Soil Stabilization of track and field track at local school district.

[@plumbcrazy375]

I think the reason you have a hard time finding workers because you are one of the hardest working person I've seen I am as well I'm a plumber

[@davidfarnell1237]

Keep the videos coming. I enjoy all of them.

[@SLCFarms]

I could listen to you all day. I like the way you think Charlie. I’ve never met ya but hope to one day if we ever cross paths. Nothing like a person that takes great pride in doing the best job you can do. Sorry about those hose vandals and the poor cat rep. Price just went up

[@dalebates9937]

Nice mate, I’m an Senior Surveyor who does a lot of machine control, the way you set up your job is 100%.

[@CosmosArchipelago]

"You gotta work with people. You want them to call you back." Well said.

[@robertblain9968]

I delivered dry bulk powdered cement to ready mix plants for 11 years. I know all about them animals that like to eat the ears off the ends of the hoses LOL. I learned a lot of tricks of the trade on pumping off the tanks into the silos. You might want to take bungee cord and wrap the ears on the fittings because with the hose wiggling back-and-forth sometimes loosen them up and pops the hose off.

[@eddiemortontapman7252]

ST Wooten Corp here uses some of there water trucks and a big tag trailers to move equipment in central NC operations .

[@jaybrooks2502]

You are a honorable man Mr Charlie! I’ve always done the same if we break it we fixed it!

[@wadewilson5296]

Charlie is the kind of guy you want to work for!

[@jimhanifer1177]

Just want to wish you and your family and your crew a happy Easter I enjoy your channel thank you 🇺🇸🚜🙏

[@michaeld_68]

Change all those hose fittings to the type you screw on I bet they'll miss those camlocks!!!!! Ask me how i know!!! 😳🙄😀 Nice job Charlie.

[@AlwayzPr0]

great to seee you have lots of work, I know in wilmington they are building so many new warehouses, it is crazy how much our area is growing.

[@jimwesselman]

Charlie, maybe when you quote a job for the cement you can fill in “Market Price “. Nice that there is still people out there that give a damn! Thank you!

[@gamecockdiehard5569]

Rode by there the other day, saw a reclaimer and wondered if it was y’all. Cool deal

[@copperheadmarine]

It bees us

[@joeburton6664]

Great videos Charlie!! You are a Busy man

[@r1mein54]

All of us who have worked at a cement plant know the mess and dust clouds you deal with.

[@jesseburns9734]

Nice work I sure wish I lived closer I would love to learn how to run a total station. God Bless You and Your Family

[@ke6gwf]

I think it's great that you go ahead and fix the leaks, because if it was your fault, it makes word of mouth good that you made them whole, and if like in this case you still take care of them, and after digging it they discover that the pipe was 8 feet away from where they told you, and it was only 6 inches deep, they will feel a little guilty for blaming you for it, and give rave reviews on contrition! Lol

[@eddiemortontapman7252]

The precast company in the area gets there concrete (2) loads a day from Wilmington, NC . It’s imported from Greece . Most Precast companies are either dusty or muddy , the nature of the beast !

[@Richard-cz1vz]

Another great video, thanks for sharing 👍

[@Bobsutubes]

Unfortunate about the leak, but it was nice to see the finished product. That soil cement treatment sets up real nice.

[@geesss8675]

Why is there a shortage of materials?

[@copperheadmarine]

Shut downs for cleaning, etc.

[@bobrat]

I saw that we had 3 cement freighters unloading here in Milwaukee on Friday. It is available.

[@mischef18]

Great video bro, things are getting harder here in NZ too and fuel prices are going through the roof. Safe travels

[@kens.3729]

Some people just Don’t get there are Shortages of a Lot of things and you only have Limited Suppliers to Purchase from.

[@smjhobbies4527]

Close to home jobs, gotta love it

[@copperheadmarine]

About 30 minutes, sure was nice

[@smjhobbies4527]

Again you're a good man charlie. Do you think dirt race tracks down south are treated with this concrete soil cement soil sorry

[@bones2610]

You're a good man. Most folks fight and want more money to fix things when it definitely their fault. The world needs more folks like you.

[@thomasconstructiontexas]

We use lime in Texas. There don't appear to be no shortage on it. Get the same results. Good video

[@steves9915]

Amazing, I just read where up here in the north east there are numerous reports of the gang of Cam Lock Bashers striking all over! I hope your cat rep cleaned off good before he got in the shower 😱

[@thomasleonard1846]

Have you built a big wash bay to clean that equipment up?

[@humveekid]

Do you not pull 12" or so of your edges in with the blade after the cement is down so the reclaimer can mix it then roll it back?

[@copperheadmarine]

Absolutely. Around all man holes and boxes as well.

