We Are Going To Need The Mud Mats!

[@1013redoak]

Finally back to the pond and digging mud! One of my favorite videos! Thanks, Chris!

[@eddiemortontapman7252]

Great ! we have been waiting to see Mr Volve showing us how he takes a big excavator and almost walks on water . That why I started watching this Channel. Your the Best .Y’all really found your niche . Working thur the challenges and being efficient in what you do .

[@georgeledford5556]

love the pond and lake videos , especially the dams and overflows repairs...always wanted my own lake...dredging is cool too...would love all that sand piled up for projects...good video Chris we are kindred spirits...you have learned your craft well...goes with the term "practice,practice,practice"...at 56 I am too old for toys unless it weighs several tons

[@benmudn]

You know it's going to be good when the mud mats come out!!

[@Rickimusic]

Almost as much time and labor to set up and clean up for, if I heard right, 25 truck loads of sand. Chris can make it rain, just schedule a holding pond cleanup and whoosh, here comes the rain.

[@ScottyStock]

Love it when the mud mats come out.

[@ninataylor6180]

I saw mud mats in the description and knew this was gonna be awesome!

[@oldbakedpotato]

The places you get into and out of are an amazement to me.

[@davidknows3320]

I'm here for the mud mats! Lol. This is your specialty!👍

[@yanceylindley5172]

Those pads are heavy, after a company run a pipeline through my county they sold all the pads to the public! they had about 4 football fields full of 4x16 and 8x20s, 400 and 600$.. I guess it made better cense to sell'em than clean and transport them!!

[@tiredoldmechanic1791]

It's insane that they know the ponds will need to be dredged when they design them but they don't provide a better access to do it.

[@michaelmullins1290]

You push the bucket in the muck a couple feet, not to deep you say. That's the difference in your abilities and most. I was telling a guy about you the other day. Pretty sure he subscribed. He operates excavator, and other dozer, loader equipment. Great job.

[@63256325N]

Nicely done! Thanks for the video.

[@ScottyStock]

how often do you work this sort of job? if it is a regular thing, may get a lot of mats and make a temp access road to back the dump truck down. Rinse, repeat for the next job.

[@dennisward1361]

I hope your boss appreciates you and pays you accordingly , if I had your energy level when I was in my prime ,I'd be a billionaire . Enjoy your energy and work ethic ,you are one in at least 100,000 . God bless .

[@davidglaum2538]

Wow that looks like beach sand very fine.

[@robfraley4210]

249,000 now, less than a thousand to hit a Quarter MILLION...!! 😱😳🤭😎

[@chrisskelhorn5727]

Looking much better already! :-)

[@5914DL]

I don't know, I've watched so many of these Chris vs. Mud videos I kinda feel like I've got enough credit hours for an Associates degree in Civil Engineering. Will be updating the resume' in the morning.

[@barryhansen6854]

At least the bucket is going to be nice and shiny by the time you finish the job.

[@BOB-gd1qc]

With soft sand/mud, why not use a wider bucket? Fewer strokes.

[@ScottyStock]

it's a weight issue, to much bucket and the machine tips at full extension with a full bucket.

[@RKHarm24]

You asked on the give away video if we were machine operators. Yes I was. From as early as I can remember, my grandfather had me a sand box 8x8 and a pea gravel box next to it also 8x8. I used my TONKA and NYLINT equipment until they rusted out by age 9 or 10. I retired after that. Parents showed me what a sharpshooter was when we moved to Texas and did landscaping. Yes I remember those years vividly.

[@dhewitt2514]

Hi, how do you fix the beams on each matt- rebar?

[@dougs75dsps4]

Chris' reasoning skills on display. Executing the plan on the fly.

[@cjeeper86]

Set the parking brakes when loading. One gear tooth is all that’s holding it in park

[@jeff7764]

He’s a fucking hack.. what do you expect. I wouldn’t hire these guys for anything

[@kengriffin5001]

Would this machine be able to handle a larger bucket?

