That bucket attachment has payed for it self many times. Now the ditch looks better than the road. Matting cover is great make that old line disappear back into the dirt. Another happy customer. 👍💪🇺🇲💯

You have a fantastic eye for grade and a skill that comes with years of experience. I admire your work.

When I saw that cable come up out of the mud, I was waiting the whole rest of the video to see if Karen showed up.

Great ditching work Chris, the rotary bucket is very handy!! Hope you and David are well, happy new year to you both .

With all the rain you get, you will be getting a lot of drainage repair jobs. Good job!

Beautiful work Chris. Hope you have a Happy New Year.

Awesome job Chris! You are a master at what you do God bless you

Happy New letsdig18 Happy New Year Winston! Happy New Year Erbody

Very nice!!! You cleaned that out perfectly!!!!!

Tonka operators with advice. Chris knows what he is doing.

Sure looks nice Chris. What a great project to do when it's wet as you get to instantly see the benefits of your efforts and watch the water run to you as you work. That rotating bucket is so perfect for this too! Nobody around here uses them much yet. Always enjoy the vids! Happy New Year!

Great way to start 2021 with a letsdig18 video, great job Chris, can't wait to see more

Excellent work as usual Chris.

With scalpel-like precision, you cut a ditch with a machine that could literally destroy the entire yard. A skilled craftsman in any profession is hard to beat.

Precision mud spreading right there. What with all the rain, you have to be precise. Practice makes perfect. Always a joy to watch.

You do amazing work Chris

What a difference! Water be flowin' freely now. 😎😉👍 Thanks for videotaping from different locations, i.e, YanMar cab, ground level.

Beautiful job Chris, even in the mud. Have a great day.

That ditch is awfully close to the road , surprised there isn’t more of a berm ! 🤔

Great job there Chris looked great

You know as a retired grade checker.....I want to say "THAT LOOKS DAMN GOOD " !

Another nice job Chris!

It's a gentle enough slope to ride the mower through there. Well done Chris.

I love how you used the bucket as a pointer lol...I always considered it an extension of your arm and hand 😂 I'm so amazed at how precise you are with these gigantic rough machines!! 👍🏻 I love watching you work! Sorry not sorry either lol ☺️👍🏻 keep 'em coming please!

Happy New year Chris, trouble is with utility service they won't dig deeper than they need to, if I had to put anything through a ditch it would be below its lowest point so it didn't get caught while cleaning out

Happy New Year Chris

🔥🔥🔥SOMETHING ALWAYS SATISFYING ABOUT A FRESHLY CLEANED OUT DITCH LINE... FINE JOB CAPTAIN✌️

Chris you are not only a great operator but you do your jobs like an artist

What a good job ! I saw a custom bucket built that was a flat bottom V and was used for these ditches. His worked along a road or across a field. I had the special detach ears made and created the bucket from AR400 sheet. AR500 is better but either will work. Wires are placed 20 ft and 10 ft under ground. I have phone at 10 and crosses power at 20. My flag guy showed me how it swooped up to the house from deep underground. My phone line crosses my road twice. What a pain. Water is placed at "7" so it was said. Crazy in yards and property.

The story of Chris' life.... playing in the mud..... Nice job Chris

Dam....I was watching some guy on KZfaq clearing a ditch and all of a sudden my cable went out...😂

This homeowner should have called the county they live in and asked about them doing their job. I believe the county's responsibility. You however are doing a nice job. On second thought after seeing what a nice job you are doing the county or city whichever would have made a mess that the homeowner would have to of had to deal with and you were probably the better option. You ALWAYS do a neat job.

Like the little job Chris and it's nice one too .

You are making a nice job of that ditch. At 10 minutes in i'm thinking that's how it probably was originally when the road was new. I have a friend out here in NZ that does drain and cable laying and general trenching. Where they say the cables/water/sewer pipes are can be totally different to where they actually are so you phone up and they come out and mark them and then sometimes they are wrong too.

Great job as usual chris! 👌

Excellent finesse!

Happy New Year to all from North Wales in the UK.

Another job well done,

I love that mini.

Great skills on the excavator! Ground looks good sir!

Awesome job

Nice job Chris.

Chris had his artistic skills working in this video...Details make for happy customers and references. One satisfied Customer can add 10-15 additional jobs in the future. Even drive-by customers. Great Job...lol

Nice rainy day project. Had moving water to show the level so that must have helped.

you sir are a magician with that machine.

you make the mini excavator look as fluid as those boston dynamics robots.

SALUDOS CHRIS , NICE JOB WELL DONE LIKE ALWAYS.

Another GREAT FINISH.

