I also found his channel by accident. Saying that i have enjoyed his video's. His hands fit many tools and he is a hustler. Not many like him left today. All the young guys think they should make a lot of money without getting their hands dirty. The world needs more of these guys. Great job!

This land is a swamp. Mr Camarata did an awesome job as always. Love watching you work because you kick ass!

I found this guy's channel by clicking on random videos. I found this guy's voice weird at first and don't even know why I was watching his video seeing as I don't even work in anything remotely as the work he does. But alas I find myself binge watching 30 of his videos an ultimately subscribing.

I like how you keep your funny moments in the video most people would edit shit like almost sinking your boots in mudd out. I like how no matter what happens you keep filming..good job. Love the videos watch them all the time

Hahaha first you got your excavator stuck...then the bobcat...but when you almost lost your boot you say "...gotta stay away from this part..." hahahah

What a magician in getting those two machines out of the mud!! Way to go...love your videos. Thanks so much for taking the huge amount of time to put them together. Editing is such a pain!

Two things. 1st, Andrew has mentioned something many of you seem to have missed. There is an engineer on this project. And I'm going to assume there is a contractor and a homeowner. Decisions about HOW things are done are not made by the excavation guy.

Watching Andrew get out of that trench was amazing

There's so much water in that soil that the water passes through it as if it's not even there. That's called a swamp. We don't build on swamps for a reason. I wish the owner of that land the best of luck.

I helped you out of that hole by tilting my iPad. You're welcome.

Site work is the most unpredictable part of a construction project. the homeowner is lucky to have Andrew on this project solving the problems and not making the problems into big contentious issues. Rather he solves them and moves on. great job!

Don't know why I love your videos, you're just digging holes mostly but fuck am I addicted

Holy cow, having your little backhoe pull your Bobcat out without anyone in it is amazing. Good job my man.

The purpose for the cathodic protection is to provide a higher level of safety. UG propane tanks can be subject to severe corrosion conditions and can degrade and start leaking over time with no visible signs. Leaks from UG tanks have resulted in injuries and severe property damage. The type of cathodic protection usually provided is an anode bag, which is a magnesium or zinc rod enclosed in a cloth bag with a moistening agent and electrically connected to the tank

At 4:28 when you were working the excavator out of the trench, I found myself sitting with my fingers crossed. Like it would help you get out. That was impressive operating skill. You know you machine's capability very well. The wire diagnosis in the control box was above my head. The way you solved it was ingenious. Kudos my man !

another awesome video! love the time lapse/fastforward of everything its so sadisfying

Andrew great job getting the 864 out of the quick sand Thank u very much

The way you got out of that hole was like watching a giant one armed zombie clawing itself out of the grave lol. Great skills man.

You assign a unique musical score to each video. Amazing! Very entertaining.

Unless you do the work , you shouldn’t complain. Yes there are different ways to do things. I enjoy watching your episodes.

Stay tuned for the epic septic nightmare on this job

10:39 "I gotta stay away from this Spot!" Hahahahahahahahahah That made my weekend!!! Thanks Andrew, Awesome videos man!!!!!

Never dealt with propane tanks however as an owner of a home building company and demo and excavation company we dig out for natural gas lines to the house and accessorie buildings. Tip: 1. Always pressurize the lines for any leaks before back filling. 2. Use 2 layers of caution tape for your lines and add fine sand. Any sharp rocks or stone can eventually puncture the lines with weight

WE Really Like your videos Andrew sir, so take all the time you need to upLoad. We have patience and enjoy your company. CHEERS

I believe the house is in a swamp hole. On the video of septic system install I noticed the bottom on foundation in basement was wet. I see future trouble .

Great clips on extricating yourself from sticky situations. Thanks for sharing.

I love it when I get to watch videos of these machines getting un-stuck! Very kewl to see some really ingenious ways to get them out :)

i am a cook in the us navy no knowledge about heavy machine just enjoying watching andrew's video watching them over and over

Can’t believe the crane operator had to be told not to stand between a truck and a giant swinging piece of steel

Holy water table Batman!

Good job on the narration of the job site history. Bonus footage on the show’s wrap-up, nice.

