Fixing One Huge Screw Up

[@kenolswfski8862]

I was an operator for 28 years and it's a joy to watch a true operator in the machine, like we always say,everyone can run a machine but not many can operate one

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

26:25 It would be interesting to get the original Engineering Plans/Drawings for this Project... The Land Owner may have grounds for a Lawsuit to recover their costs for this fix especially if the Drawing show the dirt was supposed to be compacted around the pipe. Chris could Testify as an Expert Witness on how the pipe was put in backwards and the dirt was NOT properly packed down...

[@seting9159]

Your finesse with that large machine is wonderful to watch, you're truly a very skilled operator.

[@raykemry954]

So soothing to watch some one use there machine instead of tearing it up. You have the eye for what you are doing. I am retired and disabled now and dad is dead and gone . I remember so fondly working with him and our heavy equipment biz we had for 35 years together. Your videos actually lower my blood pressure. I lived for the adrenaline every day we worked in our hard rock shale pit we drilled and blasted about 5k a year. Use to build lots of driveways out in the mountains to people's home sites and private logging roads to remove the timber. We had a D8 loaders .truck and transfer ,road grader roller and a 40 acre shale pita few sized excavators and a couple hoes clear down to the b20 backhoe I put 9 thousand hours in the seat on the b20 alone. We had a 4 bay shop wit 3 drive through bays. Actually use to rebuild stuff in the slow times the fourth bay was a full machine shop. Had several other old guys that just sat around the shop every day to work on there retirement projects they all shaped in and helped every time they could . Sure learned alot from them guys .

[@ohiomoto]

Why not...swap out the first bell, remove one section of pipe the create some room. Then dig the next section, spin it, and set it in place. No need to remove multiple sections or re-grade the bottom.

[@fayjohnson2652]

You impress me. Your so gentle. Very good at your work. I'm binge watching you. THANKYOU for the videos.

[@brianvandermolen5580]

It doesn't matter whether the bell or spigot are facing downstream - water will flow through the pipe if it's installed at the proper pitch. Re-installing the pipe at the same invert elevation accomplishes nothing. And since you're not putting stone bedding under the pipe it's going to settle out and end up back-pitched before too long.

[@shaneharrison9609]

It’s amazing to me that someone could screw up a simple pipe run like that. So strait forward, I hope they were able to comeback on whoever installed it.

[@Thermalions]

The finesse Chris has with the excavator is mesmerising.

[@actuallowroller]

You demonstrate the true meaning of a smooth operator. Awesome video, must've missed this one when it originally came out.

[@LLImprovement]

People talk about how good of an operator he is, but the patience he has to keep changing the camera angle and he always has things to say.

[@Kurgosh1]

When I was a kid, the playground at my elementary school had a bunch of these concrete pipes painted bright colors that we could climb on and hide in. We called them "tunnels." They all had the holes in the top, just like these. After all these decades, I just learned today what those holes are for. Neat.

[@Ouwkackemann]

That are overflow holes. Just kidding. :)

[@DK-lc8gf]

I love this guy, cool, calm, and very talented.

[@xRepoUKx]

Yup, makes it all look easy and I suspect it's harder than it looks.

[@gobshite5150]

Dude I know nothing of digging, I am not interested in digging but this guy is so fricking relaxing to watch dig haha! I watched a video yesterday of him digging out a digger and that was about the most relaxing thing not to mention interesting as hell - I couldn't stop watching until the job was done... =D Well done.

[@davidbrickey7328]

People never cease to amaze me who in the world would put a bell pipe backward. They should’ve asked some questions where they picked the pipe up

[@lesterwatson8519]

There must have been an engineer involved in installing the original pipe. The first thing they learn in college is that water runs up hill and a smaller pipe will care more water than a larger pipe if you sloop it enough “up hill of course” .

[@theramblingrobertson62]

This is the best channel I've found in Fekkin AGES!!! LOVE IT!!!

[@andrewh5988]

I love your job, great operator, I spent 35yrs on heavy equipment. I operated excavator a few years but looking at you operate and being retired, I enjoy watching you operate. My only machine left that I play with is a skidsteer.

[@cs_fl5048]

I enjoy watching this so much. You don't know how much I wish I had the skill to do this. I can cut and suture people fine, with 46 years of medical practice.... but I truly envy you your skill. .I love to watch your hands and fingers work. Artistry.