[@darylkysar2478]

A mid sized front end loader would be nice for making the trips back n forth in stead of a skidsteer

[@The_blindpizzaguy1300]

Daryl Kysar would there be enough space for that though? Because it sounded like he barely had enough space to put those mats in. And he couldn’t even put them in longways like he wanted, and I just don’t know how big the access space would be for a big wheel loader to fit in there.

[@darylkysar2478]

@@The_blindpizzaguy1300 that's why I said a mid size they're about at wide or a little bit wider than the volvo 160

[@AlphaSaber]

@@The_blindpizzaguy1300 I think a crawler loader would be a better fit for the work he does since it's tracked and can do a 360 in its own footprint.

[@papaw5405]

But that little skid steer aka track loader will run circles around a front loader. It'll make two cycles while a loader is turning around. Also wheel loaders tend to bounce if you try to get any speed out of them.By the time you get where you are going, you've sloshed out all your sand. With the skid steer you travel with the bucket skimming the ground so it can't bounce as much.

[@DeanofMachines]

You also have a lot of weight in front loader and need more space to turn it around. That would cause a lot more damage to the yard as well.

[@davidharris6581]

Another good job for that long stick y'all are eventually going to buy.

[@anthonybanks2979]

always entertaining ! Thanks for posting

[@johnderekmitchell1510]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣those mats make the Mini look tiny. Just used to seeing them being slung around with the 160.

[@nolanmitchell7319]

has anyone out there ever broke the parking brake pawl when loading / unloading a trailer. like at 1:40, you see the truck move back and forth. I can see it happening and always a little worried but have never actually seen it happen.

[@roygrillo2984]

Why not add a cable or chain to one mat then drag it to even out the slopes, I have done that before for a company I worked with.

[@danielcj5]

I’m from South Louisiana, we don’t have ponds… so I apologize for my ignorance, but what is the reasoning that someone would dredge a pond like this? To make it deeper? Or are there other reasons?

[@markenda1]

Chris, you have mentioned about needing the undercarriage on the 160 rebuilt. How long will the 160 be down for?

[@rickhay9782]

Enough sand to make Paul Bunyans cat a litter box...

[@j.b.maxwell8300]

Chris is that a road ahead of you up the creek on your left, is there any way you can get through there with a tipper

[@kainenmattison3665]

You had me at "tims going to pull his hair out."

[@jbritt2549]

good sand to put in a wet place for fill

[@northmanlogging2769]

hog fuel, big chunky wood chips... about a foot deep, makes a great temporary road, easy to clean up when your done too

[@tylerg57]

How did you make your mud mats??

[@justinmills8084]

A big kid playing in the sandbox.

[@darinhassett4708]

what do you use for the mats? and how do you make them?

[@clydecoffeycc]

We are logging our farm and sell 30 and 40 ft logs to a amish sawmill that makes mats. Not sure what your 18 ft mats cost but i know the 40 footers are high.

[@juniorraines1042]

Great video Chris

[@-mike--m-9629]

Mud Mats Oh hell yes I love it when Chris gets on his mats and plays in the mud Roll on Mfer 👍

[@sassafrasvalley1939]

Those mud mats are like little ‘Glop-he-goes’ islands!

[@benharleman587]

You guys could use two skid steers for sure, why not get a Deere 330 series with tracks to help out?

[@keng7703]

Jenga, excavator edition

[@paulthesoundguy1]

Arm chair operator here..........NEED CHOCKS OR PARKING BREAK ON THE TRUCK.... ALL THAT MOVEMENT IF FOCUSED DIRECTLY ON THE TRANSMISSION

[@whatsup1407]

Why hasn't David been uploading to your other channel? I want to see big August got and all the turkeys getting processed for Thanksgiving.