Nice job Chris from a wet silted mess to a masterpiece you sir are a master of the craft of excavation

Nice work !!

At least where I'm at, the cable company won't do a locate for anything this isn't either their fiber backbone or the trunk lines feeding a neighborhood. Drops out to individual houses get cut all the damn time because they've decided it's cheaper to send a contract tech with a splice kit than it is one of the 2 techs for the entire region that they actually have trained to do locates properly.

Technically it wasn't Carolina liquid earth, but damn it wasn't too far from it! Nice job Chris.

Nothing like a well defined “ditch” 😂. Good Project!

Happy new year

Chris the master of mud!

Just curious. Who else watches watch wes work? I see alot of the same comments. I think your more precise with that machine than i could be with a shovel.

Done an Done !! "Mud" !! There i said, it for ya ...lolol... Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening, On to the Next !!

You are a true artist with that bucket grading the mud I think you could ice a cake with the excavator

Sure tidied it up too bro. Made for a cool little video as well. Safe travels in 2021

We have been using the geomating crap for longer than the states ,after a few years it all comes up to the top mixed with mud and rock LUVERLY !

Hey Chris, you just explained it, it looked like yo hit that wire twice, Have a good one!!

Happy New Year

Looks good! Have you ever thought about buying, or building, a skid steer size bucket that hooks on the blade of the mini? I have one, and it is really handy for moving materials on small projects where it doesn't make sense to have two machines :)

You sure do nice work

Did you ever dream that there would be this much interest in people watching you operate heavy equipment? 114,610 views as of this writing, and 385,000 subscribers. Very cool!

This is like painting ..... with mud, and you use a great, big, yellow machine as your brush. You, sir are as close to an artist with your medium as I have ever seen.

You don’t normally do any work around Train Tracks so hopefully we get Lucky🍀with a Train.😬👍

Nice work 😊

You can tell family or friends you spent the day moving Slop & moving the same Slop again.😬👍

Happy new year 2021

Keep.up the great work

The final trim is always first rate.

You say it’s a mess,but be honest that just gets your blood flowing,the challenge is on.yea.👍👍👍😎😎😎

Very wet now in NC. But you didn't get the black ice or?

nice finish, Thats the sign of somebody that not only enjoys their work but also takes pride in it . Nice one Cris. (a side note: ) What's not to like,????

Time to seed some rice how much rain do you people get east coast weather

My daughter lives over at Fayetteville, NC. Lots of rain. At least the dirt ain't hard as those rocks ya been pounding. It's a wonder you don't dream rocks. Eaglegards... 👍

Good job and god luck

Great ditch your hired!!

New name letssmearmud18 another fine job working with slop

Looks so much better. Great job

You make this look so easy🤓

Great job on explanation on how it's to be done. Are there any other tips you can share....like if there wasn't any water in the ditch how would you get the fall right? Again great video as always, stay safe in 2021.

Wet weather is good for business.

Nice!!

Great work! How was the phone line?

good job

Man construction companies where I live would kill to have operator like you

That road looks like it could use a good grading too. Someone's neglecting their job, which is normal for municipalities. They tend to let things go until it costs way more to fix it than if they had maintained it properly in the first place. Anyway, the ditch turned out great.

Looks good Chris. Do you prefer the futerra blanket “saw dust matted together in a roll like you used instead of netted straw blanket?

a man and his machine!

great job. Do do you get to clean the ditch to the railroad ?

Of course this will only be worth it if the next house has a clear ditch too !! Still you should get that one as well Chris.

Nicely done in such poor working conditions. 3rd wettest year ever at RDU . Hoping for no snow this winter , ground is wet enough.

A lot of jobs I see. And happy new year to all!

Mister George it’s a good operator 😉👌👌

Grandparents used to live just on the other side of the tracks there. I know that area lol.

Looks great I have a similar job coming up in a couple of weeks and have to use the helac power tilt along with interchanging between it and my thumb and skeleton bucket... I just wish these bucket attachment manufactures put more thought into us operators when they build tilt attachments so you can still use the hydraulic thumb at the same time....my thumb doesn't line up with the power tilt installed because the attachment adds an additional 18" of length and distance away from the thumb therefore rendering it useless. BTW.. are those RR tracks in service ?

Water.....probably one of the most overlooked aspects of any land home purchase by so many people these days. Pick the area you like, then wait for a big hard rain and go look at it again. You will see things you never knew. Guaranteed.... Water is an expensive element to control and fix when you have a problem. If people only understood how important something like a proper built ditch, with proper grade is. It can literally save you home and land. Elberta, AL says hello.

👍 from the Netherlands