Job security. Dig it out of the bottom, haul it back up hill and wait for it to wash back down. I love it.

The rawwww of that haul truck never gets old.

The calm and repetitious enthusiasm of the bucket speaks volumes.

I guess I've been watching your videos long enough where it bothers me to see big sticks in what you load into the truck. I kept expecting you to grab them with the thumb and toss them aside. Enjoying this series of videos. Thanks.

Thank you for the different camera shots. Good to see the work being performed from different angles. Keep it up Chris and Timmy Thanks again.

Damn I love watching u work on ponds !! Always love everything else too but just something about watching you deal with these ponds and every aspect about it !! Keep on diggin Chris !!

Pond master! Never two the same! Thanks Mike

I think it’s really cool when you stick a couple of stumps in the ponds for the fish

That's one of the nicest excavators I've seen man it's on 🔥🔥

8:10 You sure do keep your machines nice. Very clean and well serviced. Also love the sound of the haul truck. 👍 🇬🇧

That Volvo 200 is certainly a worthwhile investment. The bucket/loading capacity make the Truck efficient as well, great job!

It's fun watching a task being performed by someone that knows how to make it happen!

I noticed to cows checking out your work at the end of the video. Did you get a hoof up in approval? Love the vids keep them coming.

Had a tree fall after a storm a couple days ago. During the cut up, the only thing on my mind was I wish chris was here with his toy to make my day better :- )

I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO CHRIS 😊

Something ridiculously satisfying about watching this.

great Job Chris, I love it to when your in your funny mode!!!!

Good to see Christine again see loves to chomp on the ponds 😎👍👍

I work 10 hours a day for an excavation company, then I come home and watch videos of you moving dirt. I think it's safe to say I like excavation.

You have the best videos I can watch them all day that’s right I do

As always Chris nice work loved the different camera angles 👍👍🥤

Great video Chris I am enjoying your channel keep up the good work

Thanks Chris! Love your videos!

Also love the equipment

That haul truck has a cracking wee note when she's loaded!

Variety is sure the spice of life with your videos bro, never really two days the same.

You're all I ever I really like the way you run your excavator I've been watching you for quite a while now and you're a good guy on a machine I ain't never seen nobody quite like you and I appreciate all your videos

Your operator skills are as fluid as the mud you're working in.

Your a excellent operator Chris, a lot of skill in what you do, I always enjoy the videos

Dude can pick up a toothpick from the ground. Mad skills.

Nice vid as usual. Some mad skills not crushing that green bucket

Chris your new machine is a monster picking up bucket loads wow. it sure can fill your Volvo truck up very fast. I so enjoy your postings thanks so much all the best.

enjoy your channel. Thanks for sharing with us.

Man you guys have it made.... I would pay them.... just to be able to run an excavator! ha ha It looks so fun, and yet challenging! Watching him dig just calms my nerves? Thanks for taking the time to record Chris! You get paid to do that? WOW!!! 😁

Thanks for sharing! Stay Safe!

Chris I always want every pond to be 20' deep.

That dump truck view looked cool, kinda like watching a muddy turd roll out, LOL

I drove haul truck at a road building once in the 80's. It was the funniest driving job I've done.

Good work Chris. You have a. good eye for elevation.I hope the pond owners buy a lot of fish food if they do not have any vegetation to munch on.

Really like the dirtcam @ 24:25!

As much as i am at work with you, i think you should put me on payroll. Thanks for letting us ride along.

Thank you for the great videos

That A30D is such a great asset.

Beautiful excuvater @ work there nice shots too. 👍

AllRight... Your just showen oft here mang... 🤓. 3:56 Damn that place is going to have some neat areas when you’re done with all the little sections 😱🤭👍

Love your videos

You work enough manure into any soil it becomes good top soil. Unless southern cows are different they poop where they want and love standing in ponds on hot days and churn bottoms with hooves

Hey Chris !!! Good job !! Saw some of ""ELVIS"S "" Friends going for water at the end of the video !! HA HA !!!

Chris - make a note - we want to see the field where you spread the dredgings in a year ... should be fantastic growth!

Great video Chris .

Great video Chris 🇺🇲 another job well done 🇺🇲

Amazing work! Chris you are so smooth and accurate with your excavator. How long have you been doing this??

