Time to get some of this dam water out of this place!
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@dale27785 жыл бұрын
Finally! a man that KNOWS how to run a trackhoe! great to see someone that can talk and WORK at the same time! great job, sir.
@braydenprice55136 жыл бұрын
All your veidos are always informative and funny to watch thanks for all the good content
@billwarner86715 жыл бұрын
Best man with a trackhoe I ever saw.
@joedorweiler77336 жыл бұрын
I used to do stuff like that when I was a kid, connecting mud puddles it was always fun watching water flow/run. I still do it but with a shovel or my boot heel
@databoy20106 жыл бұрын
Was it just me or does this seem like every little boys dream.
@RgW00D5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Id rather spend my money on an excavator than some sports car. Way more fun to move dirt.
@fender10g5 жыл бұрын
Honestly I'm 19 and I would happily quit college and do this shit for a living
@claudewilliams55265 жыл бұрын
I've done that and still drive trucks.Both were child hood dreams.I enjoy it.Seems boring but it's not.
@nowucme52213 жыл бұрын
@@fender10g these men are on more then college jobs an there college only lasts anywhere from 3days to 3months for an international operators license!
@jamesstickney70424 жыл бұрын
I love your videos of the swampy mess and the pain dredging they are so informative plus I like to see what kinda predicament you get into and how you get out
@LegioPatria19765 жыл бұрын
That Volvo is running like a dream it seems! ...:)
@stewartew6 жыл бұрын
Chris you are just like a little kid, playing in the creek, except you have a lot bigger shovel.
@NoOUploadZz5 жыл бұрын
*Shrek wants to know your location*
@bluemtnsman6 жыл бұрын
Looks like a pond project in the future. Ha !!! Laughed at the title of the video. Clever.
@dewainwoodard48406 жыл бұрын
Great video Chris thanks for sharing have a great day
@davidwaller41566 жыл бұрын
What our ancestors could of accomplished with therse machines let alone the water born disease deaths prevented. Love the videos.
@thomaspartin1916 жыл бұрын
16:37. " See how wet this is, it's like liquid. " LMAO. Nice skills, smooth and steady.
@700rhino6 жыл бұрын
Your one helleva trackhoe operator!!
@poppabob696 жыл бұрын
I've never had the opportunity to run any equipment like yours, but sure enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing them. Hope there will be a follow up to this one.
@jeffhull86145 жыл бұрын
that boy goot !
@superduty48286 жыл бұрын
Why is the video so satisfying. Good job man!
@dwightjones58266 жыл бұрын
I had a job with the same problem it turned out there was two springs on top of the hill we made a pond and had to dig a swell for the pond to drain it was a mess for a while but now it's a good place to fish
@kapperoutdoors6 жыл бұрын
Nice video on draining the swamp. Sometimes I get guys who don't know what they're talking about trying to bag on me if I get stuck in saturated red clay, kind of like the spot you had to assist your machine out! Great video thanks man, and thanks for the tip on making small piles along a ditch, learned something new again :-)
@Constructionqueen416 жыл бұрын
Great video! I love the perspective.
@KarasCyborg5 жыл бұрын
Those Volvo Excavators sure have a smooth bucket operation.
@The_Archer-he2ft5 жыл бұрын
honestly, your commentary is the best "they didn't believe me when i said there was a swamp on a hill"
@eliteearthworksllc6 жыл бұрын
I can’t get over how much water is there, it looks like river!
@HillbillyRednecking6 жыл бұрын
Good idea on draining that swamp before EPA declares it a wet land and tells you that you can’t touch it.
@kentnauman98635 жыл бұрын
You will have to restore that wet land highly illegal what your doing you fines will be enormous
@phillipzx37545 жыл бұрын
@KenDroid66 Ya. Odd how liberals want to conserve and the conservatives want to pillage.
@phillipzx37545 жыл бұрын
@KenDroid66 WTF does that have to do with anything? FYI..it's not that they want open borders. They want to control the border using smarter methods than just a damn wall! Until EVERYONE is willing to put boots on the ground (walls without guards are useless. Ask Israel or any prison warden how well they work without guards) walls are nothing but a dog-n-pony show. What I'd like to see is to put several thousand ETS'ed Army 11B's to work. It'll create jobs and give a guy something to do when he gets out of the Army (or Marines. I was in the Army. I have no idea what the Marines MOS for infantry is) with a pretty much useless skill. Yes. I'm liberal Army Vet with a gun case full of firearms and a few large bore (a .45 and one .50 cal) airguns as well. What you THINK you know about liberals is wrong...well, except for maybe the group in California. I want clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean food supply...CLEAN is the operative word. Something conservatives fight CONSTANTLY against. Edit: If it were up to me I'd make mandatory military service a requirement of EVERY American. No DD-214, no voting or gun rights for people claim they deserve them simply for being here (legally). 2 years as an 11b (which could be served guarding our border) should do the trick.
