Cleaning Out A Silted In Ditch

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[@charlesjackson516]

When I saw that cable come up out of the mud, I was waiting the whole rest of the video to see if Karen showed up.

[@kingslawn]

Dam....I was watching some guy on KZbin clearing a ditch and all of a sudden my cable went out...😂

[@marcryvon]

🤣🤣🤣

[@letsdig18]

damn they should have it fixed by next saturday

[@Stratos53100]

@@letsdig18 Lol, Nahh add another 1.5 weeks onto that and it would be typical. my friends place out in East Tx by a big local lake when they have power outages by tree's sometimes it takes 3 weeks.

[@kingslawn]

@@letsdig18 yes but someone over 18 must be there between noon and March to let them in 🙈👍

[@HootakaBJ]

Hey Chris, as handy as this set up is on the Yanmar....I have never heard you say if you have considered a RotoTilt? Steel Wrist/ Engcon. I know with your thumb set up on your Volvos it would not be an option but maybe for just one machine....?

[@DavidSmith-zr3nd]

It'll look great till some kid in a 4x4 says,"hey y'all watch this"

[@monkehbitch]

Check out the flex on my ram! Oh wait, this is different...

[@digdrivediy]

Sure looks nice Chris. What a great project to do when it's wet as you get to instantly see the benefits of your efforts and watch the water run to you as you work. That rotating bucket is so perfect for this too! Nobody around here uses them much yet. Always enjoy the vids! Happy New Year!

[@kittty2005]

There's a wrist attachment that would make that bucket even better but he needs a different controller and 2 more hoses. Oh and I'm so glad you were able to up load this vid I was getting really, bored on facebook ,you're the best.

[@mariebennett5739]

Very neat work Chris beautiful job Best wishes and a happy New Year from New Zealand regards from Les and Marie

[@hubertbruun1273]

Time to seed some rice how much rain do you people get east coast weather

[@Doogie_Causey]

Happy New letsdig18 Happy New Year Winston! Happy New Year Erbody

[@markwalker284]

That ditch is awfully close to the road , surprised there isn’t more of a berm ! 🤔

[@brandonbradley2578]

Just curious. Who else watches watch wes work? I see alot of the same comments. I think your more precise with that machine than i could be with a shovel.

[@randywilson6869]

Do u watch any of hedblom video? That dude has a tilt /rotator on his and that guy is a bomb.they have had them across the big pond for years and it’s crazy. I always say to my grandson that he needs to go into this type of business because he is so good with video controls that he could pick it up fast

[@gen157]

To add to the list, there's Petr Šmotek who does more Public Works stuff instead of the private jobs we see from Chris, Wes, Mustie, Mike, etc.

[@greg9403]

That bucket attachment has payed for it self many times. Now the ditch looks better than the road. Matting cover is great make that old line disappear back into the dirt. Another happy customer. 👍💪🇺🇲💯

[@ericpaul4575]

There was a Kevin checking it out at the end of the video.

[@sandy1653]

At least where I'm at, the cable company won't do a locate for anything this isn't either their fiber backbone or the trunk lines feeding a neighborhood. Drops out to individual houses get cut all the damn time because they've decided it's cheaper to send a contract tech with a splice kit than it is one of the 2 techs for the entire region that they actually have trained to do locates properly.

[@johnb8956]

Could you not buy/ hire a scanner?

[@sandy1653]

@@johnb8956 You could, but for liability's sake nobody is going to outside of some corner cases.

[@ajc7166]

Over here in the UK its the responsibility of the person excavating to check for utilities. You probably wont get liability insurance unless you have some form of locator/ scanner and in some cases proof that you've been trained to use them. The utility plans are available but will only normally show the mains. The connection pipes or cables to the property wont be shown.

[@johnb8956]

@@sandy1653 yeah true

[@johnb8956]

@@ajc7166 I’m from the UK too, and have known a few people use them, hence my original comment

[@stevecobb6001]

Happy New Year to all from North Wales in the UK.