Nice job done, thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family

Explanation (not mine) for the white bag the men threw in next to the tank for peoples interested : www.pettank.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cathode-protection.pdf

impressive when u towed out the bobcat with the yanmar :O u are 1 man army

The filming you do is amazing. Edit also. Love your videos.

Andrew, you definitely have the fine touch. That was masterful how you were able to get that machine out of that trench.

Well, i'm not familiar with the building codes of this location. But everything I see built in this video series and other alike on youtube you just bury everything in soil/mud (in the US). Concrete footing directly on the soil and no insulation, backfill against basement walls only soil, the propane tank, only soil. And that piece of land seems to have water running down to it since it is on a slope. The slab poured inside was directly on gravel, why not insulate it, and the walls, makes it more energy efficient and easier to heat the basement during winter. The basement walls has a painted membrane on the outside, kind of obsolete. I'ts like looking at a construction site 30-40 years ago. Besides that, great work morale/ethics of Camarata. Getting it done. And I do understand that theese construction methods/choices are probably not Camarata's choices, he is just doing what the customer ordered.

Good work, here we could never put a septic system in such a wet area. Never would pass inspection. Jim

Andrew don’t sweat it, your a Busy man you’re doing a good job appreciate the videos.👍🤜🏽🤛🏻👍

I'm one of the thousands addicted to your excellent videos. Your skill both at editing and drone footage is simply outstanding. You have a real feel for good videography as well as taking the time and effort to explain things in an easy to understand and relate to manner. That said, I finally saw you do something that even myself wouldn't do. And I don't know squat about excavation. ha. About 100,000 tasks I've seen you do and it always worked... unconventional sometimes, but.... it worked and no one got killed. And your work seems to hold up over time. But when you backfilled the trench leading away from the foundation with the pvc pipe in it, I had to cringe. First of all, you filled in the middle section first, which I'm sure is standard practice in dry conditions. But not only did this push the pipe way over to one side of the already enlarged trench (after getting stuck and unstuck) at a pretty severe bow, but by filling in the middle, you guaranteed that the water above it would be trapped and when filled, would create instant quicksand. This was clear the rest of the video where the Bobcat sunk into it and even yourself started to get sucked into it. I don't' think you can fill a water filled trench and expect it to somehow just dry out, especially if you've dammed the water first. It created a deep, soggy slurry of fine dirt suspended in water... in other words, quicksand, all along the trench.

a 500 ft well. there was water at 1ft

9:18 Okay this is the wildest thing I've ever seen someone do with heavy equipment

I also find his videos not only entertaining and very well done ,but educational.

Mad skills and great cinematography.

You are a hard working man

I love how you collect all the clips from different days, even weeks apart and put it into one video instead of doing what everyone else does and uploading every time they do one thing, often leaving out the conclusion making it highly frustrating to watch. Your videos are complete.

Nice work Andrew!

New comment on an older video but the propane guys probably have some great stories and I would love to hear about them with his accent. Nice video!

Underground water needed dealing with at the beginning on that site. Not too late though for the owner to request a water interceptor be constructed across the top of the slope to catch the downhill flow and divert some of it off to each of the site's sides. Then install land drainage lower down, all taking water to a balancing pond arrangement at the bottom.

Muddy man help I am sinking lol 😁 all the best from the UK 🇬🇧

Man oh man, 1 video, two heavy equipment digouts. Bonus! You are very skilled, my friend.

Holy mackerel, Bat Man, you got out! We were cheering for you. Totally skilled. Use what you have in your hand.

I always dig my well pipe trenches from the foundation wall to past the well casing the go back with a right angle where the pitiless would go. But I’m 63

Lmfao " i gotta stay away from this stop" ! 😂😂 man you crack me up .great job tho! You got it done!

Great job and video! As always!

i'm in awe that you got yourself out of those holes! brilliant!

I now now Harvey Kietel installs propane tanks lol

Propane and propane asessories

Two good recoveries,well done sir!

This was fascinating. What a talented man.

dude i was just waiting for that chain to come unglued and that mini taking off into the woods on its own

I was told never fill in a trench or hole that has water in it. It will turn to slop. Good save Andrew! That was like working on chocolate!! I'd like to see the next guy ALMOST step on that ground. It's gonna take awhile for that to dry!!