@phillipzx37544 жыл бұрын
@J.R. Spingly ..........Really? Where?
@jeff77644 жыл бұрын
Stfu Douchbag
@thomasbergeron51663 жыл бұрын
This guy knows how to use that equipment . Great job!
@irgski6 жыл бұрын
FINALLY someone’s draining the swamp!!!
@2badger23 жыл бұрын
He has equipment and people he can trust ...
@sylviaprudhomme5417 Жыл бұрын
Never disappoint. Pleasure to watch
@ohhpaul73646 жыл бұрын
That low spot is where they had the hog pens a long time ago; err, maybe. Would be nice to go back in time to an old farm like that and see what happened to cause that or if it was already there.
@robwilsn32195 жыл бұрын
The videos are so mesmerizing. I cant quit watchin them. It's rather relaxing to me. The hydraulic sounds and with ya explaining and narrating as you go puts me in a tranquil state. Like I could crash watchin it but at the same time,, ya cant. Cuz ya wanna see the outcome of it all. Pretty dam cool.. lol. Great vid man. Thumbs up to ya. Keep makin more cuz I just scribed yur channel.. thx, Rob...
@vandelayofficial4925 жыл бұрын
Swamp On The Hill sounds like a great folk song.
@superdave31815 жыл бұрын
Not a wasted movement. And he's a pro with the foot pedals too. I love watching it done so well. Cool videos.
@63256325N6 жыл бұрын
Good job! Thanks for the video.
@mr.dankman6 жыл бұрын
That was fun to watch. Thanks man
@HughzieTube6 жыл бұрын
Cameron's like 'I wonder what happens if I cross his line?'
@kclm76 жыл бұрын
Can you dig a much wider trench from the US Capital building to the Potomac river??? 😆
@deanwilcox25175 жыл бұрын
Now that was funny, good one
@phillipzx37545 жыл бұрын
Trump's ass is too wide to fit regardless of the width.
@johncevora2425 жыл бұрын
kclm7 .. why pollute the river
@moonlandingagain32285 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍
@GlobalistJuice4 жыл бұрын
@@phillipzx3754 Indeed . . . can't have a scrawny-bony-backside, when you carry around a Y U G E set of steel-balls everyday! {{wink}} #BallsOfSteelTRUMP #Trump4EVA
@minmatenx5 жыл бұрын
What an awesome career! So cool
@neils72216 жыл бұрын
Chris , your videos are great . Colorado digging is different we do basements and everything has to be deep cause of frost . Keep up with good videos . Neil Strong Golden Colorado
@spencespencer38146 жыл бұрын
I live here in the North Carolina and in my county since sunday weve gotten 6 inches and today is wednesday. Im selling my car and truck and buying a nice john boat
@jamessmyth54386 жыл бұрын
spence spencer poo
@karenschrader80685 жыл бұрын
spence spencer i
@Blazer02LS6 жыл бұрын
That is a mess for sure, Would be a great place for a nice stock pond, especially if it is spring fed...
@thortheimpaler79626 жыл бұрын
This looks insanely relaxing. Just digging a ditch with an excavator (or whatever it is).
@Syrnian6 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a mess. Well done.
@robertross8046 жыл бұрын
thank for taking us along we like your machine bob ross from lonely corners
@Blitzomenz5 жыл бұрын
That looks like so much fun. :)
@markd56256 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Please keep us posted on how this works.
@dougwilliams86025 жыл бұрын
Same problem in DC. A Swamp on top of the Hill. They need you in Washington to help drain the Swamp!
@napoleonbonaparte60376 жыл бұрын
that's so cool great job
@killianoshaughnessy11746 жыл бұрын
All that talk about draining the swamp; this guy literally got that job done. Good job!
@jeffreylewis1456 жыл бұрын
The berm is from the piles and stumps pushed to the side when the land was cleared. We have it here too. Over enough decades it spreads and drops some but it’s still there.
@JoeZelensky5 жыл бұрын
Can you upload some after videos, that show what it looks like a month or so after?
@mikeg91936 жыл бұрын
Wait!!!!! Stop the project!!!! Its a “Vernal Pool” Lol Good job👍🏼 Here In California we’d get shut down on a project like that....even if it was man made or by default farming practices. If there was any standing water around anymore even in the delta....cuz they are drying up our state to take even more control.
@strietermarinesurvey14154 жыл бұрын
Great state to live in NOT!
@itsnotthesamething5 жыл бұрын
Watching this is oddly satisfying.
