My grandfather is 78 and runs/owns 2 restaurants!

@@jamesschneider6136 My 80 year old neighbor was roofing his garage. I carried the shingles up for him. He said he won't do concrete work anymore though.

I'm 78 and did this work for 35 years and loved it. What's cool is that he works mostly alone, cares for his equipment, and doesn't know the meaning of an eight hour day. And he operates a helluva drone.

@Ants vtrova big difference between lecturing and actual work though. Still very cool to be active at 90. Good for him. I hope I live that long.

I’m 21 and trying to figure out how to get my hands on a excavator. Got a brush hog coming up in a few days so I’ve got a start

Up here in the north, every job in the winter takes almost double the normal time and effort because of this stuff, most guys shutdown in the coldest weather and just do snow removal.

Problem is he keeps his cool, Discovery lives on drama so he would be too composed for them. The guy at Discovery that adds the high-tension music would have nothing to do.

Thanks that a clever ( Old ) way thanks for sharing Ced

I remember this method as i watched the 'ice pilots' on tv. Well, watching tv is a long time ago but to come back to the story, they also use insul. tarps but an air heater.

He had power to the site. Cover equipment with insulated tarp as you mentioned and put a 110v tank warmer pad under, frost plug heater in the engine, water circulator in the engine, cab heater in or under the unit . Keep it off the ground like you did. This whole nightmare can be eliminated. A whole lot easier than fighting with the cold. The cold causes things to break.

Ah! Finally, someone who knows the cold. Thank you. So we learn from you, but who do you learn from? Necessity?

@@rogerdickinson920 He could of just took it home with him on his trailer after work and park up in his garage overnight.

Also they make commercial electric blankets and you can wrap the engine compartment in an electric blanket

Fellow Owego resident here!

@@benc3699 Awesome, where? I'm on Knauf

I like these videos too and I still go to the window to watch the garbage truck.

You mean to say some people don't? @@dominiquemiller4513

Oh owego! I lived in Binghamton Before moving to Charlotte :) I love your strawberry festival.

lol

roundedges2 o ye haha

His dogs and his equipment put in a good days work too.

That's a great saying

👍"What's Andrew Camarrta doing for lunch break today " "well let's get to-it" 👍

What’s the reason for keeping the writing facing up?

@@brandons42472 So if you are opening that section of pipe later after digging down you can ID what you have in the way of pipe

You are correct but Andrew didn’t design or engineer that system the engineer and the inspector could have done and should have done a better job they totally failed and it costs somebody a lot of money.tens of thousands

Also, shouldn’t the holes be facing down? Which is probably the same thing as the writing up.

It's "who" not "whom" and there is no god. God is a figment of gullible people's imagination.

Great idea.

Yeah agreed. In the Pilbara and wondering about some of the building concepts needed. They were heaters we saw earlier???

Thats laughable

Yeah, they used to use track loaders to do it before excavators became popular.

@@mike86mike YOU are an immigrant, Mike. Where the fuck do you think your family came from? Unless youre an indian, shut the fuck up.

Most people get paid by the hour. Pay them by the job and watch them solve this shit too.

And people wonder why we moved to Florida!

@@Paultimate7 most people are also not willing to work in these conditions. rather be twerking on camera or doing other dumb millennial sht for money. nowadays aint the same.

@@Paultimate7 you're correct but even the Indians are immigrants as they came from Asia many 10,000s of years before.

Not everything. If your trying to get down a hill and have a pair of skis it is much easier than walking down

That's the way I do it too (holes down). If you put the holes up the pipe will start floating as the water rises. I've heard guys say they've seen drain pipe float right out of the ground.

Guust In WWII an uncle of mine was on a warship in the PTO whose name was if memory serves *Gust.* Legend has it he was Swedish. Seven brothers all went USN. The family all come from north of the Rio Grande. Might you be from down yonder? Wow *you & me could be kin. Almost scary ain't it?* Dec9 2018

Why 3/4 no minus gravel UNDER the drains? That's going to fill those spaces with water.

@MrBobnokious just lower than slab is needed

@@ElectricDanielBoone Classic mistake... Andrew does amazing work... hope he is reading comments.

