You & John produce a truly high class result & clearly take pride in doing so. No wonder you're in so much demand.

That little grader combo is the ticket for this type of job. Having the gopro in the cab was great in the fact. You could hear you perfectly clear and see just what you see . I wonder how well the grader would do grading the sides of a pond?👍👍👍💯🇺🇸

been watching you for years, ever since the beaver dams about 6 years ago. Awesome work. I appreciate you sharing your day with us. Have a good one brother. Keep up the hard work.

Kinda looks that you’re liking that new multi-tasking grader my friend! lol 😂 I like that thing Chris! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Hey Chris & John !! Great that you got this job down B/4 ""STORM IDA "" Gets there on Tues. - Thurs. !! Sure would be a mess with the water in the buildings !! Have a good week & ""KEEP IT SAFE ""!!

That loader grader ripper thingy lol is pretty useful for jobs like that .

Another great job Chris. That little Hybrid seemed well suited to this job. Very nimble & versatile. Take care & cheers from 🐨🦘🥰

We used to make cardboard shades over our whole cab on our forklifts in the winter at the packing shed I worked at. You got to do what you got to do.

What a job, what a job. Great videos, like a guy that knows how to maneuver his equipment without damage to anything.👍👍

it always amazes how precise you are with that excavator. I swear, I'll bet 10:1 that you could stack eggs on end without cracking them.

I was wondering if that hybrid vehicle would make an appearance in this one! Pretty cool! Looks like it's fast now that you've got the hang of it! Nice work!!

Your work is always professional high quality. I am always impressed. God bless you for your integrity

Made for a fun afternoon watching your precision work. Makes me smile. Thank you!

Always enjoy the revisit to the past projects. That little grader looked like it worked out. Good trial run for the unit.

Absolutely awesome work Chris

I’ll say this to other KZfaqrs that I watch so I’m copying and pasting. Lol Just had heart surgery yesterday and I’m finally sitting up and coherent lol what a nice surprise to jump onto KZfaq and see let’s dig videos hard at work! I was kinda concerned that there weren’t going to be new videos while I’m still here at the hospital. (The tv channels suck here and regular season Seahawks hasn’t started , the pain meds help the pain of course but I needed something to distract me from the hot nurses 😂

Rain water & ground water should be no problems for these storage units. That small grader is perfect for this job.

Another great video on this project bro and even inspector gadget made an appearance at the end with it's hydrostatic drive. Safe travels

The machine did a good job!

Ida may put it to the test next week. It would be fun to see the outflow.

Great video Chris 🇺🇲 I always enjoy watching you get your work done 🇺🇲

Man, I love that bucket grader!

Dang! That looks like some of this Alabama gumbo clay. 😁 Sticky! Good lil job. Enjoyed watching sir.

The combination gutter and French drain may be sufficient, but most storage units I’ve rented over the years also pitch the driveway to the center with a drain line down the center of the driveway with periodic storm drain grates. I wonder if the drainage you are building will handle the kind of extreme storm that is becoming more common with 10+ inches of rain in a few hours. Maybe nothing could be built to accommodate that much water, but I was always glad to see the pitch away from the entry door and when given the choice of units, always took one built that way.

What an awesome pair you and John make. Both of you are very professional and skilled people. That is why you ate in high demand. 🇨🇦

Gotta love that new mini grader , would be a good addition to your fleet .

That machine is truly amazing

When you get it finished bring us back during a hard rain. Curious as to how much water will be flowing.

Many, many moons of experience operating those machines!

Looks good another job well done

Seeing it in action, the loader arm is kind of an obvious refinement to the grader.

That's it, Chris is hooked on this Swill knife of a machine ! Perfect for that kind of work. Fast, versatile, seems a decent grader. Yep, that marketing manager knew what he was doing when he asked Chris for a test run ! Now, will Uncle John approve ?? To me, that thing is a money maker !

Day two to mislay the drains. This video grand and to demonstrate the excelent projects from you and once John. And to grading you the champion. Thank you for this video.

About the only drawback to that loader grader that I see is that it has a single arm supporting the bucket. Seems as if there is a lot of play. Long term could cause excessive cost to repair. Of course that's my 2 cents. Other than that. Great work as always Chris!!

My guess of having 3 people on this job is to get done quicker and reduce blockage time to the storage units. I bet Uncle John likes having extra help. That IS a LOT of drain pipe. That hybrid telehandler grader is just the machine to smooth those lanes on that site.

Yay! I wondered if you had the chance to use it on a job!

"OH, I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering,"

Chris thanks for sharing! Kevin

When you first started this project last year at that time had you anticipated all the water drainage from the property,I remember y’all did a lot of excavation and filling and sloping the property for drainage,so is the water basin that is there big enough or will you have to enlarge it.as always project looks like it’s on track.just keep doing what your doing and carry on.😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍

Man, that weird little loader-grader sure was just about the perfect tool for this job!

The 3 in 1 unit seems to be a good little unit, nice job so far

Dump and grade at the same time. Pretty cool machine there.

Brother that machine is a keeper, Does the work of at least 4 machines in 1 !!!

....lookin' good, nice work, stay safe and have a great week...

great job buddy and great video as always buddy 😎👊🏻👍🏻

Looks like the little grader is working out pretty good but anyway Chris another great video you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming

Like the video and work man .

Thank you for taking the time with the camera for the great shots you have on this video..also if I'm not mistaking isn't that the machine that was dropped off to you to see if you like ?? If so how did it preform and is there anything you would change about ..know you like the ac ..

