"Y'all fell and bumped your head on that idea" ! Too funny. Excellent video.

It’s Amazing where these Machines will allow you to take them. Thank GOD for the Mats. 😬 👍

Love aerial shots of what you have done, puts it all in prospective!

I'm cracking up😂😂😂when you said "a damn drag line, you come hit your head on something"😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Chris, you are so right brother! they don't need no dragline!!!!! lol.

seeing the site from above with the drone sure changed the perspective and makes one realize how big this job really is.

really love these 30 min videos. Much rather watch a 30 minute video than a 10 minute 👌

y'all done fell and bumped your head. that is the best one so far boss man.

I thought about, "how would I build this project?" After considerations I decided the way you're doing it is probably the cheapest way possible! Many other ways but you and the customer made the correct decision. I'm glad you're sharing this excavation project with us viewers. You're showing some of it's challenges. Thanks. ....13

Love watching u operate equipment u do really good work

You amaze me man I have not seen a project that you could not get doneI love your videos man God bless you and your family and your workers and May y'all keep bringing this good content keep it up

The one's that said dragline clearly have no heavy equipment experience. The weight would sink it in an instant; not to mention the transportation cost and planning that would be involved in moving such a machine. I wouldn't do anything different then what you did. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos even though I'm a heavy equipment operator and operate the same machines as you. I still like to see the heavy equipment and how other operators do things. Thanks again Chris for taking the time and effort to make these videos

@alejandrolian7101

2 жыл бұрын

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@louiejayce6691

2 жыл бұрын

@Alejandro Lian instablaster ;)

@alejandrolian7101

2 жыл бұрын

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@alejandrolian7101

2 жыл бұрын

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@louiejayce6691

2 жыл бұрын

@Alejandro Lian you are welcome xD

Great video! Lovin the drone footage! And the soccer ball was great! You guys have a lot of hauling to do!

It is when you start singing to yourself that you are thinking "what have I got myself into?" Haha!

That's a crazy amount of sediment washed in there! Holy crap!

Would have loved to have had a close-up view of Tim's face when you done that again great work he may be slow but he's getting the job done he'll get better as he goes he's a great young man and you deserve to have him working for you thanks again for the great videos very relaxing and I love heavy equipment

Chris. Your spot on about the dragline comments. I think they might have drank to much cool aid

going back and forth like that all day can get quite mind numbing, just like today I spent 10 hours going 2.5 mph mowing road ditches..... atleast ya get to know every word to every song that plays on the radio.. ha ha...

Wow 😲 Chris, look 👀 a that Dancing Excavators Thanks 👍

It’s amazing how much sand drys out FAST

Great video Chris thanks for sharing have a great day

I use to clear land (Woods) with a D 6 in the Goldsboro, Mt Olive area, before I moved to Raleigh, Cary actually. . . Ran big Draglines in the rock quarry’s in Miami early 1970’s LOL They were 6-8 yard ones... Set precast for Carolina Stone in Morrisville.. Till we moved to N Florida.

@letsdig18....i have to say Chris after watching most of your videos... your a surgeon with that excavator!

damnit uncle ,you keep that up and you'll be checkin tire pressures and goin on drink runs,,....

When I watch your videos, after the first scoop I always think, do people really sit here and watch him do this 5000 more times? And before I know it I've watched the whole video lol!

@gutenbergfamily6029

3 жыл бұрын

Yep I do. It’s mesmerizing.

This is like bob the builder for grownups. Can he dig it? Yes he can!!! Your vids are great.

@bryandixon2493

4 жыл бұрын

I agree he's definitely bob the builder

Ha ha ha, keep talking yourself thru it. Been there, can be a little worry sometimes. It becomes real scary when you realize the machines vibrations are causing you to sink. Great vids, really liked the drone shots.

Most of them are gone now, but I knew some ole boys that would make you eat your words. They would run a dragline like they fly fishing. Just a difference in yrs. We old school, you new school. Keep up the good work young an 😄

The way you speak the language I understand very well.

In the U.K. years ago they used to dredge lakes with two steam traction engines one on each side of the lake. both engines were fitted with a big steel cable drum slung under the belly/boiler of the engines.They then had a special double bucket which they pulled backwards and forwards across the lake and kept moving the traction engines along as they cleared the lakes. they ended up with all the silt on both sides of the lake......

Lol... was wondering what happened to the soccer ball. That was funny.

Great video Chris. I got a cousin in Fayetteville and the shelves are almost bare in their stores as of yesterday. Be safe and secure through this storm.

...understood this is 2 years old... but makes me wonder about the inlet... ...looks like an unhealthy stagnant water area... no water circulation... ...guessing it's meant to stay for $$$$$$ property boasting... ...enjoyed watching the dredging and totally amazed by your finesse with the machine...

