I know a lot of people that can push dirt around with a dozer. But Chris is a true OPERATOR 👍

I built several homes in my life. One of the most important decisions you make is setting grade: what will the height of the front door sill be on this chunk of dirt? If you mess up, you either have the house in a hole, or have unnecessary stairs, and concrete stem wall, or even footings, showing all the way around.

I was building a 12 foot steel tilt trailer. I was doing the layout and fitting. My son asked me where the plans were, and I told him in my head. You have the same distinct ability to do just that. What a transformation.

It's actually interesting to watch Chris. Like all of those apocryphal expression about sculpting being a matter of deciding what you want to make and chipping away everything else. That's what Chris does. He sets in his mind what he wants it to look like, and then "chips" away everything else. I think, in a way, that is why it is so interesting to watch this kind of thing. It is like watching earth sculpting. We enjoy seeing an overgrown plot of earth become a very nice pond. Here, he has determined what it will take to make what he wants, and is sculpting the ground to achieve it. It strikes something in the observer that is pleasing to watch.

Jerry would be proud of you on this one !

Excellent job…That turned out way better than I thought it would considering the amount of dirt than needed to be moved. It definitely looked like the water run off was an issue for the house but Chris made light work of it and will have another satisfied customer. 🚧 🚧

Chris, Watching you moving all that dirt, reminded me of the hospital site where you had to remove all of those rocks. It would interesting to see the progress on the site, and seeing how the dump site has naturalised since you finished landscaping it all those months ago....Regards Robin.

“Sure you don’t want to spend the extra money to grade? Nah, it’ll be fine….” Great work, Chris. Another excellent transformation.

When we were home buying, we found a place that we liked but something had the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. And it wasn't until we stood on the road that I realized the grade on the front of the house was way off. We decided to build and our contractor was fanatical about the grade, and thanks to that, even though homes around us have had problems, in 20+ years we've had zero.

Hi Chris, your channel is on our TV all day. My mom lives with my husband and I since having a stroke in January this year. She is 90 years old and is on great shape considering what she went through. I want to thank you for your videos. My husband and I also enjoy watching you with her. Take good care of yourself, Chris.

Dozer videos are probably my favorite, and so are jobs like this. Looks great man.

Usually watch after work . Guess I'll have to start work a little later this morning 🌄!!!!

Looks like NC very much needed you back 🌊🏚 looks like a good spot for future pond build 🤙

As for me, I like it better with the camera in the cab more often and you explaining what's happening to us as you work!

If I was the homeowner, someone was going to get a bad Yelp review!! This reminds me of the Citicorp Center in NYC. An architectural student had to point out that the building was not structurally sound and could topple. Yup...it got someone's attention!

You got it graded out so well in the end almost looks like you don't need to bring in the skidsteer to slick it up. Job well done Chris.

If money wasn't an issue in this situation, I would have had a straight cut into the hillside, build up a tiered retaining wall with proper drainage behind each tier followed by a French drain throwing all the water out and away from the house. Give them some space behind each tier up for some gardening. Only sucky part is they would lose the entire view that wrap around deck would provide. Great job on the work as is, man! Always the professional!

This is why you build the Schloss on top of the hill

Gday from Down Under Chris! Thanks for the videos I love seeing the progress on each one :)

Great video Chris, I am sure your glad to be back home. It was a treat to watch you working with dirt imperfect LMBO I can only imagine how much fun it was lol 😆 😄

Welcome home. Beautiful little house made better. Great job.

Nice job Chris Thanks for sharing 👍

It's always a pleasure to see the quality of the work you do

Nice job,when you finish off with the SS it will look great the owners will love you! I'm thinking the contractor should pay for this,he should have done this before construction was started.

Great job Chris! You saved someone from a coming disaster. After reading some of the other comments, you gotta wonder why more attention wasn't paid to grade when the house lot was laid out. Drainage sure wasn't a consideration. At least they got the best there is to fix it!

Great job, clients should be very happy.