That was realy muddy. Allways a pleasure to watch your video's. Greetings

Your the man Andrew 🇺🇲 you also have great skills I always enjoy watching your videos 🇺🇲

I typed too soon!! Almost ate you and Bob. Good thing you had the remote control trackhoe there!!

They should put a tag line on that propane tank and anything else that from a small crane to a big crane lifts something at anytime

Boy, getting yourself unstuck like that you have my admiration!

Man Andrew this sure turned out to be one heck of a muddy jobsite. As soon as you dugout those trenches they filled up, the water table here must be pretty high. Love the creative way you got the bobcat outta the mud, and then you decided to show us how deep and thick that mud was as you walked into the spot where it was stuck, almost thought you were going to need to be rescued trying to pull your boots outta the mud. I've been doing excavation work for years and love the challenges every day brings out there just like you do. Keep on digging and we'll be watching

Hey Andrew. I just finished watching this video. I've watched all of them on this playlist so far. The job is coming along very nicely. I used to work construction back in the late 70's & early 80's, and so these (and all your) videos take me back in time. I was getting worried though about that building site being too wet to build on. I don't know if it's like that year around or not, but since it's at the bottom of the hill and flat from then on I suspect it is, and so I am glad to see that you dug the drainage ditch around the perimeter of the property, and I hope that works to keep the ground inside the perimeter nice and dry year around. Before I saw that you dug that ditch, I was wondering if maybe a complete underground drainage tile system, like farmers use in their crop fields, might have been the solution. But it would have been more costly, and if your drainage ditch solves the problem for cheap then it is the better option. Anyway, I am really enjoying your channel. I watch several of your videos every day. Eventually I will have them all watched and then will have to wait til you upload new ones though. I want to thank you for sharing your amazing experiences with us though. Take care!

Getting the digger stuck made things interesting. As someone else said, don't you compact the ground or gravel? In the UK with have to compact everything and we'd never back fill with water in the trench.

editing does take a lot of time. I appreciate the time you take.

Eu gosto das pessoas que trabalha de verdade,é o faz de tudo! Parabéns.

My first experience with a tractor was an old Oliver 2wheel drive with a cable release for the bucket. It came with the 210 acres my parents purchased in 1962 at the end of SilverHollow Road. Dad was always getting it stuck mowing the fields, jacking it up placing rocks and boards and pulling with Mom driving the Willies became the norm.....they moved from Long Island and were totally unprepared for life in the mountains....

I wonder if you can use parts from the OPW nozzle to make the other nozzle auto-stop?

I love to see all your videos

Like the video in was fun to you stock in mude ,good to have another operator help you out . put it gear go .

NEVER trust the volume line on a fuel can. I have spoken with the WEIGHS and MEASURES people who test gas station pumps and they have a measured container they use. I happened to be filling a 5 gallon can while one was testing and I talked him into testing mine. My 5 gallon mark was closer to 5.5 gallons. So two proper ways to find out without any doubt. 1) use a container that is calibrated for X= volume. 2) weigh the volume. So why is that property so damn wet? I know it snowed there lately, but that is a lot of water flowing in your canal!! Years ago a buddy bought 9 acres really cheap because the property would not perk. After seeing the property I could see why. It had sooooo many trees on it that even with the driving snow, there was very little snow between them. That told me someone planted all the trees trying to suck up the water, but really what had happened was it was getting no sunlight or wind/air in the middle of the acreage.. We spoke with a guy from a town on the other side of the city and he agreed. My buddy bought it cheap and that fall we started clearing. In August before we started it would not perk. By April the next spring we had cleared about 3 acres in the center and thinned out the trees by about 8 to 1. In April the same guy from the county came and made a bet with me that it still would not perk. It not only perked the 5 gallons minimum. It perked nearly double the 5 gallon minimum!! We had also had a pretty nasty winter that year as we commonly do up in Rochester, only a few miles off Lake Ontario.

Love your videos man. Question though, isn't this house foundation going to shift and crack within a decade with all that water? That wouldn't be allowed here in Wyoming without something like helical piers into bedrock, do they have some sort of stabilization on this house?

