Finally back to the pond and digging mud! One of my favorite videos! Thanks, Chris!
@ScottyStock4 жыл бұрын
Love it when the mud mats come out.
@Rickimusic4 жыл бұрын
Almost as much time and labor to set up and clean up for, if I heard right, 25 truck loads of sand. Chris can make it rain, just schedule a holding pond cleanup and whoosh, here comes the rain.
@georgeledford55564 жыл бұрын
love the pond and lake videos , especially the dams and overflows repairs...always wanted my own lake...dredging is cool too...would love all that sand piled up for projects...good video Chris we are kindred spirits...you have learned your craft well...goes with the term "practice,practice,practice"...at 56 I am too old for toys unless it weighs several tons
@eddiemortontapman72524 жыл бұрын
Great ! we have been waiting to see Mr Volve showing us how he takes a big excavator and almost walks on water . That why I started watching this Channel. Your the Best .Y’all really found your niche . Working thur the challenges and being efficient in what you do .
@ninataylor61804 жыл бұрын
I saw mud mats in the description and knew this was gonna be awesome!
@oldbakedpotato4 жыл бұрын
The places you get into and out of are an amazement to me.
@benmudn4 жыл бұрын
You know it's going to be good when the mud mats come out!!
@davidknows33204 жыл бұрын
I'm here for the mud mats! Lol. This is your specialty!👍
@dougs75dsps43 жыл бұрын
Chris' reasoning skills on display. Executing the plan on the fly.
@5914DL4 жыл бұрын
I don't know, I've watched so many of these Chris vs. Mud videos I kinda feel like I've got enough credit hours for an Associates degree in Civil Engineering. Will be updating the resume' in the morning.
@davidglaum25384 жыл бұрын
Wow that looks like beach sand very fine.
@yanceylindley51724 жыл бұрын
Those pads are heavy, after a company run a pipeline through my county they sold all the pads to the public! they had about 4 football fields full of 4x16 and 8x20s, 400 and 600$.. I guess it made better cense to sell'em than clean and transport them!!
@tiredoldmechanic17914 жыл бұрын
It's insane that they know the ponds will need to be dredged when they design them but they don't provide a better access to do it.
@michaelmullins12904 жыл бұрын
You push the bucket in the muck a couple feet, not to deep you say. That's the difference in your abilities and most. I was telling a guy about you the other day. Pretty sure he subscribed. He operates excavator, and other dozer, loader equipment. Great job.
@chrisskelhorn57274 жыл бұрын
Looking much better already! :-)
@robfraley42104 жыл бұрын
249,000 now, less than a thousand to hit a Quarter MILLION...!! 😱😳🤭😎
@dennisward13614 жыл бұрын
I hope your boss appreciates you and pays you accordingly , if I had your energy level when I was in my prime ,I'd be a billionaire . Enjoy your energy and work ethic ,you are one in at least 100,000 . God bless .
@63256325N4 жыл бұрын
Nicely done! Thanks for the video.
@justinmills80844 жыл бұрын
A big kid playing in the sandbox.
@barryhansen68544 жыл бұрын
At least the bucket is going to be nice and shiny by the time you finish the job.
@rickhay97824 жыл бұрын
Enough sand to make Paul Bunyans cat a litter box...
@darylkysar24784 жыл бұрын
A mid sized front end loader would be nice for making the trips back n forth in stead of a skidsteer
@The_blindpizzaguy13004 жыл бұрын
Daryl Kysar would there be enough space for that though? Because it sounded like he barely had enough space to put those mats in. And he couldn’t even put them in longways like he wanted, and I just don’t know how big the access space would be for a big wheel loader to fit in there.
@darylkysar24784 жыл бұрын
@@The_blindpizzaguy1300 that's why I said a mid size they're about at wide or a little bit wider than the volvo 160
@AlphaSaber4 жыл бұрын
@@The_blindpizzaguy1300 I think a crawler loader would be a better fit for the work he does since it's tracked and can do a 360 in its own footprint.