I love the quality of the work you do, Chris!

Chris, are you going to get a bigger dozer in the future. We watch all your videos, thanks. Dirth Perfect and you are our favorite so far. 👍👍🇨🇦🐶❤

Nice job Chris, think you should have borrowed DP 850j to cut that back!! I think it will look really nice one the stone is in and it’s all dressed up. Take care and be safe, Graham🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍🚜

One man's mistake is another man's gain..that how the earth revolve.

Nice transformation Chris! Great work as always! 🤘🏻🤘🏻👍👍

So not one person in planning or building this house thought about drainage???

Never, never, buy or build a house in a hole. Drainage is everything if you want the house to last.

Chris, who set the elevation of that house?🤔. It should have been raised a few feet to avoid the water issues. You did a great job fixing the problem for now, but eventually, the drainage issues will return.

I thought it was your house at first sight! lol 😂. But I knew your yard looks a lot better than that one! 👌🏻🤙🏻

Hi Chris…Are you missing Mike’s 850J yet? Lol. Great video….you are a man of many talents.

DP might have run harder and faster, but this is craftsmanship. Didn't even need a laser to see the grade

Thank you Chris.

Really thick clay. Great look for the front view. Nice dozer job. Hope they are installing a french drain around the house.

You to come see the problem and know what is to make, and is the perfect work to Letsdig18. Good video how always.

Usually a beer with Chris, today it was coffee. 😀

Always good to be back home!! Great Job!!

Good morning Chris nice to see ya back in NC. Loved the videos you and DP at his job

Another great job well done Chris 🇺🇲 I really enjoyed this video I always enjoy watching your videos 🇺🇲

Just curious no one noticed what piss pore drainage this home had while building it.including home owner,contractor,architect.they should have had you do the original setup and would have averted this problem.glad to see you back on home turf.good video,just keep doing what your doing and carry on 😎😎😎👍👍👍

That came out excellent!

Enjoyed the video bro, looking forward to see it with the stones down. Safe travels

Chris can opperate the excavator and dozer like a pro, ah! But he is a pro. GO CHRIS.

Looks good! Enjoyed meeting you at the ICUEE show.

🔥🔥🔥 FINE JOB SENIÓR DIG!!! I’m gonna have to make a surprise job site inspection one of these days🎉🎉🎉

Someone built a house one year in a field near my home. We watched them build it for months out in a open field It was very nice when done,,but the when Fall came around the field flooded and the house was in the lowest spot in the field!!! It was a mess. We watched them lift that house and re shape the whole field,,and I think they brought in dirt as well as tile for the field.. I think they added onto the foundation and lifted the house. And I believe it had a basement!!! 12 ft basement walls???

Nice grade work Chris.

Excellent job!

A bunt or berm and drainage coils could do the trick. Thanks for sharing Chris.

That looks 100% better nice job with the dozer Chris 😎👍👍

Nice job thanks for sharing.

Great job Chris. I’m sure they would have had drainage issues. Take care & cheers from 🐨🦘🥰

Nice work Chris

Job very well done Chris. Greetings from lock down Melbourne ; It's painful but not nearly as bad as the media has lead you to believe, but then I am a pensioner

My house is 3' above ground level & every few years the river decides that we should be waterfront property, with a moat! House was raised twice so now we are 3" above the road which is level with the raised floor in the shop. Usually takes an hour to come up 6-8' or more.

Looks awesome great job

That's some serious clay they built on, hope they have a sump in the basement!

Nice job Chris. If I was the homeowner I would have paid extra to have you move the berm back twice as far from the house.

man, that's some tough clay. excellent work, sir.

Woot! I now have confidence that around the homestead will be dry once you grade it. 😁

First thing to look at when picking a site for a house is drainage. Where I am going to build, sea level would have to go up 850 ft before I'll have drainage issues. It's downhill for nearly 300 miles to the gulf of Mexico. (Not straight... Following creeks and rivers). Uphill, high point within 30 miles is 15 ft higher and less than half a mile away.

