Tearing down a Barn with an Excavator

using my komatsu PC75 to dig a pit, knock down and old barn and bury it. easy job easy money
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[@inkymark7655]

Matt does a very professional job

[@kurtremislettmyr7108]

I'm really impressed. By buying old equipment and repairing it, you've got a machine park and can take projects like this. It's the American dream at its core. Keep on truck'in. Love from Norway!

[@hammerandsawcustoms]

Always a good days work with you Neighbor!

[@davidmiller6010]

Chain link fence grading screen. Love it! Been using one of those for about 50 years.

[@markknister6272]

Good to see you saved a few bigger beams. Burning would have been a good option, but as you said - owners option.

[@CathyInBlue]

"All that priceless lumber!" - 2021

[@Gordo270]

Great job Matt 👍

[@kirk467]

I was wondering why you weren’t going to burn it! The customer didn’t want it burnt! That’s crazy, it’s going to rot and sink!Do what the customer wants Matt, thanks for sharing brother! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@okknuk]

Currently clearing my property of what I found out was a pheasant farm. While tilling up the sod I found miles of netting, chicken wire and wood framing that was knocked down and grown over! Augh, what a pain that is to clean up!

[@bluegrallis]

I would have burned the ruble too, but knowing me, I would have spent a couple days saving 2x4's out of it first. Spring of 2020, my brother took down the 'wood shed' my grandpa built, out of mostly used lumber, back in about 1915. He built a very similar shed, using mostly all of the 'used lumber' from the wood shed, and now has a steel roofed wood shed full of firewood. I talked him into building me a 8x10 garden tool shed on the old milkhouse slab here for me, out of used lumber I have from an old corn crib I took down years ago. Ya can't buy new lumber as nice as the piles of yellow pin 2x's I have stashed away

[@MaddRamm]

Dude! You almost lost that drone at 33:06 to the power lines while it was on the automatic “follow” of your remote controller!!!! 😳😳😳😳😳

[@georgeenriquez612]

The whole time watching the drone footage I was waiting for the hood on the Komatsu to pop open lol

[@shaneharrison4775]

Awesome drone footage and nice change overs well done like how you throw round the barrels and rr ties with the bucket and thumb

[@richardcline1337]

I had an old barn about the size of that one that was just too unsafe to even go inside of anymore. One of my neighbors said he would help me take it down if I'd let him have the tin siding and any of the usable wood inside. "Deal!" We took it down piece by piece and he wound up with a huge pile of usable lumber and the tin skin. He took days to pull all of the old nails out but eventually he had what he wanted. The only thing we could not salvage was the tin on the roof that was only being held together by the rust that was on it. I folded it all up like sheets of cardboard, almost bent the axle on my trailer hauling it, took it to our local salvage yard and what happened to it? They BURIED it! The dirt that was the floor of that old barn was like talcum powder and it took days of running sprinklers on it before the water would finally start soaking in and I could put grass seed over it. Oh, and my neighbor's pile of tin and wood? Probably somewhere up around New England after a Cat 5 Hurricane named Michael came through and polished his land almost clean. All that work......gone! Who is going to sure Mother Nature for polluting the land now?

[@Granddad92]

Dog said, "`Hey, you're having fun, how can I join in?" Good job.

[@DieselCreek]

Thanks for watching!!!

[@joachimscheller3960]

Sowas ist in Deutschland nicht möglich. Da braucht man sich nicht wundern wenn der Planet kaputt geht.. Ich kanns nicht glauben..

[@chipspencer8040]

I love a great demolition video, keep em coming please.

[@dicktheplumber2]

...We had a good time on this one , Matt. Shame he wouldn't let us burn it. I like watching old wood burn. =:(:

[@kirk467]

Looks great Matt! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@VK2FVAX]

I'm amused that you de-installed the barn, and installed a hole.

[@michaelguinn5736]

Hey Matt, you're a pretty talented operator!!! God Bless!!!

[@nickmastroianni5557]

I can tell you from personal experience, that in about 10 years, you will have a 3 foot deep sinkhole there as the wood rots away to nothing. I figured that hole was about twice as big as you needed.

[@darrenwixon5897]

Brilliant, hope they paid you well enough and don't worry I won't tell them how much fun you had that day otherwise you would have to pay them!! Thanks for sharing and the audio and music were just fine to me so ignore the haters, they're only jealous!

[@DieselCreek]

lol Thanks for watching!!

[@darrenwixon5897]

You don't have to thank me,@@DieselCreek, thank you for making the videos! very very good!