@papaw54054 жыл бұрын
But that little skid steer aka track loader will run circles around a front loader. It'll make two cycles while a loader is turning around. Also wheel loaders tend to bounce if you try to get any speed out of them.By the time you get where you are going, you've sloshed out all your sand. With the skid steer you travel with the bucket skimming the ground so it can't bounce as much.
@DeanofMachines4 жыл бұрын
You also have a lot of weight in front loader and need more space to turn it around. That would cause a lot more damage to the yard as well.
@RKHarm244 жыл бұрын
You asked on the give away video if we were machine operators. Yes I was. From as early as I can remember, my grandfather had me a sand box 8x8 and a pea gravel box next to it also 8x8. I used my TONKA and NYLINT equipment until they rusted out by age 9 or 10. I retired after that. Parents showed me what a sharpshooter was when we moved to Texas and did landscaping. Yes I remember those years vividly.
@BOB-gd1qc4 жыл бұрын
With soft sand/mud, why not use a wider bucket? Fewer strokes.
@ScottyStock4 жыл бұрын
it's a weight issue, to much bucket and the machine tips at full extension with a full bucket.
@danielcj52 жыл бұрын
I’m from South Louisiana, we don’t have ponds… so I apologize for my ignorance, but what is the reasoning that someone would dredge a pond like this? To make it deeper? Or are there other reasons?
@ScottyStock4 жыл бұрын
how often do you work this sort of job? if it is a regular thing, may get a lot of mats and make a temp access road to back the dump truck down. Rinse, repeat for the next job.
@cjeeper864 жыл бұрын
Set the parking brakes when loading. One gear tooth is all that’s holding it in park
@jeff77644 жыл бұрын
He’s a fucking hack.. what do you expect. I wouldn’t hire these guys for anything
@johnderekmitchell15104 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣those mats make the Mini look tiny. Just used to seeing them being slung around with the 160.
@jaywest41024 жыл бұрын
37 minutes and the thumbnail has mud mats....get the popcorn before hitting play.
@davidharris65814 жыл бұрын
Another good job for that long stick y'all are eventually going to buy.
@dhewitt25144 жыл бұрын
Hi, how do you fix the beams on each matt- rebar?
@Moose_3384 жыл бұрын
You guys need a small front end loader
@anthonybanks29794 жыл бұрын
always entertaining ! Thanks for posting
@juniorraines10424 жыл бұрын
Great video Chris
@sassafrasvalley19394 жыл бұрын
Those mud mats are like little ‘Glop-he-goes’ islands!
@MikeyDunn4 жыл бұрын
I see you've got some fencing to stop anything rolling UP the hill, lol! I think you must've killed your microphone because the sound was 90% engine noise while the machine was running.
@thomasdesmond22484 жыл бұрын
Hey Chris you are so Southern. We had your DNA checked and your closest know relative is a Penguin. Lol God bless
@kainenmattison36654 жыл бұрын
You had me at "tims going to pull his hair out."
@benharleman5874 жыл бұрын
You guys could use two skid steers for sure, why not get a Deere 330 series with tracks to help out?
@javaquickscope73004 жыл бұрын
In Ireland we call those bog mats
@jakemallory42394 жыл бұрын
shit, down here even that dirty sand sells for $400-500 a truck.
@davidharris65814 жыл бұрын
"Excuse me mam, could you hold this camera and point it this way for awhile?"
@jbritt25494 жыл бұрын
good sand to put in a wet place for fill
@kWT494 жыл бұрын
Reckon that buddy of yours that owns the Saw Mill would loan you his front end loader to make it go a little faster
@markenda14 жыл бұрын
Chris, you have mentioned about needing the undercarriage on the 160 rebuilt. How long will the 160 be down for?
@tjparker95374 жыл бұрын
White sand pond dredging job 👌🏽
@roygrillo29844 жыл бұрын
Why not add a cable or chain to one mat then drag it to even out the slopes, I have done that before for a company I worked with.
@northmanlogging27694 жыл бұрын
hog fuel, big chunky wood chips... about a foot deep, makes a great temporary road, easy to clean up when your done too
@LiLGooZ214 жыл бұрын
Mud Mat Diving Boards!
