So here is what is so great about this video, I absolutely love when you spend the first moments explaining your strategy based off what you are seeing. It is amazing how you determine your plan by looking at the ground, and your can plan out your moves. Then what I get excited about is looking when you execute and understand exactly what you are doing and why! It makes your videos for me that much more fascinating. When I ride by construction sites and I see excavators working or skid steers moving, and now can understand to a certain degree what they are doing! Rewatched and Loved the video!

Great job Brandon

Lots of top soil for grass to grow on that lot 🇺🇸

Rough grading new construction is by far my favorite type of work. Good job. It looks great

Nicely done!

You did a heck of a job on that, and I admire your patience, and skill in fixing things that even I could see were going to be a problem.

Excellent job Brandon! Keep up the great work!

Rough grading = Elite!

Nice work correcting what appears to be pretty serious mistake. Looks like they built that foundation in a hole.

Im sure the entire planning was a challenge from the start. You get a thumbs up for making lemonade out of lemons. I think the entire house should have been built at least two or more feet up out of the ground. The way it sits they will always fight to keep water away from the foundations. Any kind of lawn will be a headache to maintain too. Its not all bad though, the house and scenery looks beautiful!

Great video. I feel like I’m going to learn a lot watching your channel

Nice job, it's gunna need a lot of top soil. Hate grading that rocky clay

Darn good for what you had to work with.

Lots of top soil for grass to grow on that lot have a great day 👍🏻🇺🇸

I am glad Dat the ground never freezes here it muddy & really wet & rocky but no frost Y'all do outstanding work considering the materials @ hand to work with

Great job. Especially with the material (rock) and odd elevations you had to work with. It takes a lot of experience, visualization (seeing a final product in your minds eye) and feel of grade while running a loader to get the results you consistently get on your jobs.

You done a great job on a hard yard to work with!!

Well done. Well thought out as usual.

From what it looked like, it looks alot better but I agree with you, Several different elevations on the house lot, basically a freaking nightmare to grade, thanks for sharing Brandon, look forward to seeing the end result, you always do good work 💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸

I remember this job. They did not put much (if any,,, I can say it, you shouldn’t, haha) thought into the grading!! The brick on the front is already in the dirt and for the homeowner to get what they wanted, you would have to bury some of the veneer!! Big waste of $$$, but also that veneer won’t stand up to being buried, permanently moist and experiencing a freeze thaw cycle. It will probably disintegrate. I suspect the pipe by the lowest window is for a window well??? I don’t quite know how things are done there vs here,, as we know!!! Hahaha. It’s a very good looking home!! I LIKE/LOVE retaining walls and could see some awesome opportunities to go with, like a 12’x24’ ish recessed patio at the front! Soo many great opportunities. It’s better than putting plants up against a wall to mask it. As usual,,,, I like what you have done here. Hopefully you mentioned some of your ideas for retaining walls and they will get you back later to do some of the work the way it should have been done first,,,,, with some amazing retaining walls!! Haha. Great video Brandon!!!

It would most be worth the money to pull that air conditioner pad out and build it up… but, that’s obviously not in the cards! I see now what you were showing me yesterday. It was every bit as much digging and filling as you said. Packing across that slope west of the propane tank was like driving in a box of marbles. The rocks just rolled you down slope, all the way. I was wondering if the 2150 would fit under the carport. It did. But, you didn’t have a lot of headroom over the boom. Dirt Daddy just posted a video where he found almost 4’ of top soil! I told him I would do my best to come up with a Star Trek Transporter so we could solve the problem of Dirt Inequality. If I figure it out, I’ll let you know! I enjoyed the visit yesterday. That job is a real head scratcher! Good luck finding some magical drainage answer on the Diamond job today!

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You have the patience of Job! I couldn't imagine how you would straighten it out, but you did and I watched you and still don't know how you did it! My son said the house looked like it came in for a landing and just plowed into the ground, LOL. The one pad over by the propane tank ought to be built up with thick brick or pavers or something - it's just too low.

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Jobs like that make you appreciate other jobs that are NOT like that! 😊

You are an artist buddy! Hey, just throwing this out there, I bought a couple Midland radios, put them in our tractors and a couple handhelds. They are AMAZING! between the tractors, we get about 10 MILES! The handhelds about 7-8. You do have to apply for a fed license, but takes about 10 mins and is like $70. We use them when baling hay etc. Thought now that you and your dad are working more together in machines they might come in handy. I think I got 1 big one and 2 handhelds for like $200. Just a thought.

I guess you can say this is a rocky start. :) Have a great day.

You're doing a fine job. You'll get it right or they can call you back to finish it like you wanted to.

I just dealt with one just like this...the homeowner spent 10 on decorative brick to cover the foundation and we ended up covering 1/2 of it to get water to go away from the house..rule of thumb for builders take the current elevation and add 18” to it..

Good job Brandon for what you have to work with!!

They might want to put a Trench Drain in front of the Garage doors and pipe it out. I had a house that always had water draining in front of the garage and it was a pain. Nows is the time to do it before the driveway gets put in.

That whole house needs to be up 5' higher.

I thought it was code that any windows below natural ground level had to have a gravel drain under them? Great job!

Yeah, that's a disaster when your house sits below rough grade... good luck with that one, maybe just talk the owner into a basement sump. lol It sure would help if the owner would let you slide the forks under the HVAC pad and raise it to a manageable elevation and lower the LP tank pad. Do you bid jobs like this or T&M, it'd be tuff to guesstimate a peach like this one. Nice work!

Why do people build in a hole? Good video.

Well, ya did good. You were able to make chicken salad out of chicken crap. I think you got the water running the right directions, but that is some sad looking soil. I think Dirt Daddy has some really nice topsoil you may can get from his pond job. I think I'm gonna move to MO and sell nothing but bucket teeth and carbide inserts for Harley rakes. I think I could make a good living. Lol. Keep plugging away brother, she's starting to take shape.

Brandon, are you playing that git-tar in the back ground music?Lol

Nice shirt did Chris give you that for working for him.

Brandon, is your dads loader noisier in the cab than yours?

Wearing letsdig18 merch. your good are grading with the machine

Is that the job that you used the Cat track loader on?

What happened to your loader haven’t seen it in a few videos.

Looks like they should have built the foundation up higher to achieve better drainage.🤔

I know nothing about this stuff but the original state just looked wrong. High, lows, levels and pockets…looks issue prone (erosion and pooling/flooding). Why would a builder even agree to start construction with such a ridiculous grading scheme?

I pity the person that has to cut grass with rock base.

From what I've seen on the video that house/job just looks really odd Kinda like One of these things just doesn't belong here