Dredging The Money Pit

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[@ImpulseMoss]

Idk why. But I'm addicted to watching this channel now.

[@h418lfc]

Legend has it that the community reuse this sand to fill in eroded creeksides further up stream.

[@christoph72761]

It's called the circle of life ;-)

[@zrxer2]

LOL!

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

😂😂😂

[@jwhayes1965]

Kudos to you. Not often the comments get me to laughing out loud!

[@johndaniels3130]

LOL

[@daleolson7205]

The very first letsdig18 video I watched was Chris playing on the mats in this pond. That got me hooked.

[@craigpridemore7566]

My first was him digging the rental excavator out of the middle of the pond for the rental company. It was buried up to the cab. He said, "They actually had a good plan. They just got in over their head. Sorry." ;)

[@kirk467]

That’s why you’re the man Chris, you always leave your jobs looking like new! You have to have some really satisfied customers, your work is incredible! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@wyattearp1418]

Another Great Video! You know, I watch some of my other Favorites videos and when they are over 30 minutes, I get bored. But on your Channel, I’m enjoying every moment!!!! Thanks again for sharing.

[@jenniferbutcher8393]

Oh yes! A pond dredging! My fave! 😊 wait! I hear frogs singing in the background! Sweet spring music!

[@delwynhallett565]

That settled, if any time I want a pond put in, I'll get it layered with sand after. Love the clean fresh look of the water...

[@thisismyusername6717]

Something about watching videos like this sooths my mind from thinking all day. I mean i KNOW you are constantly thinking of stuff “where to put the load, where to dig first” not saying your job is easy but watching it? Satisfying and entertaining. Subscribed about two weeks ago

[@TheCat92067]

Hey, Chris. Not sure why, but I really like these types of your videos. They are so relaxing. Thank you for sharing your day!

[@standrickhodges5688]

These videos are like therapy to me. I be looking forward to your videos everyday

[@kirk467]

It’s a good thing you came there when you did, I believe you spent more days on it last time! This time you’re getting after it Chris, great job brother!

[@davidrobins4025]

"I'll be a leg up on this job." Hilarious. Keep diggin'.

[@Losttoanyreason]

Can't believe you went there with the leg joke, LOL. I do believe I recognize this sand collection facility. New sand old friend.

[@sebastianr.0815]

36:30 Oh, a Wacker Neuson telescopic loader, these ones are made right in neighborhood to the company I work at in Korbach, 🇩🇪. Nice to see something from home so far abroad. Cheers!

[@bobolson9865]

I noticed you had the window open. I've done that before and when the mud splattered I gasped and got mud back to my tonsils. 🤐

[@peteacher52]

No wasted movements, no wasted energy; it's a pleasure to watch your kind of efficiency, Chris.

[@cassia_cries]

I loved the greenish tint too!

[@michaelowen1750]

a broom and a shoe-- someone was swept off their feet!

[@Mephiston]

Well played.

[@young11984]

Or the witch crashed in the creek.

[@theodoredugranrut8201]

Good 1

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

Either that or they thought they were a Shoe-In for the clean up job...

[@crkproductions5000]

I wouldn’t even know where to start. Great job. I learned a lot.

[@tcsdoc]

LOL, I liked the beginning where the reflection in the glass showed him operating the controls.

[@charlesyell6318]

I love watching a man work that knows what he is doing. The machene that was buried in the lake was amazing to watch.

[@greghoffstadt667]

Love the sound of 🐸 in the background. Nice quick work as always 👍👌

[@grahamdunton3283]

Watching John, is like poetry in motion, very relaxing Yes a lot of sand, may be a turkey nest dam further up the creek, with a small gabion style weir downside, would concentrate that sand in one convenient spot.

[@randallrbaker5030]

Looks like they need a couple sediment basins built up stream to catch the sand. We had the same situation on I69 in Greene County Indiana and they worked on that project. Great video

[@kirk467]

When I get the bucks I’ll be ordering a tee shirt and a hoodie! I’ll be looking to see when they’re available brother! Thanks for sharing all these very interesting videos Chris! 👍🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@The1stKukuDrifter]

Chris: No I don’t need a bigger bucket. All of us: No, you need a 700! :)

[@HughzieTube]

950 should sort that rock/animal hospital job out!