Is there anything you can't do Andrew, because I've seen most of your videos you never cease to amaze me the things you know how to do

Good work cleaning tracks. 👍🏻

Andrew, I have to laugh at the know-it-all keyboard warriors who comment anonymously from the relative safety of their homes. The fact is, they're jealous. While you're out there working to build a business and something of value, these malcontents add zero value, foment discord instead of addressing their own personal failings. You bring value to KZfaq, so just keep doing what you're doing because thousands of people truly appreciate you.

for those curious about the anode bag: In short, the sacrificial anode bag acts as a "decoy" for the damaging currents that can harm a tank in an underground environment. Tank Coating and Backfill - The outer surface of an underground propane tank is in constant contact with an environment that can be extremely damaging.

17:24 'anode bag' like the sacrificial anodes on a boat engine. I still learn something new every day! A bag of magnesium tied to the tank with a copper wire. They actually work too if you've ever seen an old underground tank that didn't have proper electrolysis protection. Anything metal that deals with water its whole life is vulnerable. We used to use 60-80 gallon aluminum tanks at our business and the electrolysis chewed through new ones in about 7 years - and those weren't even buried. Gold, silver, titanium and stainless steel are the most resistant, but never 100%.

Nail-biting stuff Andrew! 🙂

lmao "how much it gotta come up?" "a whole bubble"

6:21 when my girlfriend's a virgin

I flipped my Kubota KX 36 on the side doing the same thing. Soft roll No damage.

Good save!

" Gotta stay away from this part!"

Lmao... you got lots of "practice" getting out of sticky situations on this one, plus almost lost your boots on one of them... nice saves. As for that fuel gun/nozzle, I installed one that looked like that on a bulk DEF dispenser a few years back and it auto-stopped. Look at the underside of the tip of the nozzle, there should be a small hole on the bottom of the nozzle where it sucks air until the level rises up and then it would suck liquid and kick the flow off. If that small hole is not present on the bottom side of the nozzle, it never was intended as an auto-stop-capable filler. Good news on the partial refund on it. I was suspect of the accuracy of the flow meter (on ours), but using it for DEF in a non-retail situation, it wasn't that critical anyways. Also, for buried propane tanks, we can't do that up in Canada, or at least nobody does it. If we did bury tanks, I'm sure there'd be a law that would state it has to be dug up and replaced every 10 years, because that's the way we seem to do stuff like that. I know when I was younger in the retail gasoline biz, it was starting to get beyond stupid with all the rulez and regz surrounding in-ground tanks, pumps, anodes and anode systems. Volume/capacity measuring and monitoring systems took a serious jump in complexity in the late 80`s after a series of high-profile stories about cases of serious gasoline tank leaks in retail situations where the owner knew damn well about it, but chose to cover it up, leading to some serious health problems, and a few cases where brand-newly-built homes in close proximity to the leaking gas stations became condemned to destruction after the owners/residents were poisoned by fumes from escaped gasoline leaching around underground.

All of your drainage ditching sure helped a lot. The site was a lot drier when you dig the hole for the propane tank compared to trenching the waterline. The propane guys backed over the trench with no issues.

Wow AC I can't believe the mucky soil on this property, you think their was a water spring on the property! Great video as always!!!

@25:24 The moment you start tracking fuel consumption per job. Next day increase mark up by 5% per job.

Can't believe you drove into your own ditch more than once!!!

Great looking soil!!

Again it’s a pleasure to watch such a professional as you do your work. Nice spring soil to work with to !!!

talk about a shit ton of ground water.... Will a septic tank work with that much ground water?

Leakage from buried tanks can do the same thing pipeline leakage can do, which is saturate a lot of soil around the tank instead of just venting to atmosphere, which is likely why some jurisdictions prohibit burial. Except for appearance there's no reason to bury them and it makes future external corrosion inspection impossible. Looks nice though.

Watching you get stuck and then getting out of those holes made me a nervous wreck. You are a professional heavy equipment operator to get out of that.

I like to watch his videos he looks like a very smart person don't know how he finds family time because he's always working on something. Lol