonesomepine3]

enjoy your channel. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@andrewneilsen1516]

Thanks Chris! Love your videos!

[@markstengel7680]

If you used a Cat you'd have fish in your pond. Fish love Cat🚜👍

[@jimbeck6093]

Amazing work! Chris you are so smooth and accurate with your excavator. How long have you been doing this??

[@BA5168NCA]

Beautiful excuvater @ work there nice shots too. 👍

[@General_Confusion]

That looks like that might not all be mud in that cow pond Chris.

[@davidnichols1363]

That's why he's mixing the"soil" up.You don't swim in the cow "pond" either.

[@tucobenedicto109]

Nice new escavator with a dark cab looks like no one is running the machine like a cartoon. See you brought the big guns. More efficiency, great video watch otu for metal muffins!

[@chrisheckard3768]

You should leave some of the grass in the pond. Fish love cover for spawning and ambushing their prey.

[@larrycherveny9198]

How much will a project like this cost?

[@alwayshungry24]

cool little nudge like a mom on the dump to go up the hill lol. great video.does your uncle run the excavator as well?just curious

[@letsdig18]

yeah he like to drive the dump truck though

[@thomasyerbey337]

Great video Chris 🇺🇲 another job well done 🇺🇲

[@janvandenbos7085]

Very nice project again Chris 👍👌😎

[@vinhgialai1987]

Hello everyone, my name is Vinh, I am Vietnamese, I wish everyone good health and happiness,

[@alvincurry4753]

Does the A300 have a larger capacity than your other dump truck?

[@davemi00]

- it’s Soup Time lol, Chris while yer here, how ‘bout some beach 🌴🏖🌴 property ??

[@joeyfothergill228]

Big girl will bang a truck out in no time!! Awesome video as always

[@herefishyfishys]

You should do before and after photos at the end of your videos

[@weldonballard1348]

Love your videos

[@tigerwoodz8711]

Man love your channel, I feel like I can operate an excavator now after watching all your videos. One Question, Why Volvo?

[@canvids1]

Cause Chis Loves Volvo and they help him out as well and give him some good deals as well.

[@BKDOPERATOR268]

Volvo excavators and their articulating trucks are extremely well built machines!

[@tigerwoodz8711]

@@canvids1 He should be a promo salesman in a commercIAL

[@letsdig18]

Once you ever run one you will not want to sit in anything else

[@01bockd]

@@letsdig18 it is like all there equipment it is smooth and comfortable. There semi truck are very nice to.

[@gregbrimer9144]

Thank you for the great videos

[@michaelofsc4143]

Now that is what I call a truck load at 19:00

[@csnelling4]

I’ve watched you for sometime now Chris , I think you love MUUUUD $$$ 👍🇬🇧 Thanks for the videos

[@davidnichols1363]

Till that "soil" into the fields and you'll have some good crops.

[@jimbeck6093]

What are some of the strangest or most interesting things you’ve found whilst digging?? Old artifacts, old civil war items, graveyards, etc etc?

[@jeffprice8250]

My question is how often do you dream of working on ponds? Pondman

[@tomh6673]

Great video Chris .

[@peterdeschane229]

I like your fuzzy math and I think your underestimate// (understate) how much dirt you really move. (and you know it) 3 yrd per bucket x10 =30 yards per truck load on a 20 yrd truck plus your getting more than 3 yrds per bucket. Love your work keep em coming.

[@petenolte4192]

That's some pretty dry mud LOL

[@eliteearthworksllc]

You were just dying to play in more mud 🤣

[@ronthacker211]

Now much money would you charge for a job like this? I have no clue what this type of work costs.

[@farmcentralohio]

you got cow poo on your volvo now :) there's gotta be some mixed in there somewhere lol

[@ryanmarks9870]

Put a couple of the dead trees in the bottom for fish cover.

[@hoss2472]

chris you guys need a wheel loader

[@joedoakes8307]

I've said the same thing ,more than once ! A large wheel loader can move double the capacity of any single bucket load of a hoe ! THEy seem to be oblivious to their obvious need for awheel loader !

[@briangardiner1015]

@@joedoakes8307 Depends on how large. 4 yd maybe 7 yd too big for as often as they move. It seems loaders aren't as popular in some parts of the country as they are in other. I am in AZ and they are everywhere, in fact I ran them. Not so much in NC.

[@brianbaughan5683]

What exactly do you expect them to do with a wheel loader besides pull it out every time it’s stuck in the mud, just curious

[@Jdizzlemynizzle]

joe doakes so you suggest they buy a wheel loader so they dig the pond out with the excavator then have the excavator sit while they use the wheel loader to load trucks?

[@briangardiner1015]

@@Jdizzlemynizzle you use the wheel loader to carry the dirt to the dam. It is good on short distances. it is most efficient on hauls of about 200 feet. After that the truck is most efficent.

[@erikjohansson7301]

what you think buying an volvo wheeloader?

[@Bama1963]

That shot from the haul truck looked like one big pile of cow poop wobbling around on top,