[@sweettooth7124]

Awesome memory of my childhood was my step-dad knew the guy down the street who was using a bigger one of those to tear down his old house to make room for a bigger one. He showed 8yr old me which levers to move and how to move them. I got to tear down the south wall. Deff not Osha approved.

[@bdunn190]

Great job. After filling in and smoothing the top soil flat, I have a10' section of 6" pipe that I welded chains in the middle of the pipe far enough apart for the bucket width. I connect the chains in both sides of the bucket, tension the bucket up holding the chains tight- pipe in front of the bucket will smooth the ground making it look as if was graded.

[@heartland96a]

He did something just like that at his property earlier this year of 2021 , maybe the idea came from your suggestion ?

[@edwardjonez6615]

LIKE IT WAS NEVER EVEN THERE. NICE JOB.

[@randyclyde4939]

"Old hide-a-bed there... bet that old girl has some stories...!" HILARIOUS! Thanks for the entertainment!

[@ralphhippard2995]

I like how you work with your feet propped up. Love your vids

[@DieselCreek]

best way ive found lol Thanks for watching!

[@kalemercer7053]

That barn has seen better days!

[@andrewcooper8980]

That’s a nice clean job

[@stephaniewilson3955]

That is going to be one heck of a hugelmound! BTW all that wood will rot down to about 2 inches of humus.

[@kayneahnung3661]

Interesting thing and seems like you had fun knocking that thing down :-) You would not be allowed to do that in Germany - Wood that has been painted or treated in some similar way cant be just dumped somewhere, same goes for most of the things like the left over electric wiring or the chair etc.... virtually the only thing you can just bury without any issues is fully inert material like concrete or iron...

[@davidwoermansr]

Where I live the concrete iron and stone can't be burried but the county has a place to dump it free so they can use it on river and creek banks to stop erosion while the grass and trees grow in the buffer strips between the river and creeks and farmland

[@richie4279]

Getting slick with them drone shots!!

[@DieselCreek]

thanks man!! hopefully always improving

[@MyHMMWVaddiction]

Looks fine too me👍

[@harveystrauss6166]

Hi, Guy, Really nice touch on tailgate!!!!

[@DieselCreek]

thanks! lol

[@dananderson7130]

Nice clean job man! Even though the customer wouldn't let you burn it I thought you did a really clean job even though its probably not the best way. But hey the customer is always right!

[@DieselCreek]

That’s what I’m saying!

[@davidwoermansr]

We push it in a hole burn it cover the hole a few days later after hauling the foundation out after we haul away the lumber tin and antiques we keep my shop stove started life as a coal stove pulled from a house basement and turned it into a wood burner with an oil drip

[@bfe671]

Someone mentioned this in another video and I have to agree...your vocal audio is too quiet and the music is too loud. I found myself turning it up and down constantly. Otherwise, good content/editing.

[@DieselCreek]

Yes lots of comments about that and I’m gonna be working on that, the new video this week should be a lot better!

[@bobkelly9925]

I agree 100%. The music is way too loud.

[@ussdiscovery6912]

Who was flying the drone there at the end of the video.

[@willythewave]

@@ussdiscovery6912 The expensive ones have tracking software. The drone follows the target around on its own and will return to wherever you set home when the batteries get low. They`re amazing.

[@ussdiscovery6912]

Thanks for that information , definitely good to know for a future purchase of a good drone .

[@Melicoy]

New recipe Add one scoop of dirt with every 3 scoops of timber...

[@TonyLing]

Some of that music is really good

[@leebaxter4117]

Matt I was surprised that after you knocked down the structure you didn't track your equipment over the debris to compact it further, not questioning it just curious. A beliver in your abilities😊

[@MrSaemichlaus]

Good to hear it wasn't your plan to set up a sinkhole ... they'll probably be nowhere to be found when it caves in.

[@dalesworld1308]

That'll make a nice pond when all the wood rots. Surprised no one would just dismantle it for the metal and wood.

[@erica8664]

music is nice touch.

[@michaelkoop6731]

Good job on the video and the job. Keep them coming.

[@andrewcooper8980]

The best way to salvage wire and metal from other debris is to burn it out. My buddy takes it to his place and burns through it in a pit.

[@victoriapayton3447]

Filming and music👍

[@victoriapayton3447]

It’s like you have your own pet T Rex🤗🤗

[@evershawn]

@Diesel_Creek Love your videos, especially the restoration stuff - HOWEVER, your background music reminds me of late 80's / early 90's Porn background music, just sayen.

[@johnsmart3587]

Thanks.

