That's some incredible dexterity with the excavator there, you can almost sense the operator is using the machine as an extension of himself. Wonderful to watch.

The enitre swamo is about 1/2 mile long. I had been working all day before that. once I did bust the dam it took me about 15 minutes to mats myself back to the shoreline so I could go home!

@EskiLdn yes I was 21 one this was filmed over 2 years ago. I've been running equipment my entire life and I'd say been on a excavator since I was 12

@triciap1874

3 жыл бұрын

...and here we are, ELEVEN years later! Still enjoying the videos. 👍👍

@rcb1717

3 жыл бұрын

Man I gotta comment my papa passed away I grew up on the farm running equipment I was only grandson and he had three daughters. He willed things to me I told em I didn’t care about $ it was sentimental and I loved it got caught up in court they got it all and sold everything I lost my job at CSX railroad after 10years shop was shutdown and now I’m starting over $13/hr to run one cause I have zero connects outside my county or wherever on where to go or get an opportunity so saving every dime I can hopefully buy a small one in a few years work for myself part time but I’m 33 now and starting over after railroad shop bellied up If anyone needs a trustworthy man and reliable and can at least pay 15-17 and a motel room I’ll run one around the clock and got dozer experience just not much opportunity here in sc that I know of. Been trying indeed but don’t hear back from any companies out west ..just thought I’d give it a try on a KZread comment haha God bless fellas

@timwilkinson2797

3 жыл бұрын

@@rcb1717 Good post n Good luck !!!! Mate Wishing well from the UK

@rcb1717

3 жыл бұрын

@@timwilkinson2797 back atcha boss man and I Preciate bud!

The excavator looked like a living thing the way the operator ran it. Pretty impressive.

@davidsgarage44

5 жыл бұрын

Dasdfjkl i was thinking the same with precision movements

@TheFarmanimalfriend

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, if only he knew his ass from a hole in the ground.

@savannaswildnatureworkshop7810

4 жыл бұрын

not if it's your home. These guys are losers who have forgotten.."do no Harm" so busy making money, they have forgotten who they are and why they are on this earth. Destroying the homes of wildlife ain't it bubba.... take a hike..don't come back.

@Roger30118

3 жыл бұрын

@@cumminsrocks1 I agree😂😂

When I first got my certification and operators license in '93 I would have never believed how one of these machines can almost become part of you, like a living third arm and hand (or, sometimes, an extra leg and foot!). Nice work. SMOOTH! Thanks for this. I enjoyed watching.

Wow guess it really helps when you know what you're doing. Was very impressed with the planks nice job

The real treat of this video was watching you pilot that thing. You are a smooth operator. Your machine at work looked like a living creature.

Pretty comfy at the controls !

@hoangnguyenofficial9438

6 жыл бұрын

Capt. John's Bar hello

Watching the skilled operation of the excavator in this is really impressive.

The beaver family bought this nice little property back in the days when the times where good and beaver husband and beaver wife had jobs. But because of the financial crisis beaver husband lost the job and they were not able to pay mortgage on time. It didn't take long before the bank sent their thugs to evict the beaver family with their 3 children out into the street and demolish their dream dam.

@BobbyTucker

6 жыл бұрын

Then the beaver family told the bank to keep their damn dam.

@AztecWarrior69

6 жыл бұрын

Them black beavers couldn't even afford the loan but because obama mandated that banks give them loans anyway, the real estate bubble burst.

@garychristenson6370

6 жыл бұрын

Well said. And so true. .

@mikewhipkey6863

6 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that the beavers liked their doctor and thought they could keep him.. Beavers were wrong! Furry little Dummies!

@anonymike8280

6 жыл бұрын

@otto skorzeny I blame a white, Anglo Saxon Protestant banker with a thin face and little glasses perched high on his nose. And his petty socialite wife.

What a delicate touch with this big machine! I'm very impressed, it was fascinating watching this. Bravo.

Buddy, you damn sure know how to run that equipment. Very impressed.

What a good operator! now that's how it should be done. Thank you for putting the video up.

