Thank you for your contributions to the excavation community. You have demonstrated more equipments than anyone in the field.

Back again! One of my favorites here.

Nice ending with the music and drone shoot. Well done.

So cool to see many things what you had done, i used to live on Orchard farm , and logskidder, tractor, standhigh with three wheels also fixing. Old cabin. In the past, you reminded when I was younger but not now as get old. I am so proud of you. I did repaired as woodwork on 1923 Runabout boat. 30ft , renovation 1973, i bought it 2000, about 18 years improving, fit shortbed truck.

Thank you Andrew. The variety of work you do, gives me ideas to repair some issues, I see at our place. Very Nice Work!

One of my favorite parts of watching Andrews videos are the long ariel shots. Well done.

watching your videos is like visiting America in convenient mode you are doing great job in any thing you touch well done Andrew! cheers

Interesting tool, looks like it worked fairly well, be interesting to see it in action when the soil is more dry. Hard to believe the birds were not scared of the drone at the end! Cool shots, neat looking house too. Thanks for the video!

Thank goodness we have a rototiller ...a rock picker would have been nice here ....after it rains you got some work ahead of ya buddy! I feel your pain on the Stoney Ridge

@rotadaironcom269

4 жыл бұрын

A RotaDairon stone burier would have been better.

With your innovative mind set you came up with the simplest and easiest way of removing the preparator from the dump truck. ;-) In various situations I remind myself to "Stop, Study, Plan and Proceed". It may take some time to do that but in the long run it's the best way (faster and safer).

Love the view's you always share at the end of your video's. Thank's for sharing.

I used to do all my own grading on the houses I built because I loved running my skid steer. On this one house, I used a new landscaper and he'd finished and I was using the prep to get ready for sod the next day. I was having my usual great time, and as I was sneaking up to the landscaping I noticed that something was moving really fast below the mulch. I froze and wondered what was going on. Honest to god the first thought that I had was that it was like a hundred snakes. Gave me the creeps. Turns out the new landscaper used landscaping fabric under the mulch and I'd just reeled in around 30 feet of the stuff. The guys that did my basements were across the street pouring and felt the need to stop and laugh their asses off. It took me at least a couple of hours to get the damn stuff cut out. For some reason those guys were always around when I did something boneheaded. They were always kind enough to remind me of that stuff whenever I saw them out and about, and the stories were always expanded whenever my wife was with me. One of them died a couple of years later when a trench collapsed on him. I sure miss em.

@kingpohhere2678

5 жыл бұрын

im so glad i read this what a great story lmao

@MagnifiedGiant

5 жыл бұрын

That took a dark turn at the end of your story.

@kyle12111994

5 жыл бұрын

@@MagnifiedGiant happy story Happy story Happy story Death

@thefrub

4 жыл бұрын

@@kyle12111994 It's how all stories end if they go on long enough

@farmertyler8087

4 жыл бұрын

Quad Crasher that’s what I was about to say

Thank you for sharing your amazing video, God bless you and your family

That worked great. Great video. Thank you for taking the time to shoot the video and edit it all together, I know it takes LOTS of time to do that.

I've used a rockhound and it also works great to resurface a stone driveway

A+ quality videos and explanations of real-life situations. Love the channel. IMO best video was the one about snow plowing if you want to get into the business.

Never knew they had that machine ... I could have used it years ago ... it looks like the place where you planted the pine trees ... Another great video

Hi been watching your video for a while and really enpiered by them. I'm only 14 but some day hope to Owen a landscape and excavation business one day. Keep on making your video's.😁

Nice video of how a ground prep machine works. I've seen them before but never got the opportunity to watch them.

I rented a Harley Rake, which is similar but leaves a rougher finish. I read up on how to use it before I rented it and running parallel lines followed by perpendicular lines, produced the best results. I got rid of some 2' ruts in my lawn this way.

@learnjcbskidsterchickensga7594

3 жыл бұрын

thanks for tips, did you post any videos, or recommend other channels? I am learning.