[@dave_n8pu]

If there was some way I could give him about a third of my 300 plus pounds for the back, many not make a difference on his excavator but it would make a difference on me. Oh well, wishful think on my part, been heavy (read FAT) most of my 70 plus years, I'll probably take it with me when 'I'm pushing up daises'.

[@Zerububble]

Sounds like this place needs floating dredge and a conveyor.

[@Nighthawke70]

Chris needed his dredging bucket for this gig.

[@thisismyusername6717]

@@dave_n8pu i mean if youre looking for a kid to give it to u can adopt me and i will visit you in the nursing home and talk to you lol

[@shilohii]

I can watch you do this pond work for hours! It's a form of meditation! LOL

[@kevinkenyon7045]

Another mess cleaned up. Thanks for sharing. Kevin

[@MrsTnRebel]

Ohhh I hear frogs chirping. Favorite part of spring. I can’t wait to hear them again in NE Tn.😊

[@septicwhelk3654]

First frog yesterday 27/02/2021 west wales

[@theodoredugranrut8201]

In Ca.2

[@bigbluram]

Frogs started last Monday or Tuesday here in Southeast Virginia

[@johncampbell6382]

That looks great Chris brilliant job 👍👍

[@kirk467]

Well I hope you have some good weather this weekend Chris, I figure you will be working as always! And I’ll be watching your videos, I enjoy each and every one of them! Is sand the heaviest material that you load for hauling or those boulders! I know when you load sand it’s not up to the top of the dump truck like dirt! That’s why I was asking brother! Good luck brother and always praying for you up there! Stay safe Chris 👍🏻👍🏻

[@jameshall1691]

This is becoming a once a year or 2 at most kind of a project

[@mischef18]

This pond job always makes good viewing bro. Safe travels

[@markpashia7067]

Around these parts we would call that a sand mining operation. The gift that keeps on giving.

[@donaldsherman7905]

Whoo hoo in number 9 to watch!!!!! I’ve watched your vids for so long I recognize this place. That’s not sand you are digging, it’s 20$ bills!

[@samson1200]

Another great video Chris! Thank you for such interesting videos. Curious why they do not put in a slow rotating silt screen device upstream and have it dump the sand on a slow moving conveyer up to a nice flat open area and just have you haul the sand away once a year with a skid loader and dump trucks. Sure would save them a bunch of money lol.🤔

[@ONEpocketKID21]

Enjoy the beautiful weekend Chris!

[@ntepup77]

I recognized it within the first 30 seconds lol! I think the last time you were here popped up in my recommends a couple weeks ago. YT keeps recommending me videos I've already seen. Of course I watched it again. Haha

[@young11984]

Yea i keep getting recommendations 2-8hrs after i already watched them and showing posted 2,15 or 30 min ago.

[@dignation216]

That was a good one, I think the water was lower this time

[@General_Confusion]

Someone upstream must be getting a canyon.

[@jurzdevil]

jack hoffman is running the worlds biggest sluice box just upstream

[@thetileman1984]

And has not found the first flake of gold. But the sand is a sign of good gold.

[@infoanorexic]

Agriculture can contribute a lot. Tilled field, heavy rain. Neighbor to the west of us loses a little to our side of the fence every year, all headed, ultimately, to the flood control lake that was built in 1978. Where the creek runs in, it's starting to look similar to what you seen in the first part of this video.

[@endagigropen9319]

One thing I miss on any excavator here in Sweden is a thumb (when driving without a tiltrotator) I haven't seen a single machine here with a thumb. It's a handy piece of equipment when it's needed! Very nice driving as usual 👍🏻

[@pqworks9019]

You’re lucky that the sand is relatively easy to scoop up and load out. You should almost make a gravel lot in that area due to the frequency of your dredging jobs there. Great work!!

[@Ragnar1822]

To bad I didn't live closer.. I would really enjoy running equipment for you.. You seem like a very respectful and caring person and boss to work for.. Thank you for your time and the work it does to get the footage..

