The telehandler rescuing the mini-skid was like watching some momma dog rescuing her pup from whatever mess it got itself into. I'm just going to assume the telehandler barked at the mini-skid disapprovingly afterwards.

Man I miss working with my Dad. Enjoy your time with him. Good times!

@gordonagent7037

2 жыл бұрын

Just lost my Dad, who was my best mate as well, sure miss ringing him every day to have a chat and talk about stuff.

Matt Cremona, a man with no piers!

@notatechie

2 жыл бұрын

I hope his house doesn't fall into the hole.😂

@phooesnax

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of piers but no peers

@phooesnax

2 жыл бұрын

Great job Matt. I am always impressed but not surprised.

@Edu_Kate

2 жыл бұрын

Peel off that cardboard on the taller ones and sell them as landscape columns. Ages ago, I saw some fellows who sold columns like that. They dyed the concrete for added interest.

Why is it so entertaining to watch a man dig a hole? I couldn't stop smiling throughout the entire video!

I’m so jealous of Donovan getting to play with your toys! Also I’m the kid in the window watching!

We are just loving watching you work. Almost broke out in a sweat watching. Wow you are working hard.

Great video. Looked like you had a lot of fun along with your friend. Thanks for sharing Matt. God Bless.

You Guy's doin a great job Matt, time to do it while you are young, can't wait for the next video Stay Safe !!!. Brian UK !!!.

This is exciting to see you get into this phase of the construction.

Appreciate that you shared the footage of relearning the excavator. 👍

love the aerial shots of the current season!

Enjoying the series. Doing my own excavating here in Japan. Cheers.

thanks for sharing your journey

Men and boys love their toys. Looking good Matthew.

Good that you are ahead of schedule, because you always find the unexpected when remodeling. Things that slow you down.

Construction projects are always fun.

You both make a great team

thank you Matt

Thanks Matt, great job

ich habe mir part 1 und 2 angeschaut, damit ich verstehe, worum es geht. Da habt Ihr Euch viel vorgenommen. die Kinder beobachten alles ganz genau. ;-) Hauptsache ,es läuft nach Plan und ohne Unfall. Alles Gute !

Nice progress for a day. Great skills on the shovel for a guy with four hours in on the machine. Hope rain and snow don't muck up the pour! 😃 👍

I had in floor heat put in my post frame building. I really like it. I have not seen you use your equipment this way.

Thanks for sharing with us Matthew, you both handled the equipment quite well. You’re doing a good job. Thanks for sharing with us. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✋🏻✋🏻

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Fred!

Excellent update. Given how long you since used an excavator, you were indeed handling it like a "smooth operator". Bobcat will be gutted to see "Excavator" leave just as "she" was enjoying a nice rest! Good luck and stay safe. 👍🏼

Really fun to watch!

Matt is on fire. 🏇🏇🏇

Great video. I have always loved your show, but your video skills are amazing! You have come a long way since the basement college days. Cheers

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great job digging.

beautiful view with that drone shot at the end. Good job on this Matt!

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Like watching you master all the machines, makes me laugh 😃, great job 👏

Nice job Matt. Especially the handling of the excavator with no experience. You nailed it. Kudos to you👍👍💯

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

WOW! I've never seen so many footer in such a small space before. Its like they had a footing every 24 inches. Crazy!!

Hey Matt, nice!!! Lake Havasu 🌞 Az

Excellent description of the excavator experience for a novice. Get to feeling pretty good by the end of the day and then have to relearn the next morning. 😀 A guy still is far from expert but it feels so good!!

Matt, Waaaaay to much fun. I was watching the kids in the window. I’m sure they want to (and you should let them) come out and play in the big hole in the evening. Especially the big dirt hill you guys made! I always loved the big dirt mounds! Don’t tell Lindsay I suggested it because there will be heavy use of the “mud” room. Hampers full of Dirty clothes and Pockets filled with dirt... ohhhh yeaaah! And lost dinasoars (used to be the plastic army men for my time .... haha). Big strong metal Tonka toys ruled the day! Anything with wheels was a downhill racer. You’ve gotta give your kids the opportunity to build those memories since it’s all temporary holes and hills anyway! Anyway, nice progress! Eloise is supervising and inspecting all your work and reporting to her assistant engineers and her Mom!

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

It's a kid's world!

Good digging Matt! lol Thanks for sharing the updates with us!💖👍😎JP

Thank you for sharing! This is great info.

my dad was a heavy equipment operator: I could watch you two do this all day. we don't have dirt like that in SoCal, however.

@TheBigburcie

2 жыл бұрын

I'm in the Houston area. The ground texture is somewhere between pea soup and almost set concrete most of the time. Heavy, sandy clay, and most of it stinks.

Can’t believe I watched it all but enjoyed!!!