[@marycasadone6865]

I stumbled across your videos one day. I live in the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York state. I'm a cosmetologist so I have never done any construction. But as a perfectionist I can really appreciate your accuracy & skills. I was quite the tom boy growing up & have a fascination with how things are made & built. I used to love Bringing my sons to watch excavating jobs. I think I was more interested than they were. Thanks for the videos. I enjoy them immensely.

[@jameshoppersr.-beaver-retr215]

I started with a company laying drain pipe right out of high school in 1976. My job was to go through the pipes as they were laid and wipe each joint with tar so what happened here would not happen. After 10 years I became a machine operator just like you are now. I'm 60 years old and I love running a Track-hoe best job ever.

[@richwojehowski1123]

You would have thought the original work would have been inspected before covering it up. Even inspecting the inside of the pipe *after* it was covered up would have indicated it was backwards. Seems like there should be a clause that would allow the original contractor to responsible for paying for the reversal of this.

[@Kiddo311]

Eff it: If I win the lottery I'm buying a piece of land and an escavator. They look like so much fun.

[@hikerJohn]

@Viktor Sligo I used a smaller one of these. It's dizzying

[@vFLAWLEZZ]

@@hikerJohn smaller ones are harder to use apparently, I see they arent as stable to use

[@jesseparris6507]

Not 'if', 'WHEN' you win the lottery. Think positive, brother, you never know.

[@photoguybrian]

It is.

[@tomrogers9467]

@@vFLAWLEZZ You’re correct. The small ones like to jump and buck; hard not to jerk the sticks when that happens. Big heavies are much more stable.

[@taylorsellers1029]

And not bedding or covering the pipe with any kinda rock or pipe bedding, is just asking for settlement and backfall issues down the road. And in Iowa we tie the flare into the last 3 pipe of the run with tie bar on each side of the pipe along with a Frost footing at the mouth of the flare to insure that flare and pipe stay locked together and no erosion happens!

[@ReverseProof]

I hope that crew doesn't lay roof shingles on the side.

[@davidmorse8432]

They start at the ridge and work down to the eave. 😁

[@AffordBindEquipment]

totally LOL!

[@imaramblins]

That's exactly right. They'd lay em on the side, not the roof...

[@tomrogers9467]

Gotta watch when they lay sod, too. Keep yelling “green side up”.

[@petergamache5368]

Buy a roof, get a free indoor swimming pool.

[@kilo1934]

And this is why you will never run out of work. Keep it up. Thx for the vid

[@danielhowiesr.2593]

Thanks, Chris. I find your videos very relaxing! Keep up the good work.

[@jonathane9403]

When you were using those bucket teeth to gently push the pipe apart reminds me of how elephants use the very sensitive end part of their trunks to gently manipulate very tiny objects. Very skilful. Thanks for the video.

[@glenjones6980]

I keep getting visions of Post 10 emerging from the pipe with a full run down on the original wrong installation

[@sharonolsen6579]

lol .. was thinking .. post10 would have a lot to say about this !!

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@sharonolsen6579 Not enough spiders.

[@lucassanchez5560]

While watching some of these videos i sometimes see how post 10 would emerge from the woods and do the full run down of the bad installation of these culvert pipes. Lolz!!

[@kevinkenyon7045]

Chris your operating skills are amazing, John doesn’t miss a beat, I was waiting for him to grab the bar and straighten it out over his knee. Thanks for sharing. Kevin

[@jimmyculberson5013]

You got good at ringing the hole with the chain

[@MrKennyaa]

i used to work at a precast yard. the biggest pipe we ever made was a 12 ft. diameter inside. the down tubes for a dam.

[@drewgoody2957]

Its amazing how some people can mess crap up so much ...... some security for you right lol ..... great video you do amazing work ....

[@sweetsketch3]

Kind of nice and relaxing, without having to dig in the city, around unmarked utilities, and unexpected surprises, trying to spot ditch lines, after everything is supposedly marked.

[@MishterDale]

Man that spud was frowning every time!

[@caglecagle4979]

They put the pond on the wrong end of the pipe

[@grannygear1001]

You mean they put the pipe on the wrong end of the pond, 😆

[@ChrisCiber]

@@grannygear1001 I am certain that is meant what he said and he said what he meant.

