Chris, I was just diagnosed with MS after falling down 14 steps in my house, I have been watching you for years and now really like watching your videos during my MS transfusions that take 2 hours. Thank you for helping me pass time, please help the videos going.

Two positive things: 1-moving without the pads 2-painting with a wide brush Nice work!!

Been a while since we have seen that one, always enjoy watching you rip out trees with the 250

"I'm not a beaver", proceeds to post a dozen dam building videos....

perfect office, alone, great scenery, some a/c and some tunes, and a cold drink, and lots of dirt to play in!!! Nice work as always Chris

There is just something about watching this big machine sling some dirt. I missed seeing it!

You know The Carolina Super Scooper is serious when he breaks out the big boy excavator! 👍👍🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🤘🏻🤘🏻

The 250 seems to move with greater authority. It is clearly having a more robust conversation with the land. It's like it's saying "really, you want to mess with me? You have to be nuts" ;o) Very tidy job, really fast Chris. Looking forward to more of it now. Never expected to say that about this site. ;) Be well. :)

Love the tree broom, Really quick cleanup. Not a lot of mud today. Good video. Looking forward to completion.

Enjoying your expertise.. You're not needing a sidewalk supervisor, so I can just kick back and have a wonderful time watching the master doing the job 👍👌... Stay safe and be Blessed 🕊️,😎

Between the land purchase, home build, and pond rehab....this has to be a MULTI seven figure project, Chris. 💰 The owner has a FAT WALLET! 😳 You made SHORT work of that MESS. 👏

Chris, love all your content - keep it up. We know you love the 220 above all other loves. Consider a video explaining the pros - cons - likes - dislikes of each machine. Love some more in depth of the machine operations.

Just imagine a 84” tilt grading bucket on the 250. 😳

You make it look so easy, the volvo looks more stable!

Water bottle 🤔🤔🤔 That sounded like cookies snacks ... 🤣🤣🤣

That’s how I came across LD18 years ago,,,, beaver dam busting! 🇨🇱🇨🇱

Funny watching Chris say how cumbersome the 250 is and then do some of the smoothest and clean work the pond has seen so far. It’s a real attestation to his hours in the seat and comfort level with the machine!! Ultimately Chris was like a kid with a favourite toy he had lost for a while and now relocated!!! Ima thinkin he had a d*mn good mornin!! Haha. Fun video Chris,,,,, was it a rock, or the mother of all snapping turtles?? You will find out when you dig there!!! 😂😂

Nice to see the big iron on that job ! You sound like you had a good day working in there today , Makes a big difference to the pace at which you can work when you are not pulling yourself out of the soup every 10 minutes ! Starting to shape up nicely now ! Respect from Scotland .

54.740.8 without the thumb on Ritchie spec which is most of the time close. Depends on the tracks and thumb Volvo says 57,342 - 69,776 lbs

Very enjoyable! Thank you!

Great to watch this plan come together. Fascinating to see your skills playing out in this pond work. The 250 looks to have a longer reach which helps out coming down through the center to shape things up as you go. Looks like more fun than mud at the upper end. tks

your honesty about your relationship with the beavers was hilarious

I can imagine Chris was smiling on the inside most the day riding in the saddle of the 250 again. 🤘

I like the way you use available resources to clear the bank of unwanted material.

Stunning quick earth moving. That bucket is the GOAT. (Well for non mining machines at least). Glad you got a drier area to cut and a sunny day.

That brush pile up on the bank was more likely landowner done than beaver. Even with that 250 you do not want to dig up rocks like the Rock Hill Animal Clinic job. 33:25 dozer digger in action - nice squeegee job on the bank. Good work Pond Master.

This was great fun to watch! Thanks Chris.

Loved the log tool. Well done. Looks so much better.

Awesome video I really enjoy watching you operate

Another fine job looking good. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦

Chris another great video! Thanks for sharing! Kevin

As always Chris, very nice job and a great tool with the log...

Sure is looking like a pond again! Keep up the amazing work Chris thanks for the video

Your always so fun to watch and the transformations are unbelievable and u know what your doing keep it up

You mentioned that you didn't like beaver's, Way back in the day you was removing a beaver dam from either someone else's property or it was your property, but that is when I started watching your channel. Thanks for another great video Chris see you on the next one ✌️

That has been one big job so far. Going to be interesting to see it completed.

Love it, work smarter not harder!

Brilliant to watch you with the Dozer log!!!

I see increased the size of your paint brush, looks nice. Thanks for the ride along.

Things are a lot dryer there. Enjoy watching you. You are awesome at what you do

Looking awesome, Chris you should some of that dirt to your house that would help out filling low areas.

Storms missed us by going west. I am impressed with the shear horsepower and speed of the 250! 😉 sorry missed this when I got home.

Coming along real good Chris.

'Excavator-bulldozer method'- now that is clever and dandy even 'brutal' in places. Sometimes it's good to have fun with work tasks - makes it more interesting. Neat work.

Love to see the big one at work, long time did not see her .

Nice to see the 250 back in it's natural habitat. Sure can get some big scoops with that bad boy!

Another great job

That's a big beautiful machine, big bucket, it's perfect 💯💯💯👍

My dad always said the right tool for the right job and you definitely have for this job good job

Still fascinating......you must be feeling better, that’s the most I’ve heard you talk in quite a while. Pond is shaping up nicely.

big is good, nice work, keep safe..