Remember a door to your well, because if you don’t you need to go to your well pump. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey. God bless you and your family.

As an equipment operator (retired) it's always fun to watch someone else's operations. I'm constantly giving advice and opinion to the screen! Sooo much fun to be had!!

@audimaster5000

2 жыл бұрын

What’s the wildest thing ya ever dug up?

@garyhome7101

2 жыл бұрын

​@@audimaster5000 Back in the 90's I was working on an inland waterway for the local port authority - kind of a large drainage swale that drained into the local river system. Besides being extremely contaminated to at least 12' depth, it had lots of chunks of concrete mixed in. The site had been a major fill operation in the 30's and all kinds of rubble and debris was in the subsoil. At about the middle point of the channel excavation I hit a chunk of concrete that didn't seem to have any edges, and the bottom was below my boom reach. I eventually cleared around it to discover what was believed to be a footing for some kind of huge crane dating from WW2. This chunk of concrete had 2 " bar embedded in it, was 12' across its base, and was at least 8' deep. It took almost two weeks of hammering on the thing with 3 excavators fitted with impact hammers before we reduced it to a point where it could be lifted out. Had it not been dead square in the middle of the drainage line and at high water, I would have left it there!

Almost ready to install the pool!

Starting to get into the fun part.

Glad to see the little inspectors are on the job. I was wondering what the vent was for, the well didn't even occur to me.

NICE job!

Donovan's GOOD!

Wow Matt you were getting really smooth with the excavator near the end.

Drive that telehandler like you stole it! Love it!

Now, that's a very good way to get the bobcat out of the hole. Nice hole you made there.

Nice man! Quite the project. I want to dig out (lower) and underpin the basement in the house I grew up in, add a walkout and bathroom as well. House is a 1918 Craftsmen with a 6'7" height basement front finish floor to bottom of joists. Should be one hell of a time.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Cremona! (Belated) :)

👍👍👍👍👍 way to go Matt

Whether you’re planting a sapling or digging a basement, it’s amazing how much dirt comes out of a hole.

Matt it's turning into an archaeological dig footings allover the place WOW

Looking good so far. Put a sleeve around that waterline where it goes through the footing. Just split a larger piece of PVC, clamshell it around the waterline ands tape it back together. Then pour the footing around the sleeve. You (or someone else down the road) will be glad you did. Do the same for the powerline (even put it entirely in conduit), maybe all the way back to where it comes out of the foundation. Pipes and wires don't last forever. My first experience with an excavator (actually a backhoe attachment for a Bobcat) had me put a hole in the sheathing of the adjacent house wall. Oh well, at least the final siding hadn't been installed.

it's astonishing how enjoyable this video is 😂

....nice work, keep safe..

Would love to see the finished product

Great video, keep the cameras rolling. I’m interested to see how you are going to handle the well feed and the horse water line. Take care and stay healthy good luck on your renovation and I hope Mr. Murphy is napping during your project.

"That ended up being a scrap piece of pipe." Sure did after you were done with it. 🤣

You are getting good with that machine.

I really enjoy the banter

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

There’s a lot more of that coming

@freepress8451

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcremona Spoiler alert - don't look at Matt's or Donavan's Instagram

Hi, that mini skid steer is awesome 😁.

@Off-Grid

2 жыл бұрын

Good for tight places

@H2Dwoat

2 жыл бұрын

@@Off-Grid hi, true enough and the 53 year old me sees all the practical uses but boy the 5 year old in me keeps thinking about adult Tonka toys 😁.

Awesome progress Matt! Can we get an update on the trees you've planted?

You have great soil. Down here in Kentucky, were on shale and limestone. Our ground is as hard as woodpecker lips 👄

So fun to watch somebody that probably plays video games advanced so quickly with their hand eye coordination into running an excavator pretty good for a day's work!

He got to drive the telehandler too?!? Dang, Donovan has carte blanche on all the toys, doesn't he? ;) Loving this series! Thank you!

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha we’re just a couple of kids playing in the sand

my dad is having birthday today too! congrats

Happy belated birthday

Man I so wanted to get on that excavator and help. Lol awesome job.

awesom

my back hurts just watching you dig

@Off-Grid

2 жыл бұрын

He'll feel it sooner or later....lol

The peddle on the right Right hand floor swings the boom

Wonderful soil there, Matthew. I hope that you plan to use it?

Your children love the digging. Fun for them.

All my life I’ve suffered from the same disease! I just can’t see paying someone else to do what I can do myself!! Good job!!!

That's the best use of the word smooshy that I've ever heard! (8:15)

A few years ago, every time I would add a few new subs KZread would remove a couple of my subscriptions I already had. When this video was suggested to me, I realized I had not seen one of your videos in my feed for years. Sorry I missed ya, re-subbed.

