You can tell when professionals have been doing their jobs for a while, they make it look easy when it is not. Great job.

@RRBuildings

29 күн бұрын

Agree Kirby was awesome

Incredible how accurate they can be.

When the Dakota Access Pipeline crossed our farm I talked to one of the guys that helped with the bore under the Mississippi River, he said it was a 3 mile long bore and when the bit came out the other side it pushed the survey stake out of the ground.

@RRBuildings

Ай бұрын

I believe it

@DrMJJr

29 күн бұрын

Holy hell…That’s wild

@KennyBellau

17 күн бұрын

I live in New Orleans and you'd have to be around 300 feet deep to not punch through the river bottom. It's over 250 feet deep in some places near the French Quarter.

Thank you for asking how it turns and pushing a little bit for an actual answer. I have seen dozens of videos of directional drilling and no one has a straightforward answer to that question.

@callummaas997

Ай бұрын

Same here. Just finally understood from this video

@95dodgev10

29 күн бұрын

That has always drove me nuts. Even on how its made they're basically like "theyre sorta built like this and here's a finished hole"

The only issue inspectors have with us in Oklahoma as far as electrical conduit in the same ditch is when it comes to gas lines. It has to have a 6” separation with 2” of concrete. I don’t think you have anything to worry about with your water line and electric conduit being in the same pipe! My opinion as a licensed electrician, Kyle!

Man I learn more stuff watching you guys than I ever did in college. Directional boring is amazing and Pete and his crew are awesome. Great job.

That is by far the most amazing piece of machinery I have ever seen. I am speechless.

@willb3018

28 күн бұрын

A few year back Verizon was installing fiber optic in our neighborhood and had something similar. As they went down the street they were tunneling under all the driveways. It is amazing. Now I have better understanding of how it was done.

Another aspect of building we sometimes forget!!, Water, and Electrical into the building from a Power source.!! Great video, Good advert for the Boring firm. Thanks Kyle. Always keep the wife Happy.😁😅.

I used to be a service tech for RDO Vermeer and not just their HDDs but a lot of the machines Vermeer manufacturers are truly incredible feats

Kyle this might be one of my favorite videos because it is so interesting. You guys present this in such a relatable way, I love how the dude explained how it works and you were like, yeah but how does it really work again? lol my thoughts exactly, you could have a network tv show but please never leave youtube.

Make sure you have separation between power conduit and communications conduit. If not, you will have interference issues with internet/telephone communications due to RF frequencies caused by power (magnetic fields). BTW, great job on showing and explaining the process. Best in Show award for this video. Thanks

This is mind blowing to me. Ive wondered for a long time how the process worked, and now my questions are answered! I understand it but cant believe it. Thanks!

Great episode - Thanks for showing us the process!

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing. Glad you had great weather for the project.

Ive always wondered how these machines worked! Thanks for making this video!

Trades working together. Nothing better… great video.

So cool. I have seen those machines around but never really knew how they worked. Thanks for the great video.

Great job showing how this process is done

That was incredibly fascinating! Blows my mind how it works.

That is seriously impressive & unbelievable how accurate. So reassuring when you get a contractor turn up & not be at all phased by anything & just know they can deal with anything that occurs.

Never knew how this was done, really cool to see. 👍🏻

Impressive stuff. I witnessed this first hand last year when the city moved power lines from overhead to underground in our residential area with lots of very tall trees. The conduit was installed flawlessly as it moved under my paver driveway.

Pretty cool, never actually saw this procedure done and incredibly accurate.

Learned so much this episode Kyle. Thanks for sharing!

Another great video love this channel.thanks for all you guys do.

Absolute Precision. That's freaking awesome

That was a cool video!! I knew about the bore machines and that they can control the head but never knew how it worked!! Thanks!!

At one time I actually worked at Vermeer and I welded up the frames For the tracks snd undercarriage for some of their first directional boring machines before they had welding jigs. The track system is actually the same track system that was used on the t450 track trencher in the beginning I built it by hand with a tape measure and a blueprint the good old days

This was such a great video, thanks for taking us along!

Thanks for showing us how these work. Drive past them all the time and always wondered how they knew where it was going.

This is crazy! Awesome! The amount of work, time and money saved this way is insane!

It really is an engineering marvel that they can do this! I saw a pipeline company tunnel underneath a 4 lane road with a 20" water line. Simply amazing! Thanks for filming this up close!

thanks guys for doing this , so cool to see.

Simply amazing technology! Good to see the respect between the different “trade/speciality” folks.

That really is some magnificent deep dirt you’ve got there. We have about 1” sprinkled on top of granite ledge.