Looks like you have considerable leeway in how a customer's project is developed. Your reputation in how well you do so has to be a major attraction to potential customers.

That berm slope would look great with some big stones and even small bits of fence at the top with some filler bushes and ageratum and phlox and maybe some vinca minor (blue periwinkle) amidst some perennials. That would make a rather dazzling bit of landscape architecture. And I would help slow the wash off the hill, diminishing the speed of the drainage. The difficult part is how to route the driveway.

Nice work

Chris thanks for sharing! Kevin

As a landscape designer for almost forty years, I would have not only placed it higher, but rotated the entire structure at least 90° to the left if not 180°. Kinda hard to decide not seeing too many shots of the back and sides, but it isn’t the best placement looking at a tractor trailer (or berms of dirt that were needed)

Another happy customer!

Always great videos, Chris. Thanks!

Great work! It's a little odd that the columns on the front are wrapped in stone and trim, but the ones on the side of the house are left bare - and clearly not getting wrapped, by the trim at the top and bottom and the railings.

Rippers? Break things loose for the initial foot and maybe make a path for the water to follow at the top of the slope. Make it gradually make its own path downslope through the looser soil and subsoil?

It’d be pretty neat if you could have a small pendulum angle indicator hanging on the roll cage of your dozer so the viewers could get a better idea of how steep some of the side slopes you push on are.

Great video 👍👍

Nice clean up ..nicely done!!Cheers!;-)!!

PPP on someone’s part= $$$$$$ for Chris. Nicely done like always 👍👍👍

Dang i bet that Komatsu felt tiny and underpowered having come off of Mike's 850J lol being half the size and weight.. although your D39px is double the weight of that lil Cat d4 he had! Never ceases to amaze me what you can do with a dozer. That was a lovely clean finish there Chris. Thanks for sharing :)

Great job thank you for sharing

Got the right guy for the job 💪🏼

Chris did a great job! But boy someone sure didn’t plan well in order to necessitate that much dirt needing to be moved AFTER the hose was built!

Chris, from the looks of the cored out driveway before you started, did they purposely put the house down that low instead of building a pad?

"I'll come back with the skid steer and slick it all up" he says....

When the best spot for the house is not on top of the hill, Chris just moves the hill.

Chris, You make it look to easy Man !! lolol... Shit, just with the dozer you make it look better than most people can, with a whole crew messing with it....lolol... Tell you what Man, The Good Lord sure has given you a gift , when it comes to operating those machines !! Great as always !! Have a Great Day today , And, On too the Next !!

one can definately notice the difference in capability from the greed JD 850 to your Komatsu

Amazing.. Great video 👍👍

Another reason not to build anywhere you haven’t seen after a big rain. Watched a house being built in an area that I know sits a foot of water after a heavy rain. Luckily they did build the house about 14 inches up. But home owner had to drive through a foot of water to leave. Had to spend an additional 20,000 to get all that fixed. Just nuts.

I am glad you sloped land away from house as well. Now they need install gutters and route the gutter water away from house as well.. IMHO

You have done an awesome job of grading. Thank you for another great video. 😀❤🇨🇦

Nice job, looks mint 👌

working in and around construction most my life, i don't blame the contractor/builder on this one. I think the blame goes on the shoulder of the land owner who chose the building envelope (site). I am scratching my head as to why you would place the garage on the far side of the house so you have to drive right in front of the house. they could have ordered a reverse set of plans. Chris, great work as usual.

You need one of DP’s dozers 🤪

Nice little project there.are you gonna put seed down later on?

SALUDOS CHRIS. ANOTHER JOB WELL DONE, WAITING FOR THE FINISHED TOUCH WITH THE SKID STEEL ,SEE YOU LATER. G.B.Y.A. NICE VIDEO AS ALWAYS.

Hey Chris I was wondering if a ditch where you built up the berm would’ve worked??

It looks a whole lot better now.

Looks more like a drainage disaster then just some issues. Nice work on patching it up.