Lazers!

Cheers Matt. 'There I was digging a Hole' Bernard Cribbins. Circa 1960's....

i am so jealous of the soil you have there. everyplace i've been has either been clay or sand...and roots, so many roots. not as much fun at all!

Hey Oct 11 is my birthday too! Happy birthday Matt's Dad

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

Happy belated birthday!

It's just interesting how you folks do construction as in the UK the building regs are different and those utilities are buried covered with small stone and coloured plastic ribbon tape which identify what services are there in different colours blue ribbon for water, yellow ribbon is for gas, red ribbon for electric, white ribbon generally for landline that mandatory in the UK building regulations and they have to inspected same as the footings

@datasailor8132

2 жыл бұрын

Every state is different. In Maryland we just had our electric and cable lines buried and both run in plastic conduit. Water, sewer, and gas are separate and just run in their own iron pipes.

Looks like you could use some gutter guard to keep the leaves out Matt on the house roof.

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

The gutters have leaf guards

seeing the mini excavator in the hole reminded me of the old kids book "mike mulligan and his steam shovel"

I love these construction videos without speeding up

Matt please take care of your back. Great progress

@Off-Grid

2 жыл бұрын

He'll feel it later....

When I rented a smaller digger a few years back, it was such a joy. First time for me, I did alright. Made me think about how defenders of video games in the eighties and nineties professed how it would teach kids hand-eye coordination.

You could say " Happy House Renovating" for your closing.

I don’t know anything about the geology of where you live, but compared to the places I’ve lived in MA and CA, I am amazed at the lack of rocks. Great soil for gardening and farming?

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve only seen grasses grown in this area. A few miles out you’ll start to see other crops

@Off-Grid

2 жыл бұрын

That makes things so much easier

@guscarlson6306

2 жыл бұрын

I know Matt's in Minnesota, and all that sand makes me think he is somewhere on the Anoka Sand Plain. The Anoka Sand plain is a rather large area North of the Twin Cities and was formed when glaciers left the state around 15,000 years ago. The rivers of glacial meltwater deposit a lot of sand!

@marjorieschulz6658

2 жыл бұрын

Likely glacial out wash sediment.

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

@@guscarlson6306 St Croix river valley

Wednesday 31:20 Running the excavator like you own it!

I’d want to move those water lines either so they come in through the new foundation or go around the outside of it. It would be an absolute nightmare to have to replace them if they were beneath your new slab.

@thtadthtshldntbe

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, nothing you ever want to have any convenient access to should ever go under any slab. Though I wondered why that water line was so deep , but then thought about their excavation. I bet that area of the yard was filled in and was much shallower in the past.

@hermanschepers4739

2 жыл бұрын

Or install PVC pipes in slab to run utility lines thru to daylight

@thtadthtshldntbe

2 жыл бұрын

@@hermanschepers4739 given how deep that's going to be, its best to avoid burying anything that far down unless you absolutely have to.

@michaelsnell4034

2 жыл бұрын

Install and cap a pipe anyway. Then you are always covered for anything you need to put through later whether water for a water feature, power for low voltage lighting, gas for a grill or fire pit, etc.

Hey, Matt, where did you get that long peavey? We have some real big logs and our 4' peavey isn't quite enough

Take measurements and pictures as you put the utilities back underground. This will help future work.

I have a question for you , houw deep and large is your footing needs to be ? Do you need to have gravel under your footings and lastly do you need rebar for your footings ? Thx for answering 😉👍🏼

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

The next video covers a lot of this. We’ll be down around 8’ but frost depth here is 42”. No need for gravel since the soil is sand. 3 #5 rebar in the footing

Looks good 👍Matt. Transporting dirt with the telehandler is pretty inefficient and you handle every scoop twice. You don't have a trailer?

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

We have a dump trailer here which we were going to use but moving the dirt with the telehandler was more convenient than maneuvering a trailer around. The limiting factor was the speed of getting the dirt out of the hole.

Big deal! What a bunch of old piers and assorted junk as well as a great base for your new addition. I’m so glad to see better and more videos rather than Friday wine tastings. Please keep em coming. Best Regards Fred Thomas

I'm really glad you finally took off those silly trainers and put on some proper work boots !

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

I swap back and forth. Those boots aren’t broken in

@lyndamcardle4123

2 жыл бұрын

Matt You wouldn't be able to work on a (UK) site in those trainers ....."Health & Safety" etc....

How Cold was it when Yall dug the Footings ???

Matt, what's more fun, digging a big hole for your addition foundation or saw milling a giant goofy log? LOL

@OntarioFirewoodResource

2 жыл бұрын

I bet he'd say milling

@mcremona

2 жыл бұрын

Goofy logs. Every time