[@MrRebar15]

*letsdig 18* Couple switch backs up stream would cut down on that. Thanks for taking the time to bring us along. God Bless.

[@cathiwim]

Only until the next hurricane comes along and floods it out.

[@chasebodiford4363]

great video and great job as always buddy 😎👊🏻👍🏻

[@loganc4233]

Big machines moving dirt. Love it!

[@edmc755]

Love to watch you work that machine

[@stevemartinez6757]

The gift that keeps on giving.

[@frag0mat1c]

The place where I started watching your videos!

[@Farm_fab]

Years ago I worked at a C & D (commercial and demolition) landfill, and another man and I had to wash the clay off of the tires of the trucks leaving the site. If they had sand like this it would have been easier, but they use clay (peanut butter) to cover the mound in the afternoon before closing.

[@Badgermatt-nc5nr]

Chris, what you need there is a bucket wheel excavator feeding into a concrete pump that dumps into a dewatering plant that unloads into a front end loader that can stack it into a pile that you can sit on to load it into an off road truck to move it to a stock pile at the end of the lake by the road where you can then load it into the on road trucks. See I'm an expert, I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express once, and ohh, I watched a KZbin video about it too!!!

[@ronedwards5258]

Hey Chris, Of ‘Excavator Recovery’ fame with over 7.6M views so far!!! Well done lad. You should invite Destin for a lesson and see how he goes on the different gear. That would be a goldmine for your views for sure… Keep up the great work, it is a pleasure to watch and learn from such a smooth operator. Ron

[@kb7722]

7.6 million views equals down payment on a dozer

[@pamike4873]

@@kb7722 A very small dozer.

[@markbrown6236]

Always good to have a steady job. Easy digging, not much mat moving.

[@DocNo27]

That wet sanding sure shined the bucket up!

[@lauraelliott6485]

NC sand hills gotta love it! Never know if it's muddy or dusty no in-between ❤️ your videos Chris! I'm North of Raleigh NC. If you ever take a break from working and wanna play in the mud on atv or sidexside go to Busco Goldsboro! That's my play ground!

[@benjaminjohnson8248]

The soothing sounds of Bull frogs and an Excavator...... Got my earphones on and your mic picks it up great, 25 minute area.

[@jimgarrett7078]

Looks great Chris!!!!

[@molyoxide164]

Keep the good videos up man

[@richwielechowski5191]

Some where up stream there is a giant sink hole feeding your money pit. Makes sense to move a few loads twice a year vs waiting till it several hundred loads.

[@PenDragonsPig]

River silt- that’s some good shit. Alluvial deposits. Can you deliver to Rhode Island? Over in the UK my little brother used to do ploughing demonstrations at ploughing completions. Most people used to slap old sump oil on their ploughs to stop rust but they would still be a little crappy come next time to plough. My brother would drive his tractor and plough down to a nearby river estuary and plough the gravelly sand to shine his plough bits up.

[@brazucaoperandomaquinasnaa574]

Great job 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@dafyd242]

you know spring is not far away when you hear the little frogs chirping away.

[@GARDENER42]

Didn't take long to put the shine back on the bucket. 😁 ETA & five minutes later, you say just that. 😉

[@skyhunter823]

Dredgeing oportions are a big under taking it can be most challenging as well

[@USSBB62]

Knowing the job so well. Maybe the big finishing bucket ?

[@waldinjo]

You've got some oddly satisfying content, keep it up

[@cindyking9813]

I love the dredging jobs!

[@leecho9460]

I like the camera angle at the end of the video. It shows more of what you do as an operator

[@takmot716]

It's Spring, I hear the croaking frogs! Woo Hoo

[@ogreatmaster8334]

Maybe your Uncle John has been pulling your leg and is just dumping what you have been digging for years just upstream a ways..... then snickering while you dig it back out.

[@cocopublicnews6766]

Fuck that guy if this was the case

[@wbulex]

I kept waiting for that tree hanging over your dig site to be gone!

[@bige9055]

That’s one Pond, that the land keeps trying to take back. I remember you been at this digging out sand lol 😂. If it’s not the same one it looks like one you have done.