I take it going for a drive out of the soup doesn't clean it enough before finishing for the day? Seems like a whole lot less effort would be expended if a bit more end of day maintenance was done

Well he buyed a 4-in-1 bucket, but it seems that his bobcats were not capable of using it with all functions. But since he has his IHI skidd steer, who seems to be a bit bigger than the bobcats, he can use that bucket too.

i blame the engineer lady who signed off on the original design

I agree with you on that. California is great except for the people that are making it a SH*T Hole. If I could afford to move away, I would.

You guys are funny. Spend a winter in Ontario and you'll want to get back down there to the bikinis!

IM just taking notes because this flipping weather cause by global warming down here in Tex/NM. Better be prepare than sorry.

Another sunny day here in San Diego. It did snow here when I was in 4th grade-ha! I actually get tired of the sun. It can be too much. I do like a cold(58degrees), gray day…

I thought it had gone up in flames.

Coming from a Canadian, all you need to do is make sure you clean the rails well. Every once in a while you see a frozen roller but the tiger torch takes care of that quick.

Next episode: Andrew Camarata repairing an electric heater.

@@thetizzleforshizzle I was curious about 2 things here. You might be the person to ask. If the track is frozen solid, why is he just putting heat on the gear(sprocket)? And wouldn't a spray of kerosene keep the ice from sticking to the surfaces?

@@alext8828 a lot of guys get the flow truck to spray diesel but my understanding is that the power delivery is spread across all teeth. So you need to make sure that the travel area is clear so they can compound torque and clear frozen material packed into areas that can be hard to get to. That's why track shovels are shaped that way, so you can clean between sprocket teeth.. Putting heat on the final drive could potentially damage seals and shit in the hydraulic system inside. Ballsy

@@alext8828 in heavy industry the machine never stops but if you park for the night clearing the undercarriage is incredibly important. Sand just keeps dew ice from forming

Unthaw means to freeze. His skid steer is already frozen. You meant to say "thaw" the tracks?

are you gues unionise over there ? in quebec we have to be in a union

@@znarcuss , In Ontario everyone has the right to work in construction , not just unionized workers, construction Unions are useless, especially International Unions which do not properly represent Canadian construction workers, just money hungry american outfits.

@@floydfan5993 well in quebec if you want to work in construction on residential commercial or industrial you need a ccq carde that prove that you know what you are doing yes they have a union but at the end of the day the employee is back up he cannot say oh i dont know ! and we have a very high salary for it ! a labor start at 27$ hour an excavator operator starts at 38$ an hour .... union is not really a money graber is the employee is making 100,000$ a year

Here it is: amzn.to/2XHnsYZ And I fixed the video, thanks.

@@AndrewCamarata I was just joking around but I appreciate you added that!

I am sure he pulled the rebar up into the concrete as he went along . I dont think Andrew caught it on tape .

Not a chance.

You can tell the rebar is supported and likely 3" above the dirt.

Pretty sure theres chairs in there looks like the rebar is up. 2 bars is pretty standard on good dirt like that. Rebar is best placed in the lower 3rd of the footing anyway thats where all the tension is.

Jason Waters yeah im not sure if some of these guys watched the same video

The drainage pipes are up at one end to lead the water away from the house, with holes down, the base of the house would be soaked in water.

That's a great idea. Love it

thats clever !!

Thanks

Richard moore came to comment same thing.

I always put the holes down and writing up as this is how the perforated pipe manufacturer designed it. It is designed in such a way as the water level in the trench rises, it gets to the level of the holes in the pipe and is carried off. The holes on the bottom equal a lower water height in the trench. Having the holes on top makes the water 4 inches deeper before the pipe begins to work. I set the pipe on 4 to 6 inches of stone and then bring the stone just a over the top of the pipe and then cover the entire trench with filter fabric and then backfill.

yes lettering up

The frost wall is there because that's going to be a walk out basement there. So it needs a deeper footing on that one wall. I always put the holes up. That way any water that gets into the pipe will run out, if the holes are facing down, the entire ground will be saturated with water before any water can run out.

Andrew Camarata that makes sense to... you make everything look so easy lol love your vids!!!

What if you put holes in the top and sides.

Placing the holes up is a common misconception usually encountered when homeowners are trying to do their own work. A professional should know better. Many States require an inspection prior to backfilling... and holes up would never pass.