I’ve watched you for sometime now Chris , I think you love MUUUUD $$$ 👍🇬🇧 Thanks for the videos

Unless it is non native, “weeds” or emergents are better fish habitat than open water. And some emergents can grow in 4 feet of water they just have to be introduced (normally are introduced in the wild from water streams.)

If that's topsoil in the pond then they are grazing the grass too close it sounds like. A good thick grass thatch or sod should prevent soil erosion. Of course I have no idea how long it took for that to fill in.

Do you find yourself working the controls in your sleep?

Good video Chris!

Its not wet until the Truck is up to the hubs in ruts and its locked in 6x6 snaking back and forth!

Very nice project again Chris 👍👌😎

Emptying the mud out of the rock truck looks like a big cow pie😂

Volvo power rules the day.

Great video as per usual, can I ask a question about bucket choice. I’m not sure if you have a quick coupler but Why don’t you change to a wider larger capacity bucket with cutting edge when you are moving soft clay as you are in this video you can change back to digging bucket or root spike as needed.

That’s going to be a Nice Fishing Hole on their Property. You make the work look Effortless. 👍

- it’s Soup Time lol, Chris while yer here, how ‘bout some beach 🌴🏖🌴 property ??

Seems like you’re getting almost as much per bucket as the 290 used to without any of the instability digging off the side.

Making Carolinas great one scoop at a time.

like a gentle giant pushing the truck along

Do you ever separate and save the topsoil for finishing out the project or do you just mix it with spoil?

I think you could have gotten another quarter yard on the hood and inside the cab, Slacker!

When I read Cow Pond, I'm teleported back to my youth... and a cow farm... with a cow pond, but it was full of the scrapings from the barn floor... Is this job the same thing?

So glad the owners decided to ask you guys to dredge the pond.

What are some of the strangest or most interesting things you’ve found whilst digging?? Old artifacts, old civil war items, graveyards, etc etc?

Now that is what I call a truck load at 19:00

Nice new escavator with a dark cab looks like no one is running the machine like a cartoon. See you brought the big guns. More efficiency, great video watch otu for metal muffins!

You should leave some of the grass in the pond. Fish love cover for spawning and ambushing their prey.

you got cow poo on your volvo now :) there's gotta be some mixed in there somewhere lol

Three yards a scoop.... not just soil.... does that make it a giant poop scoop????

Silly question, I noticed that the windows of the excavator are tinted...doesn't that make it difficult for people on the ground or around you in other pieces of equipment to see you when you need to interact with hand signals.... BTW, I love your videos, keep it up.....Thanks

Till that "soil" into the fields and you'll have some good crops.

Put a couple of the dead trees in the bottom for fish cover.

Would you mind explaining why you load the dump from back to front or where I can find your explanation. I know this time you’re “making a tailgate” but I notice that is the way you generally load trucks. Just curious to the reasoning behind your method. Great videos I always look forward coming home to see what you posted, love the ZX200 ran one the same for years, great old girl

cool little nudge like a mom on the dump to go up the hill lol. great video.does your uncle run the excavator as well?just curious

Big girl will bang a truck out in no time!! Awesome video as always

I like your fuzzy math and I think your underestimate// (understate) how much dirt you really move. (and you know it) 3 yrd per bucket x10 =30 yards per truck load on a 20 yrd truck plus your getting more than 3 yrds per bucket. Love your work keep em coming.

Since no one else has asked, is the 160 finally getting the windshield replaced? "Big Girl" sure is making quick work of dredging though. "She" probably would have been better on that big storm drain job, that is currently on hold, since "she" appears to have more reach than the 220.

That looks like that might not all be mud in that cow pond Chris.

If you used a Cat you'd have fish in your pond. Fish love Cat🚜👍

That's some pretty dry mud LOL

You were just dying to play in more mud 🤣

Nice haircut, Chris! Is that your summer cut?

Another vote for the wheel loader 🖼

How are you liking the new bucket

When you have a good scoop of dirt with that bucket you got some dirt

That shot from the haul truck looked like one big pile of cow poop wobbling around on top,

Big, heaping buckets...

You need somebody to bag and sell that dirt lol!

Enjoy watching you do surgery with an excavator. Man that 250 is a brute !

Man love your channel, I feel like I can operate an excavator now after watching all your videos. One Question, Why Volvo?

You should do before and after photos at the end of your videos

Chris I believe you could pick a nose with that rig.