[@scotten34]

Grate video.. Thanks man ❤️🙏

[@r1mein54]

Paid re-work is good to have. Pollen,,,yes I have yellow powder on everything here in N.Fla., saw yellow honeysuckle blooming in tree tops and my azaleas will bloom this next week. It may be repetitive to redo this job but you do have a nice clear sunny day.

[@martineastburn3679]

Hum this reminds me of a cement pumper. put in or suck up some wet sand and pump it out of the area into a big stack or into a truck. I like the settling stack and then you put it into the truck. What a job.

[@pedromatajr8725]

That machine is super fast, it's always good to see what there capable of.

[@jimkruszka3817]

nice to hear the frogs ,spring is coming

[@bobjoncas2814]

....i thought a money pit was a non-Volvo..lol...good one stay safe and have a great weekend..

[@ericpaul4575]

I just watched the last job at the money pit not that long ago. Some of that sand was left from that time.

[@louroberts5567]

WOW!! That filled up ALREADY!?!? Brother, You have got A LOT of patience! That just seems like a cruel trick that keeps repeating itself.

[@bostedtap8399]

Smooth and wet, great vlog Chris. Thanks for sharing.

[@kirk467]

Every time you use the mats it just amazes me how you’ll get out on top of some bad stuff like the minnow pond, that was really hairy! lol oh and how you use a log to grade the really muddy stuff! But now that you have the grading bucket I guess the log is obsolete! lol 😂

[@cathiwim]

It will never be obsolete!

[@skyhunter823]

I must say Mr Cris Dat y'all are a very good oporater considering the jobs y'all get into

[@Doctorcameltoe2]

That would be so much fun to skim board from the creek into the pond.

[@cliff4695]

Just like oak island, they keep drilling for wood in their money pit and you keep coming back digging up sand. Only difference is you're making money and they are blowing money.

[@jameshall1691]

You stole my line 😁😁👍

[@lloydholt6511]

Yup! Thought the same thing. Like an automatic deposit.

[@USSBB62]

Is it possible that Blue Beard had drilling Equipment to go that deep ?

[@gregnewlin1074]

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[@cyndikarp3368]

Sand & gravel could be used later, if you have a place to store it for a while.

[@vincentshields8545]

They need you on oak island you and john would have found the gold and then a drone shot before and after keep up the good work love the vids

[@DigginLife21]

🔥🔥🔥 Is that.... SUNSHINE 🧐

[@stevegreen291]

Amazing how it silts in that fast!!

[@Sicktrickintuner]

Probably was backed up the waterway and the heavy rain events brought it down stream and cleaned out up river

[@michaelpage9883]

Saw the title and I thought I was watching The Curse of Oak Island. You get your “gold” it of here on a regular basis. I have seen you dredge this one before.

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

The Fish: Not this guy again!? The Sand: Hold my beer.

[@MrDevicks]

Have I been watching too many of your videos when I can remember places you’ve been when you come back to them?

[@AWDJRforYouTube]

Nothing harder than trying to hold water, trying to hold sand lol...great video!'

[@dude2001steve]

Great video

[@tsmall07]

@0:45 I thought you were saying the truck driver's name was Matt. Then 5 seconds later I had an Oooooohhhhh moment.

[@gandjboyd7872]

I think this job was the 1st video I started watching your channel . about quicksand I believe

[@jgsmith1624]

This is my favorite site!!

[@Adamsadventures83]

I think this place and one of your older videos was one of the very first vids of yours I discovered a couple/few years back.

[@dannysowell9071]

The owner should name the lake after John. He's caught more fish out of it than anyone. 💰💰

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

Nah, too many people would think something Fishy was going on...

[@davidperry2306]

Chris, you were saying those mats are broken now and you'll need to buy some new ones. You are forever clearing trees and many of them are Oaks. Don't you know a mate who has a saw mill that could mill you some 8 x 4's, drill out a few holes and gang them together with 3/4" threaded bar. If a board gets broken all that's needed is take the broken board out and replace it with a spare. Just a thought mate, but in any case love your videos. Best wishes from the Isle of Wight. South of the UK.