I do this off my phone. .so I don't comment much. ..it is great to see someone who has a talent take so much pride in his work...about the 3rd time up pull the stick's without using the thumb...I relised the the leveling bucket was using that function. Keep up the great work...be careful when you get back to the bottomless mud pond you about got stuck in. Steve Richey...Black Rock,Arkansas.

Thumbs up on this one and all of your video's ,,,, I love them,,, can't wait for the long reach job I hope you video,, where you had a heck of a time in that pond job,,, You do first class work Chris!!!!

YESSSS!!! Timelapse and aerial footage. Very nice 👍

Very neat! It's nice to see smaller residential size job sometimes. Thanks.

Another great video. loved the music. you give all us retired construction guys hope that the craft you portray will live on. You are a true surgeon with a bucket.

I always enjoy when sculpting the ground is involved because you are so good at it. It's much more enjoyable to watch than the pond dredging!

That's a badass little machine! That articulating mechanism is dope AF. Perfect machine for that job. If you just had a standard excavator you would never be as efficient and so precise.

You made that area look good and functional nice job Chris 😎👍👍

Great Job. You need a forestry mulcher quick change head to do some grooming of brush. Nice big trees being forestry cleaned reduces the forest fire hazards. Remove the under brush to prevent hot forest fires. Do you having drought periods with dry lightning? North & South Carolina have a high fire load of trash brush, making your forest at a higher risk of forest fires. Opportunity for more business & designs for new attachments. I have been thinking about multi-function heads.

Good job Chris. It sure looks better and should help the flooding. Call me about my retention pond in Pikeville, NC when you get a chance. Thanks and have a great day.

Awesome ditch work, fun to watch Thanks man.

Thanks for the work Chris you did a great job. It was draining good just a day later. I'll post up a video of that.

A very neat job there Chris! Well done! :-)

The more videos I see with the mini the more I am amazed with its capabilities. I also believe most of that is the operator. Your skill level is unmatched.

Loved the little musical interlude!

I’m glad you were able to fix the dam problem😁

Chris your a master with that atticulated bucket.

That prehensile attachment sure comes into it's own on jobs like this, nicely done bro

Just when I was thinking to myself, why doesn’t he go to time lapse, you went to time lapse. Nice ditch! Love how that bucket pivots. 👍🏻

good job the tilt makes life alot easier

Always good to watch u do these . Not a lot of us have a eye for gradding work and making things flat or a Minot pitch over a long span . I get overly used at my job for this skill . Out of 6 of us their working I can't be the only one , but I am . . However we all got hired for are skill set's not just labor. . Dig on Chris 💪✔

Ahhh... So the thumb does not work when you have the rotating grading bucket on? I hadn't picked that up before. And so clever how you filled in the ditch starting upstream, and then worked backwards clearing a sort of moving coffer dam so you worked in the dry. It made for some _very_ tidy grading of the new ditch profile. You really are very good at this. We shouldn't be surprised I suppose, but you do continue to impress.

Nicely done Chris!

Chris Another masterpiece of a job. I wish people around here did quality work like this. 🤔

Chris, surprised your didn't get all jittery and excited when you saw a BON FIRE

Well they got the right one for the job . I knew it would turn out good

You do good work.

Good little job man .

Thumbnail of a mini excavator in the woods - expected Andrew Camarata

Just spent a week in a Mini Cat 303.5E redefining ditches. Boy was it a test of experience. Having only ran a mini excavator one time before and that was dredging a retention pond. This was a true test. I only managed to dig my grade a little too deep in one section and that was because it was already a low lying area. Backfilled and threw a 6inch pipe in and it flows very nicely now. All in all around 35 hours in the machine.

Man that was a beautiful job

Thru the woods to grandma house you go. Hope there isn't any big bad wolves there LOL😂😂😂

Very nice job in tight spaces.

Hello Chris Please set up for Close Captain on for us deaf & hearing Impaired Thanks!

Perfectly graded ditch there, Chris👍

Awesome job man

Man i bet ur glad u bought tilt bkt. Looks as handy as a grapple or thumb. Nice job man as usual

Holy bonfire in that backyard !

I just woke up after talking a small nape and figure out why it is that's making people fall asleep and it's because of the sounds from the machines and starring at the buckets moving back and forth and side by side 👍🇺🇸

And nice and quiet after the guitar noise ended at 17:29! Thank you for the video though Mr. G.

Have y’all got a Lotta rain up there this week

It's like watching surgery using a 10 lb. maul and a machete. Masterful work done by the master! Fascinating! 👷‍♂️🥇⚒💎

Watching your videos I can’t help but think I missed my calling I think if I ran equipment I would look forward to work every day

I just bought a Yanmar VIO 80 with a thumb would love to see how your bucket and thumb are plumbed

In New Zealand our grading buckets are titled by a hydroelectric cylinder and it that means it’s not as far down as that one and nice job on the ditch if you want a photo I’ll send you one

Nice sunday project Chris grading a ditch 👍👌⚠️

Great video

Nice video Chris. Always like the videos featuring the new yanmar especially when you’ve got the “steel wrist” or whatever you wanna call that attachment on the bucket. Couple questions, why not use the thumb when grabbing the brush? Does the steel wrist attachment not allow you to use the thumb, maybe due to its extra length?

