The only thing better than having your own long reach....is knowing the guy who has a new long reach! I expect we'll see more of this one.

Boy could Chris and his Uncle John have used that beast on the 10 acre pond job the did earlier this year the had to clean out a swampy mess at one end and fix the damn and logged area at the other end. I don't know why but Chis's pond job series are my favorites. It's absolutely fascinating how he can take an utter disaster and transform it into a thing of beauty.

I overheard a couple gals in the golf course bar yesterday complaining about some guy's 6 iron and out of nowhere one of them said "Yeah well....did you see how far John's excavator reaches?" ....... Shout Out to John for puttin' that real work in while Chris was on vacation. The ladies still dig older excavators.

Congratulations to Uncle John, and you on the long reach, some great videos will be in the future..

You know when an individual has reached operator extraordinaire status when he can look down at his phone while swinging a long reach boom pickup a yard of mud and swing back. Talent!

Nice machine! Congrats to Uncle John for adding a long reach to the fleet.

Nice to see a bit of pond clearing , it’s been a little while .

Volvo gotta be loving your company and the family company!!!

Wow! That is a great addition to the dirt moving family! Been fun to see the growth of you all's equipment. A heck of a big boom there....

Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh! We likes new toys. Congrats to John 🎉 Glad yall finally have a long-reach, there have been several times where you have said "this job would be some much easier with a LR excavator" We appreciate your sacrifice for the good shot man. 💪😆

Nice addition to the fleet! That should help minimize the need for mats on a lot of dredging jobs, and less transfering mud. It will pay for itself in short order.

27:40 Liebherr and Sennebogen offer long reach excavators with auxiliary hydraulics for grapples with rotator, for use on scrap yards and sorting materials as well as for concrete pulverizer shears for building demolitions and clamshell for deep hole excavating

Sure does beat a wheelbarrow and a shovel.

That boom POV was awesome!

Back in the early nineties while vacationing in Santa Cruz CA., I watched a long reached excavator in operations doing stream dredging maintenance. When I returned back from my vacation, I went to see my local CAT salesperson on Oahu, Hi. Over the course of several years till present, we were able to purchase 4-long reach excavators and 1-amphibious long reach excavator, we eventually phased out our fleet of dragline crawler cranes.

The long reach is going to cut a lot of preparation, mats, and even bogging out of your work. A great addition to your fleet of machines.

Nice tutorial for me Chris! I always overwork the mud and turn it into a flow able material. Your coffer dam technique is gold. Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving, Chris, everybody. Congrats to John for the long reach.

Congrats to Uncle John on the Long Reach Excavator addition to his fIeet. I think we can all think back to previous projects it would have been handy dandy, namely the 10 acre restoration job this year. Take care & cheers🐨🦘🥰

I can’t imagine what the Maintenance Spreadsheet looks like to keep track of the various pieces of Equipment you Own and the Associated Maintenance necessary.👍

Used to work for a golf course for about ten years off and on, never really saw any sediment on the ponds wonder why? Congrats, John and Chris, on your new equipment!!

long reach don't usually come plumbed for accessories Chris, due to lifting capacity loss vs weight limits vs stability while extended. Pretty cool reaching out 60' for a scoop while your truck idling in another time zone. Suppose pond and dredging jobs just got a whole lot more profitable. 👍

That machine made quick work of that job. I have to believe that the long reach is cheaper in the long run than buying and moving mats around. Definitely a wise business decision. Congrats.

The logic behind adding the long reach machine makes total sense. And with the dredging work you guys do, it will likely pay for itself that way alone. Not to mention the benefit of (at least on this job) not having to deal with being down in the pond and dealing with navigating thru the muck and mud on mats.

A long reach will come in handier than you think. It's better than dragging mats everywhere. As many ponds as y'all do this should be the ticket.

Saw your video of you cleaning a canal with a long reach 11 years ago. Got me hooked watching Let’s Dig. Looking forward to more videos of you operating it. Happy Thanksgiving!

Nice addition guys!! Congrats!!

That Long Reach Excavator will come in handy on many jobs and you will use less boards with it. That excavator is sure nice on cleaning that pond mud out.

I'd been wondering when a long-reach would join the LD18 Fleet, given how much pond, lake & drainage work you do Chris! That has to make life a bit easier & quicker, not shifting mats around so much! (And keeps the machine out of the gloop). 👍

Congratulations on another long arm..been a lot of years but looks like the same principle as riding a bike. Love those frames from riding on the boom! And Chris you know we appreciate you taking a mud bullet for us! You and Jon have wonderful Thanksgiving celebrations with your families!

Awesome love the long reach can't wait to see it in action on more jobs

Wow, what a great purchase. This is the 3rd or 4th time I've seen you use one and it makes a difference (loved the boom comparison). I bet you will find more applications for it in the future. Congrats to Guins Excavation on the new kid.

Thank you, Chris, for the video on the long reach excavator. Congratulations to Jonh on the purchase of this machine. So, you hide the dredging's in plain sight nice.

A nice machine to have with all the pond work you and John do. May not use it all the time, but definitely will be glad to have it when it's needed. Perhaps you could get a video of it being transported. I think it'd be interesting to see how it's handled.

congats to John on getting a long reach nice addition. nice work on the pond so much easyer. cheers.

You could reach into the next parish with that machine! Beautiful, well you may wear!

Going to have to get the window tinted so the sun don’t kill you and us. That’s definitely going to make y’all’s life a lot easier and should make it a lot faster to 👍👍👍👍👍 and a big congratulations to John for getting the new machine seems to be a nice on

Hi Chris. It still amazes me, how simple and yet so effective is the system that opens the gate on the off road truck. I mean, 2 cables. So simple it's funny. Y the way, Very nice long reach also. Ed from Chicago 🙂

Congrats Chris!!!!

