Stuck, Cant Work, Sold The 290

just a eventful day

[@tegoblue]

Funny to hear you pissin and moanin. I am an old lady in Vermont with no previous interest in excavators and now I am hooked. It is calming and satisfying to watch your progress, to hear you explain what others did wrong before you were called in, to survey the job with you before bringing machines in, to hear your southern accent, to see your consummate skill with the bucket/claw/biting thing, you make it an extension of you. You don't waste any motion. You get jobs done quickly. I watch before I go to sleep at night. Great job!

[@DMPB-fi2ir]

lol yup he better not come up to vermont our roads in winter are like driving on the, i told friends one time i was down south and they had a dusting of snow that we dont call it a storm until we measure in feet..... and about the same as driving on wet clay.... looks like someone owns swamp land lol

[@crustyolcoot6646]

You explained my sudden interest in a bloody great movey pickyup thingy extremely well old girl. Now retired and realised I missed the bus to the best job ever.

[@kenore4003]

Good old gumbo clay. A quarter inch deep and you are permanently stuck.

[@ClinttheGreat]

@Tegoblue Well said. The drone of the Volvo and Chris’s commentary are a soothing and entertaining.

[@bigtenfourrubberducky]

based old lady

[@nl1cat]

I think you can do magic with a leaf-blower on those burn-piles.

[@a10islife69]

Never seen a excavator give itself a bath like a elephant would before.

[@willowsverge3046]

Id love to see a bucket load of water drop onto a smart car! Would it buckle the roof or flip that sucker like a turtle on its back?

[@kapperoutdoors]

All the dip stick geniuses love to comment whenever I get a machine stuck in high-rain, all clay, hill country, (Most of which have probably never lived in a similar area) so I'm glad that you share the fact that the great letsdig18 even gets stuck every now and then! LOL, thanks man, I appreciate you keeping it real! Love your channel man.

[@kapperoutdoors]

Also loved the washing technique! Learned something new again :)

[@lastfanstanding999]

well damn what do ya expect ridin around with those city-slicker tires man... lol

[@nonnieshicoworld6537]

4x4?

[@UncleKennysPlace]

@@nonnieshicoworld6537 Still need tires.

[@armonwebb2577]

@@nonnieshicoworld6537 yess

[@methanbreather]

@@Wontreplyeverdontbother then get chains for the tires. Also... not using a car with an automatic transmission helps a lot.

[@Expedient_Mensch]

@@methanbreather autotrans is better for FWD-ing.

[@SethChase42]

everyone's always suggesting equipment purchases ... I recommend a heavy lift helicopter and a hovercraft. ;-)

[@HK______]

Seth Chase LOL

[@yorkshirepud3030]

I recommend getting out of the vehicle, have a walk and a look then decide!

[@velvetjones]

@@yorkshirepud3030 If your work is moving dirt and being offroad almost all the time you buy 4x4 vehicles and put AT or mud tires on them. That looked like a 2 wheel drive 1 ton with road tires on it. The fact that he even has 2 wheel drive work vehicles or any of his trucks with street tires on them absolutely blows my mind. His business is literally moving dirt and mud. My stock 19 year old 1/2 ton 4x4 with all terrain tires would have blown through that without thinking twice, I drive through worse than that regularly and it's hardly noticeable. Driving that truck through that is like cooking bacon in the nude, it just doesn't make any sense and was bound to be a bad time from the start.

[@spinningedge8790]

@@velvetjones Did you watch the video? Its 4x4 as he said in the video

[@traktorworks3200]

just curious but why is the 290 being sold?

[@michaelmcclure8673]

In all my years moving heavy equipment, your one of the the first I've seen clean the equipment before transporting it. Thumbs up to you and your crew sir.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@redfox5911]

That land is slicker than two eels f*cking in a 5 gallon bucket of snot!

[@aterack833]

How do I save a comment?

[@daic7274]

@@aterack833 apparently, humans have some mad grey stuff stuck in their heads that has the ability to store and recall vast amounts of information and stuff...and as if by magic, some humans have developed some equipment capable of also storing large quantities of information, I believe the technology is called "pen and paper".

[@aterack833]

@@daic7274 it’s a joke btw

[@winovmc]

"Doesn't somebody need some water somewhere "? Yeah, California!

[@Everythingisgoingtobealright]

As soon as you said “if I make it through the gate” you jinxed yourself.