You have explain a lot of stuff and enjoy watching your videos

My lot prep guy used a Harley on my lawn. It looked like a wave of dirt when he was running it. Did an amazing job.

Love this machine and the grading it does. Love the sound of it working....

Thanks Andrew: I always like your videos.

Man, I needed that after I installed new lateral lines in my yard several months back. We have a lot of clay based soil here, and it made smoothing out the yard with other equipment pretty difficult. Once the dirt was dry that preperator would have been nice

Thanks Andrew - I really like your videos

I bought this machine about 20 years. Ago very first machine in Cleveland Ohio saved a lot of money installing lawns almost eliminated the ordering of topsoil still use it today

I don’t care what anyone says, this guy is a boss. It was his first freaking time running this attachment and he didn’t look unnatural at any point.

Glad I stumbled onto this vid. Honestly did not realize there was such a thing as a soil preparator, at least not in the version you've shown. Looks like something I might have some use for.

Man I miss doing this kind of work. I used to do stuff like this at a private golf course when I was growing up.

wow there are so many cool attachments for those machines

Hi Andrew, super job as usual. That's a real interesting location there and an interesting container home. Or should we call it an Andrew Castle? Haha. I like the wild flower idea - plant it and let it alone. I'd also be tempted to plant willow trees so i could harvest the withies and make baskets or sell them to a local artisan. Maybe a couple of donkeys, chickens, you get the idea. And a home made lake for the migrating ducks. Thanks for sharing and thanks to the homesteaders for giving us a peek. Stay safe and keep up the good work. 👍🖖🐶🐶🦴

They are a good unit to use for soil prep. They work real well if you still or disc an area first. Tilling breaks up the soil well, but it's to rough and needs to be "fluffed" to get any rust out.

Nice work Andrew. Great Video 👌

That attachment, being like a sweeper and all, you should be able to stop the rotation, lift the arms & tilt forward, and then hit the reverse rotation. This will eject everything you've picked up. The beauty of doing it that way is you could pick up material and spread it around. I used to put a nice fine layer of sand over oil on the weighbridge at my last job at an asphalt plant. Hot black top, as you call it. :-) In the bobcat I operated, the reverse rotation was on top of the right-hand control stick. Next time you have a go of one of these, check it out...you'll get even better at spreading material.

We run a Harley Rake or Soil Conditioner first to remove the 1-1/2" and larger rocks then run the FFC Preparator for the finish raking. A Landscape Rake attachment is similar but uses a chain instead of a drum.

Noticed you having to look back over your shoulders while backing up. Sore neck after doing that for a day. I added a three mirror set to my track loader and eliminated the need to turn my neck so much. Cheap fix. Or consider a back up camera. Prices have really fallen on those. Cheaper than back up damages. Ask me how I know...

Really good video, thank you for your time 😃

That is a really interesting piece of machinery, one which they did not have in my day. Albeit, you are right, unless you are going to be using it quite often, it would not be on my to buy list, that is, unless I found a used one really cheap. Keep on, Keeping on.

Looks like it works best in forward direction, in reverse the collected debris came out... Expect much dust if the soil is really dry, I guess you got the right moment after the rain... Thx for the vid! ;-)

Refreshing, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't get quick attach on the first try, and bends the handles a little bit.

@TylerBemis

5 жыл бұрын

i noticed that on the bobcats aswell you have to be very careful with the quick connect handles

Matt @Diesel Creek bought something similar to this, he used it to refresh a gravel parking lot. Now _that_ is something you could use and build. His video is the Pt 2 of the VFW series. He bought it, and fixed a cylinder. That looked awesome, it did a great job. You could just drive up & down one time for a driveway.

Your a very special person Mr. Pesci

about 40 years ago I knew a guy who built one of those but on a bigger scale. His was powered with a GM 453 and had a drum 3 feet in diameter. It had chains which would dig down around 3 feet. Where we lived were a lot of ancient logs which would rise to the surface through the soil .His was connected to the front half of a Cat carry all Scraper and could cover 300 acrers per day doing pretty much the same as that little one.