Been a long time since we’ve seen you in a long reach. Goes back to the water plant dredging days and the snakes!!

At 38:19, when Chris reaches all the way out and brings back in a full bucket, you can see the rear tracks lifting off a couple inches or so... neat video.

paint always welcomes a good polishing job even twith screatches.

Good video Chris, love to see the long reach work.

What a great addition to the fleet. That boom camera is awesome.

Great camera work, thanks!

Thanks for showing us the new machine. I have never seen a long reach in action. Definitely takes a different skill level to keep that thing upright.

I expect now that you have one, you may be willing to take on some jobs that you have shied away from before. I have seen one of these dudes in operation all the way back into the late 90's and still am impressed with their efficiency on almost impossible jobs to make money on without one of these long reach machines.

Damn, John have had the moleskin out of the depths of his pockets! 😁💸 But really nice addition to the fleet, it'll come in handy on many of the pond dredging jobs. 👍

I think that long reach will be a good asset to the fleet .

What a great addition for John. Sure will make those jobs easier. Stay safe

Looking forward to long reach dredging vids

Great machine Chris. Takes a lot of skill to operate. I'll take those golf balls. That's where a lot of mine ene up.

Nice long reach what’s so awesome about these units are you can start digging on a five acre pond and load the truck on opposite side of the five acre pond. It’s a great fuel saver. So really what’s going on with y’all two and all the new and used equipment. Y’all hoard’s are is it you about to embark on a new adventure that’s gonna demand your full and undivided attention????? Best of luck to the both of you.

Wow that’s a really nice machine! For your line of work it is a must!

Love the Boom Cam looks great . nice longreach

Nice addition to the fleet. I can see you using it more often than you think. Now all you need is one of those impact hammers for rocks and you be set. Standing near the haul truck dumping a load of mud is kind of what I imagined it was like working along side Paul Bunyan's giant blue ox "Babe"

Happy Thanksgiving John and Chris!! 🦃

Long Reach Excavator in action ,interesting and so useful for the right job

As many sediment clean out jobs as y'all get, that long reach is something you needed a long time ago.

Another Excavator joins the Fleet - well she's a Beast all Right - never seen a Long Reach one before - wow ! Another Pond Project You Love soooooooooo very much - Sun in Your Eyes or not ! Fantastic close-up Shots of the Bucket Scooping ! Yes - we can see that she is getting a Bid "Tippy" indeed ! Coming back to tidy up ! Great Video - great Project and many Cheers from us in Australia !!!!

All I can say is “camera magnet don’t fail me now”. That was awesome view…👍👍♥️ Happy Thanksgiving Day to you and your family!!♥️🦃♥️

Great addition to your fleet Chris. God bless you

You have the best job and a great looking long boom right there great job to the both of you keep the excellent videos coming

The camera shots from the arm are fantastic.

Great video shot on the bucket Chris!..that was awesome

Happy Thanksgiving Chris to you and your family

Some awesome shots. Nice to see your uncle again. :) Thank you and have a great day.

Great video Chris, the camera view from the boom was cool. Almost like drone footage. That long reach probably helps a lot with your love for snakes😅

Wow what an arm! Neat stuff. Enjoyed watching

nice machine chris& John😊

GREAT camera angles to get the best video footage of mud removal EVER posted on YT! Thanks, Chris! 👏👍✨

Love operating a long reach and it takes some getting use to.

That's a long stick Volvo. Going to be fun watching you slide around ponds with that boom reach. Reminded me of an early video I saw of you removing weed off a pond with a long reach boom and the pond dredge with the hired long reach and that white picket fence.

Loooong reach indeed! Sweet!!

Your real smooth with that long reach

Congrats once again, Should be very handy

So awesome! Love the camera shots playing in the mud! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The amount of dredging you do that machine will earn its keep. 👍

What a time saver that long reach is going to be on jobs like this. No hauling mats, no moving mats, great investment.

Nice one Uncle John.

I was really surprised they didnt add a little more counter weight to it with that long reach boom on there

The things you do for good content indeed!

Specialized unit for sure set up nice

CONGRATULATIONS ! CHRIS

John made a smart investment 👍👍👍

Nice to finally get a long reach.

That’s a beast their , nice additions

@17:00 That's a pretty long "selfie stick" for the camera!

those long arm excavators are a wild ride.

Back in my neck of the woods in PA again. Hope it went well for ya.

🔥🔥🔥A FINE ADDITION TO THE FAMILY BROTHER CHRIS!!!

happy thanksgiving to you and all your family

I would say Chris has been celebrating Christmas early.. His company gets the new Volvo 220 with a bunch of attachments (and new features) and Betty all fixed and his uncles company gets a Long Reach 250... I can think of a few pond cleanups this would have helped with over the last few years. I do agree with someone below.. your pond cleanups have been some of the best... (well, second to that video getting someone else excavator out of the one that needed to be dredged... buried to the seat).. Love it as always.

Good investment Chris. Wish I had one.

The new to y'all long reach is a good addition to John's fleet, as many ponds as they clean out I wondered why y'all didn't have one.

glad to see you guys finally joined the long reach club

One of my favorite videos of yours was when you were scooping them thick weeds out of the pond with that long reach link belt. Looking forward for some more long reach live action ye ye ye ye 😉👍

I was hooked to your channel by one of your first long reach videos taking out a beaver dam. Good memories 👍👍👍👍

Nice addition to the fleet.

Wow! Chris you mastered the long reach bucket on the first scoop. Cool machine. Liked seeing your vacation video at of all places a Volvo Dealership with your best buds. I know you had fun. Wishing you and your family a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.