[@aaronabney8924]

Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to have a set of tire chains and a winch

[@houtchens48]

put some mud tires on

[@coronalight77]

Lol moron

[@pat36a]

Surprised to see steering tires all the way around..

[@VC-Toronto]

I remember a quote I read when I was researching whether to get a 2WD or 4WD pickup truck some years back . (I'm north of the 49th) "A 4WD lets you get further off the main road before you need to call for a tow truck".

[@CPUDOCTHE1]

My sentiments exactly. I have never had a 4wd truck. I have other things for mud. My son would not have a 2wd truck.

[@throttlebottle5906]

exactly my thoughts on 4WD, it just gets most folks in deeper/bigger trouble :)

[@VC-Toronto]

I chatted with a tow truck driver once when my starter failed on me, and it was just after a major snowstorm, and he broke down the tows he was called out to into main 3 categories: 1 - people driving European cars with almost no tread on the tires, and they end up in the ditch 2 - people driving 4X4 SUV's with mega horsepower, ABS and all the bells and whistles, who think they are invincible because they can launch the vehicle in any condition, and end up driving too fast, and end up in the ditch 3 - regular people who end up in the ditch

[@stokespen700]

4WD is great as you can get yourself out but it only works if you have selectable 4WD and/or diff locks and save the use of them for when you get stuck, not to make progress.

[@brownwarrior6867]

Vern C Europeans build cars that can corner and we stay out of the ditches.

[@FiremanSVFD-cf1jn]

Should of mixed some of the oil from the tractor oil change. Should have plenty lol, adds a little heat. Get you some A/T tires for service truck and more skinny pedal to clean the the treads. And if all else fails hold it to the wood driver!

[@arneservatius8686]

You may not know what your doing, but your having fun and that is half the battle. “ Been there Done That” 74 yrs Michigan

[@adriannettlefold9084]

Looks like you could do with some off road tyres mate. ;)

[@LoggerWade]

Haha she wet driver... I mean that looks worse than crawhorn’s sister

[@Bazza1973ify]

Must admit Chris, when I saw the video other day of both the 220 & 290 demolishing the house, it was pretty obvious how much better & more useful the 220 is for your type of work, in the meantime of the 290 trying to move & not get bogged down, the 220 had already done 75% of the work, it just goes to show that bigger isn't always better in all cases. Hope your new toy is more suited to your type of work & you can put it to work more to earn it's keep, they're not earning when they're parked up, great videos as always 👍

[@KPearce57]

Traction control is the dumbest idea automakers have ever come up with for 4 WD trucks. Fire is mesmerising.

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

There's a button to turn it off though. And most people need it including you. Can't imagine what "you'd" do without abs.

[@ToTheTopCrane]

The way you offset a lack of traction is MOMENTUM! Lol. Turned those duals into a set of slicks. Also, you are technically only stuck when you can't get yourself out. Based on that rational, you used your own excavator to pull yourself out, so I wouldn't consider you stuck. 😉

[@JasonWorksAlot]

To The Top Crane ahhh loopholes:)

[@ToTheTopCrane]

JasonWorksAlot, Gotta love a loophole here and there. 😉

[@sandy1653]

By my figuring, if you can self-rescue, you aren't stuck. And going to get a trackhoe counts as self-rescue in my book.

[@ToTheTopCrane]

Sandy, absolutely agree!

[@letsdig18]

i could still back up so not stuck on that count! just that wasnt the direction i was interested in going LOL

[@choelstad91]

Got to love the sound of a deleted 6.7, makes so unique sounds

[@randomdude8381]

You need good AT tires man I know there expensive but there worth it

[@zytekfan]

Kolby Kamerick commercial traction tires would be better

[@Gen3tx]

Tsunauticus III the truck is on 19.5 wheels so there are no regular truck tire options

[@Boonandcrocket69]

Theres plenty of mud tires for 19.5 tires

[@Brandon_093]

Boonandcrocket69 you don’t exactly want mud tires on a service truck though...

[@brianwebber7168]

Did Copperheadmarine buy it?

[@cabbyhubby]

One of those weed burner propane torches work great for starting wet wood

[@thegreatv8s]

“Hold on Padro it’s about to get real” “Jose Quervo” is looking pretty smart right now!

[@loudcamaro79.]

Why are you selling the 290? I must've missed the reason somewhere 🤷‍♂️

[@AquaPeet]

Found a reply of Chris in this thread, his answer was "Didn't like it", lol... so now we know (a little bit more).