235 beavers did not like this video apparently!

cool video , I love watching a skilled operator on an Excavator. Id love the chance to operate one some day

the beaver will have that fixed by morning

@bobbybell2674

5 жыл бұрын

nah beavers were killed first

@derekfreeman1505

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly prob they woulda .. this is bs they doing there job to support a healthy ecosystem. Learn to work with the beaver not pull a dumb human move n need more land to put up a sub division or some shit

@currentbatches6205

4 жыл бұрын

@@derekfreeman1505 Yeah, shame on people for wanting a place to live. Go jam that tree you're hugging up your butt.

@derekfreeman1505

4 жыл бұрын

Current Batches I make logging equipment for a living lmfao so let’s just keep breeding and building until there nothing left and I can’t sit back n watch everyone fight over a drink of water 😂

My man has absolutely bossed it !

Amazing the preparations you had to make to be able to pull on that solid dam wall! We have a dam like that in the ravine at the side of the hill we live on. Huge.

awesome video! would have been awesome to see all that in HD! great work guys!

i have to say, this guy is a fairly good operator. in and out in 6 to 7 minutes. nice work

That was awesome! You can really operate that machine. Hoping to get into my local training school in October good to be able to see someone run that thing and show how to use it right. Not being scared but safe seems to be key!

Beavers - the engineering geniuses of nature.

Very impressive. Was bored and came across the pond video and ended up watching several😀

Love the vintage videos just as much as the new stuff

This is the first video of yours that I saw. Been watching ever sense

Damn right that’s how you do it, impressive the way you handled that machinery!!

Nice work! That dude treats that excavator as if it was a third arm...

You really know how to work that excavator. A couple times it look like you were close to getting it stuck. You have incredible spatial perception, hand-eye coordination and touch receptors. I couldn't see those boards, much less remember where you placed them. I don't think I would have risked losing that equipment.

This guy is BEAST!!!! I've never seen an excavator in action.

this was the first video i saw of yours Chris, this is what got me to subscribe to your channel. you know what you doing with that trackhoe.

Fantastic use of that machine! WOW!

Great operator skill show here. Thanks for the video.

I always miss the before and after video. would like to see what it looks like the next day 👍

awesome operator and humble too. he didn't even show his face on camera.good luck and stay safe.

That fellar there can run a Excavator, can't he? Damn!

I drive one of these for a living and I can tell you that this guy is good. He operates that beast like it is an extension of his mind, and that is the mark of a good operator.

I enjoy watching excavators to their thing. But even more so I enjoy watching someone who really knows what they are doing.

a little C-4 would have made short work of the damn dam. that operator is pretty good at working the machine.

@CSSIandAssociate

10 жыл бұрын

My Father in Law blew up a 150' beaver dam with dynamite!

@huckstirred7112

4 жыл бұрын

ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel ,or any explosive is so much more fun

@savannaswildnatureworkshop7810

4 жыл бұрын

a lot of c-4 on your home would be really fun to watch.

@huckstirred7112

4 жыл бұрын

@@savannaswildnatureworkshop7810 when you have timber going under water , trees 5 feet in diameter dead from them chewing on it , your house floods because they dug a hole in the levy . Lady you have no Idea how destructive they are .

@huckstirred7112

4 жыл бұрын

@@savannaswildnatureworkshop7810 save a tree eat a beaver

I really like your videos! They really get my days going in a possitive way1

Pretty smooth with that machine dude. The people who operate these things are like magicians to me.

You sir have some great skills with the machine, looked like you were going to slide off but all in a days wok, hats off to you

Enjoyed watching the skill of this excavator operator,, once the dam was breached, Mom Nature took control and he had to scurry to get the hell out of the way,, he did that quite successfully, good for him and his equipment. Pretty cool

Dam good operator he knows what he’s doing.

Impressive operator. Good job.

Still one of my for me most important favs i love to see the water goes and drain the land!!!!! You could hire to swamp loggers LOL Take care Alexander

Wow! Build your road as you go. That is impressive.

your a braver man than me gungadin, nice video

Bring your road with you. Good video Thank you.