Hi Andrew I actually own a preparator and use it on a daily basis. The best way I have found to run it in reverse with the bucket part dumped and letting the preparator just float or glide on the skids. I windrow all my material into a line the go back over it and pick up the windrow with the drum spinning everything into the bucket. I actually just uploaded a video this morning of me finish a yard with it. My page is Elite Earthworks LLC. You can check it out and see how it runs on dryer dirt. Thanks

@AndrewCamarata

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that did a nice job.

@chrisreid5745

5 жыл бұрын

HARLEY RAKE. NOT PREPERATOR

@johnchase4408

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisreid5745 PREPARATOR

@mikez4132

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisreid5745 not a harley rake at all. Plus it says preparator right on it at 7:59 lol.. it is a rockhound/debris rake combo.

@chrisreid5745

5 жыл бұрын

@@mikez4132 false

Considering the job did there,i think maybe for future reference it would be a must have for your tool kit Arsenal, like the last big job where the septic Tank was put in after the ground thawed out, imagine on a nice day the work you could get done with that Preparator, then broadcast grass and flower seeds. (Christmas shopping list special i think Andrew.) Good job done.

i love your videos ,im a landscaper /excavator north of you lake george area , biggest thing with any ground work ,wait til the ground is dry , not rock hard dry but with a minimal amount of moisture , i have a power rake and moisture is paramont , too wet work stay in place too dry , machine will work extra hard to grind up

Basically a Harley rake with a bagger. Probably worth having one to wrap up projects before seeding. They even have one built into a bucket.

Another fine job great video

Looks like it works best while traveling in reverse.. only downside I see is emptying the catch container.. it definitely got rid of the rocks in the first clips. Good stuff

Buy a preparator you can always hire it out when not in use awesome videos.

Nice attachment, never would have known... ...such a thing was available. Thanks Makes a good seed bed. Clay is so hard to work no matter what you do.

I need one of those. We live in a rocky area. That machine would be great for clearing the rocks.

He puts together pretty good videos. I've watched a bunch of his and I'd rather watch his then others. Like the drone effect.

Andy nice job!!!!!!!! Nice show and tell!!!!!!! Never used one. But thought. It would a nice attractment to have,,,, but not at the price ???????? If you come across a York rake for a tractor. With a three point. Grap it. You could use it on the front of your Skidsteer. With all the tricks you got in your hat. And welding You could make it work. On your skidsteer. But when you make it. Have it be able to angle. Like a plow. Also. Be able to push with it and pull with it. Rotor head. Be able to turn 360 deg. I came up that idea. A few years ago. Reason I told you about. Been able to turn 360. Get right up close to anything no raking. At all. Take care. JUNKMANDO.

I have a place in my yard that used to look like this. I rented a diesel dingo with a harley power rake attachment for

@AndrewCamarata

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, good advice, I hear allot of people like those Harley rakes. I need to try one.

Great ariel shots at the end thanks

We pulled a 20 ft wide version of the preparator type behind a fancy golf course tired John Deere on beaches every 2 days in the summer, it had a conveyor shoot to one side and we ran an old Ford 9N tractor towing a dump bin next to it. The seagulls loved us. LOL, you would be amazed not just by the tonnage of material cleaned out (can you say BIO HAZARD?), but consider the treasures we came across. Great video, great work and the editing was superb!

Like the stuff you do bud

that house looks like container-castle 2.0

@gpcivil8807

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like a common thing up there but I’ve never seen one in Florida.

@shibanilungiwala7123

3 жыл бұрын

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Cool attachment did a nice job even though ground was a little wet

Great video Andrew!! Thanks for doing them. I know they are time consuming. But very enjoyable to watch!!

Like the video and imagine if soil was dryer . good job man

@fredrickkohlman9587

4 жыл бұрын

leo l, too wet for a quality job, correct. Plus what happens to shallow buried stone in time? It resurfaces. When you pick up stone, take it where you want stone. Get it out of there.

@rotadaironcom269

4 жыл бұрын

@@fredrickkohlman9587 Or bury it with 6.5" of soil. Which is what a RotaDairon will do.