[@loudcamaro79.]

That's legit 🤷‍♂️🤣

[@MikeyDunn]

Dig a pond, that place looks like it'd still be wet if you dug a freakin LAKE, lol!

[@koalakock3629]

To turn off traction control completely, you have to press and hold the traction control button for like 10 seconds or until you hear the beap and the light flashes and it only works until you exceed 35mph

[@johnwhite3895]

Maybe you said in some other video just wondering why the sale of the 290 ?

[@letsdig18]

didnt like it

[@johnjames77]

I love watching you work the excavator . Maybe you need tires and dif lockers front and rear ? You don't deserve a peg leg truck.

[@colinrobson9765]

If you had a good old British Range Rover you'd have made it no problem

[@2001yz250rider1]

Chris, coming from someone who runs a horizontal grinder on clearing jobs, i wish i could just light everything on fire like you do. Seems like some people dont get how much time and money is involved to chip or grind. Plus the logistics of getting the chips out. And they aren't even worth much around here.

[@letsdig18]

you are my new friend! could you imagine trying to get a chipper and van trailers on this site to even do that?

[@2001yz250rider1]

Haha well Im flattered! I wish i would have had a chance to get pictures of getting this fricken grinder into this job im finishing at now. 80,000 pound machine and had to drag it across a wet corn field with a Cat 963C. Thing is just a nightmare. Noisy, Dusty, and costs almost $20 a MINUTE to run. Plus the van trailers were getting stuck and had to get pulled to the road with the skidder. I could go on and on with this rant. Point is i really like the way you guys do everything. The Keyboard warriors need to stop telling you that "you need this, and you need that"

[@mattywho8485]

@@2001yz250rider1 Yeah, but "we need to stop burning fossil fuel and start burning renewables, like biomass chips" The thing these liberal idiots don't get is IT COSTS MORE IN DIESEL THAN IT'S WORTH !

[@MrJblonde2012]

A decent set of tires gets you through that no problem. Look like highway tires on a job site service truck lol

[@tylerfrazzini8614]

Chris if you push the traction control button for a few seconds it’ll turn off traction control and advanced track and let you hammer down till its setting on the diff. The new trucks are a pain in the butt off road anymore

[@ptshyu2]

Tyler Frazzini thank you for sharing that I have a similar truck and traction control even when off doesn't seem to turn off fully

[@harrisakaADHD8VY]

Why did u sell the 290 and can u tell me what the new toy is

[@MrAaron5627]

Hey, if you get yourself a battery powered leaf blower you could knock those burn piles out pretty fast. Once you get a pile started, lay into it with the leaf blower (a few minutes? Depends how wet the pile is) and it will get the fire torching hot. The hotter you get the pile, the less it will smoke. Love your channel, been watching it for a couple years now.

[@letsdig18]

they really make a batter powered leak blower? lol

[@robertbradford2734]

You were doing pretty good in Reverse maybe you should just backed her down there... LOL

[@HughzieTube]

More skinny pedal next time! lol

[@170turbo]

What made you sell the 290?

[@laurelherbert2879]

Send some of that rain over here to Australia we’re in drought

[@CPUDOCTHE1]

Yep, tires and a quart of diesel used to be great to start brush piles. Now we have to use animal bedding/feed and lots of diesel.

[@Emilthehun]

Dang maybe time to replace the racing slicks with some new tires lmao! 4wd should not get stuck in 1 inch of mud

[@jaycevessier7554]

You apparently have never driven a huge heavy dually

[@jimzivny1554]

Chris's Equipment Cleaning Service!! I can see a new channel coming soon LOL

[@george8873]

Would've been cool to have the camera in the cab when he was washing it.

[@milkman99100]

I’m glad to see someone with self control! I would have had that Ford red lined till something bad happened!

[@fordtrac7171]

This would be classed as a dry site for us boys in the uk

[@Puddingtops]

Yes looks like a dry summers day to us lol !

[@zgoat4127]

pizza cutters seemed stronger in reverse

[@_sinisterglance_3386]

Ive got a dually crew cab long bed on factory rims I have cheap, but aggressive mud tires. They last a little over 3 years mostly highway but I got them if I need them.