I don’t know who is doing this but if it’s for one homeowner this has got to be costing a fortune. Messing job, I don’t think I’d want to do it. Your patience is incredible.

Well, seems like you'd a relaxed working day in NC! 😊

Love that machine.

Great video 👍 👍

Chris I knew you were one smart man A log works great and your mats did to with the mud.

Pretty slick idea

Hi from uk chris👋👍 hope alls well👍 and great decision to take 250 I just hope ground holds her up👍 but she does get a good old handful of material👌 and at end that tree you smashed up and log bladed I thought to be honest that you couldn't get it halfed again and when you started using it I thought watch it disintegrate now you wanted to use it but it held its own👌 thanks for your time and be safe see you soon👍👋

Great video I think that the Boss should give you a raise for the increased production 😀

Can defiantly see the 250 moves more dirt bro. This project is great viewing no matter which machine is used though. Safe travels

Dawns here ☀️

Property is looking very nice Chris i remember when it was a swamp definitely dosen't now 😎👍

Beavers don't say "timber" when they knock down a tree! And they're not known for their abilities with heavy machinery! ;-)

Not to get ahead of ourselves, but the before and after on this one is gonna be epic

The Volvo 250 is the Big Boy for a Big Dredging Job. 👍

Slick way to slick up the bank. Hope rain stays away till you get done.

She is a beast for sure. But boy can she fling so dirt. Love seeing the 250 in action.

A 250 Volvo, oh my goodness this is definitely bringing out the big guns Chris, 💪👀👍.

Ah finally got back in the seat of the beast. Good to see it being used again.

Great video Chris 🇺🇲 looks great as always 🇺🇲

Hickory is also a great wood for maps but extremely hard to work with, well 8ts very hard on blades chainsaws etc

Lady luck has smiled on you today nice work 👌

Just in time

Man that is a beast and you are the beast master

Good work Chris 👌👏👏👏🥰🇬🇧🍺

Great video =)

Yes I love it when a plan comes together. The A team👍🦌🐇

There’s nothing like a good old log broom works almost all the time 🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍👍👍👍👍

With the 220 you have better finesse, but you're doing fine with the 250. Thankfully the Titanic didn't sink today! 😉 for fish you'd figure they'd want some deeper areas...

I love to run my 250 and I think it is every bit as smooth as my 160. I have never had the chance to run a 220 but I have ran a 2020 200 and I like the 250 better than the 200. They are all miles ahead of my first excavator that was a LS5000 Linkbelt. Now that was a cumbersome machine to run and it was a heavy beast.

Log push trick was pretty cool.

Dandy dandy, pretty handy!

Big scoops of progress .

Saw a mat drill and 3 pallets of mat bolts at a auction thought about you! Lol. I own a sawmill and mats are more work then I wanna get involved with plus the price of white oak right now! Getting 1$ a b/f for pallet wood! Pond is looking good! Do you like doing projects that are so strictly monitored or do you like the ponds where you can do what you want as you and the customer see fit??

Whenever the rain falls in Middle Tennessee, I wonder how long it will take to affect you. That log was in the way so you put it's @×× to work brilliant. The 250 does make a big difference, that and drier dirt.

Man's got the summer cut 🤣🤣

I would also pick a volvo 220 over any machine. I was loading out with a 220, a huge amount of topsoil that the superintendent put there, knowing that the area had a model and a pond but he thought he would be able to get away with it, he thought wrong. Anyway, he was panicking that the dirt needed to go faster so he made me switch to a JD380g and that thing runs like it was built in 1985 and the volvo runs like a Ferrari but the 380 is "bigger" so obviously it would load out faster, not. I ran it for a day and as soon as he left I went and got my 220 back and loading out went way faster.

good pond video

Hey Chris…..you know if you had been the captain of the titanic , it would’ve missed the ice burg all together and would have never sunk lol 😂.

Good day for diggin👍👍👍👍👍👍😎

Kinda wish you would invest in a 4K60 camera. The added clarity in the youtube upload is really worth it for all viewers even those with 1080p screens.

I'm surprised that the 250 wasn't on this job from the beginning since it can move more material quicker than the the 220; 1 scoop with the 250 is equal to 1 and a half with the 220, or something like that you said before. That log could also be a good substitute for the mats if necessary.

Southern wisdom of wait and see applies to almost everything.

Chris you are the man who knows what’s what , I run a 220 but wonder why you don’t have a 1/2 a yard bigger bucket on the 250? Then the one it has, I wouldn’t think it would tip with mud in it . But I totally agree with you about the all round 220 it’s the best , I don’t miss a video of yours if I have the time. I’m never to old to learn new things. 👍🇬🇧

7:00 Awww Chris, Beaver dam busting certainly was popular in the early videos.

Your bigger Volvo is a beast that is well tamed! 👋

Suggestion; make some pads out of I beams welded together with wood inset and attached to the I beams with carriage bolts.

Chris was in a good mood and very chatty today. 🤣

I grew up wanting to be an astronaut or rock star, but if I had access to your videos as a kid, I would have wanted to work in excavation more than anything.

Ah yes, the beaver's natural enemy in action... Letsdig18.