Kinda kool coming across one of your old videos

you gotta know what your doing!

great skill and imagination.... (I'm a landscape contractor) hats off to you....

i have seen alot of people operate but this guy is skilled good job thinking ahead..

That big boy toy looks fun👍

Like a pro! Nice work.

is this excavator operator very skilled, or maybe i just dont know anything about excavator work?

@MT-oh8vi

6 жыл бұрын

Really good operators make it look easy...but it really isn't. This guy is very skilled.

@redmeat2ndamendment695

5 жыл бұрын

I think it’s a bit of both. But mostly, this guy is awesome.

super.... excellent job.... very quickly to escape......

Watching this in 2021 is very different to when this was videoed. Quite exciting to watch.

Our company uses Menzi Mucks for busting dams. Great job and I love the power thumb. I wish we had one.

Thanks for the tip!

Ive allways liked doing beaver damns by hand, theres alot of fun in it

Man has some mad skills behind that excavator.

Man, I went from watching Jim Panke teaching me banjo lessons and Marty Schwartz teaching me stuff on the guitar; and here I am now watching beaver dam busting! How does that happen? Side note, that dude running the Volvo excavator is...GOOD!

holy shit. This guy is like a master controlling those metal platforms.

It's a great jobb! Congratulation!

You are pretty good with that excavator.

Smooth Operator....Great Job

That is an operator. Smooth.

Good operator you earned your money here

this is sick cant wait to be doing it one day

it will do that when it's not sitting on the mats very good. for instance if 3' of the tracks are hanging over it will tend to tip forward off the mat. I did not have time to pull another mat up before the water started comming!

that was a fantastic bit of driving well done you

Takes nerves of steel to do this. WOW!!!

Now thats a man who knows how to operate his machinery ❣️

wow, you are the man!

WoW looks like the excavator is part of your body. nice skills!

That was just brilliant!!!

Always enjoy your personality and work. A couple of questions, would you be kind enough to describe the great video set up (camera etc) is and what you would recommend to construct several wooden pads that I am sure have changed in design over the years. Thanks in advance for your generosity..Regards, Tom D.

You are some skilful guy

Amazing men...good job!

That was AWESOME!

thats a good operator great skills!!

very cool, I want an excavator soooo bad!

That's pure skill on the excavator.

GREAT VIDEO!!

Now THAT was FAN...TASTIC!!!

Yes he is a great Operator i love this guys vids keep them coming

I've never driven one...and have seen very few being operated only in passing....he just looks like he knows what the hell is going on...i was very impressed!

Very impressive operating!!!!

great handeling that hyd thumb really comes in handy for job's like that

Wow! Smooth operator! Sad thing is, the beavers probably repaired the dam that night. They are becoming a nuisance around here to.

i have to say them beavers are pretty dam good at what they do !

I love watching this guy work. handles that excavator like brain surgeon uses a laser scalpel.

you've got the job done in less than 7 minutes !

Very nice machine work. However, lets be realistic - large amounts of explosives are more spectacular and a lot more fun!

Exactly what I was thinking. Cheaper too. But this is impressive.

damn you're pretty talented with that thing

That is how you do it. Nice job!!!

@handyman75657

5 жыл бұрын

No its not...

@MrHandyandy10187 thanks! I'm 23 as well

I love the Volvo excavators. Kamatsu is all that comes close in my opinion.

Whoever is operating this excavator, please give the Hoffman Crew on Gold Rush a lesson! I'm so tired of them getting stuck all the time! Please? Pretty?

@desertmulehunter

9 жыл бұрын

Lol...yeah Todd and his crew, never a day without major catastrophe!

@blakestiehl6814

7 жыл бұрын

Pontus Rydin it's all in the drama in Gold Rush. I still hate it though.they need to learn how to operate an excavator!

@brertt8350

6 жыл бұрын

gone fishin it’s almost like they get more views when they mess up

@davidmorse8432

5 жыл бұрын

@@brertt8350 Now you get it, these reality guys screw up on purpose to get people to watch. They disgust me and I will not watch such nonsense.

@rabbidjones8174

5 жыл бұрын

They are actually a construction crew out of Salem Oregon they operate heavy machinery all the time once I found that out I quit watching the show