[@tdimccullough]

the next barn you have to bury, it might be an idea to do it in 2 foot layers, wood,clay backfill, it help with the settlement

[@DieselCreek]

david mccullough I’ll keep it in mind, hope I don’t have to do it again tho, not a fan of that method really

[@Denpachii]

@@DieselCreek If that is asphalt on the roof it really should not go in the ground.

[@Digital-Dan]

After watching this, I'm led to ask: Does an excavator ever forget?

[@waltergrimes8075]

Y'all's weather is like our weather here in Oklahoma. Wait a minute and it will change. LOL

[@juststuff8524]

nice job thats the way i operate

[@SaukValley-Sam]

Looked like the drone got a little close to power lines a couple of times. Did enjoy the video a couple though. Was the corn sheller saved as well?

[@garycramer3768]

Lol, looks like an Andy do-over !!

[@AlejandroLapeyre]

Fantastic muisca 28:25

[@adamwilliams6859]

Did you take the corn shucker And what did you do with it

[@medicineman1948]

I do hope the cotton bale scales and the corn sheller were saved!

[@DieselCreek]

They were

[@canadaeast]

I subscribed on January 1 2020 ! The sound quality of your music is awesome ! Are you in the landscape business like KZbinr Andrew Camarata ? His videos are similar. ie, dog sidekick, drone footage.

[@DieselCreek]

We do a lot of similar stuff but he does his stuff full time so it’s just a side business for me, Thanks for watching!!!

[@connielyons2386]

Matt yoou are just to damn cute I love watching your humor and what you are up to dayly keep up the good humor . I'll catch you later

[@Nick-nw6zg]

I did subscribe🤘🏼🇺🇸‼️😁

[@TandD1w]

When it comes to smoothing the ground. Try pulling a wood pallet behind the atv. A couple hundred pounds of tire weights makes it bite. It works like a poor man’s land plane.

[@jbbrown7907]

I love to buy a farm and do just what you did with a nearly new rental machine.

[@phillipbremer7715]

I know but probably built over top of it like that nothing wrong with buried all

[@tonydeleo3642]

Finding this in the future will make some archeologist scratch his head and wonder??

[@davidwoermansr]

I wish I could find more of those around my area I've got a little more I'd like to do on my house with reclaimed barn wood and tin and I have 3 more houses to finish on the farm for my kids and the hunting lodge in the top of my 80x 150 milking barn we turned into a fabrication/welding shop on 1 end and mechanic shop on the other I've got 5 to 10 years to save for the last 2 houses going up on the farm I give my kids each 10 acres to build a house on for high school graduation present and we build the houses ourselves a friend of mine does the concrete and masonry work and another the electrical my oldest son is a contractor so we're pretty stacked at cheap as possible but well above code

[@MyHMMWVaddiction]

First thing I thought was light a match also. Or at least let local FD use it as a practice burn. I will be binge watching your videos over my Christmas vacation. I like the sound track.👍🍻🇺🇸

[@DieselCreek]

I wanted to dig the hole start the fire in the hole and keep feeding it so it burns up well

[@DieselCreek]

Thanks for watching! If you like the music head over to the semi-supervillins page (the link is in the description) and check them out

[@davidwoermansr]

@@DieselCreek they've got great music thanks for turning me onto them

[@calvarybuilders5689]

I was just about to ask you why didn't you just burn it and at that moment you answered my question as you were packing!!!!😅😅😂😂

[@cooldog60]

What was his answer I muted it because of the noise aka music.

[@calvarybuilders5689]

@@cooldog60 the owner of the property said he didn't want it burned

[@davidwoermansr]

@@cooldog60 turn on closed captions if you mute it you'll see everything he says

[@85Studios]

I like Matt, He seems like an honest, Smart, Hard working guy, Multifaceted and Multitalented. I am the same way. Also we both have blue eyes.. lol.. Actually come to think of it a lot of people I know who are like that have Blue eyes.. Probably just a coincidence, but maybe more to it..

[@KPearce57]

Seems like people might like the old boards that were in there make better accent pieces than old tin. IMHO The owner is going to have to deal with settling for years as the wood rots.

[@DieselCreek]

K.D. Pearce I sold the tin pretty quick but the wood wasn’t anything special, I try to salvage anything worth the effort. As for the settling he wouldn’t let me burn it and it’s quite expensive to haul off so he didn’t wanna do that either

[@2wwwilly]

Lol easy money another day another dollar

[@castle4610]

Love the videos. I'm guessing you're in the DelMarVa or PA area. Am I close?

[@DieselCreek]

Western PA!