Your Drone shots are getting better and better --Congrads!! I get my t-shirt today!! Thanks for making them! Co mon summer!!

*Andrew you live in a beautiful part of the country*

Husband and I only have a very small lot, a quarter acre, but have wanted to try and get a small aerator for the land, since the community used to be two large farms, that were developed in the 1970's.. and the ground is pretty clay like, but trying to rent a small one is a pain in the ass, and with both of us being in our mid to upper 60's it is hard to try and get and handle one...sigh...

That sure is a fascinating area of New York, so different than you would imagine. Quite hilly, very raw land - wonder if it will ever be densely populated? Looks great from the drone shots.

Looks Good Nice JOB!!!

You should, and definitely could- build your own, add to your arsenal. Sheet metal, couple of hydraulic motors & hoses, a 4" pipe with lengths of 8"treaded rod run through the pipe, tacked with MIG, easy to change. Hydraulic motors on eBay are $80 ~ $150 all day. Love to see you fab something like this.

I do think you would of liked the Harley rake better. It would have pushed all of the bigger stuff into a pile. I just purchased a edge 72” power rake. Works amazing.

Great video. I wish Storage containers were cheap in my area. A forty five foot container is just over $3,000 and that doesn't include transport to the site. My state has only one city where large container vessels can get in there. I would have ran a tractor with a rear mounted tiller over that ground before doing the preparator over it.

@simonpalmer8033

5 жыл бұрын

Just for reference they are more expensive in the UK !

Glad to see you replaced your leg kick on the tailgate with a sledge hammer. You'll work an extra 10 years.

@davesilvia9711

4 жыл бұрын

The tailgate probably won't last another 10 years.

I like the niice overview!

Wow that thing is empressive I'll be using one now for sure on my skid steers.

@AndrewCamarata

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe try a Harley rake.

@1summitcity

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro i will.

Yeah, if the ground wasn't so wet, it would have done a better job, you did good considering the conditions Andrew, nice job!!

Drive it like it’s rented!

@regsparkes6507

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, unfortunately that what a lot of people do,..and you can rest assured that is what keeps rental rates/charges high!

@qzwx4205

4 жыл бұрын

You mean drive it like you dont know how to use it since its rented and didnt care to ask, see how it jumps on him on the back stroke? Thats because he doesnt change the rotation on the drum on the forward stroke, youre suppose to counter rotate what ever direction you are going letting the drum work while youre pushing, loosening the material and on the return stroke going backward you level the loosened crust and collect rocks and debris in the bucket that you take off the site for better results...

@DanKoning777

3 жыл бұрын

@@regsparkes6507 // Sadly over the past 60 yrs that's become Americas mindset; irresponsible, entitled, and godless, but that's what happens to a society that bans God from all the places *He was once honored* in favor of: lgbt, abortion, a "theory" [evolution], legal drug use, gay marriage, and on/on.

@ejhayes

2 жыл бұрын

Well, that escalated quickly.

@DanKoning777

2 жыл бұрын

@@ejhayes // EJ, look at the upvotes that the "In the woods" comment received. Now [as a whole], honestly evaluate America's society with regards to honesty, integrity, godly character etc. Since the 50's are we improving, or declining? Understand, it wasn't that long ago when a toilet wasn't allowed to be shown on tv [Leave it to Beaver]; twin beds were shown even for a married couple vs today. Now we promote premarital sex, lgbt, drugs, vengeance, abortion, i.e. all forms of anti-God, anti-family, and pro lawlessness purposefully! Ironically while we're doing that, ppl are all complaining about "how bad things are today." If you have a serious interest in any of this, I can show you exactly how/when this started; the specifics of everything that ppl complain about today in America including the cure; it's up to you.

A Harley Rake attachment makes it look beautiful.

it collects most of the rocks and makes the soil nice then you just go dump the rocks, but he always puts topsoil down first so it works great.

A little delicate fitting work on the dump truck tail gate.

That thing does a nice job! I would imagine that if it were dry, you'd be a dusty mess.