[@QUIX4U]

Now hear yea hear yea. Here's something YOU as a ditch digger SHOULD KNOW. Running your rear duals on RAILS gets your sorry stuck arse out of there. But no - before you climbed back inside at 1:38 .. YOU forgot the cardinal rule. IF YOU GET STUCK WHEN MOVING IN. How the hell do you hope on getting unstuck first try "getting out".. UNLESS RUNNING YOUR REAR duals - on rail LOGS. Especially as the fronts of your 4x4 - can also give steering plus some traction. It's simple really - especially with all that lovely tree-wood nearby. Slip a few logs inside your front wheel tracks and UNDER the gap between your rear duals. As soon as you "move" - that's when the rear duals GAP will ride up and along the tree-wood-rails. Instantly - becoming unstuck ..

[@The_blindpizzaguy1300]

I actually have seen a chipper working in the pouring rain before so they could probably handle it. You just would have to pull it behind the A30.

[@firedavin]

OK you must like a challenge. Soak everything to the core saturate the ground like crazy and start a fire. Yep you like challenges don’t you. LOL

[@tulsaman0871]

This was the first video i ever saw from letsdig18. 2 years later were breakin rocks and grading driveways!

[@jeffskewes9456]

and people make fun of me with a 72 IH 1510 truck has bais ply rubber all round BUT it goes anywhere only been stuck once

[@davidquirk8097]

Waste oil is the best for fire starting on my experience. It burns longer than diesel although it takes a little more to get it started.

[@cumminspoweredab7441]

ever thought about a burner .... we had one we'd set up blowin into a trench filled with brush at several sites I worked at helps alot with the smoke and a faster burn.

[@GP9railfan]

Street tires suck

[@arkansas1336]

For burning brush piles I bought a propane torch, turned it on with a hot fire out the end....laid it in the pile and went about doing other things, but I always would light them on 'high fire risk days'....lol. All joking aside, a torch is your go to tool for burning piles of brush. Just imagine a big splash of water like he throwed coming through an open front window, not fun, especially in early February....I was the ass that did it! ….13

[@g4outdoors]

Pretty funny! I didn't know thats how you cleaned your equipment.

[@terriwebb5093]

I'm a logger and i know your struggle.. skidders don't do well in the wet either!!!

[@edwardlewis6422]

Shoulda Bought a Ram.

[@Kevin-is-here]

Looks like a Viking burial ground

[@Expedient_Mensch]

Don't try lighting a fire that way with petrol!

[@jacquesmertens3369]

21st March 2018 you published a video called Stupid People Testing My Patience, about a guy who got stuck in the mud. A mere 2 months later the same thing happens to you. But now it's not stupid.

[@NateDogMXtv]

Burn piles in weather like that I use a 2 gallon sprayer with 1.5 diesel and .5 gas

[@jasonbooth5182]

Come on down to south Alabama and Florida trying to push fire lanes constantly getting my D5 and D6 stuck. Once you hit the belly pan you ain't moving. Than you gotta track the 320 in to get them out. The best part of the day is lunch eating a sandwich and taking a nap before hitting it hard again. Thank God for enclosed cab with a/c and a heater to avoid getting swamped by yellow jackets.

[@markjonesy93]

Letsdig18 why don't you get off road tires for your service truck?

[@aterack833]

I wonder if you pulled a few deep buckets from the lowest point and set them somewhere if the water would drain towards them and have more head to push underground?

[@ewanmcewan4758]

May I ask; why do you burn everything? Burning may be cheaper though that’s because the environmental costs aren’t incurred! Get that chipper and add a service to your business - chipping instead of burning.

[@asabs2000]

looks like ya need better tires on that truck more aggressive at least

[@johnbuffum6135]

Uhhh, don't those Ford "Super Duty" trucks have 4WD? AWD does noting but get you stuck, then it breaks and leaves you stranded..

[@claytonl.covell2634]

Look up, Liebherr Car Wash. It's Awesome. One of the worlds biggest excavators dumping water on car.. :)

[@chubbysumo2230]

if you are gonna be driving in mud, you need better tires. Those highway treads are garbage once you get them off any pavement.

[@jefflewis7754]

Looks like you may need to get some better tires for your service truck. Lol

[@JKheller19]

Traction Control is a pain on the Fords, Press and hold the traction control button (approx 5-10 seconds) to fully disengage the traction control, the first setting will still derate the motor. When you press and hold button its full blow donut settings.

[@chuckmac618]

Yeah we can use some of that water in Phoenix Arizona or just Arizona alone

[@grahamlongley8298]

When the truck is stuck do not ref the b..x off it. Put it in high gear & slip the clutch very gently so that the wheels turn very slowly & ease it forward. Rock it forward & reverse gradually larger cycles..