[@cntslesfabrication]

I feel bad dor the cat rep BUT THAT RIGHT THERE IS FUNNY LOL

[@prinzeugenvansovoyen732]

did the cement set up in the wet spots or did it get washed out ?

[@copperheadmarine]

It will set up the best in wet spots

[@matkremzar5474]

xcavation is like boating evwrything is fine and dandy till you hit underwater unknowns

[@cntslesfabrication]

It's like pulling money out of your ass you could if you would. LOL

[@caesar1295]

I put up a tower crane on a concrete plant outside Colorado Springs was there only 4 days and it felt like it took a week to get the dust off of me. Charlie do they use this procedure on race tracks before paving them?

[@copperheadmarine]

I hadn't done any but I'm sure it would work well.

[@imchris5000]

can you still get lime? it might be the alternative

[@grantmryan]

Hey Charlie, get a price from Lowes for cement by the sack and quote that to your customers who want you to do something as an option when the bulk plant is out, then they might say oh, ok we will wait rather than, but you need to do something.

[@eddiemortontapman7252]

Mr Charles , where do the ingredients that make up the cement come from ? What parts of the US or outside the US ? Thanks for teaching us about your trade . I hope the VP and family has a good time at the mountains and everyone is well now .

[@chrisestill8825]

There are approximately 100 cement production plants in the US. The utilize local material to reduce the costs as much as possible.

[@copperheadmarine]

We have 3 local kilns, Argos ,Giant and Holcium Lafarge, all within about 2 miles of each other. Holley Hill SC about an hour and a half from here. Ingredients are Fossilized coral Aka limestone Clay "pocaline" Coking coal Natural gas The last 2 Ingredients are through the roof! So, if you just tell everyone you are going up on price they bitch already 2 increases in the last 6 months. But if all the kilns shut down at exactly the same time for " maintenance " creating a severe shortage. When they go back into production you will be glad to pay more just to get it. It's possible, just possible there could be some greed going on here? But carma is very interesting 🤔 because we are in 2007 and 2008's a commin' like a runaway train! I sure hope I'm wrong but I fear I'm not.

[@ke6gwf]

It's a combination of high demand from lots of construction projects happening at once, and labor shortages from sickness and people wanting to take better jobs, as well as logistics issues for the stuff that gets imported, because the whole world is in chaos right now. Since it's kept as local as possible, I don't know if his area is having a shortage because local quarries are not producing at full capacity, or if gets imported there and they are having trouble getting loads, but it's just one of those things that happens in times of global turmoil combined with high demand.

[@eddiemortontapman7252]

Our customers where we have made 12” water main taps are having a lot of supply problems getting 12” diameter ductile pipe also

[@eddiemortontapman7252]

I do remember traveling by a cement plant in England and seeing a furnace and asking about it and they said they were making Volcanic sand from regular sand using a natural gas furnace for part of the process for cement manufacturing

[@michaelfredette3548]

Amazing How You Pull Grades ! Question , You Stabelized The Track , What About The Rest Of Field ? Will It Get Soggy And Wet ? Why Just The Track ?

[@copperheadmarine]

To be honest. The track was only stabilized to permit asphalt paving equipment while it's being paved.

[@fgllc]

I remember years ago on the west coast we had a fly ash shortage.... I have only run across cement treat a couple of times out here and it has been on municipal roads. The majority of out projects use lime to treat soil. Is that an option where you are?

[@williambryant5946]

Yes lime is available here but he uses the cement powder.

[@fgllc]

@@williambryant5946 No, I get that he uses cement. i was/am not sure if it is a regional preference, has to do with soil chemistry, end use of the sub-structure, etc...

[@williambryant5946]

@@fgllc He said it works better for him so IDK. I'm sure he'll answer your question.

[@kevinreeves9209]

Where do y’all get your soil cement from ?

[@copperheadmarine]

Giant and Holcium Lafarge

[@johnwood702]

Hey Charlie you may have to get into the cement powder business. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@terryrogers1025]

You gotta watch those vandals in the middle of the night, a guy could get something done if it wasn’t for them!🙄😏😉. Thanks for the ride along, hopefully your cat rep didn’t seize up on the way home from all the cement dust. Like you say no matter who’s fault, if one was in the area working, well what’s it take to fix the problem, get it fixed and move on and a guy has a better chance of that customer coming back to you later. No sense of piddling in the Cheerios!!

[@TheHillbillyEngineer]

Them damn hose vandals!

[@davidsightler3589]

The rm 500 don't play nice with pipes! I hope materials get better for you. It sucks having the work to do, but no material to do it with.

[@sprint2648]

Can’t get cement! Can’t get this, can’t get that. Don’t like to complain but this build back better doesn’t seem to be working out very good.

[@copperheadmarine]

I make an effort not to get political, but im sure it's not hard to figure out my stance . I just don't feel like everyone has to think like me, I think politics should be a little more private that it's become.