@keng77034 жыл бұрын
Jenga, excavator edition
@stevenrichey50684 жыл бұрын
Your company needs a loader...it would pay for it's self ....
@paulthesoundguy14 жыл бұрын
Arm chair operator here..........NEED CHOCKS OR PARKING BREAK ON THE TRUCK.... ALL THAT MOVEMENT IF FOCUSED DIRECTLY ON THE TRANSMISSION
@cq6084 жыл бұрын
Yeah, a new video!
@CycloneDev4 жыл бұрын
You should hire a wheel loader to help cart the sand
@kengriffin50014 жыл бұрын
Would this machine be able to handle a larger bucket?
@MrFboyle4 жыл бұрын
You always have spectators
@jonschneck45594 жыл бұрын
I need to set up bleachers and sell hot dogs
@1013redoak4 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how the surface area of those mats can float the weight of that huge machine on the surface! Physics I guess!
@-mike--m-96294 жыл бұрын
Mud Mats Oh hell yes I love it when Chris gets on his mats and plays in the mud Roll on Mfer 👍
@j.b.maxwell83004 жыл бұрын
Chris is that a road ahead of you up the creek on your left, is there any way you can get through there with a tipper
@matthewmeuleman98723 жыл бұрын
Chris have you ever sean plastic mud mats
@rharris58114 жыл бұрын
That grey mud that mixes in with the sand smells like shit when you take the top off of it. A lot drier in the pile than I expected it to be.
@sandspar4 жыл бұрын
Keep hearing this voice from the past yelling " Christopher, you better not be in yore good clothes in that mud hole !!! "
@clydecoffeycc4 жыл бұрын
We are logging our farm and sell 30 and 40 ft logs to a amish sawmill that makes mats. Not sure what your 18 ft mats cost but i know the 40 footers are high.
@darinhassett47084 жыл бұрын
what do you use for the mats? and how do you make them?
@makingithappen97224 жыл бұрын
32:30. Wait a minute now. I did this when I was a kid, But the excavator was made of wood.
@julianljackson4 жыл бұрын
I don't think even a dragline would work!!!!
@frankoch14 жыл бұрын
and now for the transmission repairs on the truck
@thomasdesmond22484 жыл бұрын
Chris is finally happy. He gets to play in his sand box again. Lol God bless
@DIRT-BOSS4 жыл бұрын
I would love a bunch of those mats! Real expensive! I have just those Alturna Mats..
@whatsup14074 жыл бұрын
Why hasn't David been uploading to your other channel? I want to see big August got and all the turkeys getting processed for Thanksgiving.
@tylerg574 жыл бұрын
How did you make your mud mats??
@Todd.Roberts4 жыл бұрын
Just make eye contact with the spectator lol
@factfinder48394 жыл бұрын
The MUDmats! Rail ties and Rebar? what are they and how did you make them...I need a dozen
@martinspijker96613 жыл бұрын
how many toothpicks do youeat evry year??..:D
@robfraley42104 жыл бұрын
It’s Not a Horrible job, just a challenging one, Hahaha 😂 5:30 I hated them/these kid...!! I had to dig a new section to the pond at The Fairgrounds by Carter Finally stadium with a little Kohring Dragline in The woodsy section, all wet muddy mess 🤬😤🤷🏻♂️ went back to a night freight run From RDU to ATL back to RDU by about nine am... 🌘🛫
@nolanmitchell73193 жыл бұрын
has anyone out there ever broke the parking brake pawl when loading / unloading a trailer. like at 1:40, you see the truck move back and forth. I can see it happening and always a little worried but have never actually seen it happen.
@jrand26314 жыл бұрын
Damn, that's a lot of sand!
@taxiforcraig4 жыл бұрын
U would be better with a bigger bucket than that so it's done a bit faster
@craigpridemore75663 жыл бұрын
lol 800 trips? He'll be creating swear words on the spot after about 200!
@scottlundy2574 жыл бұрын
Cant you rent enough mad mats to build a road for the dump trucks back to where you need them ?