[@castle4610]

@@DieselCreek Very nice! I'm from the Deep Creek Lake area (Md), just an hour or 2 south. Go Steelers!

[@davesilvia9711]

im in the delmarva area, almost all the way south

[@jbbrown7907]

A small fire in the pir would be nice.

[@timnash6870]

TIM from Canada conversion 78 .F ..Fahrenheit...is.C..25.6 Celsius.

[@terryhayward7905]

OK so, find flat ground, dig a big hole, put in rubbish from an old barn, fill in the hole with everything that came out of the hole, and the ground is still flat, hmmmm now I KNOW I don't understand physics.

[@Thisandthatdude]

How do you go about bidding your jobs?

[@rontownsend8235]

All I ever got to do with these things is dig ditches, this is cool as shit.

[@DieselCreek]

you can have alot of fun with them lol!

[@UnderSprayedWhiteSkies]

Not burning that pile of material before covering it is just bizarre to me.

[@cindydouglass7631]

I know that you do most of the camera work, but do you have a videographer? It appears that the overhead camera follows you, even zooming in at times, yet both your hands are on the steering of the little red tractor. The camera work is great, by the way.

[@willibod3034]

Nice job, but you had better watch out for all those nails, might get a flat track, "HE HAA"

[@grandpajim329]

👍👍👍👍👍😍😍😍😍😍

[@cadman10000]

That was like 40k worth of lumber...

[@tomrobinson6779]

Matt, where are you getting the music ?

[@davidwoermansr]

Link in the description

[@timnash6870]

Tim from Canada as you’re pulling it it should’ve been put in the hole.. just making more work not the way I would’ve done it but not my channel

[@davidcarroll8533]

100K Subscribers coming in the next week or two. How are you going yo celebrate?

[@DieselCreek]

Not sure yet! I’m Excited tho!

[@phillipbremer7715]

What you want is mulching or wood chipping machine

[@davidwoermansr]

Not with nails and old barn spikes

[@Troyb-xp2vk]

Howard did your bulldozer make quick work of that Tom

[@georgeenriquez612]

I don’t understand why people are bitching on here about the music. The music is cool. I don’t get people. Everyone always has to cry about something.

[@petero2693]

Created a sink hole..as it rots..like cutting down a tree....roots rot and soil drops..

[@davidwoermansr]

Not hard to fill it in as it sinks if the farmer has a tractor

[@usernotfound-ue7ld]

Me: I love his vids Me:osha 30 trained watching him.jump into a unprotected 9ft hole 😑😤

[@clausb.2032]

double picture,,,oh no!!!

[@jimanderson4495]

New dump truck? New thumb?

[@camgreer]

I wonder if you'd do the same now, lumber prices being what they are.

[@douglasmesina6922]

I would have accidentally dropped a road flare on it.

[@fernandoqueirozpopovic7024]

Hmm that's a obviously suspicious lookin sign to subscribe on the back end of his truck...eh, guess i should subscribe

[@rafidishak7801]

Hi buddy. You have done a fantastic job pulling that old shed down.i wonder if this the right size bucket for your excavators or it is the onlyone you have now.i fell this is a bit small for your 8 tones excavator... Keep the good work.

[@DieselCreek]

I absolutely despise that bucket! It’s shaped a lot more like a backhoe bucket has teeth that are too big for the bucket and not enough of them.... i’ve been looking for a new bucket, they are just very hard to find used for this size machine, and I’m not spending 3 to 5000 on a new one

[@dananderson7130]

Where about in pa are you? I'm in the western part of pa and there is a guy In Ohio just over the line that has tons of buckets and is really reasonable. I have bought a lot from him

[@DieselCreek]

whats his name? im western pa as well

[@seal5215]

Hey Bud.What ever happened to the old scale? Wow I haven't seen one of those in a very long time? That's very good find. Thanks!!!

[@DieselCreek]

I gave it to a friends dad and I think he’s restoring it. Tried to sell it but no one wanted it. Thanks for watching!

[@shaneleyden622]

Was the owner wanting to keep the concrete slab?

[@DieselCreek]

Yes

[@kalvinlabuik3366]

yeah up here the RM's really got anal about that no burying no burning for demolitions of building has to be hauled away great more expense hauling and land fill fees

[@user-justbeingme]

Still finding videos.

[@tashisahill5634]

Can you please do a video on your blue Ford

[@DieselCreek]

yes that would be a good one, theres an old one from when i got it on here somewhere. but alot had changed on it since then!

[@curtkopp19]

You need a bigger bucket