Great attachment for lawn preparation for sure,...but it would seem that there's a fair bit of room for other manufacturers to improve of this idea.

Just started watching your video's I like what I have seen so far and a lot more to catch up on. my question is on your drone what type is it and name I'm sure you have had it on one of your other videos. well back to watching your video's. Thanks

It looked great finished and u got paid don't listen to negative comments u have a dam great thing going 4 yourself...!!! I learned a lot watching your videos

You HAVE TO leave the unit flat and set it on the withTHE SPINNING PART IN TO THE DIRT and back up slowly

@chrisE815

2 жыл бұрын

So use in reverse only?

@alphonsotate2982

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisE815 yes

thanks for the video!

It looks great.

Use a rock hound in reverse and slow down! Lol glad it worked for ya though

I noticed that the preparator was bouncing during back dragging operation and debris was dropping that probably was in the bucket. Maybe slowing forward speed would produce a better result and lifting the preparator up off the soil while backtracking before lowering it down for another forward pass would produce a much better soil preparation. If back dragging is necessary, the bucket and cutting tool should be in a level plane to prevent bucket hop while preventing the loss of debris in the back of the bucket. I have observed the operation of "Harley Rake" type attachments. Operators are able to make a near-perfect seedbed by slowing the forward speed to give the rotating drum time to toss the debris into the catch bucket and pulverize the soil.

That would be a great tool to attach to the back of a tractor for grading driveways.

Looks pretty nice. I’ve used the bobcat rock rake on many jobs and if you get a chance you should try it out. Its got more aggressive teeth and really picks out the majority of the rocks. I only use it in reverse.

@rotadaironcom269

4 жыл бұрын

Why not bury the rocks.

I use a Harley rake to loosen the rocks and put them in a windrow the harley rake also tends to dry up wet ground then just use the rock hound to pick stones and roots comes out as smooth as a babies ass

For best results you need to till out all of the connected roots and little stumps first with a tooth bucket or a tilling attachment then use the soil preparator.

Rocks will always percolate to the surface, they need to seed it with some quick growing rye along with whatever grass seed they want. The rye will keep it from eroding till the other grass comes it. Seems like left alone, an area will grow rocks!

Bobcat calls there's a soil conditioner for what you do you would love it's definitely worth it You do good work , this would just make your work a lot easer Soil conditioner run the drum backwards it keeps the junk in front so you can push it off to the side or push it in a pile it's like a rake Your just raking forward Also it levels the ground Only lets the find dirt or gravel go behind filling in the low spots

Eh! Andrew good demo Rockhound will do a good job, a Harley doesn't have a scoop for rocks so depends on what the ground is like, rocky or clean fill rockhound will grab good and leave a smooth finish whatever is avail go for it, Preparator also has a scoop that's a good choice, yes dry is good.

The soil preparator attachment is an after market Bobcat Landscape Rake.And like someone else commented they are suppose to be used in revers.And if you using a wheel skid steer wont effect the end results.

After you finish that Andrew you will have to hydro-seed it with a spray mulch application that would make the grass stick to the soil just a thought.

Interesting machine. Never heard of or seen one. I’ll put that in the memory bank for future reference. If you had the time you could address areas a second time at 90 degrees to your first pass to make it super finished.

@rotadaironcom269

4 жыл бұрын

Or use a RotaDairon and make it one pass.

Cool videos. Only comment I have is, if your not using hearing protection while operating your stuff? you probably should be. When you get in to your 50's, your gonna wish you had been protecting your hearing because it doesn't come back.

@maxamo007

5 жыл бұрын

what?

@PatrickKelly-lz3pv

5 жыл бұрын

I worked in coal mines I used drilling machines powered by compressed air and water they were very loud, I never used ear protection, I am retired now and I cant hear a word my wife says to me, so no protection worked out ok for me.

@stephensafraniii3396

4 жыл бұрын

40 years of truck driving will accomplish the same thing.

@davidbailey5006

3 жыл бұрын

Bose 35’s

Not bad. I've seen them for sale but never used one.