[@tommyrasmussen1180]

Thank you and to you also from Denmark

[@damiantomaszewski4978]

Poland joins the wishes

[@contemporaryrailwayscenes8125]

Have a good one all! From South Wales (UK) this time. 👍

[@billymallon1743]

Steve Cobb happy new year

[@billymallon1743]

@@tommyrasmussen1180 happy new year

[@Everydayguy37]

You have a fantastic eye for grade and a skill that comes with years of experience. I admire your work.

[@Ma-yahya]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2eakIGOftOGj9U

[@timgiven3826]

Great way to start 2021 with a letsdig18 video, great job Chris, can't wait to see more

[@Stratos53100]

Had to dust off the spider webs on the mini, It was feeling neglected.

[@Ma-yahya]

Bonjour s'il vous plaît abonnés cette chaîne kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2eakIGOftOGj9U au maroc 🇲🇦 👍🏻

[@Ras7685]

You know as a retired grade checker.....I want to say "THAT LOOKS DAMN GOOD " !

[@tomstickney5500]

You use that thing like a person use's a spoon to feed them selfs.

[@ilovenitnat]

Themselves

[@throngcleaver]

In a way, he uses that machine and all the others, to feed himself.

[@ConstructionMachineryChannel]

Good analogy

[@BeytekinConstructionMachinery]

Very wet now in NC. But you didn't get the black ice or?

[@mikekehoe2927]

You are the Master of Mud.

[@gravelydon7072]

Places bet that within a month someone gets hung up in the ditch. :-D Was this a home owner, HOA, or government job? Don't think the latter as there weren't 10 supervisors and likely not an HOA job as no Karens.

[@CSXGP38]

If Chris is on the job, it's because " It's a mess"

[@kens.3729]

You don’t normally do any work around Train Tracks so hopefully we get Lucky🍀with a Train.😬👍

[@KPearce57]

This is exactly why our Infrastructure is falling apart the Town or County roads dept. should be maintaining the ditches .

[@patpulis9922]

it's a county bullshit subdivision!!!! They don't even know it the road is there.

[@williambryant5946]

The state and local governments can't afford to maintain the roadsides as much anymore because the money they get goes to the road surface itself. This is because the federal government would rather fund BS like gender studies in Pakistan instead of giving states the money they need to maintain infrastructure. Shit rolls down hill.

[@greg9403]

Our politicians are just mobsters . Their are racketeering. Look how much money they have after so many years. On their pay. It doesn't add up. So where did the money come from?

[@scottrakes1622]

In Virginia we would have called in that day. Mighty wet. 😅

[@helenhelps9619]

Tonka operators with advice. Chris knows what he is doing.

[@darylb4814]

Chris, is that not the Townships job to maintain the ditches and keep them clean, where I live they come by at least every other year and do them on the roads.

[@littlefinkle7757]

That would be nice! Our county won't come out until the road washes out. We only have repair workers instead of County maintenance workers.

[@ericpaul4575]

I would not trust the township to do that nice of a job.

[@Blazer02LS]

In my area the state, county and towns all do the ditches, but they all went to the same school, dig-em-DEEP... When they get done her you could drop a full size pick-up in there and lose it...

[@rdon53]

you make the mini excavator look as fluid as those boston dynamics robots.

[@northseabrent]

The final trim is always first rate.

[@keithdunlap2701]

Done an Done !! "Mud" !! There i said, it for ya ...lolol... Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening, On to the Next !!

[@kens.3729]

You can tell family or friends you spent the day moving Slop & moving the same Slop again.😬👍

[@markreetz1001]

With all the rain you get, you will be getting a lot of drainage repair jobs. Good job!

[@joemascioni3101]

Technically it wasn't Carolina liquid earth, but damn it wasn't too far from it! Nice job Chris.

[@alexossowski3219]

Getting pretty good at smearing mud..