[@haroldbentley5656]

Hold the traction control button down for 10 seconds and it will turn it off completely

[@nonurbusiness4157]

lol you knew better than drive on 'thin ice' and weeeeeell..... This is why we bought a cheap 4wheeler and small cart off of craigslist. Put ag tires on it and ever since then we dont have any major problems like that getting through our field even after the spring thaw and heavy rains

[@FirmB1ade]

Imagine buying a pickup that's fucking useless on wet ground. Why even buy it? You might as well have a minivan.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Plus it’s hard to find a chipper on pontoons 😂 I can’t get over how wet it is. I’m guessing you guys are getting more rain than normal? Thanks for sharing, enjoyed it!

[@gibsonwill18]

Elite Earthworks LLC it’s rained about 15 days straight here.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

gibsonwill18 wow! That’s crazy

[@briangarrow448]

gibsonwill18 I worked on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. We average 80-100 inches of rain per year. I worked a December one year where it rained every single day. At least we didn't get the type of heavy downpours that these guys are fighting. A half inch a day was a standard wet day total in winter.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Brian Garrow that’s crazy! Makes it difficult to work I would think

[@briangarrow448]

Elite Earthworks LLC You get used to it, honestly. I grew up there, so playing, working and just living in the rain wasn't unusual. Hell, I nearly crapped my pants when I was sent to work in Phoenix Arizona when I was a young guy. It was 100 degrees on FREAKING Labor Day!!LOL!!! I had only experienced that type of heat maybe 3 or 4 times in my life!!LOL!! Needless to say, I requested a transfer to a cooler climate!! Got sent to the mountains of New Mexico where it was mid-80's. And much cooler at night. I came home at thanksgiving with a tan. My first real tan. In Washington state, we don't tan, we rust.

[@bryantremmel2996]

you need diffrent tires on that truck.

[@michaeltuckerman6983]

That big ass Ford is stuck on flat ground that's some funny s*** I can understand if you were buried up in mud and couldn't open the doors did I hear you say four wheel drive?

[@asadmarji4287]

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[@AceGametech]

never buy excavator without quickchanger

[@lathamarea1437]

chippers are a headache, besides being very dangerous..Your insurance rates would skyrocket..

[@asadmarji4287]

The marked fahrenheit structurally hand because radish firstly smash by a ubiquitous clutch. thankful, unique jail

[@shanepoole7645]

Oh yeah take u a garden bug sprayer, and put your diesel in it and pump it up and spray that hole pile ,! Just to help ya it works to keep from being so close to that flame when it’s so wet,!!

[@teamidris]

Do you have Glass fibre walk way mats? Well worth carrying in the truck to chuck under the wheels like sand matts. Like a plastic waffle, but very strong and light.

[@kocko6424]

The towering sense scully employ because flesh sicily whirl pace a imported game. sore, lying daffodil

[@luism.raposo5138]

Have you dug out a politicians out of a swamp yet? And if you have, burn em up when you start burning a pile.

[@brownwarrior6867]

Fucked On Rainy Days

[@tommymann69]

50%diesel. & 50% gas mixed works great to start fires fast

[@radioace318la]

You have street tires, bro. get ya some mudders. that gets you even farther into nowhere before you get stuck. Cheers from Louisiana.

[@shirleylee7492]

the man can drive anything with tracks but rubber not so much that's a ford son give that thing son pedal let her eat you ain't hurting it until you see thick black smoke rollin

[@jram7047]

Where your tires even all terrains ? I'm sure that would have helped bit probably not a good idea with all the heavy weight you move around .

[@MrHughk1]

Shock news, pickup with dual road tires gets stuck in mud.........

[@ElectronicMechanic50]

Put in manual mode and shift it manually you can keep your wheel speed press and hold TCS button till advanced trac turns off!

[@lonnieaspinwall3862]

What a sloppy wet mess. Gotta love that red clay mix with a whole lot of rain. You definitely need some decent A/T tires for the service truck so you don't get stuck on wet grass again..lol. We are having the same water issue here in FL....whole lotta rain over the past few weeks, and it's finally beginning to break up a touch.

[@AceGametech]

this is why you buy a excavator with oilquick changer.....

[@BrokenanklesFPV]

in the words of jeremy clarkson MORE POWER