@tysleight

29 күн бұрын

I grew up in an area that was an alluvial fan ( 6 inch round river rock 500 feet deep) I had to move to understand that you dig with a shovel not a pick. I still send my Dad pictures of 100 feet of trench without a rock in it .

@lisawallace3124

26 күн бұрын

that good Midwestern Black Dirt! Such an underrated resource!

This was mind boggling! Thanks for recording it, while I have seen machinery along the side of the road I've not had any opportunity to watch and certainly not ask any questions! I am absolutely going to do this when I rehab my house since the electric service is low and hangs over my backyard and I have to cut branches back all the time I'm so happy I found your channel a while ago and have been watching your builds.

Thanks for the video, it's a good reference for the average person how directional boring is done. I've seen it done many times but it does still seem a little bit like magic. 🙂

Gonna have to keep this in mind when I pull the trigger on building the retirement compound and garagemahal. Looks a lot faster and more flexible than trenching the services in.

@RRBuildings

29 күн бұрын

So fast and clean

KYLE ,,, Congratulations on your new amazing Shop my friend it is absolutely beautiful Wow.!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Very, very interesting! Yes, it is amazing how precise they can get with all their piping and machinery! Everything is looking really amazing guys! We are going to be installing the epoxy coating starting Tuesday, the white interior steel looks amazing, the shop is really coming together!

Awesome visualization of this process. Currently using directional boring on the wastewater treatment plant project I’m working on at work and I’ve never seen it performed before. Thank you.

Incredible to see Kirby out on a job and get you guys taken care of! Hello from Vermeer Midwest!

@RRBuildings

29 күн бұрын

Awesome!!! And awesome machine!!

So glad you covered this in your build series. Like you Kyle, I have always wondered how they do that. Thanks for this and as always very informative the way you described it.

@RRBuildings

29 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

WONDERFUL...and, a side note--as YOU guys prove on every video, having great wonderful tools is swell, but it is the PEOPLE running them that make the difference! Thanks~

I spent a few weeks around one of these machines, installing data infrastructure, on Fort Jackson in 2011. Glad to see they are using them for more applications. I want to replace my water line without trenching up my yard and thought about trying this way. Probably cost double. Goid content as usual. Y'all kill it.

I feel compelled to comment on this video. How awsome. It was so cool to see how they do this. I had it done on our property a few years ago and was not able to see them do the work. All your videos are very informative, but this one may have taken the cake on something that most people had no clue how it actually was done. Great job Kyle

I've been told that with larger boring machines (about double the size of the unit you used) that it's range can exceed 6000 feet between vaults (manholes). I watched a solar farm being built recently run 12 8" raceways about two miles to the new substation located below existing transmission lines for a new solar farm's output to tie into the electrical grid. when 8" pipes were pulled in they were done in three sets of 4 8" raceways each pull. Amazing tech developed by the oil industry for gas/oil wells for fracking and directional drilling thousands of feet deep running horizontally sometimes for miles. Great Video. Ray

Evergy replaced the underground power lines on my block last summer - my home is in the middle of the block - they 'drilled' the conduit lines in both directions from back yard - it took a couple of weeks. It was pretty amazing. The dug small holes in the back yards of other neighbor to reinforce that they were actually doing it correctly. It was pretty much one guy doing all the work.

When I lived in Denver there was a company we used all the time. Concrete Coring Company. "Your hole is our goal" was on all their trucks.

Really enjoyed that, very informative 👍👍👍👍👍

I have seen a few videos like this but none have explained it as well. Tip o’ the hat to you sir!

Very cool technology! I installed fence for 15 years. I've cut electrical and plumbing many times . When 811 marks the utilities (gas Yellow,electric RED,fiber,coaxial, phone wire ORANGE and sewer GREEN) to the meter. Its very important to know anything AFTER the meter is not marked.

That’s awesome thanks for showing us great option

Amazing technology ......... I was fortunate enough to experience the same process when they bored the loops for my Geo Thermal system. 400 foot loops and the bit came out of the ground a foot away from where it entered.

That is a great video very informative and educational

Amazing system

I have saw so much directional boring done in the past two years and I'm sure it's only going to grow. This is the most efficient and least invasive way to dig and run utilities.

My wife and I just went through the same shit about 2 years ago stressful man /but so werth it those guys deserve mad respect love the video RNR 👍

Awesome machine and technology

amazing machines...but the operators knowing what they are doing...its like they have a feel for it...we did a coffee shop way out in the middle of a parking lot at least 20 years ago...like a 300 yard run under the asphalt...pretty cool...great tutorial👍

@RRBuildings

Ай бұрын

You got that right!