Hi Andrew, I was thinking the same thing. A tent around your bobcat, that way if you have to heat it up with propane the heat stays inside the tent so while your freeing up the tracks the fuel filter might just get warmed up too. Looks like your solving problems and making sure they don't happen a second time. Epic video length, love it. Hope you are enjoying the holidays. Cheers, Bill

Shawn Boland I was thinking the same thing having just watched this and in the process of building a warehouse and seeing how little reinforcing steel was in the trench compared to how much my builder used, big difference 🤔

@@johnfisher747 i was thinking the same. Where i live we never leave more than 20 cm between rebar rods. On surfaces usually mesh up to 20 by 20cm spacing. And if the surface is thick enough, two layers of mesh. All the videos in the US seem to show very little rebar. Maximum we just use thinner diameter where less strengh is required.

I did a stitch in Indonesia after the Tsunami. there were columns in the 4 corners and they were tied together with barbed wire. I have pics. The rebar supplied was never used. The buildings were smashed by the waves and chunks of concrete laying on the ground. Religion stands in the way of progress. They will always be in the dark ages. Corrupt politicians and non existent building codes.I've got 187 pics plus video, you people would roll your eyes in disgust.

I was wondering the same...if he has one.

Can you explain the logic behind his measurements and manipulations with laser? I quite didn't get how he set it

It will, I want to backfill more with gravel once the walls are poured, than ill add the fabric.

That pipe will be full of dirt in no time with the holes up like that and no fabric between it and the gravel..the holes go down also, idk about where you live but that’s how the inspectors here want them.

Most dedicated french drain installers will tell you to point the holes down, This makes most sense since water will flow from bottom up.

It depends on what type of water removal you're doing.... AKA water coming up from the ground or water flowing across the ground..... Been there done that

Holes go up.

It is easy to make any statement, but without a reason, an opinion has no value. Holes go down: 1) dirt will fill the pipe eventually 2) water will find the easiest path 3) eventually the pipe will settle unevenly, so with holes up water will accumulate and sediment will move to the lowest area of pipe and cause blockage. The pipe will have to be dug up, rather than rooted. Also, with the holes up, water will pool around the pipe, so you will have four inches of saturated soil that can not drain.

Andrew I learned so much watching your channel and i find your videos very helpful as well as entertaining. However, ill have to disagree with you on this one. Water will trickle through the gravel and raise up from the bottom. I'd like to refer you to apple drains KZfaq channel he is one the few channels dedicated to this type of work.

Anonymole Glaciers are in the mountains and are much smaller, ice sheets from Canada are what brought the rock and they were several thousand feet thick.

Bury the thing.

They had electric on site, electric heater under the rig with a tarp over top of the rig would have worked.

The cheapest and easiest way to do it is plugging it in at night and he will never have any issues. They have heaters for gas tanks, oil tanks and hydraulic tanks. It would be a good cheap and most cost effective way to do it even if he had to replace them once a year

For anyone reading that, do not follow that advise. Putting gas in you oil is NEVER necessary. I live and work in Fairbanks Alaska. -40 during the winter is normal. You use low temp oils and lubes made for the arctic weather. Almost all outdoor equipment (including virtually every car and truck) up here is winterized, meaning that they have special heating pads and such on the battery, oil pans, engine block ect. Typically to thaw a frozen piece of equipment, you just use a bullet heater on the ground pointed at the engine block with the hood closed. A lantern at our temps will not do a d@mn thing. Adding gasoline to the the engine oil is incredibly stupid. There is a high risk of fire and/or explosion AND engine damage will happen very quickly and it won't even help you start the engine. The #1 best thing you can do when your car is too cold to start is to warm the battery BEFORE you kill it trying to start the car. Also, adding a bottle of heat helps pass water though your lines (pro tip, a full tank of gas can not condensate).

@@lobes187 Saw a guy mix gas with his oil to thin it out in cold weather. First start it blew the oil pan half off and burned the wires under the hood. Not to smart.

No dude, you don’t drain the oil an dout kerosene in. That’s stupid. Just run a generator at night and plug in the block heaters.

I did not use the ex100 because this job was very far away, and the skid steer was already there. The ex100 would have done it a little faster, but I feet the skid steer was easier to use to get a perfectly square and level hole. 60 years ago when track loaders were much more common than excavators, this is how foundations were dug. I've had a few old people tell me this and I wanted to try it. I would do it again.

Andrew Camarata It’s a good job Andrew. FairPlay you have serious skills with that bobcat like I’ve said before you have an excellent Channel