@craigparker34345 жыл бұрын
You're one hell of a operator.
@dockmasterted6 жыл бұрын
Yup it will work....water flows down hill. .....So as long as your trench is lower, all the way to the end ...... lower than the lowest water depth it will drain out. ...... but never forget the trench must never along it's length be higher than the very bottom of the waters depth, or you you will just be creating a canal to the spot that that is the same level of the lowest part you dug when they become equalized in depth. (sorry I tend to get long winded.) lol@me
@SteveP-vm1uc5 жыл бұрын
Jesus, it's a good thing you are a good listener!!
@FightingMECFS3 жыл бұрын
Swamp on a hill has nothing on Perhaps the most perplexing ‘Chrisism statement ever: “Look, the ground is dry under all this (water) somehow ....” 😂😂😂
@bobferranti52226 жыл бұрын
WOW, Chris, That was a craptastic mess
@snowfirel71083 жыл бұрын
Looks like you have a natural spring there on top of the hill.
@TheMetalButcher6 жыл бұрын
Unlike some other people, when Chris says he's gonna drain the swamp, he does. In about 18 minutes to boot.
@letsdig186 жыл бұрын
hell yeah!
@jestestuman6 жыл бұрын
To be fair, this method of drainig is a lot easier than other ones ;-)
@rickjames58896 жыл бұрын
Trump 2020!
@zackboone156 жыл бұрын
How many people you think fit in a bucket? 3?
@WesleyAPEX5 жыл бұрын
The Metal Butcher the DC swamp is the hardest swamp to drain
@yves35605 жыл бұрын
Relaxing job :)
@johnm.evangelis6936 жыл бұрын
Fine job Mr. G. you are a Michael Angelo with the excavator, great work & video!
@adelewaldron19586 жыл бұрын
I saw Maxine , Schumer, and Ryan
@TarmacBlackIX4 жыл бұрын
Adele Waldron shiffty shit was there too
@alan301894 жыл бұрын
Just make another lake! 🤣🤣 🐠 You need to take your backhoe to Washington DC, and drain that swamp! I wish it was this easy.
@monk430126 жыл бұрын
In Minnesota you likely would need about a dozen permits to drain a swamp and have to dig a pond to make up for the water loss.
@arlynsmith91966 жыл бұрын
Screw permits to do things on your own land!
@peachesrambo40376 жыл бұрын
korbel dave you don't own the land, just rent it.
@kills4565 жыл бұрын
@@arlynsmith9196 the problem is you doing something to your "own" land could adversely affect someone else land by changing water flow etc
@odonnellsaussiehomestead82574 жыл бұрын
No one will believe u got bogged on top of a hill. lol👍 😁👍
@keti4keti495 жыл бұрын
Now it looks like Venice :)
@nexingtoncaldwell63815 жыл бұрын
this is how the heck I feel about my clay soil swamp in my back yard. been collecting neighborhoods of leaves to put down trying to be frugal and resourceful to dry it up. Fires in California, river rain on the east coast.
@StumpjumperVideosPA5 жыл бұрын
fell like i should head out thru there with the log trucks thats dryer than my haul rds & landings lol !
@kens.37294 жыл бұрын
Draining the Swamp! 😬 👍
@miguelvaldez94495 жыл бұрын
Great finesse
@carrollsanders93766 жыл бұрын
You need to work around sinking Creek Ky, quicksand on hills. 51 truck loads, 33 tons loads of rip rap to fill a ten by ten foot hole.
@soldierofdirt816 жыл бұрын
I'll send you some near triple digit temps from TX to help! 👌👌
@letsdig186 жыл бұрын
ill send you some humidity I think it was 95% today it was miserable
@eliteearthworksllc6 жыл бұрын
letsdig18 that’s what the humidity has been here in the mornings till about noon then it drops a few degrees. Yours has to be worse cause we haven’t had the rain that you have
@johnpike96126 жыл бұрын
You can gladly take 50° of the 110° we've been having here in Az
@eliteearthworksllc6 жыл бұрын
John Pike I’m actually going to Arizona next week and not looking forward to the heat! Lol
@johnpike96126 жыл бұрын
Elite Earthworks LLC just remember while your here, you get to leave but we are stuck with it till October. 😊
@johnfoster32863 жыл бұрын
In the UK in the middle ages they dug depressions into the chalk on top of hills, then lined them with clay to provide a water reservoir for the plants and the cattle. I hope that will not now become the start of a dust bowl. Is that clay showing through at time 4.05?
@hankwang83243 жыл бұрын
good work, good man!
@jasonking29436 жыл бұрын
Back home in South Georgia places like this you would find a water moccasin as big as your leg! It may be a spring ...?