[@lt1nut]

@@copperheadmarine I agree but sadly that's a large contributor to how we got this deep into the messes that we're in. I don't know of an answer on what to do instead other than calling them on their pontificating of their version of truth and reality. Societies, like the weather, swing back and forth; ideally those swing are slow- and small- enough to not cause mass turmoil and upheaval. Hopefully society as a whole, the citizenry, learn and figure that out before it regurgitates. That's a huge and growing hope....

[@tomredmond]

Hitting irrigation pipe is way better than hitting a 4" gas main. It was only off by 8'.

[@memyselfandifarmer]

Seems like PINK slips are over dooooo!

[@seanmulligan4123]

We just did this 3 years ago to our HS track. For them to install artificial turf this last summer. Had to build bridge over the new track surface. School is only 10 years old, and the old track was asphalt over road base on compacted fill. School engineers are plain DUMB! We did the other 3 HS tracks this summer after they all got new artificial turf. Some major company with a smile on the box woopsied and didn’t pay taxes for 5 years. Schools were owed $17M in back taxes and late fees.

[@BentTreeFarmPa]

Charlie, This has nothing to do with you, but this just shows the waste of taxes that goes on these days. It's a track for a HIGH SCHOOL, our track was crushed clay, then it was just blacktop, painted, now it has to be laser graded, concrete subsoil treated with state of the art space grade maximum traction and rebound coated track with digital timers and artificial turf infields. Our high school just did this a couple years ago and the project was over a million and a half dollars. FREAKING crazy!!! I guess that Build Back Broke money is really flowing.

[@copperheadmarine]

Oh absolutely, it's just hemorrhaging money 💰

[@vasiliydron]

Better it get spent on a local high-school track than some Pakistani gender studies

[@carmenmurphy2543]

Need to add anti-whip cables to the ends of the hoses

[@mikethorntonr1]

Your cat rep probably ain't gonna visit you too often anymore lmao might get phone calls instead now

[@jayheiman7388]

They should have buried their lines deeper and saved you the hassle. But it’s always good policy to fix it if your broke is my motto.

[@bladewiper]

No new videos in a while, hope you are well.

[@dav1dsm1th]

Maybe it was the same vandals that drove into the shop door a few weeks ago. You should dust the trucks for fingerprints. Oh, wait... 😀

[@09FLTRMM77]

MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼

[@alwayshungry24]

shit happens. honorable men like you fix it and move on even if you're not at fault. cool vid

[@liftedburblife]

It wasn't me that plugged up the toilet someone broke in and did it.

[@ke6gwf]

I hear it's a new Tik Toc viral trend to bust off just one latch on bulk truck hoses, bonus points if you take the hose all the way out and replace it, all in 1 minute while dancing.

[@ryanhazekamp333]

Them dam vandals

[@ko9446]

I know who broke the levers. It’s that same guy my kids and workers point to. He goes by the name Wasn’t Me.

[@maxmacdonald7174]

Wow to spend money on track.

[@devenportdirtworks1203]

Stand up Job

[@tpep1693]

The people who aren't in the business, have NO IDEA how this all work's!

[@clayboist]

Is what it is.

[@DirtBrute]

Notme broke your cam locks . I hate that guy 😡

[@smjhobbies4527]

Mr charlie? I'm sorry if I've missed it. Could you do an explanation on how this procedure works and what it is that you're using to make it work. Is it just dry concrete? Like could I go get quick Creek from home Depot and wrote it till it into my front yard and make it harder

[@plumbcrazy375]

Make the use unions do that for a while bet they will be nicer to your equipment

[@mariusdd6194]

Time to invest in a cement plant...

[@matkremzar5474]

ah the life of a dry product man lol oh thatll be a story forever

[@matkremzar5474]

the funny part my buddy owns a prop shop (marine). he has the wall of shame (shit that cant be repaired) and 98 percent ..... oh my girlfriend, my brother, my mom, my everybody except me. hit something under water ..... just say u cant see under water and fess up too it .... i dont get it goood work charlie

[@2006megablue]

Would it help if I spread a bag of quick Crete over my driveway thata 3/4 of a mile long it has soft spots and I'd like it to firm up.. Or do you have a recommendation to firm it up... I have an old austin western grader with a 471 detroit that I have been working the gravel back an fourth seems like a loosing battle?

[@Mhurtle65]

SHIT HAPPENS....

[@jkmcp45]

Oh yeah we have stainless ears instead of brass and it is a thing stealing them ears or those ears has nothing to do with your little brother beating on them with a hammer

[@johnscott2849]

You just go down to the cement plant and get to work making some. People can be just plain stupid.

[@copperheadmarine]

People are used to complaining and getting what they want.