[@denisricher1349]

The story of Chris' life.... playing in the mud..... Nice job Chris

[@garydavies735]

Great ditching work Chris, the rotary bucket is very handy!! Hope you and David are well, happy new year to you both .

[@mischef18]

Sure tidied it up too bro. Made for a cool little video as well. Safe travels in 2021

[@josianrodriguez1249]

SALUDOS CHRIS , NICE JOB WELL DONE LIKE ALWAYS.

[@IR-nq4qv]

I yells out: "Oh happy Joy Sticks! Wife: Chris must be on Your tube again... Me: Yes sireee!, Copy dat! Wife: What big job are you on today? Me: We're cleaning Silch out of a dilch Wife: Wha?... Never mind.... Me: Can I have a lunch.... over? Wife in the living room: Sorry, you're breaking up.... I can't hear you, you must be out of range...over

[@ratspeedgarage]

Great work! How was the phone line?

[@Blackwater_House]

It must be a consequence of Rainfall that you have such an abundance of Mud. Australia being the driest Continent on Earth, haven’t nearly as much (except perhaps for Tasmania, which has Rainfall and Mountains).

[@fhuber7507]

Now they need to keep that ditch up... Clear it with a box blade every year.

[@garrymatthews5598]

I,am from the U.K. and can not quite understand why your service,s are put in so shallow, do you not trunk the line at all ?. Seems that this is a short cut too me. But then when I watch you working on roads to new properties (we call them lanes) because it’s not black top (tarmac) it also seem to look the cheaper option with more maintenance 🤷🏼‍♂️. Love your channel.

[@lsellclumanetsolarenergyll5071]

How do you charge on your job's like this one ? Is it a daily rate? I soon have to do some work on my property and have to run numbers what renting and all would cost and what someone who does it for a living would charge.

[@sisco_rl7160]

Really wish we could have watched you lose that huge pile of dirt you were bringing with you there at the end. It seemed to just disappear. Unfortunate.

[@ehamster]

You say the wire wasn’t marked, but it looked like you caught it and the flag at 15:00. Hopefully it was redundant.

[@margegeneverra5594]

It's not marked any more!

[@ehamster]

He was clear in his comments, but go to 15:00 and watch him snag the wire and scoop a marker at the same time. So I think it was the marked wire.

[@ArizVern]

I think your way finds minimum grade. Your laser would find max grade, by setting grade from each end of ditch Edit: (quarter inch or more or less a foot).

[@joerabon4856]

This homeowner should have called the county they live in and asked about them doing their job. I believe the county's responsibility. You however are doing a nice job. On second thought after seeing what a nice job you are doing the county or city whichever would have made a mess that the homeowner would have to of had to deal with and you were probably the better option. You ALWAYS do a neat job.

[@mrMacGoover]

I really dont get what you doing with the berm from 17:20 on. Your removing the berm and building it behind you... and backing up and repeating...?

[@michaelsinn2992]

Happy New year Chris, trouble is with utility service they won't dig deeper than they need to, if I had to put anything through a ditch it would be below its lowest point so it didn't get caught while cleaning out

[@marymullings3823]

Ok, obviously there is nothing of Mother Earth, Chris can't make look pretty. LOL

[@crkproductions5000]

With scalpel-like precision, you cut a ditch with a machine that could literally destroy the entire yard. A skilled craftsman in any profession is hard to beat.

[@DAVE_WHITE]

Why would you not run this from the other side, equipment on the road so you don't destroy the grass with tacks? looked like there was no traffic on that road

[@jeanettecuthriell5578]

My cc is turned on is yours? I'm hearing impaired so can't understand you. Please see if there's a problem on your end. I don't have a problem with your older videos only the newer ones.

[@charliehewgley504]

Chris check out the bucket that Andrew Camarata built for swells,I think you would like it.

[@donmiller358]

Chris, Horry country just did the ditches around here. Let me tell ya, they need lessons from you, another great job by Mr Chris.

[@rhacker3058]

Hey Chris, you just explained it, it looked like yo hit that wire twice, Have a good one!!