Love the video Chris it's better then tv .

Do you guys remove drive motor covers and wash out? Im frequently replacing hard lines from them rotting out when it never gets cleaned.

Well hell, get Harry Potter to come and help ya out! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love the videos bud. I've learned a bit watchin.

New subscriber from New Zealand, from your videos I have seen so far they all have been awesome and you are very talented operator. We call and excavator a digger down here. All the best

Thanks for the Closed Caption I enjoy your videos

Timmy seems to be a Great assistant to your operation. Y’all need to realize his abilities

Yeah the only way to really clean out that much silt effectively is a floating sand barge operation with floating pipes pumped to shore. They operate in the broad river NC behind a dam near where I fish a lot and in spring time it might be 1 to 6 feet and by fall it will be 25 ft deep for over a mile. At Lake Lure NC near me they have spent millions with a long loader over the years and don't even make a dent in the silt. We've tried to get them to set up a pump operation but they said the property owners didn't want the water to be muddy during tourist season. The town can only long load for 3 months during winter draw down. Got news for them. It is working it's way very far down lake. Way down lake where it used to be 40ft deep is now around 6 or 7ft. When I built my 4 acre pond 28 yrs ago I filled in the deep creek gully above pond with a riprap dam 13 feet high. The silt now is almost to the top but hasn't entered my pond yet. It will last until I'm dead and gone.

@danielbargas3377

5 жыл бұрын

alonzo476 the spill way is wide open, he can just drive on it when all the water gets out. Problem is we had a lot of rain lately that filled up the lake

Hey Chris...Watching the weather and as I'm sure you know, Florence is looking to be a "Major" hurricane with you dead in it's sights! Will you be able to get this finished before? And if not - will all your work so far be in vane? I hope you are able to safely hunker down and get through this ok! Keeping you and yours in our prayers, buddy!

The equipment is going to need a well deserved bath after this job...

He has to learn by his mistakes cause the boss not goi g to be there all the time.looks like he picks up real fast thats time to build him up for your company (like boot camp)tks gary good video!

Famous last words: "It'll be fiiiiiiiiiiiine."

@Chris..................................THANK God its the Weekend and after watching your videos i think i can move the world with this rental

Thanks Chris. Bringing us in, was getting a little warm out there.

Could some type of separate retention pond be built at the far end for containing the silt. That would be easier to clean out every couple summers? We are getting soaked today and all this coming weekend!

1 or 2 lifts? are going to eventually move the shoreline back to the original spot once the muck dries to a more solid consistency?

😂😂😂 YA'LL DONE BUMPED YOUR HEADZ & LOST YOUR DAMN MINDZ BACK IN 1970 👈🏼 ...... I HAD TO ( HOLD on TIGHT ) TO KEEP FROM FALLING DOWN AN GETTING HURT ! 😂😂😂 ....... ( KNUCKLE👊🏽BUMP ) Letsdig18 .....

Love the videos, just wish you would mark them by project and parts ( part 1 of lake dredging etc..) of video, to keep track of progress on past videos as well as new ones.

Have you guys ever tried using track trucks? We use them in Pa a good bit for this kind of thing. Probably wouldn't save you any time in this situation though. Thanks for sharing.

Actually I just got done working on a dragline from the 70’s and I tell you what the size of the one I got done working on would more than cover the span of that gap in between both sides of the tree line ... without spinning .... , but just the shear size of it to move and reassemble would take a weeks worth of work , just not feasible with that little job. Y’all fell and bumped your head on that idea lmao 🤣

love my drag line. it weighs about 50-55k and will dig 85' from the tracks . granted this was way over that but they definitely have their place i will out dig a standard long reach any day

Where are you going to haul all this sediment off to? You might have already said it in a video, but I must've missed it. Great video as always! Loving the drone footage!

Darn it. I wanted to see how you got it out!

You do awesome with those mats. Still, as many of these as I've seen of you guys in various mud holes I'm surprised you haven't used it as a reason to get one of those amphibious undercarriages yet. :)

I agree, a dragline is where it’s at. You’re missing the boat on this one.

Chris. Question shouldent machine rotation generally be to the right and not to the left as the left is blind do to the boom ?

Love your videos gj bro. Can you make a video about cleaning your excavators ? Tnx

If your on mud and every thing is fine , it's fine But if your girlfriend says everything is fine, ...run

Good video! Wondering if a series of check dams would make this easier to clean out in the future?

It must be fun working with you.(Soccer ball)

Dang, that lake needs a stormwater bypass channel and a diverter at the head.