Awesome drone timelapse 😱

Love the videos I saw you today

Thanks for the great video mate ,that grading bucket is a handy bit of kit ,but it probably would be even better if you could still use the thumb ,easier said than done I imagine. Cheers from down under.

Could you use an adjustable v bucket in this situation or was the terrain not suitable?

Great work as always. I’m curious as to why you chose the yanmar over a Volvo mini? No doubt the yanmar is a good machine, just wondering why not a Volvo since the others are Volvo....

That bucket it freaking awesome, im getting one

Man I really need to get one of these excavators!!

I pulled the fuse on my drive alarm. Was driving me in sane working by myself in small residential blocks. I think mini excavators need a switch or volume control.

Was a nice change with that drone footage angle...

can you show us finished product later in the year when waters flowing

2:34 I loved the magazine at the doctor's office called Highlights For Children. There was a page where you had to find items hidden within a picture. In your case, I found a hidden black corrugated drain pipe in the ground (pictured above your bucket). I win! =P

A lotta leaves and tuff, that is going to make a serious fire when it burns. That ditch just might make a bit of a firebreak in addition to a drain.

Good video chris

Chris your a good operator I 👍

Do you find that it’s more profitable to run machines full tilt in every circumstance or is there a modicum of benefit to at least attempting to preserve the machine in some instances?

That mini is a quick responding lil machine👀 how much does it weigh

You definitely have the right attachment for the Job Chris. What make tiltbucket is that? Looks like it has a lot more rotation than the one that Cat makes. As always nice work👍🏻

do you ever use one of them triangle buckets?

That's exactly what I would've done!

Have you ever thought of getting a vee bucket or consider getting one?Thanks.

I like everyone saying get a ditch bucket when your tilt works just fine. Why spend money when the controls do the same job.

Chris who makes that tilt coupler?

Looks like you can not use the thumb function and the tilt function at the same time? Probably disconnected the thumb to use the tilt?

This job was much less mess than one of those wet sandy pond jobs.

...nice work. You must have forgotten that you have a thumb when you moved that brush pile....

You're obviously a *very* good operator that takes pride in his work, but I think DuckGirl86 would take the crown on this particular type of smaller job.

Do you ever regret not being able to use the thumb with the grading bucket?

Love that bucket. Whatever happened to the pond/high reach. Did you finish it n I've just missed video? Sure wish you numbered your videos.

What type bucket is that

Nice clean looking job! Is it the quick-connect already showing some play or the swivel linkage? I have never heard you expound on why you all went with Yanmar over another Takeuchi ??

Every video I have watched has been when it has rained or is raining. Does it ever stop raining in NC?

When you gonna do a video with Digginok

Rather than speed up the run off I would have thought obstructing the flow to slow it down would be beneficial as looks very dry.

I think if he would stay on this little machine and get him a bob cat and little dump truck he could make his self a heck of a little company. I watch a guy that runs one of these things every day and he can pick your nose if u stand still

Where did get your swivel bucket? 48"?

Have u ever seen those V buckets for grading ditches? Are they worth it you think?

Chris, are u the owner/ operatior of your bussiness? How long have u been a operator? And If u dont own your own bussiness your boss is lucky to have a great operatior like u to run the show!! Great job and very informative , u have a fan in ohio

why don't you have steelwrist rototilt on one of your Machines?

What happened to the pond dredging job that you were going to get a long reach excavator for?

It looks difficult. It is very narrow between the trees.

For an area that has been getting a lot a rain that ditch looked rather dry

De only thing I don’t like about the minis the plow doesn’t go up enough

I agree,..I can't wait to see the Long reach challenge!! In the meantime I have a challenge for you!.. I bet you could pick up a 24 case of glass bottle beer.. off the truck.., bury it.., dig it up.. and not break a single bottle...? P.S. I mean with the YANMAR.. but I bet you could do it with more machines than that.! I just can't believe what that machine is capable of it's an amazing thing to watch!!

I live in Georgia

Great Work Great Job 👍 🇺🇸 But I just couldn't imagine of just how many people have fallen asleep watching your videos. There is something about it that I don't understand why it happens.

I look at a Lot of these projects you get wen you start and think 🤔 How I would ( maybe ) do it, And it’s Rarely ever the way you end up doing them🤔 And THAT’S why I am Not doing it, and You are...!! BRILLIANT 😎👍✅. And LOVE ❤️ The Drone?? Whatever?? Shots from 16:00 to 17:45 ish too, and Music 🤭🤔😱😳 IF you did This..?? This opens up ALL kinds of New S#!+. 😎👍✅

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Perfect!

Keep up the good work. You'll be full time before ya know it. LOL...

Neat

Why do you never see the bigger excavators with a blade?

Have you ever thought about turning that yanmar around on that trailer