Very cool….they did a great job. 👍👍

WOW! Love tech! amazing vid boys.

Thank you for sharing very educational.

This is amazing wow makes it look so easy !!!!

Awesome guys

Great job.

Awesome video

Great video keep them coming

absolutely amazing.

Very cool. Didn't think this was possible to do.

That was an excellent video

Nice video!

Several municipalities have set up regulations banning open trenches in favor of HDD. However there are lots of drawbacks. Crossing utilities can be tricky. Losing or breaking tips. Having the conduit or pipe breaking loose and having to pull back and try again. Hitting solid rocks is fun too. But when it works…it’s awesome. We’re running 6 drills, 4 vac trucks, and a fleet of equipment. We’re drilling 2 to 3 thousand feet a week for a city wide project. Been interesting.

Another big advantage to directional boring is that it does not require anywhere near the amount of restoration work when done versus digging a trench.

made the wife happy that pete was able to punch it in your basement. man, im sorry that was uncalled for. great vid.

@ohiostate1208

Ай бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣

Absolutely amazing….

Very cool video

wow if it wasn't for this technology and this crew imagine how much work would that task will be.. days and days of hard work and i can't even see how you will go under the creek ... i am very much impressed

Very very cool !!

In construction I. The UK that is known as a Dutch Sleeve and us used when changing cables on Big hoists or cranes making it easier to change without all the agro of getting cables twisted or on the wrong place

That was awesome!

Practical Engineering did a very in depth video of how directional drilling works. I always wondered how they did that and he did the video and it is so simple of an idea, but so amazing of how accurate they can lay pipe blind underground withing digging anything up... I see the utility workers using directional drilling all the time to lay fiber (orange conduit) and other pipping and conduits and see a spot on the side fo the road and they will go up to a mile i've seen and then pop into a pre dug hole and push the conduit in, then move the machine to the new spot and start over and join the two spots when dont there and burry the small 1x4 hole. so much cheaper thenm digging up a mile of road, cutting, blocking traffic, digging it all up, laying the conduit/pipe, then burry/compact to city stds, then re asphault the roadway and fix any stripping and other damages and take a week or two, where directional drilling will get miles done in a single week.

Amazing technology.

Very cool! Thank youo for sharing.

Man You never Disappoint, Always throw the 411 on how it gets done!, Great video and spreading the word for those guys. AWESOME!

That was really cool, have always wondered how they did that.

This is awesome.

It's like MAGIC!!

That was impressive 👍🏻

thanks Pete and the Juice

very interesting thanks for sharing

Make sure you use fiber for that internet conduit. 2 reasons: building differential and lighting strikes! And don't be afraid of fiber, it's fairly easy to handle and you can buy pre-made patch cords of any distance these days so not needs to do any specialised splicing. Also switches with fiber are not that expensive these days.

Thats good looking soil. Grow anything there.

That was very interesting and how they can be so accurate in doing there boring.

@RRBuildings

Ай бұрын

Pretty crazy yes

Loving the old wood handle post hole diggers

@RRBuildings

Ай бұрын

Not that old… just worn

@user-hc1lk8wf3u

Ай бұрын

@@RRBuildings can’t beat a good wood handle.

I never knew they could be steered so precisely. I thought they just went straight. That’s wild they hit that tiny hole in the basement.

Still watching the video, but would love to know how far they can go and how much it cost. Hopefully you cover that

@alliejadwin7641

19 күн бұрын

Basically, you're limited by the power of the machine, the size of the product being pulled, and the number of drill rods currently loaded on the machine. Some machines allow your to switch rod baskets to gain additional footage. All of that determines how far you can drill. Some companies also want vaults every so many feet. As far as pricing, a lot goes into that so I don't know a specific quotable number but you usually charge by the amount of feet of product being pulled back. So its price per foot and that can be determined by things like soil conditions. Drilling in rock takes longer so you would want to charge more. It also requires more drilling fluid which will drive up rates.

That was very cool

If you haven't already done so, I would also add a 1" conduit for communications (fiber, cat5e/6, etc) while you're at it. Makes installing internet in the shop way easier later. EDIT: haha guess I should have finished watching the video before commenting! Good to see you did that.

@RRBuildings

28 күн бұрын

didn't you hear me lol...I did a water line and communication conduit into my basement...that is where there are two lines

There was a contractor pushing a fiber in the right of way where I used to work, there was a gas line and several other fibers so they went deep to avoid all of that. Unfortunately they bored right through a storm sewer 15 ft below the surface. Eventually that created a sink hole and caved in the entire right of way leaving the 6" high pressure gas line suspended in thin air.