[@Tang0Fox1]

Hahaha

[@tomrogers9467]

@@ChrisCiber “An Elephant’s faithful one hundred percent”. Ok boys, free beer tomorrow for the first to know where this quote came from!

[@smeatwich]

@@tomrogers9467 Horton meant what he said!

[@samson9428]

If I have the use the grass I took up for dressing something back, I prefer to do it with a bulldozer. You can put it in thick and shake the blade while you push, then track it all down and back drag real gently and it works out okay. Then again I may be biased because I run a bulldozer more than anything else so of course I can do the best job in it lol love these videos though!

[@sharon9917]

That is some exacting work separating those pipes!

[@austinshackles549]

that bar is gettin' a funny shape...

[@bigbird9794]

Can't believe they didn't grout from the inside to solve the problem. Non shrink would have done the trick it seems, but I've been wrong before. 🤣🤣

[@AndecIunson]

I just love how youtube subtitles the sounds of the machine as music. :) spot on!

[@keithnoneya]

Thumbs up! Why did you move all the pipes? I if they were in backwards, just pick them up and rotate them 180 and put them back down on the same bed, and then you only have to move the end pieces. Glad that guy on the low slope trusts that chain not to give you he'd be a Pizza. Still another nice job, though. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

[@jordough4495]

Came for the algorithm, stayed for the digging. Great stuff!

[@camus6208]

Amazing the soft touch you have with your big machines.

[@JimYeats]

He got his wife pregnant with an excavator.

[@AdamCasada]

31:58... balls of steel. I almost died, just watching

[@lesflynn4455]

It's handy how people screw up jobs like this, it gives you more work. This looks like a fun little job.

[@07decker]

best operator I have seen. I have a Hitatchi ZX50 and watching you, helps me learn what I can do. Thanks for the videos I still don't understand which way the water is supposed to flow. From the now empty pond and into the pipe? Or is the pipe filling the pond? Which way are these culverts supposed to be? How could someone not know before laying them in?

[@deltabloo]

i just saw an installation of electrical conduit that was about a thousand feet long. it came down a hill from a transformer and up a 40 foot pole. The bells were facing uphill,and water was spurting out the top of the pipe on the pole!. it sprayed up in the air on a day when the temp was in the 20's and turned the road into an ice rink. our solution was to dig a section and break the pipe so the water dispersed into the soil. I don't think that will be a long term fix though.

[@Toobula]

"Got a little carried away diggin'". Ha! If it were me, there'd be holes deep enough to spelunk in, and hills you could open for skiing! At 23:58 look at you dropping that chain into that hole! Damn!

[@mfeldheim]

When a man talks to the objects he is working with, you know there is passion involved 👍🏼

[@petemoore5104]

I resemble that remark. I named all my hand tools. I used to own a Triumph Student lathe called Grant. Student Grant. Then there was Cheery - it was always drill-pressed.

[@karlwalton7687]

Haha love it .... limits of disturbance to a minimum. ..... that needs to go on a shirt Keep up the great videos

[@plepgeat]

MAN, you have a delicate touch! You could pretty near change a diaper with that 220...

[@timgiven3826]

That digging bar has a real nice bow in it. Cant wait to see the next episode

[@LordZoth6292]

The transformation of that rod throughout the video was amazing

[@keithsawyer6356]

I reckon he run over it with the Cat.

[@darrelmartin5635]

Up in alberta here my 48" pipe weigh 3.67 tons and are required lifting clutches, same with flared end. Work at a pipe plant we carry all the way up to 120"

[@Foxboy50]

Assuming that this pond is an overflow basin for the creek, AND assuming that you have shaded your pipeline with porous bedding material (gravel), I seriously doubt that reversing the pipe is going to completely solve your collapsing trench problem. This is because, every time the creek overtops, it flows through the porous material in the trench, as well as through the pipe. Over time this 'ebb and flow' activity will erode away the bottom trench, causing it to collapse. The solution is to construct water tight headwalls at both ends of the pipe line, thus sealing off the trench from the ebb and flow effects of flooding. I once had a similar problem, and this is how I solved it.

[@codyg7936]

You could just transport the inlet/outlet to the opposite side, the rest of the sections just flip 180degrees

[@johnhampson7]

I was beginning to worry a little about how much that bar was bending. A really interesting video.