[@marlondeere3039R]

It's a good thing that wasn't "DUST" it would of been much harder to make look that good😉

[@marcryvon]

"Honey, I'd like to go shopping tomorrow morning..." Aaaah, really can't, Hon. I've got a mud slicking job to do bright and early. Ya know...

[@sagebrushnw485]

At 15:00 it looks like you snagged an orange flag. Could that have been the residential service that you mentioned snagging at 16:36?

[@mrMacGoover]

Is that the biggest articulating bucket for that machine? That thing is a tiny ice cream scooper Lol!

[@DMSparky]

Is this some persons driveway or just the worlds worst engineered municipal road?

[@bigjohnworks1427]

do you think a tilt grading bucket is worth the money lol? im thinking i will get one for my vio35 yanmar. also what do you think of a tilt tach for a skid steer?

[@OVTraveller]

No one asked the question: why the hell did they wait until the bloody ditch was overgrown?

[@hemansteve]

Andrew Camarata’s new bucket would have been perfect for this job.

[@jaymcnaughton8368]

In my area if that is a public road the town or county would be doing this job?

[@tri-statelawn9071]

Man construction companies where I live would kill to have operator like you

[@robertdonaldson6584]

Nothing like dealing with your neighbor's run-off water

[@jeffsmith771]

It's said you don't get no guarantee in life but you get 1 with a toaster' you seem to be guaranteed rain...

[@farmerbob4554]

I don’t know if you can call a ditch “beautiful” but this one is pretty close.

[@Ma-yahya]

Bonjour s'il vous plaît abonnés cette chaîne kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2eakIGOftOGj9U au maroc 🇲🇦 👍🏻

[@ShaneBurrell1]

Wet weather is good for business.

[@DigginLife21]

🔥🔥🔥SOMETHING ALWAYS SATISFYING ABOUT A FRESHLY CLEANED OUT DITCH LINE... FINE JOB CAPTAIN✌️

[@kevintanner4881]

I have asked a few times I like to buy some shirts can you get bigger sizes

[@tonynewsom9244]

How much most guys charging per foot to dig silted ditches ?

[@andrewhatch.KE0ZOS]

When are you going to be on Six points from Perfect, with Dirt Perfect and Jason Works a lot?

[@papaw5405]

I hope he don't! Chris don't fit into their mentality. Throwing pokes, jabs and prods at other people is just not his style. Chris lets his work speak for itself. That's why I watch his videos. He don't have a ratchet jaw! He's not just a mouth with legs!

[@ConstructionMachineryChannel]

@@papaw5405 I think he would fit right in with them. I'd like to see a video with them together.

[@papaw5405]

@@ConstructionMachineryChannel Chris has more subscribers than all that crowd put together. They need to bring themselves up to his level instead of he lowering himself to theirs. Chris does a lot of things very well but being snarky isn't one of them. Nice guys finish first but not if they attach themselves to a bunch of hooligans (or who try to make themselves appear that way). Mike Simon would be a great KZbinr if he would try helping people up instead of running them down. I still watch him because I think there is still hope for him but the rest of that crowd, with the exception of Mike Kleeman, are just a bunch of leeches trying to live off someone else's blood. I've been wanting to unleash on somebody for a while now. Sorry it had to be on you!

[@papaw5405]

@@ConstructionMachineryChannel You did get me interested in your channel. I'm checking you out right now. Maybe I'll subscribe!

[@ConstructionMachineryChannel]

@@papaw5405 No problem, we all have our opinions. I watch a lot of diffrenct channels and in general they all seem to be good guys. Do they all have the same personality? Do they all have the same sense of humor? Do they all work the same? No, but that's okay. To me I like that I can get something different from each of their channels. Another channel to check out if you haven't already is Full Tilt Grading, good guys with a good channel, that's my opinion at least.

[@aaronburford5701]

Great skills on the excavator! Ground looks good sir!