@letsdig186 жыл бұрын
and thats why I keep the door and window shut! lol
@jasonking29436 жыл бұрын
letsdig18 do you see snakes often in spots like this ?
@MyOLD36chevy6 жыл бұрын
Is once often? LOL
@jasonking29436 жыл бұрын
MyOLD36chevy depends. If I walk up on one hell ya. Now if I see them from a distance then I'm ok I know to look out and have my heat in my hand
@MyOLD36chevy6 жыл бұрын
I worked with a guy who said there are only 2 kinds of snakes Cobras and Rattlesnakes!
@RobertWiggers6 жыл бұрын
Whatbutton did you press on the right side of the right lever when you started?
@blakeb19926 жыл бұрын
Seems like it will never dry. Even the spots that have already been cleared are still soaked. Is the whole property in a valley or something?
@paraleeculbert20586 жыл бұрын
Nobody can operate like him he really lnows how to handle that machine. My gramd son love to watch this video and me .
@rickdufau81506 жыл бұрын
Hey man, love your vids.. Hilarious. I got caught up watching some your grader vids from years ago. I've only been a sub for a couple of months so I got plenty to catch up on. I got a question though… on a motor grader. What is the reason for the front wheels to tilt to one side or other? Forgive me if I sound like i sound like a rookie, I guess thats cuz I am. Thanks man. Down here in louisiana.
@letsdig186 жыл бұрын
if you are on a hillside you and lean them to help with traction or to help keep yourself angled from sliding down the hill
@bradleyford9876 жыл бұрын
A drone would be helpful to see what is happening after you dig the drains.
@randallparker84776 жыл бұрын
That looks like a spring on top of your hill... doesn't take a big one if it's got a low spot on top. I bet it's been there for years.
@dortot15 жыл бұрын
I thought it was interesting to hear that you said all the dirt beneath what you shoveled up was dry. That impervious layer of clay will never let that absorb into the ground so you have to do this.
@johnschmidt19886 жыл бұрын
Have you found a replacement for the 290?
@waynep3436 жыл бұрын
if the ground is dry under the wet surface.. i wonder if you could dig small areas out in low spots thru the material that won't let it get to the perk thru to allow it to recharge the ground water.. or do you think it will just spread out in the upper layers and make a deep deep mud hole.. might be interesting to dig a trench down and examine the layers..
@raincoast23966 жыл бұрын
All that standing water, is there any skeeter's eating you?
@nancygoodman82733 жыл бұрын
We have the same thing happening here in the southern part of AZ and if we get a lot of rain our washes run like heck. The ground can only soak up a certain amount and then you have a flood. You get so much more rain there and our monsoons are non existent for the last 2 to 3 years and we need rain so bad so can you figure out how to send your over abundance of rain? LOL just kidding. Guess I can find someone to do a rain dance.
@Beachnative423 жыл бұрын
was there some sort of a spring up there or just a clay aquaclude?
@AlarakTheHighLord4 жыл бұрын
Looks like a mud bog heaven to me
@ubergeek19686 жыл бұрын
you are an artiste!
@timsheneman18265 жыл бұрын
Our host is NOT saying "SWELL" . The word is SWALE. ( it was used as a last name in the movie 'Dragnet' - with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks....so I looked it up)
@oo0Spyder0oo6 жыл бұрын
Shrek's gonna be pissed.
@kennethbailey26165 жыл бұрын
My grandfather sank a crane up in Alaska in the 40s, the boom is still sticking out of the muskeg.
@MatthewHoag776 жыл бұрын
Instead of a shining city on a hill, you found the swamp. It was the obvious choice to drain it.
@russellpetrie1196 жыл бұрын
it was created as swamp land as a nature reserve or a spring in there somewhere
@michaelmccrindle10336 жыл бұрын
take a drink every time he says swamp on top of the hill.... I passed out after 8 min LOL
@DruFishing6 жыл бұрын
Just be careful, in some states you have to have a permit to drain or alter an established “wetland”. The land owner may have had one but I didn’t hear you mention it. My area is very strict about this stuff.
@jeffklecan39796 жыл бұрын
Chris is this the same land you got your truck struck ? you are a trip and a good operator I enjoy your videos keep them coming
@letsdig186 жыл бұрын
sure is
@murrayhalbert29885 жыл бұрын
just curious, why not dig it in from the dry end first? I do see by the roots and scrub pile that this is reclaimed land.
@7riverseast2175 жыл бұрын
You have cool toys..
@StumpjumperVideosPA5 жыл бұрын
hey that looks like my jobs only a little dryer lol !!!
@joesignoretti90396 жыл бұрын
I want one of those!
@sethdabull5 жыл бұрын
How's the top of your hill after we're got all of this rain these past 2 weeks I love here in Wendell too