[@MikeyDunn]

I see you've got some fencing to stop anything rolling UP the hill, lol! I think you must've killed your microphone because the sound was 90% engine noise while the machine was running.

[@Moose_338]

You guys need a small front end loader

[@tjparker9537]

White sand pond dredging job 👌🏽

[@javaquickscope7300]

In Ireland we call those bog mats

[@1013redoak]

It's amazing how the surface area of those mats can float the weight of that huge machine on the surface! Physics I guess!

[@jaywest4102]

37 minutes and the thumbnail has mud mats....get the popcorn before hitting play.

[@ntomnia585]

Sir, have you properly cleaned that foreign mud from those mats before transporting them to our special lake?

[@A35pickuptruck]

Hello Mike and Melissa love the cabin and I may do the same next spring in our woods. I do have a question about the siding. Why did you start it above the banding board and not below to cover it up. Maybe you will do that later not sure. I have the same board on our three season porch and it looks like a cabin from up north and not a porch. I to bought it from the Amish in Charm, Oh. We live in rural southern Ohio bout forty miles southeast of Cols. Years ago the firewood business was good as everyone burned. Today its hard to give it away. I had a cord of oak on a trailer in my front yard last year all winter for $100.00 and no one was interested. All they had to do was hock on the trailer and go or I would have delivered. Its a hard sale. I have 16 acres and would like to just keep the dead stuff cleaned up. We are starting to get a lot of weekend cabin rental in our area so I'm thinking about cratering to that markit. Dave

[@thomasdesmond2248]

Chris is finally happy. He gets to play in his sand box again. Lol God bless

[@cq608]

Yeah, a new video!

[@mwconleyclan]

did you adjust your bid to reflect current conditions?

[@thomasdesmond2248]

Hey Chris you are so Southern. We had your DNA checked and your closest know relative is a Penguin. Lol God bless

[@DonnaMSchmid]

How are the logs held together on the mud mats?

[@letsdig18]

4' long bolts

[@DonnaMSchmid]

@@letsdig18 Whoa... So the one that was curling indicates at least some of the bolts have snapped?

[@Rickimusic]

Somewhere in here is a making mud mats video. Long ass rods they used.

[@ScottyStock]

@@RickimusicI think Dirtperfect has that video

[@Rickimusic]

@@ScottyStock Could be. I guess the way my post sounded, folks may have thought I meant Chris. "In here" meant on you tube but it has been a while. Rather hard work making them.

[@factfinder4839]

The MUDmats! Rail ties and Rebar? what are they and how did you make them...I need a dozen

[@makingithappen9722]

32:30. Wait a minute now. I did this when I was a kid, But the excavator was made of wood.

[@davidharris6581]

"Excuse me mam, could you hold this camera and point it this way for awhile?"

[@martinspijker9661]

how many toothpicks do youeat evry year??..:D

[@DIRT-BOSS]

I would love a bunch of those mats! Real expensive! I have just those Alturna Mats..

[@matthewmeuleman9872]

Chris have you ever sean plastic mud mats

[@frankoch1]

and now for the transmission repairs on the truck

[@stevenrichey5068]

Your company needs a loader...it would pay for it's self ....

[@kWT49]

Reckon that buddy of yours that owns the Saw Mill would loan you his front end loader to make it go a little faster

[@LiLGooZ21]

Mud Mat Diving Boards!

[@rharris5811]

That grey mud that mixes in with the sand smells like shit when you take the top off of it. A lot drier in the pile than I expected it to be.

[@robfraley4210]

It’s Not a Horrible job, just a challenging one, Hahaha 😂 5:30 I hated them/these kid...!! I had to dig a new section to the pond at The Fairgrounds by Carter Finally stadium with a little Kohring Dragline in The woodsy section, all wet muddy mess 🤬😤🤷🏻‍♂️ went back to a night freight run From RDU to ATL back to RDU by about nine am... 🌘🛫

[@sandspar]

Keep hearing this voice from the past yelling " Christopher, you better not be in yore good clothes in that mud hole !!! "

[@jakemallory4239]

shit, down here even that dirty sand sells for $400-500 a truck.