[@jamestate7851]

Here is the Truck for you !!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rH2xkqycgtiBpas

[@farmall51]

Grandparents used to live just on the other side of the tracks there. I know that area lol.

[@raywilson800]

Excellent work as usual Chris.

[@recklessbehaviour01]

You need one of those ‘V’ shaped ditching buckets

[@MichaelBrown-qn9hi]

Another GREAT FINISH.

[@brucemitch928]

Couldn’t ask for a better job.

[@northleftcoast]

Is that a 42” or 48” grading bucket?

[@oldredcoonhound2182]

V ditches are the worse. They silt in to fast.

[@tcsdoc]

He’s like an artist creating a work of art using a Yanmar.

[@adamwestbrook4154]

Can anyone tell me what’s the name of the tilt attachment and where to get it?

[@karlcarnevale4948]

I was waiting for you to scoop out an abandoned scooter.

[@xxpricexx817price9]

What is the attachment that your bucket is connected to

[@donangst9120]

I think your new nick name should be madman or rainmaker lol

[@marcryvon]

You mean Mudman, right !?

[@donangst9120]

@@marcryvon yep auto correct didn't help me any

[@timothypirnat3754]

Did you ever dream that there would be this much interest in people watching you operate heavy equipment? 114,610 views as of this writing, and 385,000 subscribers. Very cool!

[@patrickprince-f3y]

Mister George it’s a good operator 😉👌👌

[@dalelewis1016]

Do you ever get hired from people that watch the videos?

[@CLEARVIEW666]

Answering Machine: Hi this is Bob i'm looking for LetsDig18 i need a trailer pulled out of the Mud LOL Chris: Errrrrr

[@dwightarnold6980]

The Water seems to help you keep your Grade!

[@lloydgarling4574]

I waved at the driver that honked at you so you didn't have to.

[@sandybarnes887]

Great to know I wasn't alone in waving at him. 😆

[@michaelc.3812]

Locate markers? What locate markers!??

[@fastsetinthewest]

My daughter lives over at Fayetteville, NC. Lots of rain. At least the dirt ain't hard as those rocks ya been pounding. It's a wonder you don't dream rocks. Eaglegards... 👍

[@Mephiston]

A shame you didnt show the process of you pulling up the cable. I'm guessing you're hanging on to that for insurance purposes in case someone gets uppity at you?

[@letsdig18]

you can clearly see it in the shot of me working from outside

[@Mephiston]

@@letsdig18 Ah, my bad. I was watching it on a smaller screen. Apologies.

[@thesouthernshepard2365]

Where do you see your business in the next 5 years

[@martineastburn3679]

What a good job ! I saw a custom bucket built that was a flat bottom V and was used for these ditches. His worked along a road or across a field. I had the special detach ears made and created the bucket from AR400 sheet. AR500 is better but either will work. Wires are placed 20 ft and 10 ft under ground. I have phone at 10 and crosses power at 20. My flag guy showed me how it swooped up to the house from deep underground. My phone line crosses my road twice. What a pain. Water is placed at "7" so it was said. Crazy in yards and property.

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

Looks good! Have you ever thought about buying, or building, a skid steer size bucket that hooks on the blade of the mini? I have one, and it is really handy for moving materials on small projects where it doesn't make sense to have two machines :)

[@slammey6971]

You do amazing work Chris

[@delcasaleexcavating9508]

Looks great I have a similar job coming up in a couple of weeks and have to use the helac power tilt along with interchanging between it and my thumb and skeleton bucket... I just wish these bucket attachment manufactures put more thought into us operators when they build tilt attachments so you can still use the hydraulic thumb at the same time....my thumb doesn't line up with the power tilt installed because the attachment adds an additional 18" of length and distance away from the thumb therefore rendering it useless. BTW.. are those RR tracks in service ?

[@phillippearson2596]

nice finish, Thats the sign of somebody that not only enjoys their work but also takes pride in it . Nice one Cris. (a side note: ) What's not to like,????