@maryschillinger29092 жыл бұрын
He has to follow. The HOA rules
@Roadhammer334 жыл бұрын
The last time you used the mats was back in January on that quicksand job.
@timcavazos41994 жыл бұрын
I miss your jibber jabber DaVinci 🙉🙉🙉
@joshcongioloso91044 жыл бұрын
So how many excavators do you have? And are u from the Carolinas or tn.im from tn
@maryschillinger29092 жыл бұрын
North Carolina
@mwconleyclan4 жыл бұрын
did you adjust your bid to reflect current conditions?
@sn99cobra4 жыл бұрын
Please set those parking brakes.
@davidhunt56313 жыл бұрын
i would like to get some of your t-shirts but you don't go to my size as there are some big people out there would like to get some but carnt as the size doesn't go large enough
@Murphyslawfarm4 жыл бұрын
The old Yanmar still go's
@carolpreston23534 жыл бұрын
Hi Chris, love to watch your videos. Just curious as of late I hear much more hydraulic pump noise then I hear you. I have to turn up the volume so much to hear your comments that the hydraulic noise is terrible. Maybe a new mic or something just wanted you to know.. I still watch just don't get to hear you. Thanks Carol from Florida
@Blazer02LS4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if it's just the sound transferring into the camera through the mount?
@Rickimusic4 жыл бұрын
@@Blazer02LS No idea but every time the 160, I can't hear him. Add open two windows makes it that much worse, I hear a drone of sorts of speech. CC is no help at all. Yes well, fun to watch the sand fly.
@ntomnia5854 жыл бұрын
Sir, have you properly cleaned that foreign mud from those mats before transporting them to our special lake?
@A35pickuptruck4 жыл бұрын
Hello Mike and Melissa love the cabin and I may do the same next spring in our woods. I do have a question about the siding. Why did you start it above the banding board and not below to cover it up. Maybe you will do that later not sure. I have the same board on our three season porch and it looks like a cabin from up north and not a porch. I to bought it from the Amish in Charm, Oh. We live in rural southern Ohio bout forty miles southeast of Cols. Years ago the firewood business was good as everyone burned. Today its hard to give it away. I had a cord of oak on a trailer in my front yard last year all winter for $100.00 and no one was interested. All they had to do was hock on the trailer and go or I would have delivered. Its a hard sale. I have 16 acres and would like to just keep the dead stuff cleaned up. We are starting to get a lot of weekend cabin rental in our area so I'm thinking about cratering to that markit. Dave
@porkchop53894 жыл бұрын
time to go to the mud mat store for some new ones maybe you can get a good deal on them on Black Friday
@casycasy51994 жыл бұрын
was it the state that did not want to to dig the trees up or the people that own the pond
@maryschillinger29092 жыл бұрын
The H O A
@Todd.Roberts4 жыл бұрын
That’s what I call some real dredging when you break out the mats !!!!
@leol16824 жыл бұрын
Like the video ,With the mats .
@stephendunham95974 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@jpeveto814 жыл бұрын
Be nice job to have a cat track loader, like a 963
@46rambo494 жыл бұрын
folks build shit and have no concept of what maintenance is going to be needed throughout the length of the site. I don't get all the bids but I sure fix a lot of shit 5 years later
@DonnaMSchmid4 жыл бұрын
How are the logs held together on the mud mats?
@letsdig184 жыл бұрын
4' long bolts
@DonnaMSchmid4 жыл бұрын
@@letsdig18 Whoa... So the one that was curling indicates at least some of the bolts have snapped?
@Rickimusic4 жыл бұрын
Somewhere in here is a making mud mats video. Long ass rods they used.
@ScottyStock4 жыл бұрын
@@RickimusicI think Dirtperfect has that video
@Rickimusic4 жыл бұрын
@@ScottyStock Could be. I guess the way my post sounded, folks may have thought I meant Chris. "In here" meant on you tube but it has been a while. Rather hard work making them.
@robertrockwell75814 жыл бұрын
i do not know where people down below say no ads. on my laptop there were about 4 or 5. nice job so far.