[@brucerandall4792]

Your operating skills are amazing I have learned some tricks from you

[@williamganske944]

I enjoy watching your channel you are amazing with your machinery on the things you can do with them keep up the videos

[@sylviaprudhomme5417]

Quite interesting. Make go so smoothly

[@johncamp7679]

Safe !! I just started watching your videos last night, it was the one where the rental was buried in pond. A cubic yard of dirt can weigh over 3000 pounds. If you don’t know about soil safety, please don’t rent one of these and get yourself or your helper seriously injured from a trench collapse. He’s digging in class C soil, it’s been previously disturbed. You need competent person training before ever using any kind of excavator, or digging with a shovel if more than 4 feet deep.

[@vFLAWLEZZ]

I came from the same video, fun to watch people using these machines so efficiently. I only have access to a small digger some work takes a long time 😂

[@EndlessSurprisesSD]

Same place I came from. I'm looking for another one dug out. That was just fascinating.

[@CrustyAbsconder]

I have watched about twenty of your videos this past month in my pajamas in my comfy lounge-chair on my fancy widescreen Android phone. I am 57 year old male unemployed with poor health and few job skills I often have no earthly idea what you are doing, It is like watching a gymnast on the uneven-bars. It would be nice if you would tell more about the details of everything I plan to go back and watch more of your videos and other KZbinrs about machinery. I live in an inner-city ghetto apartment, so there are no "ponds" around here, unless that is a slang code-word for bongs or brothels.

[@johnhunter4972]

I'm in awe of our bucket control. Really gentle. Reminds me of our marmalute dog taking a biscuit off me. Massive jaws but really careful (cus he knows he won't get another if he snatches!

[@anderleof]

WTF is a marmalute dog?

[@damiensampson7323]

Uncle John is a thorn in your side. I love the way he relays to you (HEY HEY). Ever think about going out on your own.

[@Mephiston]

He does do some work on his own. The machine with the LD18 branded bucket and thumb is his own personal machine, and if he's doing a job with that its more'n likely its not for his uncle. That animal hospital clearing lot in Raleigh was a good example of that (the one that had stone everywhere and needed blasting), as well as pretty much every dam repair except the one that overflowed and they had to do it twice.

[@jamescantwell572]

Chris Love your video brother keep up your video brother.👍👍

[@davidcooke8825]

Never appreciated how huge the bucket is on that 220 until I saw Chris standing next to it.

[@johnlear3634]

You are a great operator of all equipment and a great person. Keep up the good work and don’t change

[@Paultimate7]

You know him personally?

[@markmortensen4341]

Great video (even with all the math) that I didn't even think about with the bins and how much was in there. Now that you got our curiosity up, don't forget to tell us what all the fire department was doing!! Take care and thanks for sharing!!

[@mischef18]

Excellent video bro. Makes ya wonder how some people can gat away with it but on the plus side you get money in your pocket for fixing their screw up.

[@deathk26]

One has to wonder if they even realized they screwed up, or when they did it was "too late" to fix it.

[@toast47624]

So why do I operate the same excavator all day then come home and watch someone else do it? Sitting here giving Chris my thoughts as if he can hear me. Lol. Nice work mate! I like the the 220 as well. Very smooth and precise machine when lifting.

[@george8873]

Thought you were going over into the hole when you started lifting the flair on the upstream end of the culvert with the way you were teetering there for a second @ 32:00. Also, my first thought when you went into the culvert to slide the bar in to lift the pipe was... "Well, must be no snakes in there. Chris didn't run out of the culvert like he was shot out of a cannon." Lol.

[@bearpump]

Lol. All I could think of was snakes, too!

[@CJLeTeff]

That rock bar sure is earning its money tens times over! 😂👍👍 Those things will bend and flex like crazy! Straightened mine out plenty of times and never broke it.

[@michaelmullins1290]

Excellent use of the second camera. Both sides of the work. Possibly, both sides of the pucker factor one day. Awesome work.

[@CrazyPetez]

Great video! I really like the alternate views where you set the camera on a tripod, and we can watch you out moving around, like when you put the bar through the chain. All good.

[@readbird]

It is so cool to see you work. I really liked this episode where you and your uncle? went down to the pipes so we could really see the dimensions. We have been sitting behind you in your cab, so it is easy to forget the size of things. So if you can, it would be much appreciated if you do what you did here and show your size compared to what you are doing. I mean, some of the trees you are taking down are massive! Anyways, thanks from Norway!