Were do you haul all the sediment, cattails the dump , materials recycling. Please explain. Thanks. Ed in Ohio

So what happens to the material your digging out when it gets hauled out? Does it go to a dirt dump or get stock piled some place to dry out and get reused as fill or topsoil some place? And it'd be interesting to see a video of where it goes and what happens to it when it's hauled off.

We had a dragline in the 1960’s with 140 boom, I could reach way out there but sure was slow going ,

Letsdig18 Lmao I own two draglines and a longreach I use mats with them just the same as I would with my standard boom excavators

Those are two words that always get you in trouble. Should be !

drag line i almost shot pop outta my nose when you said that where would you put the power cord and how would have to be to get where you you need 3phase minimum if not more if i remember correctly. got to spend time in one at a coal mine awesome machine but very wrong machine for this work lol love it!!

Chris you so so so RIGHT!

You're a madman

Really wish y’all did this up here in the PNW, as I’d volunteer to move mud for you.

That's some sweeet liquid love there Chris whene u lode it out can u time laps the day please

How many cubic yards do you approximately dig out with 220 per day- 8 hours?

You're right about the drag line. Why couldn't the owners use a actual dredge to move the silt closer to the side of the lake so that you could load it from the road into the dump trucks. You wouldn't have to drain the water from the lake.

Enjoying a cup full of Chick Fil A tea in there? I grab a gallon of mostly non sweet tea when I am working long hard days outdoors. The one I go to is pretty relaxed about things, so they put 10% sweet, rest not sweet. Grab some cups of ice and I am set for the day. The two of you are machines, making quick work of a nasty muddy mess of whats left upstream. That drone shot gives a great perspective of the insane volume you are moving. 10K yards... Must be a million dollar job by the time it is all said and done, and if nobody wants the dirt, cost to wheel all that out must go up even higher.

@Squat5000

5 жыл бұрын

Excavation in this kind of mess generally runs about $20-30/yd, or $200/hr to run the excavator depending on how it is bid. And the cost to haul away the dirt, since it is also a swampy mess could be as high as another $20-25 since this is not ideal topsoil most likely, so yes, you are probably more in line with the real cost. Now factor in government surcharge. I cant imagine this being a private project.

Chris, my best friend does exactly everything you do, small company but does thousands and thousands of dollars of work daily! But can’t keep employees cause the work load and demands. Not everyone can sit in control environment daily and helpers run chain saws, place grade and load and unload daily. I’ve been watching your videos for several years and your very very skilled, but plz recognize your employees

@dennismarcus1752

5 жыл бұрын

By the way I’m in the construction trade also for 30+ years!

@erock89x89

5 жыл бұрын

He must know your employee... Lol!

Very swompy conditions Chris but you can deal with that letsdig.....

Dragline is the cheapest way to move dirt once set up on either side and if weight is a problem they can work on mats just as well

Wow, the GIS shows your tracks from 2011.

For those of you wondering just Where the Drone shots begins Since it Only lasts a minute, it is at 11:45 out of the 26+ minuets.... 👍😎

What kind of camera do you use and what drone.

I know a guy that still runs his 1956 bucyrus Erie 20b all mechanical no air and he will set up his mats just like you would and dig it in one day. Ps I call it ole patches

Chris don't tell this to your uncle but he's what you call a shoemaker!!!

What about using the dozer to push the dirt piles closer to shore instead of scoop by scoop?

8:45 I was expecting you to dunk that board in the water a few times to get the mud off.

@Letsdig18 Isn't this the same pond your Uncle sunk an excavator a couple of years back..? Sure looks like it.. Might have been a Daewoo or a doosan?

Where do you dump all that silt? That would be a somewhat large pile!

What did Tim say when you threw the ball at him?

how much does it cost to have that done to a lake that size?

Mr. Wilson!

A conveyor belt system would help a bunch there.

It's very clear you need Bagger 288 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288 I can also recommend the song on youtube :)

How wide is that part of the lake ?

"my uncle", sounds like you need to fire my uncle!!!!!

@maryschillinger2909

2 жыл бұрын

Can't fire the uncle because the uncle owns the company.

I would what about 30 days to dry out move the sand to Both sides an Narrow the Canal by 10 feet each side the then add 14 inche's topsoil seed it. save fuel will not have to hall it off. an when you come back within 7 years do it all over again

Are projects bid on man hours of work or material required to be moved or a combination?

@letsdig18

5 жыл бұрын

paid by the yard of material hauled off

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That drone view shows the magnatude of the problem. Holy cow what a lot of sediment. Man I wouldn't even begin to tell you how to clean it out. Lots of hours and LOTS of money. How do you estimate the amount of sediment and what it costs to remove it.

How much do you make a year doin dirt?