[@johnnyholland8765]

Did you see your one and only spectator? Guess he wasn't too impressed cause he just turned and walked away. Probably coming out to yell at you for disturbing the neighborhood or something.......... The landscape folks are really going to be pissed. Hope you priced this job with some wiggle room especially having to do the extra work. Your right when you said setting up for the job is half the work. Good job on the entrance to the creek. Not a lot of room to work.

[@CycloneDev]

You should hire a wheel loader to help cart the sand

[@scottlundy257]

Cant you rent enough mad mats to build a road for the dump trucks back to where you need them ?

[@maryschillinger2909]

He has to follow. The HOA rules

[@Roadhammer33]

The last time you used the mats was back in January on that quicksand job.

[@keithdunlap3666]

Yeah, better be cool there Chris !! Ya know , I those neighborhoods if ya even Fart to loud they will have ya himed up at the next HOA meeting !!!!! lmao ... Man, you guys are gonna run the skid steer to death with all that loading, like ya said, got to be done ! And that was a nice long video too, keep umm coming !! lolol... Til the Next !! Have a Great Evening....

[@carolpreston2353]

Hi Chris, love to watch your videos. Just curious as of late I hear much more hydraulic pump noise then I hear you. I have to turn up the volume so much to hear your comments that the hydraulic noise is terrible. Maybe a new mic or something just wanted you to know.. I still watch just don't get to hear you. Thanks Carol from Florida

[@Blazer02LS]

I wonder if it's just the sound transferring into the camera through the mount?

[@Rickimusic]

@@Blazer02LS No idea but every time the 160, I can't hear him. Add open two windows makes it that much worse, I hear a drone of sorts of speech. CC is no help at all. Yes well, fun to watch the sand fly.

[@porkchop5389]

time to go to the mud mat store for some new ones maybe you can get a good deal on them on Black Friday

[@Murphyslawfarm]

The old Yanmar still go's

[@pneumatic00]

Chris, did you make those mats? If so, out of purchased lumber or cut-down lumber from a site clearing?

[@letsdig18]

I buy them pre made

[@MrFboyle]

You always have spectators

[@jonschneck4559]

I need to set up bleachers and sell hot dogs

[@casycasy5199]

was it the state that did not want to to dig the trees up or the people that own the pond

[@maryschillinger2909]

The H O A

[@garywilliams7734]

Was that whole state an ocean bottom in eons past? Sand and more sand or clay

[@davidhunt5631]

i would like to get some of your t-shirts but you don't go to my size as there are some big people out there would like to get some but carnt as the size doesn't go large enough

[@julianljackson]

I don't think even a dragline would work!!!!

[@jrand2631]

Damn, that's a lot of sand!

[@taxiforcraig]

U would be better with a bigger bucket than that so it's done a bit faster

[@robertrockwell7581]

i do not know where people down below say no ads. on my laptop there were about 4 or 5. nice job so far.

[@keng7703]

adblocker plus no youtube ads

[@nickinnewy7567]

how do you make the mud mats???

[@fhuber7507]

He has them made.

[@timcavazos]

I miss your jibber jabber DaVinci 🙉🙉🙉

[@leol1682]

Like the video ,With the mats .

[@maineman11]

At 1:41 practically breaking transmission internals, then at 31:51 talking about finesse. Contradictory. Though it's a good video regardless.

[@letsdig18]

built ford tough

[@erickuehn9161]

Heyy I love the videos I know I keep asking but what bed do you have on your truck I really like it and would love one for my f450 work truck. Keep up the awesome videos!!

[@joshcongioloso9104]

So how many excavators do you have? And are u from the Carolinas or tn.im from tn

[@maryschillinger2909]

North Carolina