[@johnblecker4206]

You take good care of moving those cement drain pipes with your gentle touch.

[@georgesherman5345]

You handle that pipe like a new mom handles a little baby. You are one heck of an operator.

[@photoguybrian]

Enjoy watching. My father in law owned a backhoe / grading company and was known in these parts as the best operator around. I miss that dude. RIP Papa Joe Lee Ledbetter. Travelers Rest, SC.

[@greghoffstadt667]

Watching you swing all that weight around with such a delicate touch is why I call you a " smooth operator." Great work! Catch you on the next video.

[@fangospucklovesveena464]

Feather-touch, send me one o' them teeth! Thas way so much fun represented!!!

[@martineastburn3679]

That pry bar took a beating ! Might keep it for future jobs like this. Maybe more in the future. Otherwize see if there is a blacksmith in the area he/she would love the bar !

[@DigginLife21]

🔥🔥🔥 FANTASTIC PROJECT SEÑOR DIG!!! You get to work on some fun projects on your end of NC. I always learn something new from videos like yours

[@gordonshearston7590]

1 In Australia we use a swivel hook to lift items with a machine 2 Don't use this type of pipe we call it butt joint hard to get a good seal on the plpe we use a proper bell pipe the socket end is about the same thickness as the pipe it self It has a socket depth between 3" to 4" depending on the size of the pipe 3 Most of the pipes are now installed with a nylon sling 4 A bent bar is not a bad way to do the job when your by yourself the bar tends stay were you need it

[@murrayandru7527]

Every job goes much better when someone who's got the skills is in at the Helm , well done Chris !

[@ko9446]

On the bright side you now have a digging bar to work around corners

[@dignation216]

My company has a set of those mats , they’re amazing, I doubt they’ll hold the 220 up but you’re mini is gonna float on the mud on those 👍

[@chasdog1014]

24:00 so satisfying👌

[@pacremodel9745]

I was taught that the male end always points in the direction of flow.

[@____________________________.x]

these days the Left don't like you assuming the gender of a pipe...

[@oelschlegel]

except for a few days each month

[@davidmorse8432]

That is a good analogy. If a fella forgets he can just take a pee to help him remember.

[@larryweaver5667]

Pac Remodel, that does make sense. It's what my dad told me when laying a drain field.

[@tivvy9708]

That's what she said.

[@KSparks80]

A friend had the same problem after he replaced a couple of down spouts on his house lol. Doh!

[@alskinner2007]

I enjoyed watching your videos. Your explanation as you do the work is very informative.

[@claytonreed5153]

That's crazy that the bar can support those pipes

[@Chris_In_Texas]

Love as time goes on the breaker bar keeps getting more and more bent! 👍😲

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

What he isn't telling us is he's using this project to make a gift for his wife for Valentine's Day 2021 - a steel heart...

[@markadams8857]

A nice STRAIGHT digging bar is a delight to work with.... So I'm told.. All mine have had a slight bends as opposed to a 90 degree kink that Chris has put in his.. I want to see how he straightens it..

[@michaelcarron3418]

You will need two laborer's , one to chain the pipe and holed the tag line, the other in the hole to soap the rubber rings, and help guide it in. Use a long screw driver too run around the rubber ring gasket, it un=twists it. Your using a sticky tar gasket strip, looks easy'er. Used to help make them at New England Concrete Pipe.

[@randycharest4507]

❤😊

[@keithdunlap2701]

Easy !! easy..... She's a little heavy There Son !! lololol.....That's one of those "Here's ya Sign", moments to who ever put those in backwards....lolol... You guys will have that licked in no time , looking Great so far Chris ! Have a Great Evening an Weekend Man !! I would say, "On to the Next" But, I believe you'll be back with part #2 on this one....lolol....Have a Good One...

[@kWT49]

I always thought that was the way the pipe was supposed to run. But you are right. That's differently backwards. Thank you

[@meppssr7123]

If you can make me watch what I do for a living on my days off, you're nice!!. 😂👏🏾

[@RolandElliottFirstG]

In and out in and out, chaining the pipe,,, I thought I was the only one who never had someone to hook up heaps of pipes, good exercise I guess, but at the end of the day very exhausting.

[@craigwavra3495]

Cool video. Enjoy these where you get to use all the tools. Can’t wait to see the next video.