A lot work, looked nice

Would be nice to see drainage in action, maybe you can make a short video about it when it rains. Because it is so close to your house.

That's a neat machine

So glad the cameras are fixed.

Man, you guys laid in some pipe !! Those were some long runs down each building . That Machine looks to be doing pretty good there Chris, knowing your loving that air in there !! lolol...Man, it's been like 105-110 here in Western Ky. with damn near 100% humidity to boot, just Hot as all Hell !! Would say it's about the same there.... Coming a long really nice Chris ! Great as always Man !! Have a Great Evening, And On too the Next !!

Be interesting to hear Uncle John's thoughts on the hybrid grader you're demoing.

Keep up the good work 🇳🇿👍

Can you take the mini over to Seven Mile Road and turn in into a lake for the Swamp Loggers? Those boys can then just float the logs. In your spare time of course.

Still smooth as silk on Ole Yeller.

Will look good when your done

NO Job Too Big or Too Complicated. You Consistently Give the Customer More than Expected. 👍

I don't blame you for jumping in the AC I'm doing a discing job in this weather under the sun lol if the heat don't slow you down the humidity will

Great video

The job that just keeps giving.

Prayers for the fallen soldiers in Afghanistan

you handle that mini grader like a pro you are

Good day to you …. Stay safe

Yeah I like the grader. Of course most of the ones I have run when I worked out of the operators union we're junk. TVA had some nice graders but I wanna try one of those.

With that clay bottom that French drain is gonna work perfectly👌water is gonna fly out of that pipe

That bucket probably also allows you to carry some material to fill holes and the added weight might make it easier to steer.

Not a LITTLE project by any means. Thanks for the ride-along.

Getting the hang of the grader.

It’s looking good! Nice (and not$$$) that the owner is able to have you guys do the drains at the beginning of the job with the 2 new buildings. He is so far ahead of the game the one building is not quite done yet!! Haha. A project this size, appears to show that no one can fully predict what water will do over such a large area. Especially when sooo much grade was cut out from one location and moved to another. Also changing compaction doesn’t help. Considering the amount of rain you get down there and how fast it comes, you and the builder have done a pretty decent job learning and dealing with the nuances. Damn water,,,,, it will do the damndest things and where you least expect it to! I lived in a valley between a mountain and a mountain sized foothill most my life. We were always dealing with water and if we had really heavy snows, just went with what happens. Even after decades there, you would think everything is “in control”,,,,, hahaha. Nope, never in total control of water!! Most years are fine, then you get a record snow pack, 2 feet deeper over allll of that area and you know it’s coming right at you!! Haha. It was a homestead that then grew into a ranch and feedlot. The newest construction was built out of the way, but then there were underground springs,,,,,,,,. Aaauugghhhh water!!

That sure beats a shovel and back.

All of your helpers are there to help you

My first thought, if I was going to rent one of these storage units, is to see if they paved the floor, on the inside of individual units. The way they built these units, I'd expect to see gravel on the floor, if I opened up one of these units. (g)

Love that new grader, don't give it back, just because the two front tires are a matching pair! Your other grader with the miss matched front tires messes up my OCD condition. Can you at least move it to the back where you can't see it in the camera please???

Looks like we see the next addition to the letsdig18 fleet

Great job on what I am sure the customer felt was a simple job, after watching you perform said simple job owner now pays attention to weather forecasts....

I hope you revisit this job in a rain storm.

Strawberry shortcake would've loved it lol

That looks good, weird that spring just popped up... was it a camera issue you had or rendering problem?

Chris, you will have to buy that little loader grader. IT would be worth every penny.

I Take it that card board as a Sun Shade is one of them optional extras you had fitted lol

Now you need to go ahead and buy you one of those

Great video .. does that front bucket have a float setting ?? looks like your getting use to the machine looking great ,, I am a few miles up the road NY ,, got some testing for the unit here at my place ,, might take you a week to drive the unit here lol ..

Nice to hear the cicadas in your video.

How did you like the COMBO grader/Loader ?? DID it shave much time off the project ?? Thank you again for the video. Prayers..

Looks Like The Baby Galion is stealin the show !

how is the 220 an Dozer doing hopefully up an running!!!

Do you know if they make a side dumping bucket attachment for the skid steer like they do for bigger machines?

exelent done

Never operated a grader in my life, but I think it'd be easier to have all the blade controls on one joystick like this mutant grader compared to the other grader where every function has its own valve and lever. How is the little mutant working out now that you had a chance to bring it onto a paying job? And I'd love to know what John thinks of it, lol.

See you have another helper with you and John do you'll don't have get out of the equipment so much very time saving

That made in America Grader starting to show it's purpose and abilities

looks like your getting the learning curve down on the little grader

How are you liking the new grader?

Hi Chris! This little grader looks like it is the perfect size for the type of work you do! A 4 in 1 machine, with 4 wheel steering and Hydra-static steering,..... pretty awesome! I checked the price, and the price (YIKES)!! The manufacture is plenty proud of this machine! Do you use fat-alice much?? Maybe you could trade her in on this one?? If I was going to change anything, I would weld a 6 inch plate on top of the blade. That would keep gravel, etc. off the sliding hydralic cyl. Love the videos, and your commentary! Best Wishes And GOD BLESS! Gary

It's a different view from that cab when grading....bet you adapt very quickly. Always working to move that water somewhere else.

Are the custom Komatsu sun shades operated with hydraulics.

👍🏻 you’ve invested a lot of time and labor at that site

Cool 😎